MSI P55 Series Official Motherboard thread

MSI-Guru · 16 Jul 2009 at 14:38

With P55 fast approaching I thought it best to start an thread posting some snippets on the MSI P55 boards which are set to be the next biggest thing to launch since X58.

MSI will have 3 boards in order of price, highest and top spec first:

P55-GD80

P55-GD65

P55-DC45

P55-GD65

khemist · 16 Jul 2009 at 14:52

Love the look of that board.

Kennysevenfold · 16 Jul 2009 at 14:55

Looks awesome, but what the hell is that cat thingy.?

MSI-Guru · 16 Jul 2009 at 15:00

Kennysevenfold said:
Looks awesome, but what the hell is that cat thingy.?

original photos by windwithme and its his trademark

Kennysevenfold · 16 Jul 2009 at 15:01

coalfield said:
original photos by windwithme and its his trademark

Aha, wasnt sure if i was seeing things or not :eek:

Stonedofmoo · 16 Jul 2009 at 15:11

Which one is the P55 equivalent of the P35/P45 Neo 2-FR/FIR ?

Columbo · 16 Jul 2009 at 15:20

Hopefully this will follow the trend of the P35 & P45 MSI boards before it and be a lot cheaper than the ASUS & Giga's yet have just as many features, equal build quality and clock really well.

MSI-Guru · 16 Jul 2009 at 17:53

Stonedofmoo said:
Which one is the P55 equivalent of the P35/P45 Neo 2-FR/FIR ?

The P55-GD65 is basically equivalent to the P45 Neo2-FR & P45 Platinum.

Stonedofmoo · 16 Jul 2009 at 18:00

coalfield said:
The P55-GD65 is basically equivalent to the P45 Neo2-FR & P45 Platinum.

Excellent, thats what I'll be getting. The P35/P45 boards have been excellent.

Deleted member 77746 · 16 Jul 2009 at 18:15

what is that blue 6 slot thing next to the floppy connector???????????

AMG · 16 Jul 2009 at 18:22

i don't like MSI personaly and whats with the cat o.O

don't mean to say i wouldn't buy one through if the boot fits over asus or gigabyte.

I bad past expirances(bad) with MSI boards

hegemon · 16 Jul 2009 at 19:07

optitech-uk said:
what is that blue 6 slot thing next to the floppy connector???????????

Voltage test points by the look of it.

Deleted member 77746 · 16 Jul 2009 at 19:13

They really need to put cmos reset buttons on the back of boards, loose IDE and loose PS2 mouse/keyboard!

Bradley8988 · 16 Jul 2009 at 19:52

I cant say iv ever took any notice of MSI or biostar boards but i have to admit its a nice looking board.

Stonedofmoo · 16 Jul 2009 at 19:57

All the PC's i've built in the last 2 years I've built with MSI boards, and they've all been bullet proof reliable and tweak really well too.
If you look about they've won some good awards for performance combined with value, and unlike some companies they support their boards with BIOS updates even after the generation has been superceeded.

I would certainly consider them.

AMG · 16 Jul 2009 at 20:14

my last MSI sept for the K7 to keep another PC in serivce was a K9 for AM2 and the north bridge wasen't working too well o.O, and that K7 is acting wired as well

this was going back a while saying that, I would consder them again one day, if asus are too expesnive ( I don't like the colour on gigabyte)

MSI-Guru · 16 Jul 2009 at 20:36

hegemon said:
Voltage test points by the look of it.

correct!

Only for the hardened overclocker :cool:

. See more info here:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009/07/02/msi-p55-gd65-has-a-v-kit/1

Voxination · 16 Jul 2009 at 20:43

Dam, I think this just made me very glad I didn't go i7.

pendy · 16 Jul 2009 at 21:53

Nice looking board.

Have always used msi+gigabyte boards, the msi mbs are always great vfm.

AMG · 16 Jul 2009 at 22:05

maybe you guys can persade me to buy a MSI ?

for my next rig of course, net messing about with my current as it works and well= leave it

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