Rare as rocking horse poo. Can't find a decent one anywhere unless you want to spend £250 at Amazon. This is going to make my cheap upgrade exceptionally expensive. Why are they so rare? I can find 939's and 775's easy enough and they are older and the newer 1150 and 1155 are plentiful as well. Was their sales life just too short? Sent from Bittech Android app
They were only about for a year or so until the next socket arrived. Have you tried PC Upgrade? Last time I was there they had a couple in stock but that was some time ago.
http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk/ Probably best give them a call to see if they have any in stock. Might not be listed on the website.
There's a few on ebay at the moment: MSI P55-GD65 - £72.89 delivered Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 - £40 delivered but missing its backplate and accessories ASUS P7P55D - Currently bid to £6.50 with about 5 days left Alternatively, get your post count up to 75 and ask in the marketplace
Never heard of PCupgrade before but looks like a website I will be using a lot in the future. I'll have another look at Ebay but I was looking all over the bank holiday weekend and never saw anything that cheap. I had been looking at possible CPU upgrades as well but looks like the processor I have (Core i3 550) once overclocked is going to be more than sufficient. I couldn't see any real world advantage to upgrading, even the core i7 880 was barely faster in games. The only real differences were in heavily multithreaded applications which I just don't use. It also consumes less power. I got my info from CPU World that does side by side comparisons. So I guess I'm looking for a decent overclocking board which I believe would be the P55 boards?? Thanks guys.
Look for used ones. Best chance. I remember EVGA selling a few P55 boards for cheap at their refurb store too.
