Quite a few socket1156 motherboard showing up now

[nickp8]

For those after an P55 MATX board I have been searching to see what is available / coming soon and have made a list of the boards I have found info on so far:

Asus Maximus III GENE
Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4
MSI P55M-GD45
Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2
Asrock P55M Pro
EVGA P55 Micro
INTEL MATX P55
Foxconn P55MX
ECS P55H-CM

Add MSI GD80, MSI GD65, MSI GD53, Gigabyte P55 UD6, Gigabyte P55 UD5, Gigabyte P55 UD4P, Gigabyte P55 UD3R, Gigabyte P55 UD3P, Gigabyte P55 UD3L, Gigabyte P55 UD3, Gigabyte P55 UD4, Gigabyte P55 UD2 (There's no P55m-UD2 though - strike that from your list), Asrock P55 Deluxe, Asrock P55 Extreme, Asrock P55 Pro, Asus P7P55D, Asus P7P55DLE

My list is of MATX boards not ATX.

[kalniel]

oops yes, what am I talking about?

[Pob255]

One thing about these i5 and i7 motherboards is that the manufactors are really putting aesthetics work into them, makeing the layouts very good and the boards very pretty (apart from the ECS boards with the bad eps connector location)

[Pob255]

Seeing the prices on these boards and the higher prices on the 1366 x58 boards I do wonder if we've been spoilt by low cost boards and these prices are actually very good.

Looked back at a build I did for a friend back in nov 07
Abit IP-35, iP35 Express, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX £78.71
And this was back when it was around $2 to the £
So around $157 for a very good mid range board, on newegg the MSI P55-GD65 is currently $160, the Asus P7P55D is $150 and both the Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4P and Foxconn Inferno Katana GTI are $170
So the cost is not too bad

However the E6750 was £116.31 and Geil Ultra DDR2 PC6400 2 x 1GB cas4 was £44
the i5 750 is $210 and G.SKILL Ripjaws 2 x 2GB cas7 is $90
So again back at the $2 to the £ rate of the time the current prices don't look too bad.

Although current exchange rate of $1.65 to the £ the current UK prices are rather higher than in the US.
eg Scan's current price on the Asus P7P55D is £117.07 = $193