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

[lukext]

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

Got to admit they are pretty cool! Sorry if ths has already been posted but are any of the boards expected/known to have sata III or USB III?

 

[.Griff.]

Got to admit they are pretty cool! Sorry if ths has already been posted but are any of the boards expected/known to have sata III

No mention of SATAIII

On-Board IDE/SATA

• One Ultra DMA 66/100/133 IDE controller integrated in JMicron® 363.
- Supports PIO, Bus Master operation modes.
- Can connect up to two Ultra ATA drives.

• SATAII controller integrated in Intel P55/JMicron® 363 chipset
- Up to 3Gb/s transfer speed.
- Supports six SATAII ports by P55
- Supports one SATAII port by JMicron 363.
- Supports one eSATA / USB combo port by JMicron 363.
- Supports AHCI controller with AHCI / SATA RAID 0/1/5/10 by P55.

 

[lukext]

Is that just MSI though? i saw thier uk rep in a video talking about their boards and he said no usb3 etc but was wondering about any 1156 board, asus, gigabyte etc if they had any that did?

 

[PermaBanned]

They don't support it. Do any upcoming P55 boards? I suppose you would need a new hard drive too...

 

[WJA96]

known to have sata III or USB III?

No to both USBIII and SATAIII

What SATAIII and USBIII devices do you have at the moment anyway?

Is your existing HDD running in SATAII mode anyway? Most of the ones I see are still running in SATAI/IDE compatibility mode. AHCI seems to be a bit difficult for a lot of people to configure.

 

[Subliminal Aura]

What SATAIII and USBIII devices do you have at the moment anyway?

 

[lukext]

What SATAIII and USBIII devices do you have at the moment anyway?

Point made but it was just curiosity more than anything.

 

[[timko]]

They don't support it. Do any upcoming P55 boards? I suppose you would need a new hard drive too...

SATA-III on forthcoming motherboards doesn't not mean needing to buy new SATA-III drives. SATA I and II drives will still work due to backwards compatibility, the same way the I works on II and also USB1 works on USB2.

If you actually want to take advantage of SATA-III then yes you would need to buy a new SATA-III drive. However, even when SATA-II drives first came out, they barely performed much better than best SATA-I drives. It took a while before the true performance of SATA-II came round and I doubt things will be any different this time round.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

So the gd65 has the multimeter terminals and power buttons , well that settles it for me i think

 

[Nelly]

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

The retailers wont mind all this hype either, you just think how many people read about the 55% off & what retailers are doing it - amazing promotion not just to MSI but the retailers involved.

 

[Subliminal Aura]

So the gd65 has the multimeter terminals and power buttons , well that settles it for me i think

No, only the gd80 has them afaik

 

[Nelly]

Blind as bats? do people just buy motherboards without researching the features?

Near the top of the GD65 by the memory slots is the V-Check point. In the blue plastic holes are metal prongs that can be used to check the realtime voltage points with a multimeter.

This takes out the uncertainty of BIOS readings and can more accurately measure phenomena like vDrop compared to what the BIOS voltages are set to, and vDroop when the CPU and memory are fully loaded.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2009/08/10/first-look-msi-p55-gd65/2

It's first come, first serve on a single batch though, so get in quick if you're after one.

How many is a batch?? 10 available from each of the retailers at this price just for the hype most likely?

 

[PermaBanned]

You're wrong, GD65:

GD80:

Note both power buttons and Vcore metre on both of them.

 

[Subliminal Aura]

Blind as bats? do people just buy motherboards without researching the features?

Only heard about it this morning mate. I've got better things to do than to sit, drool and **** over it all day.

Besides where's the touch sensitive on off switch then ?

Waiting to see the first electrocution off one of those babies

 

[Tom|Nbk]

Is that extra heatsink on the GD80 actually cooling anything or just a heatspreader

 

[Nelly]

Only heard about it this morning mate. I've got better things to do than to sit, drool and **** over it all day

Sorry if I sounded abit bad, wasnt my intention it's just my sarcascm lol.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

I hate chosing motherboards the GD65 seems better value but then the GD80 keeps pulling me in

 

[Subliminal Aura]

Sorry if I sounded abit bad, wasnt my intention it's just my sarcascm lol.

No worries mate ... Pretty tame compared to the rest here

Anyway, I think I'm out, not going to dive in ....

Then again ....

Good luck chaps

 

[lukext]

Is that extra heatsink on the GD80 actually cooling anything or just a heatspreader

Thats what i was thinking, as there is no NB??? Guess its just helping link up the SB and the VRMs

 

[PermaBanned]

Only heard about it this morning mate. I've got better things to do than to sit, drool and **** over it all day.

Besides where's the touch sensitive on off switch then ?

Waiting to see the first electrocution off one of those babies

Look to the top left, it's next to the overclocking buttons. Not sure if it's actually touch sensitive, but whatever.

Is that extra heatsink on the GD80 actually cooling anything or just a heatspreader

It's mainly just for looks, it might help with temps a tiny bit by spreading it about but i doubt it.

I hate chosing motherboards the GD65 seems better value but then the GD80 keeps pulling me in

Unless there's anything cheaper i'm going for the GD65. The GD80 offers nothing over it for me.