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MSI X58 Pro Intel Motherboards
Customer Reviews for MSI X58 Pro LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
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OOa007
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/4/2009 9:59:17 AM

Rating + 4 Good All Round


Pros: mostly everything.

Cons: the first board the IOH was sitting at 127C which is stupid crazy hot. had to get replaced and second is still around 66C

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eriwerif
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/3/2009 7:23:31 AM

Rating + 5 X58 pro


Pros: Fantastic overclocking, i received this board and a D0 step 920 and got 4ghz,
Sli was recently added via bios update

Cons: This has got to be the worst color scheme on a motherboard ever.
only includes a crossfire bridge adapter. had to buy sli bridge separately

Other Thoughts: Worth every penny.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/2/2009 5:04:09 AM

Rating + 4 Great Board


Pros: -It's a motherboard, if it works, it works!
-High RAM Capacity
-PATA and PCI Support, which I need.
-PS/2 Ports. I don't like using USB ports for Keyboard/Mouse
-Cheap (For an X58 Board)
-Easy Overclocking Switch; the i7 ROCKS

Cons: -Had to RMA one due to a bad BIOS flash.
-IOH runs constantly at 70C
-Included utilities SUCK (That's why I had to RMA, their auto-update tried to flash the BIOS from Windows- not a good idea!)

Other Thoughts: Contrary to what other reviewers say, this board DOES in fact support SLI, it says so under BIOS Version 8.2: http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=bios&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1744

I don't currently use SLI, but I like the comfort of having it.

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ant
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
6/24/2009 1:38:07 PM

Rating + 4


Pros: Purchased two open-box versions of these boards and both came in original retail box with all accessories and work flawlessly. SLI is now supported on this motherboard after a bios update from MSI's website (bios 8.2 at the time of writing this review). If you flash from the built-in bios flash utility, you'll need to rename the file extension to 720 instead of 820 for it to be recognized properly. For overclocking, BCLK tops off at around 190-200 MHz on both of my boards.

Core i7 920 OCed @ 3.8 GHz
2x 9800GT SLI
12GB (2x 6GB) DDR3-1600
3x 640GB WD Caviar Black Raided

Cons: Yes, the IOH runs hot but it only takes 5 minutes to pop off that heatsink and reapply better thermal paste. Do it before installing the board to save yourself some time.

Other Thoughts: After reading some of the reviews of this board, it's quite amazing to see how incompetent people are at building computers. Please keep returning perfectly working motherboards to Newegg so I can buy them up at greatly discounted prices. :)

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MAZ
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/21/2009 1:25:33 PM

Rating + 1 Haha, gotta love MSI


Pros: I get to get a new mobo!!!

And newegg rocks

Cons: Got it, and it didn't boot out of box, perfect. Tried MSI's tech service and that was a joke, now I get to RMA!! Also no sli support even though it says it in the overview which is reason not to by it either way, false advertising.

Other Thoughts: Definitely goin to evga, should have done it in the first place. I'd recommend this MSI motherboard to no individual, it seems like when you buy MSI your buying a lottery ticket and you will either win, and get a very cheap motherboard that works, or you get a lemon and deal with MSI's "superb" tech support. Do not buy MSI, words of warning.

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Ski
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
6/13/2009 6:28:25 PM

Rating + 4 beat the heat


Pros: inexpensive all option board from a company that never failed me...semi fail this time...

Cons: hot nb chip

Other Thoughts: Replaced white gunk with AS-5...still ran at 80-90C.
pressing directly on the center of the NB cooler resulted in IMMEDIATE drop to 50-60C...removed black insulator that was holding the cooler off the chip and replaced pushpins with old parts bin models with stronger springs on the pushpins CAREFULLY adjusting so it ONLY hits the chip and not anything around it...VIOLA! idles at 57C, 100% all cores at 64-65C...got a bigger cpu cooler that blows downward twords NB coming...thinking and acting beats whining and complaining...speedfan and SANDRA to check the temps.

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PikesPeakPatriot
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/13/2009 12:52:33 PM

Rating + 5 Rock solid


Pros: Horizontal SATA ports - no video card interference
Lots of USB & SATA ports
M-Connectors
Well designed layout

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: The instructions and layout were very clear and M-Connectors are a really nice touch. If you have not seen these before, they are small header blocks that you plug your loose front panel wires into. You then plug the entire assembly into the motherboard. It is a really nice feature as you can manage the separate front panel wires as one unit.

I installed a Core i7 920 with 6 GB Crucial 1066 RAM (3 sticks). The system POSTed on the first try. A few BIOS tweaks later and I was off and running.

I ran 8 threads of Prime 95 for 10 hours over night without a hiccup. Things got VERY warm in the case and the chipset heat sinks were pretty hot to the touch but it all ran flawlessly.

This is a work machine so I'm running a cheesy video card; not Crossfire.

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Mike
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/6/2009 11:40:49 PM

Rating + 1 terrible


Pros: 6 slots

Cons: fried 3 of them i had a msi before and loved it so i bought this one and i never wanna do msi again bought gigabyte and staying with gigabyte never will buy again.

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OX
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/4/2009 4:09:42 PM

Rating + 5 Works as Advertised


Pros: Runs as expected. No issues. Moderate overclocks are not a problem.

Cons: X58 Chipset runs really hot. Takes awhile to POST(at least compared to my previous rig). Maybe 5 secs or so till video and POST. Could have something to do with my vid card and PSU.

Other Thoughts: Core i7 920, 6gb Patriot Viper PVT56G1600LLK, 300gb Velociraptor, OCZ StealthStream OCS700SXS, MSI Radeon 4870-T2D1G, Antec 902

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NOS
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
5/30/2009 9:24:30 PM

Rating + 5 Neweggs mail in rebate plus great product


Pros: This is a great product...
Neweggs mail in rebates come in very fast. It took about three and a half weeks for the rebates and they are very easy to send. F r y s electronics and b e s t b u y take for ever to give you back your rebates.

