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

[timko] · 7 Sep 2009 at 10:43

Tejstar said:
It's going live tomorrow at 2pm according to bit-tech!

Everyone's going to be having a late lunch at work tomorrow then

lukext · 7 Sep 2009 at 11:41

[timko];14830872 said:
Everyone's going to be having a late lunch at work tomorrow then

God bless being a student, still on hol! 2pm, might have to get up early tomorrow then! lol

waso_dude · 7 Sep 2009 at 12:26

[timko];14830872 said:
Everyone's going to be having a late lunch at work tomorrow then

My lunch finishes at 1.30 so should all be okay

CK61938 · 7 Sep 2009 at 12:26

I like the idea of it being one order per customer. It means the greedy lot amongst us won't be allowed to multi-buy and sell elsewhere later on...lol

Tolmekian · 7 Sep 2009 at 12:39

Was hoping it'd be quite a lot earlier and the early bird (aka me) could grab the worm. Going to be so much competition, got my card in my holster and im itching to grab it atm.

PermaBanned · 7 Sep 2009 at 12:41

Today is the last day of my holidays, so there had better be one left for me at 5PM!

.Griff. · 7 Sep 2009 at 12:46

Superewza said:
Today is the last day of my holidays, so there had better be one left for me at 5PM!

Erm they're not released until tomorrow.

PermaBanned · 7 Sep 2009 at 12:54

Exactly.

CK61938 · 7 Sep 2009 at 12:58

I'll be honest. as tempting as the offer is, I will not be in need of buying any i5 stuff for the forseeable future...I have two i7 machines and my 775 (Q6600) is still doing me well. So everyone else enjoy your new P55 set ups...but keep us informed of how it all goes

zAndy1 · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:01

I bet the first batch with 55% off is sold out by 14:10, probably earlier. Do we have any idea how many units will be available of the GD65 and the GD80?

Tom|Nbk · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:05

Guys do we have any comparison charts for these motherboards?

PermaBanned · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:11

Basically the GD-65 doesn't support Tri-SLI/Xfire and has one less look good heatsink.

Drake22 · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:14

im setting my alarm 9:00 and start refreshing

Tom|Nbk · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:16

Might just get the 65 for around 20 quid less then?, cant ever seen me going tri sli

thebandit · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:36

BTH, when I first heard about the the MSI promo I thought I'd do what some others here are suggesting and buy the board now and the rest once the dust settles. But, the full quoted price of the boards £189 etc seems a little high to me, I was very surprised that P55 M/B's will cost more than X58 ? sounded wrong, i5 is meant to be a mid range system part. Then I noticed the quoted prices are MSRP, and the 55% is off that, no one actually sells at MSRP, these boards won't be 190 quid after the promo and neither will the competitors, you wil save a little money in the promo, but I doubt 55%.

Subliminal Aura · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:39

^^^^

Yeah I'm cooling off this too but I must admit it is a sexy board for 85 quid

Tom|Nbk · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:54

Good board for 85 quid but if the only real difference is the tri sli i think ill go for the 65, who's with me on this?

Subliminal Aura · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:58

Tom|Nbk said:
Good board for 85 quid but if the only real difference is the tri sli i think ill go for the 65, who's with me on this?

Nope the touch sensitive power/reset buttons and multimeter Vcore terminal did it for me.. WEERRRy sexy !

drool links

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2009/08/18/first-look-msi-p55-gd80/1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6zANFlYEDM

PermaBanned · 7 Sep 2009 at 13:58

Me, probably. But i'm waiting on the prices of everything else. Why can't OCUK just put them up for pre order so we know what the damage is going to be?

@ above, the GD65 has a power button and the Vcore terminal...

.Griff. · 7 Sep 2009 at 14:00

P55-GD65 - http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=170&prod_no=1846

P55-GD80 - http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=170&prod_no=1844

Just noticed these are now on the MSI site. I looked over the weekend and coudn't see anything so I assume they appeared over night.