MSI P55-GD80 : Retail unit pictorial.

[clon22]

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.