Over all the motherboard is a great product. I would buy another one if i need it.

Cons: does feed me...and gets a little to hot sometime but with the proper adjustments its fine

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ACIprimtime
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/27/2009 2:43:18 PM

Rating + 1 MSI... We really tried


Pros: Cheap, I like the BIOS

Cons: Yes, the north bridge runs excessively hot, upwards of 90 deg C. Like others report, MSI claims they are not aware of a problem - when I pushed the issue, they claimed that particular chipset is supposed to run hot, upwards of 70 deg C and my board is an exception. When I pointed them here, they said reviews are not considered - only their engineers data counts. Anyway, I have purchased 2 of these. One DOA with the boot cycle, one died after about 2 months - gave the boot cycle. The first time I dealt with MSI RMA department, it took about 7 months to get my board back - that is a fact. Now they have another of my boards and I dread the process. They claim about a 10 day turn-around, it's already been about a month.

Other Thoughts: I used 3M VHB to attach a VGA fan to the northbridge heatsink and brought it down 35 deg.
Get the latest drivers and BIOS from the web.

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ThomSpengler
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
5/25/2009 7:02:25 PM

Rating + 3 You'll need to finish MSI's quality control...


Pros: Good price, easy to overclock, build quality seems great

Cons: IOH chip WAY too hot > 80C as it comes from MSI

Other Thoughts: If you are looking into making a Nehalem system, this isn't a bad board. It's far and away faster than my Core 2 Quad system. MSI has a good price on this system. However, you really need to "finish building" this motherboard for MSI.

The problem is over-heating on the x58 "Northbridge" IOH chip set. This is the chip with the big heatsink that says "MSI." With my proc running a cool 30C, the IOH was running a very hot +80C, so I put a fan on the IOH, but the chip temp only dropped to 70C (still too hot.) However the heatsink was very cool to the touch.

This made me think that the heatsink had a poor thermal bond to the IOH chip, so I pinched the nylon heatsink holders, pulled 'em out and slid off the heatsink. Heatsink was bonded by a flimsy piece of double-stick tape. I scraped the tape off with a fingernail (being carefull to not disturb the black insulating film,) applied a good heatsink compound and re-assembled the heatsink.

Voila! Heat problem solved, IOH down to 45C. If

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csk8tr
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/22/2009 8:44:28 AM

Rating + 2 Decent MB, RAM stability issues


Pros: One of the cheaper socket LGA1366 out there, but is shows.

Cons: This motherboard has an issue with the northbridge/southbridge having heat issues. You either have to replace the heatsink or re-apply thermal compound. See MSI forums for details. Also had an issue with RAM and system stability. If you need MSI support, the forums are more helpful than their tech support.

Other Thoughts: System would randomly freeze up or restart when using Corsair Dominator RAM. RAM is recommended for this MB according to Corsair's website. Had to contact both MSI and Corsair to determine if the issue was with the MB or RAM. MSI said to contact Corsair or the correct settings for the RAM; Corsair said to set to defaults and apply XMP profile. Had to disable XMP and underclock RAM to 800MHz in order for the system to be stable.

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bagamer
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/21/2009 6:48:01 PM

Rating + 4 No problems


Pros: Able to take 24gigs of ddr3 ram,setup for i7 cores easy to install

Cons: none so far

Other Thoughts: read all the reviews on this board and had mixed feeling about buying it, but was recommended to me so gave it a try no problems so far quick and easy setup and easy to overclock from bios

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plonk420
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
5/20/2009 7:05:42 PM

Rating + 3 great... after you fix the design flaws


Pros: -perfectly stable
-friendly to my first ever attempts at OCing
-positive NewEgg Openbox experience

Cons: -"hot IOH" issue to the point of unusability, probably long term and permanent damage (-2 eggs)
-expensive (intel is to blame, likely)
-not specifically part of the mobo review, but CPU needs 3rd party cooler, too (if you load all cores)

Other Thoughts: i've never had a board fail due to a colossal design failure as this.

without any overclocking changes, the IOH (northbridge) steadily climbed to over 100C. under load, it went even higher until Windows (fresh install) BSOD'd. even tried applying AS thermal paste after cleaning NB/SB. temps actually got worse.

even the Intel HSF couldn't keep up with standard stress testing (Prime95 on a non-OC'd processor). this isn't even straining it the way Intel Burn Test would. i can't realistically speak for other Intel procs, though. i have an E4400, but i put a Q6600 Intel HSF on it. THAT setup stays cool.

until a NB cooler i'd ordered arrived, i put an 80mm fan leaning against the heat sink, and it only took it down to 85C. new NB cooler (and SB) took it down to 50C.

THIS SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY. i don't build computers as a job, but i have had ~8-10 mobos up to this point and never encountered such a thing. so if you get this board, be prepared to possibly have to do something si

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jimbo
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/13/2009 7:37:33 PM

Rating + 1 Jimbo


Pros: cheap
6 ram slots

Cons: didn't work
typical MSI mobo quality.

Other Thoughts: gave msi a shot. got screwwed over again.
can't even rma cause of stupid rebate policy.
every msi board i've ever owned craps out.

bought gigabyte instead.
i'm done with MSI.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/9/2009 10:22:51 AM

Rating + 1 Most infuriating experience


Pros: Cheap

Cons: Get what you pay for. My system would crash every now and then and then would crash more often. Changed out the PSUx2 (both brand new), video card x3, RAM x3, and still crashing. Finally decided it was the board but it was too late to return to Newegg, so sent it to MSI. Went without a computer for 3 weeks and it has come back crashing every 5 minutes. Never overclocked.

