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

[Proesterchen]

My GD80 arrived earlier, too. Can't wait to play around with the board!

A big 'Thank You!' to MSI for running this promotion and OcUK for seeing it through!

 

[Tom|Nbk]

Glad you're all recieving your boards now. I love mine

 

[Jamous]

GD80 Received!
Thanks for all the efforts, appreciated!

 

[dms]

Glad it's working out for the rest of you.

Yewen, you've had 2 full business days to reply to my Saturday post in the customer services forum, is my matter being dealt with?

 

[MSI-Guru]

All you GD80 purchasers may be happy to know the P55-GD80 has the World Record Overclock for the i860 CPU pushing out nearly 5.4Ghz, with LN2 mind..

 

[Gzero]

Someone needs to rip into coolaler for still owning an old fossil Fx5500

 

[jellybeard999]

Someone needs to rip into coolaler for still owning an old fossil Fx5500

a) I don't think that's his overclock
b) If you're CPU benching, you want the worst GPU known to man, so it doesn't take much power

 

[Gzero]

a) I don't think that's his overclock
b) If you're CPU benching, you want the worst GPU known to man, so it doesn't take much power

Meh, go the whole hog and get something that isn't designed to play any games? Fx5200, hd3450 or something like that?

 

[Tom|Nbk]

All you GD80 purchasers may be happy to know the P55-GD80 has the World Record Overclock for the i860 CPU pushing out nearly 5.4Ghz, with LN2 mind..

This is a serious boost for MSI, they've done what they wanted and that is to finally produce a top performance board on par with some of the bigger brands!

 

[.Griff.]

Better late than never. This just arrived -

I must be the last person to get their promo board...

 

[manic111]

Hah, beat you! Got mine yesterday

Rest of the kit is hopefully coming today!

 

[CSA]

Sorry if its already been answered but this is a rather large thread now to search through , can i ask quickly what was the warranty period on these motherboards ?

 

[.Griff.]

Sorry if its already been answered but this is a rather large thread now to search through , can i ask quickly what was the warranty period on these motherboards ?

2 years iirc..

 

[Tolmekian]

Could either manic111 or .Griff. please post a close up shot of the cpu socket pins on the motherboard before installing a cpu? Would greatly appreciate it.

 

[manic111]

Could either manic111 or .Griff. please post a close up shot of the cpu socket pins on the motherboard before installing a cpu? Would greatly appreciate it.

Sorry matey, installed mine last night. Would it not be the same as the socket pins in any other P55 motherboard? I know that that's not a great deal of help, but surely there's a pic on Google somewhere?

EDIT: Indeed there is, here you go

 

[.Griff.]

I've still got my GD80 in the cupboard if the picture above isn't sufficient.

 

[Tolmekian]

Thanks both of you, that's great. It's just when i installed my i5 into my gd80 i didnt check the pins and when installing the cpu i felt a lot more pressure then i thought would have been needed was needed, it was positioned correctly but i checked the pins and they all seemed a tad 'bent' although i think that is exactly how they are supposed to be going off that pic. It would be a bit strange if i bent every single pin in a perfect angle i suppose It's been working perfectly since i built it, im just a worrier

 

[MeatLoaf]

Thanks both of you, that's great. It's just when i installed my i5 into my gd80 i didnt check the pins and when installing the cpu i felt a lot more pressure then i thought would have been needed was needed, it was positioned correctly but i checked the pins and they all seemed a tad 'bent' although i think that is exactly how they are supposed to be going off that pic. It would be a bit strange if i bent every single pin in a perfect angle i suppose It's been working perfectly since i built it, im just a worrier

With my Asus board i thought it needed a lot of pressure to close the lever but it seems to be working fine