Conclusion: This mobo has a good layout, many features and video options like VGA, DVI, and HDMI, but no DisplayPort. The board has only one PCI-E X16 slot. This motherboard is not designed for hardcore overclocking. The H57H-MUS is a capable all-around smallform motherboard for an affordable price.

Overclocking: A Core i3 540 was OCed @3.8GHz with a Base clock of 165MHz running stable. There were issues with the CPU multiplier, failed overclocks did not recover and ended in an endless loop, the clear CMOS had to be used. There is a dedicated page for the eOC overclocking utility.

Benchmarks: Atto disk benchmark, HD tune. For these benches a Patriot Torqx 128GB Solid State Drive and an USB 3 docking station were used.

Compared to: This mainboard was not compared to another board.

This mainboard was compared to the ASUS P7P55D EVO, ECS P55H-A, ASRock P5 5Extreme and P55M Pro.

Conclusion: There were no installation issues and overclocking worked well and was even better than on some P55 boards, the VRM stayed cool during overclocking. There's no PS/2 keyboard connector and the BIOS was not very ergonomic. The BIOS does not recover after a failed overclock, but instead goes into a continuous loop. If you have a graphics card installed that covers a dual slot, only one of the two add-on cards can be used.

Overclocking: An Intel I5 750 was overclocked @4015.69MHz, BCLK 200MHz. -- Memory: G.Skill 1600MHz 2x2GB DDR3 Ripjaws F3-12800CL8D-4GBRM -- PSU: Cooler Master UCP 700W

Benchmarks: PC mark 2005, Vantage, furmark, Cinebench, Crystalmark, 3Dmark 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006 and Vantage, Street Fighter 4, Left 4 Dead, Crysis, World in Conflict, Unreal Tournament 3, Counterstrike : Source, Far Cry 2, Devil May Cry 4, The video card used in the gaming benchmarks was an ATI RADEON HD4890 1GB.

This mainboard was compared the the ECS H55H-M and the Gigabyte GA-H57M, and lots of processors from an Athlon X2 7850BE to a Core i7 975.

Conclusion: The USB controller is not on the motherboard, but on an add-on card, an onboard solution would have been preferred. The SATA3 is running over x1 PCIe (only 2.5 Gbps), which immediately takes away bandwidth, especially with several drives used simultaneously, x4 PCIe would have been a better choice.

Overclocking: A Core i5 661 was OCed @4004.5 MHz, vCore @1.35v, running stable. Memory used: 1600 MHz DDR3 Corsair Dominator CAS8 @ 1333 MHz CAS8

Benchmarks: Lavalys Everest, 3D Mark2006 and Vantage, Far Cry 2, Handbrake, USB 3.0, SATA 6 GB/s, Crysis WarHEAD, SiSoft Sandra, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, Resident Evil 5. In the gaming benches a Radeon HD 5870 graphics cardwas used.