Other Thoughts: I will never buy from MSI again.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/9/2009 12:25:43 AM

Rating + 5 Awesome board!


Pros: Fast, cheap (for an x58 board), tri-CrossFireX support/quadFire support. Isn't as hot as I was lead to believe.

Cons: Didn't support the XMP profiles on my OCZ XMP-Ready 1600 MHz RAM, not too much of a problem, though, because I just manually set the clock to 1600 MHz.

Other Thoughts: This is a great board for a "budget" Core i7 build. This is actually pretty good for overclocking, too, because it gives an extra voltage boost or something. Whether that was intentional or not, it's handy.

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Pzharyuk
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/8/2009 7:11:12 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Awsome motherboard for and good price, this motherboard has an outstanding performace, with my i7 the CPU temperature is 37. Lots of connections and room from upgrades.

Cons: All the connections all are located on the side of the motherboard, sometimes hard to reach once the motherboard is inside the case, other then that this motherboard is great.

Other Thoughts: All those comments about the motherboard overheating is just means that not enough cooling is provided for it, all you need is a good computer case(RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WB), nice prossesor fan and you're good to go.

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Jack Sparrow
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
5/7/2009 6:45:54 AM

Rating + 4 It works


Pros: It is fairly inexpensive, it does it's job, and it is not too difficult to install/configure.

Cons: The RAM installation is backwards from what is normal. You have to remember to put the RAM in starting at the second slot (a black connector) instead of the first blue one. This cost me some extra time pulling my hair out trying to figure out why the system wouldn't post.

It is a crossfire board...but that is personal preference.

Other Thoughts: I haven't noticed too many problems. The core i7 motherboards aren't cheap, but this one is reasonable and it works.

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Mikey
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/6/2009 7:15:11 PM

Rating + 5 Love it!


Pros: Awesome motherboard love it alot its all pros

Cons: none

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ocbaud
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/3/2009 7:58:23 PM

Rating + 3 Okay entry level board


Pros: I bought this board because it was the cheapest one that had every feature I wanted. It works fine, it has a great feature set and layout.

Cons: Like everyone else, the northbridge runs extreamly hot. VERY VERY HOT. The stock thermal paste they use is more like a thermal glue, as it hardened and was a pain to remove. I Cleaned it up and added some arctic ceramique to it and the southbridge and that helped a LITTLE BIT. I ended up mounting a small fan on the top that sucks air away from the cooler and that dropped my temps about 15*C.

Other Thoughts: Great board if you plan to not tinker with settings or push your cpu very far. I believe the heat from the northbridge is limiting my overclocks with my I7. I may end up replacing this board with another brand, I only purchased this as it was the cheapest one with a company I have used before.

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sangster
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/2/2009 8:08:04 AM

Rating + 1 Is this a Lemon?


Pros: cheapest board available for a reason.

Cons: You get what u pay for :)

Other Thoughts: Is the X58 Pro motherboard a Lemon? The x58 cooling solution on the board is inadequate by far. Very soon, MSI will introduce a replacement board called the X58 Pro-E which has a different heat sync on the Dr. MOS and X58 chipset. They will no doubt ignore all of us with the Lemon. Which is totally unacceptable and enough to make me not want buy any MSI products ever in the future!

The only solution to cooling your IOH on the X58 Pro is to replace the useless MSI heat sync or run a small fast fan on to them.
Here are the possibilities;
1) with stock cooler IOH is 72C at idle
2) Running a 40mm 4000RPM fan ($12.00) directly onto the chips set from above the chipset, the IOH drops to 55C.
3) Replacing the sock solution with 2 Thermalright HR-05-IFX (23.00 each) the IOH drops to 38C*

*note: In my Antec Sonata case the HR-05-IFX are directly in the path of the 120mm fan exhaust that is mounted to the hard drive cage. This fan, draws air through the bottom of the case, over

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/29/2009 5:53:37 PM

Rating + 1 Verh High IOH Temps


Pros: cheap

Cons: Very high (over 100C) IOH Temps make the board unstable over time.

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sangster
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/29/2009 5:43:54 PM

Rating + 1 This product is a Lemon


Pros: Cheap

Cons: X58 Chipset runs too hot - 78C on idle. Almost 100C on full-load. MSI recommendation is to use a 3rd party cooling solution or run the case fans at supersonic speed generating Jet engine afterburner sound levels.

Other Thoughts: save your self the head ache and by another product.

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Destro
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/29/2009 6:12:23 AM

Rating + 5 Nice board


Pros: Nice design, lots of connections, love all the pretty leds, didn't really care about OC settings other than setting that base clock. Nice little dip switch on the motherboard fixes that.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: If you are looking to use all the available PCI-E slots make sure you pick cards that are low profile otherwise you'll be disappointed, the spacing is lacking and I'm sure its the same on all the X58 boards, but for this price it gets the job done.

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Remi
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
4/28/2009 10:42:08 AM

Rating + 1 Very very slow RMA in Canada


Pros: Good performance/price ratio

Cons: Very slow RMA in Canada, poor customer support. I've done 2 RMA with MSI, the first time (P6N Diamond) it took pratically 2 months from the date they received my defective board. My second RMA (this board), well I'm still waiting, they received it 2 months and 9 days ago..

Other Thoughts: Keep in mind I cannot speak how good the RMA is in the US.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/28/2009 7:57:16 AM

Rating + 5 Yep


Pros: It was a good price for a nice mobo

Cons: none atm

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Daegalus
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/27/2009 1:25:08 PM

Rating + 1 Died after 1 day


Pros: It was cheap, and had a lot of features that you have to pay more for on other motherboards.

Cons: Died after one day. All I did was shutdown to install a second drive, and it no longer booted. I opted to get a Gigabyte EX58-UD4P instead from my local store for 240$. Luckily Newegg has amazing support and were kind enough to give me a full refund, because when I purchased it, it had a LImited Non-Refundable Policy.

