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

lukext said:
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
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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.
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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?
 
lukext said:
known to have sata III or USB III?
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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.
 
Superewza said:
They don't support it. Do any upcoming P55 boards? I suppose you would need a new hard drive too...
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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.
 
Blind as bats? do people just buy motherboards without researching the features?
bit-tech said:
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.
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http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2009/08/10/first-look-msi-p55-gd65/2

bit-tech said:
It's first come, first serve on a single batch though, so get in quick if you're after one.
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How many is a batch?? 10 available from each of the retailers at this price just for the hype most likely?
 
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You're wrong, GD65:

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GD80:

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Note both power buttons and Vcore metre on both of them.
 
Subliminal Aura said:
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 :D
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Look to the top left, it's next to the overclocking buttons. Not sure if it's actually touch sensitive, but whatever.

Tom|Nbk said:
Is that extra heatsink on the GD80 actually cooling anything or just a heatspreader
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It's mainly just for looks, it might help with temps a tiny bit by spreading it about but i doubt it.

Tom|Nbk said:
I hate chosing motherboards :p the GD65 seems better value but then the GD80 keeps pulling me in
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Unless there's anything cheaper i'm going for the GD65. The GD80 offers nothing over it for me.
 
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