Conclusion
Date 2005-12-17
Provider: MSI
Author: Niko Lupala
Editor: Amber Lupala
MSI 955X Platinum motherboard Socket 775
Bios:
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The bios is a standard Phoenix award bios that we all are familiar with. On the pictures I’m showing the main menu, integrated peripheral, Pc monitor, and the overclocking menu itself.
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HDspeed:
Hdspeed monitors the harddrive traffic and in this test the higher result the better. The higher result the faster the transfer speeds are and we can see that there is a decent difference though to the other motherboards.
DUmeter:
We transfered files that were 3.8 Gb bit over the computers and here are the results of the DUmeter that tracks the network speed. The numbers are Mb/sec.
Overclocking:
Time to share our overclocking results now, all overclocking is done in BIOS and with aircooling. What we did was boost the ram voltage to 1.9 and thereafter we started overclocking and took 220*19 without any problems, same thing with 240*19 still SuperPi stable. 255*19 still worked great and as the board is able to boost over 2.3V on the ram there is plenty to go with the right gear. 260*19 locked up the whole computer and with some watercooling and some active cooling on the ram I believe we could have gone ALOT higher.
Conclusion:
This is a great motherboard, they have put the right features into it and combined it with speed and great accessories to make a great bundle. The motherboard is reliable and stable even during overclocking and the CMOS can be cleared with a push of a button on the motherboard. Accessory wise there is plenty of gear for you from SATA cables to adapters etc and the manuals explain everything you need to know. MSI has a software that updates your drivers and bios through their own software that is included, it does all this within minutes, I never had to bother about anything as the software took care of it all. Performance wise its great, compared to the other motherboards this one has it all, we were even able to overclock it well and the bios settings made it easy. It even offers over 2v DDR voltage for overclockers so this board can aswell be used by them to achieve great speeds. Overall we want to give this board 5 out of 5 and our recommendations for a great and well performing motherboard.
Pros:
+ Fast
+ Good overclock features
+ Nice accessories
+ SATA and IDE raid
+ MSI update software
Cons:
- Only 2 PCI slots
- Close between one ram slot and big cpu coolers
Red&Blackness gives it 5 out of 5 dots
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