Other Thoughts: I would recommend you get a different motherboard, or cough up $40 more for a superior board. The Gigabyte one I am using now is hands down far better than the MSI, and for a full 1440$ purchase, $40 should not be squandered on.

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BH
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/27/2009 7:33:05 AM

Rating + 3 Waiting for a replacement...


Pros: Price; clean layout; spacious socket area for large coolers; plenty of 90-degree SATA ports; power, reset and CMOS switches directly on the board.

Cons: Mine was DoA out of the box. The board powered on, the system speaker beeped, all status LEDs showed everything was fine, but after about 15 seconds it rebooted in a loop without posting. Everything was triple-checked to be seated correctly, etc. Behavior persisted. Presently waiting on a replacement from NewEgg.

Other Thoughts: I've given the board a 3 solely on the fact that I haven't been able to actually use it yet. I did read the negative reviews here but I always wait and see for myself. Ooops, lol.

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Monty
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/19/2009 4:37:42 AM

Rating + 1 Mine a lemon


Pros: Cheap.

Cons: Failed after 3 hours. This mobo is non-refundable, one of the few at Newegg. So I can keep returning and hope one works or suck it up and buy another.

Other Thoughts: Even open box mobos are refundable! I should have seen the red flag.

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Ian
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/18/2009 12:25:11 AM

Rating + 3 Unhappy


Pros: Lots of accessories, easy install, good placement of connectors.

Cons: Ran for 3 days and quit. Still waiting on RMA board from newegg. (They've had it for 5 days, and still not processed it yet..)

Other Thoughts: If this new board ever comes, I hope it turns out ot be one fine stable system, no OC or anything. The i7 chip is phenomenal, and with 12Gb RAM plenty of oomph to do anything. I need that board!!!!

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/17/2009 9:48:48 AM

Rating + 1 IOH Temp


Pros: Integration was flawless.

Cons: IOH Temp was hot, 70 C +, with no load. Google "IOH Temp" and you will find that this is a known issue with MSI X58 Pro mobos. I read somewhere in the MSI forum that this is good design. REALLY, I guess every other manufacturer of mobos is missing out on this great feature of Hot IOHs.

Other Thoughts: I decided to return and get a ASUS P6T. More money but no issues.

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Zach
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
4/17/2009 9:04:05 AM

Rating + 4 Great Mobo


Pros: Came with everything I need, this is my first Mobo install and the instructions that came with it were extremely helpful and easy to understand. Buttons on MOBO provide easy reset and power options. Lights on board provide assistance when diagnosing computer start up problems. Ex. Dimm lights didn't come on because the memory wasn't snapped in. PC wouldn't power on. Because of the lights I was able to quickly troubleshoot. Great Board.

Cons: Overclocking switches cause instability issues, PC won't even start with them on. I feel they are useless because you can overclock in BIOS.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
4/14/2009 10:17:25 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Incredible value for the price. 16x/16x Crossfire, 6 memory slots, easy i7 920 overclocking, and really just an all around brilliant budget board.

Cons: NONE!

Other Thoughts: I was terrified this board would run extremely hot after reading a bunch of reviews on this board. Luckily it seems those fears were warrantless since after running the board for two days straight, Everest reports that the motherboard temperature is only 38 degrees C and the North Bridge is at 64 degrees C. I'm currently using 5x 80 mm MassCool fans (3x intake and 2x exhaust) and I couldn't be happier with this motherboards performance, price, and operating temperatures.

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Bschwalbz
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/14/2009 6:01:57 PM

Rating + 4 Works fine


Pros: Did not have any problems getting it to run or installing it physically.

Cons: IOH chipset heat. I thought it was a bad sensor when I was reading 85C and 95C at load.

Other Thoughts: I took an old GPU and stole the GPU Heatsink and Fan.. Took off the fan and placed it on the chipset sink. Temperature went from 85C idle to 60C idle.. Load never passes 72C
Granted this is still higher then I would like. I have heard of others taking the sinks off and arctic silvering and changing to different sinks and getting 30's and 40's which is much closer to home.

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training
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/13/2009 5:43:13 PM

Rating + 4 Works as promised


Pros: Works out of the box as it should- easy setup the sata ports point the in the right direction fit under my vid card

Cons: little pricey but they are still new boards

Other Thoughts: Works well saw the 12 gig of crucial memory no issues

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kaspm
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/13/2009 11:31:04 AM

Rating + 1 Low-end


Pros: Low priced board, some overclocking features, easy to install

Cons: low-quality, cheap, low-performance

Other Thoughts: The first board was DOA, the second-board had bent pins out of the box. I highly recommend a higher-quality board for an i7 build. Also, buy a refundable backup-board. Nothing worse than getting set to do a new build and pulling the mobo out only to have DOA or bent pins. One bright note, NewEgg was fantastic through the whole ordeal, ended up making an exception and refunding BOTH the board and the ram since it was incompatible with my new board.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/11/2009 12:30:18 PM

Rating + 1 Fustrating


Pros: Got it in the mail.

Cons: DOA twice.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/10/2009 9:31:30 PM

Rating + 1


Pros: Cheap board. Pretty good quality despite that.

Cons: It only lasted a month. My computer completely freezes about 5 seconds into boot. Occasionally, it doesn't even post and I have to do a combination of clearing the bios and restarting until it works.

Other than being defective, the biggest problem with this board is the hot IOH (northbridge/southbridge).

