Looks like P57 will replace P55 for the most featureful 1156 boards

[yacoub]

http://forums.vr-zone.com/news-arou...h57-p57-q57-chipsets-lynnfield-havendale.html

Going by that information, P57 is basically P55 with a couple more features and nothing missing.

The other offerings are mostly crap, with integrated graphics and business-centric features at the expense of performance (8x PCI-E slots, etc).

So bring on the P57 boards!

 

[Hey Zeus]

Meh. I'll stick with my P55 till ASRock releases a P57 Deluxe :biggrin:

 

[yacoub]

yeah this is more for folks who -haven't- upgraded to P55 yet.

 

[lopri]

I think P57 is canned. Its major feature is/was the on-board flash memory that works kind of like HDD cache. I saw some prototype P57 boards earlier this year (Computex?), though.

 

[Ross Ridge]

Yah, it looks like P57 is dead, at least for now. What interesting is that a fair number of the P55 boards out there look like they were originally designed for the P57 as you can see where the Braidwood flash memory socket would've been.

 

[yacoub]

oh interesting. haven't heard anything about it recently. maybe it was delayed?

 

[Ualdayan]

Yah, it looks like P57 is dead, at least for now. What interesting is that a fair number of the P55 boards out there look like they were originally designed for the P57 as you can see where the Braidwood flash memory socket would've been.

My EVGA P55 SLI actually has about 20 little solder points right next to the ATX power plug, and in big bold white letters says 'Braidwood'.