CyberPowerPC - Unleash The Power

MSI sent us a sample of their latest high end board. The P67 GD80. Now I know there's been a bit of bad press about the PCH bug and all that but it's still the fastest CPU that mere mortals can buy for gaming PCs.



On opening the box my impressions were good, the board has a similar look and feel to the ASUS P8P67 Deluxe but seems to have better spacing around the CPU so there should be fewer clearance issues for hefty CPU coolers.

It also uses new SFF VRM modules so it can pack in more power phases and therefore hot good clocks with lower voltages and heat output.

For those who measure the quality of a PC by the number of USB Ports you'll be impressed. 10 USB 3.0 and 10 USB 2.0





For me, that's all just fluff'n'marketting, so I added a 2600K, a large water-cooling kit and a pair of GTX 560 Ti Frozr cards (in keeping with the MSI theme).

Will get some OC results up later, I've seen reports of the GD65 getting 5.1GHz and more so I have high hopes.

Luke


Edited by Cyber_Tech - 07/Feb/2011 at 11:15

Originally posted by Cyber_Tech Smells really nice too

What ??? :P
Does this board still have the same issue ?

I dont know why - but I always thought MSI wasnt a great brand for motherboards ( but I am pretty out of hte loop on these things now - getting older I suppose )

Originally posted by licenced It's got 20 USB ports ... and you're using a PS/2 keyboard?

PMSL Good point !!!!!

Originally posted by Why Aye CPU overheads for USB keyboard/mouse can make a 1-2fps hit over PS2 so ive heard!

True, but you wont really feel that on anything but an Atom single core. 2 FPS really kills you when you're limping along at 20fps and struggling to frag the scenery but it's not like you'll notice it when you're churning out over 100fps. Anyway, it's the mouse that's PS2. I do miss overclocking the character rate on PS2 keyboards...




Edited by Cyber_Tech - 08/Feb/2011 at 14:36