Other Thoughts: I liked this board, but then it died a month later. I also had some freeze fits (freezes for about 5 seconds), although I'm not sure if I can blame the motherboard for that (SSD's have a reputation). Don't be scared away from this board because of this review, but I am disappointed which what I thought was a fantastic board.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/8/2009 6:17:28 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent Board


Pros: Very straight forward install, all of my components fit perfectly without any mess or fuss. Was placed into a Raidmax Smilodon mid tower, fit snugly but with plenty of room to breath. Supplied documentation is very easy to read, and the software\drivers got it booted up first time. Blue LED's a plus also.

Cons: Video card is mounted upside down, and if I didn't have the tower I have, connecting to the sata ports would be a nightmare, but that's more of a video-card issue than a motherboard flaw. The LAN driver didn't load with the original driver package, but it did when I selected the driver for manual download from the device manager.

Other Thoughts: Remember that if you're adding a larger-than-life video card to put it in last, or at least after you make your sata connections.

Spec's:
i7 920
GTX260 216
6GB 1333
750w PSU

Booted up first try, no hic-ups.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/7/2009 9:04:33 PM

Rating + 1 was good.... now...


Pros: Easy overclocking. Good layout

Cons: After 1 month my computer has been slowing down because of the Motherboard. the IOH temperature is always smokin hot. At Idle my cpu is at 20 degrees C (go coolermaster v8!!) but the IOH is at 67, and under a 100% load my cpu is up to 65 degrees (v8!!!) and the IOH temps will go over 100 if I dont pull the plug.

Other Thoughts: tech support is useless. They will just tell you to update bios, no matter what the problem is.

Also MSI charges 45$ i believe to RMA. awesome.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/7/2009 8:51:26 PM

Rating + 1 Did not post


Pros: None

Cons: DOA

Other Thoughts: Still waiting for replacement

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/7/2009 5:50:31 PM

Rating + 5 Amazing board for the price


Pros: Good layout, thoughtful little additions like the extenders for the sound and switch headers, double/triple(?) Crossfire, lots of SATA headers, easy OCing, great BIOS interface.

Cons: No SLI, but who cares, Radeons are better bang for the buck.

Other Thoughts: Best LGA 1366 board around for the price

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Veronica
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/7/2009 10:56:59 AM

Rating + 5 Great Motherboard


Pros: For the price this is a great board. It was easy for me to install. I have had no problems at all with it.

Cons: none

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/6/2009 7:05:35 PM

Rating + 3


Pros: Very professional packaging and nice looking board. The layout is very nice, especially with the SATA sockets on the side. Setting up my computer was very easy and everything ran perfectly on the first go. Great for the cheaper price.

Cons: The IOH runs really hot. It used to run at 70C for stock speeds and spiked to 90C (at which point the board underclocks itself) when I did some simple overclocking. Taking everything apart and adding Arctic Silver was enough to take the temperature down 10 degrees for stock speeds, and I haven't tried overclocking again. I suspect the problem is caused by the spring locks that don't hold the heatsink on tight enough.

Although it's only happened twice before, my computer refused to boot up. The power and fans were going but the monitor wasn't getting a signal and no power was being sent to my keyboard and mouse. I had to clear the bios to fix the problem, and it's getting kind of annoying to have to do this more than once. I wasn't even overclocked the second time around. I hope the bios update I applied fixed this issue.

No warranty on this motherboard aside from the Newegg standard. I don't like that when things start to stop working...

Other Thoughts: This is my third review, and I can only hope that Newegg deletes duplicate reviews. More and more bad things keep happening with this motherboard, and the fact that it is non-replaceable after 30 days is starting to scare me.

I don't like the thought of rating this motherboard a 3, primarily because it is a very high quality board, but I'm getting more and more problems every day. I bought this motherboard because of the ratings and price, and I'm still convinced it has both.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/6/2009 12:48:06 PM

Rating + 2 flaky


Pros: lots of bios oc settings, lowest price of x58 (at time of purchase), high quality pwm/caps, power on/reset/clear cmos buttons on board is nice. placement of sata/ide connectors very helpful.

Cons: has a very flaky power on routine, occasionally when i try to turn it on, all fans/pumps come on, leds on board show everything is norm, system refuses to post. no matter how many times i reset/reboot/power down psu and back on, board refuses to post. until i do a wierd sequence of powering down psu, clearing cmos with button and restarting twice, board comes back on with default bios settings. very annoying. luckily it has the ability to save all bios settings to profiles, so i can just load up my profile when this happens.

i have read about others having a similar problem.

also, passive cooling on IOH is not sufficient. msi utility read 70-80C idle on IOH (before i installed watercooling)

Other Thoughts: i am overclocked, but i am confident these problems are not from that. prime95 runs stable for 24hrs+.

4.2ghz max (not stable for everyday use)
3749mhz stable (920 is 2.66 stock) 1.36vcore
water blocks on CPU and IOH
7-7-7-19-1t @ 1428mhz ddr3 6gb g.skill 1.62v

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David M
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/5/2009 11:23:00 AM

Rating + 1 Horrible


Pros: Triple-channel memory, the standard for i7 boards. Not impressive.

Cons: 4 major complaints: 1) 4 memory slots DOA, would not see any RAM other than slots 1,2 (tried 3 different brands as recommended by MSI). 2) Chipset measured at over 90 degrees celsius. 3) BIOS flashing requires floppy or FAT partitioned USB media reader. BIOS update problematic and painful. 4) Because Newegg does not offer Refunds on this board, I am forced to get an RMA (which I hope will not run as hot, and will work as specified).
I have been a professional tech for 11 years. This is a bad design for a board.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/5/2009 10:13:27 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: -3 easy ways to overclock (Bios, software too, and actual physical switches on mobo)
-Many LEDs for status of RAM, CPU, PCI slots, etc
-Built in power/reset/and clear CMOS button
-nicely laid out, huge video card doesn't block anything
-Excellent price and features

Cons: -Chipset runs very very hot
-Greenpower utility doesn't work (causes computer to shut down) after I overclocked it
-MSI software (Greenpower and overclocking utility) not laid out very well, some what confusing to use, and they don't work very will anyways

Other Thoughts: -ATI 4870x2
-Core i7920 OCed to 3.33GHz
-6 gigs RAM
-Windows XP

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FlyinBrian
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/2/2009 8:30:23 PM

Rating + 5 Great Board 0 Problems


Pros: Plenty of features sure as ESATA among other things. Note I do not overclock. I installed everything and it ran all burn in test with flying colors.

