MSI P45 Neo-F Intel P45 - a good buy?

Bengaboy · 7 Jun 2008 at 21:47

Hi guys

Looking to build my 1st pc, and this seems like an awesome price and got xfire too!

2 questions, is it any good and even though it has xfire support, would it handle nvidia cards? (I know it wont do SLI)

Cob · 7 Jun 2008 at 21:57

It will handle a single nVidia card, but wait for the other P45 boards to come out.

Bengaboy · 7 Jun 2008 at 22:03

Cob said:
It will handle a single nVidia card, but wait for the other P45 boards to come out.

Whys that mate?

Cob · 7 Jun 2008 at 22:05

Because the MSI's are the first batch, and there may well be a better board for similar money.

Very early adoption of a new chipset isn't the greatest of ideas. You'll have no idea of the problems they suffer from.

Bengaboy · 7 Jun 2008 at 22:08

Cob said:
Because the MSI's are the first batch, and there may well be a better board for similar money.

Very early adoption of a new chipset isn't the greatest of ideas. You'll have no idea of the problems they suffer from.

Ahhh ok then, fair does

Mul · 7 Jun 2008 at 22:10

I agree. At the end of the day ~£80 will either get you a potentially flakey entry level P45 board or a proven, refined and arguably just as capable P35 board. Also, speaking of crossfire the Neo-F doesn't seem to support it. If you're serious about Crossfire, you may as well take a look at Intel X38 based boards. If you look around decent boards such as the LanParty DK X38 T2R can be had for around £110.

I too would wait to see what other brands will be able to offer, particularly boards such as the Gigabyte P45 DS3L/DS3P, Asus P5Q, Abit's offerings and so on.