MSI P67A GD65
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No issues at all apart from my love of it 
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Mine's worked fine with no problems ([email protected]/4Gb XMS3). The only thing I don't like is the lack of vertical sata ports; they're all pointing out under my drive cage where I can't get at them easily, and cabling is a bit of a pain, especailly if you want to change things once the board's in place. This isn't an MSI problem though, they all seem to be saving space by double stacking them at the edge like this now.
It makes sense, but it's not ideal for me personally and a couple sticking out of the motherboard would have been a helpful option.
Oh, and don't forget IDE ports are a thing of the past in this generation. I tend not to pay much detailed attention to tech between upgrades and I nearly got caught out by this. Fortunately SATA DVD drives are cheap now, but it still adds to the upgrade costs.
Andrew McP
PS This is also not an MSI thing... the CPU socket lever *will* scare you as you're forcing it into place.
It makes sense, but it's not ideal for me personally and a couple sticking out of the motherboard would have been a helpful option.
Oh, and don't forget IDE ports are a thing of the past in this generation. I tend not to pay much detailed attention to tech between upgrades and I nearly got caught out by this. Fortunately SATA DVD drives are cheap now, but it still adds to the upgrade costs.
Andrew McP
PS This is also not an MSI thing... the CPU socket lever *will* scare you as you're forcing it into place.
most ppl see this as a good thing
only the cheapest boards in the P67 market have vertical SATA portsvertical ports get in the way of graphics cards and are not as easy to cable tidy the cables behind the motherboard tray.
No issues at all apart from my love of it
I bet you love that board more than your wife/girlfriend
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I bet you love that board more than your wife/girlfriend
Between me and you.. I haven't even told her that I've done some upgrading. My new found love is a dark dark secret
lol, same here, nowt like getting stuff delivered to work and then telling her 'just fixing the computer'
Hehe you are not wrong there, i was sure i was going to brake something with the noise it made
Was all ok though Although i think i have not got mine set up right as it bleeps loads on boot, and i think i broke a bios as i got a flasing blue light :s but thats really probably my fault not the boards.
bro306 what changes have been made on this bios has it been said?
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Looks good.. I have the P55 version and its a good board.. Unfortunately i cant clock my Xeon very high so may sell both and replace with a i5-2500K for some 4.5Ghz+ Fun with my sli GTX460
My New 4GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-17600 CAS7 2200MHz RipjawsX on P67A-GD65 using new bios 1.8B7!
5Ghz 1.36v Cas6 Timing unreal! I think i can get them tighter to and i abit faster freq left in them!
Does anyone know what chip these use have never had memory like it!
The bios fixed
1. Fill device SSID.
2. Update LAN PXE ROM.
5Ghz 1.36v Cas6 Timing unreal! I think i can get them tighter to and i abit faster freq left in them!
Does anyone know what chip these use have never had memory like it!
The bios fixed
1. Fill device SSID.
2. Update LAN PXE ROM.