MSI P55 Series *Official* Motherboard thread

I've been looking at various i5 760 compatible boards that are SLI capable, and I'm a bit overwhelmed with the choice. Seems like a bit of a minefield. The GD65 looks comparable to the Asus and Gigabyte boards, and seems cheaper, but I've only ever had Asus or Gigabyte boards before.

What's the verdict on here - is the MSI P55-GD65 worth getting over the Asus or Gigabyte equivalents?
 
I've had a number of high ends before this one and although its mid-range its a very nice board. If the features are right for you, I'd recommend it. Mines been running 24/7 since release day :).
 
Personally I would update, been running 1.A for a while without issue. Worst case scenario is you would run into problems and have to rollback to 1.4 (or whatever).

As mentioned though it wipes your OC profiles so make sure you note down the settings you are using. I often find I can't remember some of the 'weirder' voltage settings.
 
I've updated the BIOS but even the slightest overclock results in BSOD's.

If I use OC Genie it boots fine and for a few minutes Windows is fine before yet more BSOD's.
 
Hi guys,

I've recently bought two GTX460s and would really like to SLI them.

However from googlage I've seen that not only do very few P55 boards support SLI but even those which do only seem to support it with 1 x16 and 1 x8 PCI-E lanes.

One of such boards is the GD65 which is in my strict budget.

Does anyone have comments/reviews about using SLI with the GD65 and is one of the cards only running at x8 going to make it a big drop in performance? Because if so I will just sell one of the GTX460s.
 
Personally if I had 2 GTX460 and was buying a new mobo from scratch I would be looking for a dual x16 board. You'll likely have to take a hit on selling a GTX460 and then will only end up having to upgrade sooner than you would have done otherwise.

The below may be of some interest, looks at SLI scaling on P55... you take a bit of a hit dropping to 8x but nothing huge, relatively insignificant compared to the gain from having 2 cards:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2832/9
 
New BIOS out for GD80, have updated and so far so good, better than the 1.10, have managed a decent over clock without using XMP settings(as that's what I used as couldn't get it stable no matter what I tried), now it's runs quite sweet, here is the new BIOS for GD80

http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P55-GD80.html#/?div=BIOS

and here is a screen of my OC

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whats the best ram to combine with an i5 750 on a gd 80 guys ?
I am a little confused as most people say the ripjaws yet they are not 1.65 volts ? So i presume anything that says up to 1.65volts and is 1600 mhz is the ticket ?
 
If I run with gpu in middle pcie slot gpuz reports its in 8x only is this normal i thought slots 1 and 2 were 16x ? and only the bottom 8x ? am currently running in top slot and gpuz reports it's 16x
 
C64 said:
If I run with gpu in middle pcie slot gpuz reports its in 8x only is this normal i thought slots 1 and 2 were 16x ? and only the bottom 8x ? am currently running in top slot and gpuz reports it's 16x
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Everything is fine according to this:

Slots
• 3 PCI Express gen2 x16 slots
- If two graphics cards are installed at PCI_E2 & PCI_E4 slots, these two PCIE x16 lanes will auto arrange from x16/ x0 to x8/ x8
- PCI_E5 supports PCIE 1.1 x4 speed only
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The difference should be minimal anyway (last time I did the tests, it was around 2.5% performance loss or so).


C64 said:
whats the best ram to combine with an i5 750 on a gd 80 guys ?
I am a little confused as most people say the ripjaws yet they are not 1.65 volts ? So i presume anything that says up to 1.65volts and is 1600 mhz is the ticket ?
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Any Dual Channel DDR3 RAM up to 200 MHz will be fine. Just don't exceed 1.65-1.7v on the DRAM voltage.
 
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