MSI P67A-GD65 Motherboard Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 31st January 2011 | Source: MSI | Price: £142.99 @ Aria |
Introduction
The precursor to the latest LGA1155 P67 series of motherboards, the LGA1156 P55, was probably dominated by MSI. Many manufacturers released very good motherboards, but for consistency and the absolute best then we'd probably just edge our choice to MSI.
You can understand our excitement when we received the MSI P67A-GD65 for review then. The mid-range of the MSI P67 series it comes with all the features we could hope for including the excellent MSI OC Genie button which is a previous winner of our innovation award for the ease in which anyone can overclock their system simply, and effectively.
So does MSIs reputation continue into the latest Intel socket? Only one way to find out.
Technical Specifications
Looking through the boards specifications we have all that we'd expect on a modern mid-range board. SATA 6Gbp/s, USB3.0, SLI and Crossfire support as well as enough PCI sockets for most peoples needs.
| Socket | 1155 |
|---|---|
| CPU (Max Support) | Sandy Bridge |
| AM3 CPU Ready | N/A |
| FSB / Hyper Transport Bus | 100MHz |
| Chipset | Intel® P67 |
| DDR2 Memory | N/A |
| DDR3 Memory | DDR3 1066/1333/1600*/2133*(OC) |
| Memory Channel | Dual |
| DIMM Slots | 4 |
| Max Memory (GB) | 32 |
| PCI-Ex16 | 2 |
| PCI-E Gen | Gen2 (1x16, 1x8) |
| PCI-Ex4 | N/A |
| PCI-Ex1 | 3 |
| PCI | 2 |
| IDE | N/A |
| SATAIII | 4 |
| SATAII | 4 |
| RAID | 0/1/5/10 |
| LAN | 10/100/1000*1 |
| TPM | 1 |
| USB 3.0 ports (Rear) | 2 |
| USB 2.0 ports (Rear) | 8 |
| Audio ports (Rear) | 6+Coaxial/Optical SPDIF |
| Serial ports (Rear) | N/A |
| Parallel ports (Rear) | N/A |
| 1394 ports (Rear) | 1 |
| eSATA | 2 |
| Form Factor | ATX |
| DrMOS | Y |
| APS | Y |
| SLI | Y |
| 3-way SLI | N/A |
| Hybrid SLI | N/A |
| CrossFire | Y |
About the only surprise is the inclusion of two legacy PCI sockets. There can't be anyone left with a single PCI card, much less two?
Let's take a look at it shall we.
Most Recent Comments
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Originally Posted by PCTwin
lol. 28.8Ghz. |
QuoteSo perhaps the truly brilliant OC Genie will be the solution to the poor stock performance?
If it works as good as it does on my P55-GD65 then weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I finally thought MSI was going good in the mobo section yet this is pretty disappointing to me
EDIT i must be fair i also hear people using it and its perfectly fine,
i guess my luck comes in again....Quote
I read in all these other sites about how awesome it was, but after seeing this I feel bitterly disappointed as well as being confused how it fared to badly here. EDIT: Quite a few people seem to get 4.2GHz clock, so I guess MSI is being extremely conservative, in case someone got a half completed chip or something.Quote
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