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

Proesterchen · 21 Sep 2009 at 13:47

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 · 21 Sep 2009 at 14:35

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

Jamous · 21 Sep 2009 at 19:06

GD80 Received!
Thanks for all the efforts, appreciated!

dms · 23 Sep 2009 at 08:31

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 · 23 Sep 2009 at 11:30

All you GD80 purchasers may be happy to know the P55-GD80 has the World Record Overclock for the i860 CPU :eek:

pushing out nearly 5.4Ghz, with LN2 mind..

Gzero · 23 Sep 2009 at 16:28

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

jellybeard999 · 23 Sep 2009 at 17:14

Gzero said:
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 · 23 Sep 2009 at 19:55

jellybeard999 said:
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 · 23 Sep 2009 at 21:42

coalfield said:
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. · 30 Sep 2009 at 12:12

Better late than never. This just arrived -

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

manic111 · 30 Sep 2009 at 12:25

Hah, beat you! Got mine yesterday

Rest of the kit is hopefully coming today!

CSA · 1 Oct 2009 at 15:04

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. · 1 Oct 2009 at 15:06

CSA said:
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 · 1 Oct 2009 at 15:25

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 · 1 Oct 2009 at 15:46

Jason_AJB said:
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. · 1 Oct 2009 at 15:58

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

Tolmekian · 1 Oct 2009 at 22:39

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 · 1 Oct 2009 at 23:52

Jason_AJB said:
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