Cons: The only Con I would say is the use of spring pins to hold some of the cooler down. But that is pretty common these days.

Other Thoughts: I like msi more and more with every product I purchase from them.

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xt3rmin8
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/2/2009 3:31:47 PM

Rating + 5 Very Good


Pros: Works great no problems with it plenty of connections, very good instructions

Cons: none so far

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/1/2009 10:53:26 PM

Rating + 4


Pros: Haven't had many issues with it. Works solidly. Packaging was very professional and they even give you a laminated layout of the motherboard.

Cons: Boots up very slow. The IOH temperature is 90C idle and I'm worried that it could cause problems.

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Justin
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/30/2009 10:04:36 AM

Rating + 5 Good board


Pros: Solid, have not pushed it too hard, but it works! Cheap!

Cons: The fan connector is a little far from the CPU for the stock Intel cooler. But maybe I'm just bad at cpu building :)

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/29/2009 1:02:52 PM

Rating + 3


Pros: Works well, lots of options for voltages and clock rates in the BIOS.

Cons: Northbridge runs really hot - I was getting 96C at idle, which actually decreased to 78 under load because of the CPU fan. I ended up replacing the passive cooler with a Thermaltake CL-C0034, bringing the temps to 60C. This was difficult because the thermal adhesive was very hard to clean off the chips, and the heatpipe between north and south bridge meant I had to replace both heatsinks. (If I didn't care about the warranty, I could have just cut the heatpipe.)

The layout puts the southbridge heatsink, the SATA connectors right under where a large graphics card will go - thus, the southbridge can't be getting much air, and you have to remove the graphics card to change hard drives. I'd prefer upright SATA jacks and the northbridge to be below the level of the graphics card, and put the PATA connector under there if you must.

I tried all combinations of drivers on their website, and I could not get the eSATA port (powered by the JMicron controller) to work.

Other Thoughts: I replaced the heatsink because I thought heat might be responsible for some BSODs I was seeing while gaming, however, it had no effect. That problem seems to have been resolved by reducing the command rate on otherwise-stable memory from 1T to 2T. So maybe the heat is OK. On the other hand, somewhere I read the chipset will slow down for safety at 100C, and that's only 4 degrees from what I was seeing.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/29/2009 8:01:25 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent Stable Board


Pros: Excellent Price, Easy Installation, Great layout,Loads of connections for just about any device...

Cons: None....

Other Thoughts: Moved up to a i7Core setup due to my video rendering needs, the MSI board was cheaper in price than any board available and had excellent reviews from here as well as other website reviewers... Installation was a breeze, booted up the first time without any problems, system has been stable since day one without a single problem, runs my new i7 Core 920 2.67 and OCZ DDR3 1066 RAM that I ordered from Newegg pefectly...As always Newegg delivered quickly...
New specs are as follows...

Specs X58 Pro, 6Gig OCZ DDR3 1066, i7Core 920, Evga GTX 295, Auzentech 7.1 Prelude, 3-TB Hds, 800Watt PS..

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DoomCraft
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/28/2009 9:28:04 PM

Rating + 2 Has potential


Pros: Has great over-clocking for beginner utilities including an onboard switch. While the board was working, it was great.

Cons: IOH temperatures were running hot, 80 degrees in idle mode and all the way up to 90-100 at full loads. Couldn't use the overclocking software as alarms kept going off for the IOH temps. MSI driver disk wouldn't install everything available, I had to manually install audio drivers and a couple other things through the website. The board crapped out on the second day, wouldn't recognize USB/PS2 or SATA connections. Without keyboard recognition, I couldn't get into bios and without SATA recognition, couldn't boot up fully. Tried clearing cmos data and still wouldn't recognize USB commands. (The light on the keyboard was on and had power, but didn't do anything else.)

Kind of sucks to have to RMA something like this meaning I now have to wait to use my new i7. More of a disappointment than anything.

Other Thoughts: I'll be trying a second MSI, hopefully I just got a fluke board. Everyone else seems to be having good luck with them, although I still don't like those high IOH temps and it seems kind of flaky to be shipping out a product that maxes out temperatures with decent cooling. (I have 6 fans, 2 of them 180 mm side fans blowing right on the north and south bridge.)

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/25/2009 7:57:35 PM

Rating + 4 Great board


Pros: Completely stable. Very happy with the board and would recommend it. Great instructions for the most part. Much more thorough than the EVGA board I bought.

Cons: There was a cover over some of the pins on the power connector to the CPU. Since no Core i7 uses a 4 pin connector I could not figure out why they would chose to put this on every board they sold, with no mention of it in the instructions.
No real complaints otherwise.

Other Thoughts: Everyone says the IOH runs hot and it did report 75 C, but I believe this is a false report. It was not hot to the touch and I measured only 39 C with two thermocouples.

I did not give this board 5 stars only because I did not push the board (no overclocking) and I did not have it long before I passed it along to the person I built it for. But in the 3 or so weeks I had it, it gave me no problems.

