MSI P55-GD80 LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

Reviewed By: Colby on 9/15/2009

Tech Level: high - Ownership: less than 1 day

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: This is a very well made board with an impressive feature set for the price. I paired it up with an i5 750 and G.Skill Trident 4GB and everything booted up flawlessly. According to CPU-Z, the BIOS revision is 1.4 and is dated September 2, 2009. All reviews that I could find were highly positive of this board and it appears that it will certainly live up to my expectations.

Cons: MSI Live Update Online software doesn't seem to like Windows 7 x64 for some reason so I had to manually download a few of the motherboard related drivers from their web site. This was a minor issue that in my opinion in no way takes away from this board but still thought it notable here.

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Solid MB

Reviewed By: vP on 9/20/2009

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: This MB is bulit for excellent gaming experience. I installed i7-870, corsair PC3-12800 4GB and 4890 1G x2. It runs all my games smoothly. It has been run solid since last Friday (the day I received the borad. Newegg is amazing in terms of service and shipping). I had good experience with couple MSI boards. Let's hope this one will not let me down!

Cons: NO major issue so far. but, it seems MSI live update is acting funky under Win 7. Since Win 7 is relatively new, I hope updates will come out soon.

Other Thoughts: The Extra features like DrMos is nice, but I don't see it as a crucial component. after all, the power you save on a PC is far less than turning off the A/C.

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Great Mobo

Reviewed By: on 2/6/2010

Tech Level: average - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: After reviewing countless other Mobo's this seemed the one that stuck out. I got a great price during Halloween sale. Mounted easily into my Azza Solano case. Ram sticks, cooler, and GPU all installed easily. Great looking board and OC genie took me from 2.8ghz to 3.7ghz. Temps run avg 28-30 idle and low 40 to 50 with intensive multi tasking or games. Good manual with great full size pic of the mobo which helped find suitable CPU cooler that would fit. Works great with the Core i7 860. I haven't tried to manually overclock, but have read that this is a good mobo to do that with.

Cons: Can't plug my guitar processor into the inputs and get it to work. My bad, I probably need a separate audio card for that.

Other Thoughts: Great offering for an 1156 socket CPU.
Firewire ports and tons of USB!!

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PITA - but solid

Reviewed By: miahallen on 2/4/2010

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: attained very good overclocks

Cons: board/BIOS was a general PITA (pain in the rear)

Other Thoughts: read my full review/comparison at overclockers.com
"Gigabyte P55A Series Motherboards – Overclocking the UD3R and UD6"

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Awesome!

Reviewed By: LRRS159 on 2/3/2010

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Amazing feature packed enthusiast board
OC Genie works great
Great looking color scheme
Booted right up and stable

Cons: None performance wise
Need to get full manual off MSI web site

Other Thoughts: Tried to update BIOS with M Flash but have not figured out how to get it to work
Board did not have my RAM timings correct at first boot but manual reset in BIOS took care of it

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