One Last Look: ASRock And MSI Preview P55 Motherboards
One Last Look: ASRock And MSI Preview P55 MotherboardsMeet MSI's P55-GD80, the company's highest-end P55-based offering, expected to run right around $200. As with many past MSI platforms, this one sports tasteful aesthetic touches, like black and dark blue components, classy, unobstructed cooling on the voltage regulation circuitry, and an oversized anodized-looking heatpipe.Â
In this preview, we'll explore MSI's flagship in greater depth and then introduce ASRock's upcoming top-end model as well. Representatives from ASRock recently spent the afternoon in our Bakersfield, California lab to talk about P55 plans, pricing, power, and future technologies--I'll give you more detail as we skirt around the company's P55 Deluxe.
But first, let's dive into the P55-GD80, a board we're expecting to be a hit with the overclocking community and will evaluate in greater depth once Intel's upcoming platform officially debuts...
ever heard of a Geforce4 Ti4200 overheating? or a cd burner that burns once and requires a reboot to work again? dont get me started on how shoddy there products are.
Exactly right and agree there, and reguardless of trolls voting down facts are facts
You either work for MSI or are lucky
ROFL @ MSI being recomended
As for ASUS - I must have sold atleast 1000 P5GC-MX, P5GC-MX/1333, P5KPL-CM and P5KPL-AMPS over the last few years and only seen ~5 with any issues, for a budget motherboard there second to none, and have a decent Intel chipset.
Lol @ "MSI" having the best AM3 board. I'm sure it's not a horrible board, especially for the price, but when a Crosshair III can be had for $35 more or the M4A79T Deluxe for $24 more, why would you even consider the GD70?
Between Asus and GB, I think we've previewed somewhere around 5 or 6 boards already ;-)
Ok, that was a lot more than 1 word, but the simple fact of the matter is, they'll be able to market these boards as Core i7-capable boards. People who don't know as much will see Core i7, the list of features, and compare those to $200 x58 boards, and think they're getting a bargain, not realizing the Core i7 for LGA1155 is different from the Core i7 for LGA1366.
Its like people who buy a brand new GeForce 250GT to replace their "outdated" GeForce 8800GTX.
For i5? Linky?
Edit: Nvm I found them. But what about EVGA?
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