MSI P55-GD80

[xbrian88]

#1

Hi guys,

Just wanted to share some pictures of this board.
MSI P55-GD80 for socket 1156.
(I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, so sorry if its not.
Mods/Admins, please shift accordingly. Thanks.)


The box :
(box pics temporarily taken out.)


Insides :




Contents and accessories :




The board itself :




Closeup on the heatsinks at the cpu vrm area.
They're linked by this thick heatpipe called, "Superpipe".




The socket cover is in a flip up position now.




Accompanied by a 10 phase power design?




Closeup on the "Superpipe", 8mm thick.
Below it is the APS(Active Phase Switching) display.




Further down the board, the PCI expansion slots are pretty well layed out.
Should you end up with 3way SLI,
you'll still have a PCI-E 1x and PCI slot to spare. (ie, raid & sound card.)




The PCH lies underneath here.




Connection options and I/O ports :

IDE is still available.






Some features on the board :

There are no physical power/reset buttons on the board.
Actually they are, but touch sensitive one.

The "+/-" Bclk buttons works like SetFSB.
If you do not have SetFSB, you can use this.
Just open up something like CPUz and increase your bclk from there. It works.




OC Genie is like an auto overclocking feature.
You have to enable it in the bios first.
Prior to booting up, press the "OC Genie" button, and the bios will do the work for you.
It'll generate an overclocked speed and your comp is overclocked in windows automatically




External voltage check points :
The measuring and gnd points are all located at the side, ready for you to use.
Just plug in your mm probes and they can be read immediately.





This board has all the features seemingly made ready for the bencher & overclocker.
So far, this board has been very interesting.
I personally like the bios alot.
They incorporated various bios features/options from around, all into one.

That's about all for the pics.
Thanks to everyone for viewing.

[xbrian88]

#2

Updates :

Since the mounting holes for P55 is in-between LGA775 and LGA1366,
I used some cable ties to secure my heatsink coz' I couldn't find any suitable brackets.
(Time to drill some more holes in your hold down and backplate
or do up a new one.. keke.. )

Its just for testing, so its still alright as the mainboard will be lying
down and not mounted upright in a casing.







Some screenshots of the bios too.




You can toggle on/off the leds on the mobo.
Same for the power "buttons".




OC Genie and Bclk buttons functionality options.




Other shots :
XMP/memory/LLC/qpi ratio/voltage options etc..









That's about all for the pics.

[xbrian88]

#3

Some basic runs :

In the bios, the voltage options can be manually keyed in.(Finally..)
Fine tuning of bios still in progress i guess.

Vcore goes in 0.006v increaments.
0.015v for vdimm.




Stock speed runs with turbo tech enabled.
Effectively, its at 2940mhz.

32m vista and xp diff.
668mhz @ 7-7-7-21, trfc 60, trrd 3,
B2B-CAS Delay @ Auto




3D runs using GTX260 on Vista 32 w/SP2 :
(Vantage, w/physX & 06)









Some overclocked tests later.

[xbrian88]

#4

Some random results
(Vantage, w/physX & 06)









32m @ 4ghz :

[xbrian88]

#5

Not so much pics here.
Received my retail unit i5 750 yesterday.







Test components :

i5-750 L924B537
Msi P55-GD80
Gskill Trident Elpida DJ-7 BBSE
Msi GTX 260 Lightning
Corsair TX750W
Thermalright Ultra 120 Copper + some fans
Windows Vista32 w/SP2







Ran some tests @ 200x20 / 1000mhz 8-9-8-24 :
1.293vcore / 1.319vtt / 1.65vdimm / LLC-disabled


06



Vantage without and w/physX





Cinebench 10



File Compression tests





Nuclearus multicore



Stress test :




-32m run-




I only did a quick run for all the tests.
Thanks for viewing.

[coccus80]

Sembra promettere bene questa mobo , però mancando il chip-bridge NF200 e che i 3 slot PCIe 2.0 x16 supportano le configurazioni triple-CF di AMD e 3-way SLI di nVidia lo fa solo se non erro in modalità x8 + x8 + x4, con l´ultimo slot PCI, però utilizzando la seconda generazione di DRMOS dovrebbe avere una maggiore stabilità in overclock.

Staremo a vedere.

Coccus80.