MSI to offer 55% launch-day discount on P55 motherboards

lettuce · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:05

Damn these went really fast, glad I ordered my gigabyte last night now. Guys that managed to bag one of these boards must be chuffed! Wonder how'll they'll overclock

linktoinsanity · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:05

Ordered an MSI gd65 from elsewhere (can't name, competitor), wasn't even gonna upgrade to i5, but with this promotion I can't really refuse. I'm sure performance will be marginally better than my current quad and if reviews turn out not to be I can always sell the motherboard on...

gazzamcg · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:08

Yewen said:
Give me 30 mins guys and I will be able to say one way or another if everyone who got an order in earlier has stock allocated.

Sorry for leaving everyone hanging but you have no idea how mad these two boards sales are.

In your opinion if you can answer this Yewen, would you spend £85 on the msi deal or £106 on the Gigabyte ud3 or £115 on the Asus p7p55d ?

As you said in another thread you aren't impressed with the build quality of the msi.

Drake22 · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:11

it's not only they dont clock well
they cant even operate normally at all and are ridiculously slow

let's just hope it's just dodgy bios

SBD · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:13

Oh crap i need to go out

I really hope i get back in time for this!!

EDC · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:16

any opinion on how well or how badly these MSI boards perform is pure speculation, you will find out soon enough when the CityLink guy delivers your order and you build your system, no one has benchmarked thses boards in the UK yet so all this speculation is hot air.

Deluxe1 · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:18

Decent enough review here:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/msi-p55-gd80-review-test/

EDC · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:21

I mean in the very worst case scenario, if your not happy with the board you could just sell it on for what you payed, I very much doubt you wouldn't get your 63 quid or 85 quid back,
and I seriously doubt that either of these MSI boards are duff!

[timko] · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:21

Yewen said:
We are still downloading orders as it was a bit mad for a few minutes with a LOT of people ordering, we sold out of the GD80 in a couple of minutes.

If you got in on the first wave there should be no reason why you will not get a board.

The second wave I will stress now is first come first served and they will sell out VERY quickly as people are expecting the launch at 2:00.

Let say in the first wave there were only 10 mobos but 15 people managed to order before it showed Out of Stock. Will the remaining 5 be automatically be placed in the queue for the second wave or would they have to re-order?

Guardsmon · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:25

Yewen already said that ppl from first waves should have their orders sorted and he'd confirm in a bit.. calm down.

[timko] · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:29

Guardsmon said:
calm down.

At no point in my post was I expressing anything approaching shouting or distress. If I wanted to do that I would have used exclamation marks, caps-lock and maybe a few of these :mad:

but I didn't because I wasn't distressed

Deluxe1 · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:30

[timko];14840055 said:
Let say in the first wave there were only 10 mobos but 15 people managed to order before it showed Out of Stock. Will the remaining 5 be automatically be placed in the queue for the second wave

I hope that is the case.

Yewen · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:39

manic111 said:
Just out of interest Yewen, when you guys say that the MSI boards may not clock very well, do you mean that they literally won't clock, or that the uber enthusiast who wants to be pushing 4.5ghz plus won't be happy with them? For an everyday clocker who would take 3.5-4ghz will they be OK?

My benchmark was 4.00GHz using retail and ES chips with value corsair and dominator GT. All boards managed 4.00GHz that I tested although the Asus range were all clocked stable in under 5 mins, the Gigi and MSI took up to an hour to tweak out stable overclocks.

gazzamcg said:
In your opinion if you can answer this Yewen, would you spend £85 on the msi deal or £106 on the Gigabyte ud3 or £115 on the Asus p7p55d ?

As you said in another thread you aren't impressed with the build quality of the msi.

Personally, I would buy the GD65 on the promo price and be VERY happy with the cost of my amazing new i5 rig. If the deal runs out and the boards shoot up in price I would go for the Asus P7P55D basic or Pro. The more high end boards are not worth it unless you specifically need the unique features.

EDC said:
any opinion on how well or how badly these MSI boards perform is pure speculation, you will find out soon enough when the CityLink guy delivers your order and you build your system, no one has benchmarked thses boards in the UK yet so all this speculation is hot air.

I have used 3x 750 chips, 3x 860 chips and 2x 870 chips on every board on the market for internal benchmarks for system development.

I can tell you straight the Asus is the easiest clocker, the Gigabyte boards are of the highest quality but they wont be quite there on ease of overclocking for a week or maybe two. The MSI board is their usual quality with a solid BIOS that can be a little sluggish at times, again give it a week or two.

Buying now, MSI board all the way.

Miss the offer, buy an Asus P7P55D/Pro as this is what everyone will be buying for the next 3 months.

For system builds and bundles (good indicator of what product OcUK believes in due to having to offer overclocks 1000x with reliability) we have gone with the Asus for launch with potential to change over to the Gigabyte if the BIOS gets to the same level Asus have managed.

Guardsmon · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:39

[timko];14840121 said:
At no point in my post was I expressing anything approaching shouting or distress. If I wanted to do that I would have used exclamation marks, caps-lock and maybe a few of these but I didn't because I wasn't distressed

Sorry, wasn't just pointing at you, more at everyone in general who kept asking the same thing

Yewen · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:41

[timko];14840055 said:
Let say in the first wave there were only 10 mobos but 15 people managed to order before it showed Out of Stock. Will the remaining 5 be automatically be placed in the queue for the second wave or would they have to re-order?

All 26 people who oversold in the 30 second period the website was updating are allocated onto our second batch already.

Have no fear on that one.

manic111 · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:42

Yewen said:
My benchmark was 4.00GHz using retail and ES chips with value corsair and dominator GT. All boards managed 4.00GHz that I tested although the Asus range were all clocked stable in under 5 mins, the Gigi and MSI took up to an hour to tweak out stable overclocks.

Personally, I would buy the GD65 on the promo price and be VERY happy with the cost of my amazing new i5 rig. If the deal runs out and the boards shoot up in price I would go for the Asus P7P55D basic or Pro. The more high end boards are not worth it unless you specifically need the unique features.

Looks like some pretty sound advice! If I get hold of a GD80 or 65 I'll be overjoyed, if not I'll pay the extra and get hold of an Asus...either way, i5 here I come

Cheers for all the help today Yewen!

It's nearly F5ing time!

zAndy1 · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:44

That's good to know, when will we know which batch we're allocated to? And any idea when the 2nd batch will be in stock at all?

Cheers

Yewen · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:45

I will give you guys the headsup in this thread of when to start do not worry.

Incase people have missed it, some very decent memory for clocking i5 for cheap:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-083-GL

Geil Ultra Series 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-17000 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit for just £84.99 inc VAT.

Bit of a weird one spending more money on memory than a board but its a great kit for the price.

Yewen · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:46

zAndy1 said:
That's good to know, when will we know which batch we're allocated to? And any idea when the 2nd batch will be in stock at all?

Cheers

2nd batch should be in the tail end of this week / early next week.

Locke · 8 Sep 2009 at 13:47

Must resist..... clicking..... buy......