The new p55 mobos are on their way to shop. i heard in australia they are stocking p55 mobos. from hexus i came to know that msi will be offering 55% price off from the launching day it will be a limited offer. the P55-GD65, with a suggested retail price of £139.99 that is 238 USD , will be made available for as little as £63 or 107USD. Guru3d has an extended preview of the MSI P55-GD80. Specs of msi p55-gd80 :
- Sli/ crossfire
- 6 SATA 3.0 GBPS port
- Integrated clocking buffer
- Thermal Sensor Data via SMBUS for discrete Fan Control Solutions
- Intel Matrix Storage Technology 9.0.
- New Intel matrix storage has a new user interface for managing all storage related tasks
- support for RAID 0,1,5 and 10
- Rapid recover technology and FIS-based port multiplier support on 2 SATA port
- on-board controls for clock-speeds-
clear-CMOS, OC-Genie, a DIP switch to control voltages
- voltage-sensing points that make measuring voltages convenient.
- good overclocking head
-JMicron controller provides two internal and one external SATA ports
- and one IDE connector
- Two gigabit Ethernet connections, 8-channel audio, Firewire, and 14 USB ports make for the rest of the package.
Other specs include support for 4 x DDR3-2133 memories up to 16GB, 3 PCIe x16 slots for 3-way SLI and CrossfireX, 8 SATA ports, 1 eSATA port, 14 USB 2.0 ports, Dual Gbit/s LAN, 8-channel audio.
Seems like a very good deal. Maybe a review will clear us how stable the motherboard is in overclocking the new i5's