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Chris
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
3/25/2009 12:03:26 PM

Rating + 5 Excellent


Pros: Everything I was looking for in a new motherboard, with about half the price I was expecting. Definently a 5/5 egg ra ting. Got this Board running my I7 920 at 3.91Ghz STABLE. Had it at 4.2Ghz, but experienced some minor glitches at around 8 hours of stress testing. With liquid cooling, temps don't get much higher than 65 Celsius, but when overclocked they get nearer to that 70 mark, so i'm keeping the Ghz at 3.75, even though it's stable at 3.9

Cons: When I got this board, the option on this board to shut itself down when the processor gets too hot was off, meaning I could have had a serious issue with overheating if I hadn't noticed it first. Be careful there. As far as I know, this has only happened to very few people, so it sounds like a random fluke.

Other Thoughts: All in all, a great board and a great price. Very hard to beat in a performance/price comparison.

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Jim
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/24/2009 11:29:30 PM

Rating + 5 Works Great, Easy Overclock


Pros: Works great for overclocking. I have a stable overclock at 3.6 ghz with my i7 920. I have OCZ DDR3 1600 mhz ram OC'ed to 1700 mhz easy. The blue lights look cool.

Cons: The color is ugly to me when its out of the case but it looks real nice when its on and the blue lights are lighting it up. The IOH runs very hot at 225 degrees

Other Thoughts: Intel Core i7 920 OC'd to 3.6ghz
OCZ Gold PC3-12800 OC'd to 1700 mhz
2 WD Caviar Black in raid 0
Sapphire Radeon 4870 1 gb
Kingwin Mach 1 1000 watt PSU
Enermax Uber Chakra case

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beeblequix
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/24/2009 10:59:29 AM

Rating + 4 Good for cheap i7 build


Pros: BIOS reset button on the board (as well as power and reboot) replaced old school jumper -- really nice so you don't have to remove video cards and cram larger hands around everything. A must when overclocking experiments go awry.
2 PCIx16 is plenty. I only plan on keeping one video card installed at a time anyway, but if I ever needed to CrossfireX it's ready.
No parallel or serial out the back, but there is one serial on the pcb if you really think you need it. ;)
Stable.
I love the heat pipes.
Oodles of USB & Firewire ports.
Has nifty LED indicators all over the board for informational purposes (green = PCI slot filled & working)

With Radeon HD3870 and memory at stock speeds I'm getting around 11,500 3dmark 2006.

Cons: I think MSI gave me the wrong driver disk -- when I tried to install the NIC drivers Windows would absolutely not start the NIC. I downloaded all drivers to my thumb drive, threw that in & reinstalled everything from there. All okay now (it's shown as a totally different Realtek ethernet model than what the original driver disk reported). It's a minor hassle but could really disturb a rookie. For that reason alone I give it 4 stars.

Other Thoughts: I don't care for the brown color -- (a tad on the ugly side). What does brown do for you? It doesn't really matter -- it's what's inside that counts. I've got a nice 12" cold cathode light that draws eyes away from the PCB. Heat pipes look great.

It also comes with backup software which I didn't really care for, but at least it's included. Make a separate partition (preferably a separate hard drive) and it should work fine. I'd rather use Ghost, Nero Back-it-up or Retroexpress (comes with My Book World Edition NAS).

320GB SATA 3.0 Seagate
Visiontek Radeon HD 3870 overclocked
Lite On DVD burner (finally a non-noisy one)
Antec SuperLANboy case
550 W Ultra power supply
3x2GB Corsair DDR3 1600 (running at memory bus 1333)
Vista Home Premium SP1
nMEDIAPC ZE-C138 Silver Aluminum Panel 5.25"All-in-one
20" VP912b Viewsonic LCD monitor
Logitech S510 keyboard/mouse

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Eric
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/24/2009 8:14:57 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: I purchased two of these boards and both worked great (So far) right out of the box.

These were my first MSI motherboards (Usually use ASUS), but for the price, I thought I would give them a try.

Cons: The only con that I really saw was the SATA port placement on the motherboard. I installed them in two decent sized mid-tower cases and the SATA cables were not easy to connect/route, but that is minor.

Other Thoughts: I am very picky about my motherboards and I would recommend this board to those that want a decent Core i7 motherboard. (I have not over-clocked yet. I just got it running and want to run it a few days to get baseline temps and stats first).

System:
MSI X58 Pro
Intel Core i7 920
CORSAIR XMS3 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 DDR3 1333
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 (First ATI Card)
CORSAIR 750W Power Supply

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/23/2009 1:11:16 PM

Rating + 4 Nice MB, awful directions


Pros: Cant beat the price. Seems to be a pretty solid MB. Great entry into the i7 market.

Cons: This was the first time that I have built a computer. I was told that it was very easy and the directions would guide me through. Unfortunately, the directions from MSI were terrible at best. The pictures didnt match (if there was even a picture to describe it), there was about a sentence for each step, and I often had questions that were unanswered. I ended up having to use the Internet to help explain the step to me.

Other Thoughts: Great for the price, just don't expect much guidance if this is your first build.

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KnavishClout
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/22/2009 10:51:38 PM

Rating + 5 Can't say enough


Pros: EVERYTHING. Onboard cmos reset button, attachments to make it easier to attach USB/Audio/front panel connectors, x58 chipset, easy overclocking,DrMos keeps things COOL

Cons: Barely even a con: 6 of the SATA ports and the IDE/ATAPI port all face to the "Right", which can make it hard to get at them if you have to add somthing later.

Other Thoughts: I bought this because it was so cheap but I'm blown away by its performance. My i7 is running at 22C and the rest of the system is at about 32C.

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Roget'
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/22/2009 12:10:07 PM

Rating + 5 Not cheap, just inexpensive (for x58, anyway)


Pros: Nice BIOS options. Connections are easy to access. Plenty of SATA ports including an external port on the back.

Found an article stating that you can use the BIOS from the Eclipse model on the Pro, which opens up even more settings to play with including SLI support.

Booted right up with 6gb of OCZ Gold after loading the factory recommended timings and voltage. Rock soldid stable from the first minute I put it all together.

