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

coupe69 · 10 Sep 2009 at 19:56

Ducky Spud said:
What about the Patriot G Series RAM? Is it strictly for AMD and you wont get those results on an P55 board? Just thinking 1600Mhz, 7-7-7-20 and just over £70 looks alright!

Not sure about them, I know some of the dual channel kits are 1.8 - 1.9 volts, so I'm presuming they'd be no good for core i5. I ordered some of the G-Skill ripjaw stuff as they've been tested on the P55 platform and more specifically the GD-80 and GD-65. I think you need to be looking for 1.65 volt kits.

Deluxe1 · 10 Sep 2009 at 19:59

Some unboxing vids here of the various MSI P55 boards:

http://forums.ncix.com/forums/?mode...did=2060251&pagenumber=1&msgcount=5&subpage=1

Tom|Nbk · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:06

bulldog147 said:
The MSI GD65 win hand down: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2009/09/09/asus-p7p55d-deluxe/7

Wow...

icey_haj · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:12

Tom|Nbk said:
Wow...

Agreed.

lightbulb · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:15

Deluxe1 said:
Some unboxing vids here of the various MSI P55 boards:

http://forums.ncix.com/forums/?mode...did=2060251&pagenumber=1&msgcount=5&subpage=1

I look forward to getting my hands on that MSI Winki, looks like a thilling read! Err wait....

chippy08 · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:17

I feel if i have to replace my DDR3 memory again i might as well go i7 and sell my msi board.

EDC · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:21

Tom|Nbk said:
Does anyone know if the GD65 or 80 have 775 mounting holes

The P55 (socket LGA1156) motherboards have the CPU cooler mounting holes in a different position to socket LGA775 and socket LGA1333, so you need to either buy a mounting kit for your existing cooler
or buy a new LGA1156 compatible cooler. Thermalright, Xigmatek, and Noctua are three companies doing mounting kits for socket LGA1156 motherboards. There may be others doing them soon
.

icey_haj · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:33

Looking through the charts, I'm amazed that the GD-65 beats the Asus Deluxe pretty much hands down in every test.

Tom|Nbk · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:34

icey_haj said:
Looking through the charts, I'm amazed that the GD-65 beats the Asus Deluxe pretty much hands down in every test.

This has made my night anyway

The Asgard · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:47

I was hoped the MSI would be good because it looked like they were trying to make a statement with it. It seems very well thought out. I generally buy Asus so I'm interested to see how the build quality and feel compares.

End of the day we all got cracking deals for 60 & 80 pounds and it was pretty good fun. Overclockers really looked after us.

Tom|Nbk · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:49

I have never, ever bought anything but Asus

icey_haj · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:53

Tom|Nbk said:
I have never, ever bought anything but Asus

Same.

Tuvoc · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:53

Tom|Nbk said:
I have never, ever bought anything but Asus

I have, but I prefer ASUS by far

Deluxe1 · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:57

Asus is my preferred brand for mobo's i only went for the MSI under the promotion i wouldnt of looked twice at it otherwise.

Tom|Nbk · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:58

I do prefer the quality with Asus

Drake22 · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:00

got mine

icey_haj · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:02

^ Get clocking!

Tom|Nbk · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:03

Cool, look at all that kit

Drake22 · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:09

icey_haj said:
^ Get clocking!

no cpu

gazzamcg · 10 Sep 2009 at 21:10

bulldog147 said:
The MSI GD65 win hand down: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2009/09/09/asus-p7p55d-deluxe/7

Very nice.

Although looking at the bios version for the gd65 it says 1.41 in the test setup.

Now, at msi the latest gd65 bios is 1.21 while the gd80 is 1.4, which could show as 1.41. Hope they've not mixed up the model numbers in that test.

Or perhaps msi shipped it with the 1.41 beta bios.