The LED's look great and deliver the information you need to troubleshoot.

Cons: The bridge runs warmer on this model than it does on the other MSI boards. May limit high range overclocking as a result, though I have no need to crank up the 920 just yet.

SATA port 7 covered by the video card. I don't have a need for 7, but any high end video card is going to make the placement of that one a problem.

Other Thoughts: As I said in the title, this board does not in any way feel cheap. It is firm as you lock down your cooler, feels just right when you're inserting memory, etc.

Bottom line, I'd buy it again.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/21/2009 12:05:11 PM

Rating + 2


Pros: Cheap for a LGA 1366 mb, excellent documentation.

Cons: the ide and sata connectors are very poorly positioned under the primary graphics card slot. Required a bios update for 3rd ram stick to work correctly. Severe driver issues with windows xp 64. The northbridge runs very very hot.

Other Thoughts: The onboard lan didn't work with default drivers under xp64. Drivers on the cd wouldn't install. The provided motherboard drivers did install, causing my usb ports to stop working. Eventually got everything working by downloading drivers and a bios update from MSI's website onto a flash drive on another computer, rolling back the drivers that disabled my usb, then updating. Driver issues were a hassle, and would have been a dealbreaker without access to a 2nd system.
Right now i'm much more concerned about the northbridge heat. I've seen up to 96C with the system idle, and currently showing 103C with the side of the case open under heavy load. Not comforting that i could boil water on it. Room temp is ~22C. Got a feeling I'll have to add aftermarket cooling when daytime temps start going up here (no ac where I live), if it doesn't just fry itself first.

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N/A
Tech Level: low
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/18/2009 4:52:58 PM

Rating + 5 Great board


Pros: Comes with SATA and IDE cables
Cool connectors color
Stable
Good manual, informative large flyer
Good heat sinks

Cons: Rebate
didn't come with TPM module

Other Thoughts: Overall this is a very good board and the price is right. Satisfied with this purchase.

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Siegeshot
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/15/2009 4:36:23 PM

Rating + 5 Intelligent Motherboard


Pros: Two companies that I have yet to be let down by. MSI and Intel. I've built thousands of computers in my many years of being in the industry and I've always felt a little funny buying the inexpensive boards such as an MSI. I have NEVER been let down however. This board is no different.

The BIOS was intelligent and self correcting. Overclocking was almost laughable how capable this board was. Getting a 920 core i7 to 3.8 was simple.

Memory support was outstanding. Be sure to get 1.5-1.6v RAM. it seems people have an issue understanding manufacturer recommendations.

Stable and self correcting if you make a mistake.

Buy this board. Quality!

Cons: The Jmicro secondary harddrive controller causes lock-ups when overclocked. Despite being able to control the bus speed I was unable to make the IDE not lock up randomly once a day. This may simply be my board so I am still rating this a 5/5.

Other Thoughts: If I had another 50 bucks and no need for IDE drives, I would have bought the true name brand Intel retail board.

This however was a fantastic alternative. Why buy a 350$ board? Get this in a combo and use the rest for videocards!

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newbie
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/15/2009 3:08:17 PM

Rating + 5 nice motherboard


Pros: good overall board. no problems installing. very fast.

Cons: any msi rebate will be a pain to redeem. you have to fill it out online at their website. when i tried to redeem mine the site wasn't fully functional. i'm going to have to contact them directly to resolve.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/13/2009 5:27:22 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: - The board worked on the first go. Very high quality and well worth the price. Successfully set up RAID and have had no problems (yet).

Cons: - Takes a bit of time to boot up.

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LookingOutForOthers
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
3/12/2009 3:25:36 PM

Rating + 1 Beware RMA


Pros: none

Cons: MSI's RMA process is the worst. Move on to some other brand.

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Nom nom
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/12/2009 11:33:01 AM

Rating + 5 Best Value X58 Board


Pros: Hit 3.8 ghz stable with 200 base clock, with my 920. x19 multi.

My north bridge runs around 70-75C

Cons: wish it had a better bios interface. but honestly, its notw orth 150$ to get a better board because of it.

Other Thoughts: However I have not spent alot of time isolating it, My OCZ ram @ cas 7 rated for 1600mhz might be causing some instability. I can run prime 95 for hours and hours then randomly it will just reboot, no idea why. could be anything.

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crazyfool287
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/11/2009 10:35:29 AM

Rating + 5 Great low cost solution.


Pros: Best price point on newegg (when I bought it) for a x58 board. Easy install and set up. My memory was read correctly (3GB 1GBx3 Corsair 1333) and no issues with theprocessor (i7 920) or video card (EVGA 285 GTX 1GB). It has a great selection of rear panel ports.

Cons: I wish the layout was a little better for my case and power supply. The utilities disc was useless, for me at least. I guess these are more personal cons. They may not apply to you. On a more board specific note, the northbridge gets quite toasty. A separate cooling solution may be needed.

Other Thoughts: MSI X58 Pro | Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.33GHz | CORSAIR XMS3 3GB (3 x 1GB) DDR3 @ 1333 | EVGA GeForce 285 1GB | Seagate Barracuda 160GB & 640GB SATA Hard Drives | Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic | Vizio 42'' LCD TV @ 1920x1080 | Cool Max 700w PSU + RAIDMAX Smilodon Case | Vista Home Premium x64

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/10/2009 10:48:44 PM

Rating + 5 EASY OVERCLOCKER


Pros: Excellent layout. Great tech for the price. 169 after rebate for an x58 board!!!! How can you beat that? Honestly the best overclocking board I've ever owned. Buy this, you can't go wrong with it! BTW the color looks worse in the pictures. In person the board is actually pretty nice. It's not a flat brown color, more like a shiny maroone. I like it.

Cons: It has an unconventional color for a gaming motherboard. It would have been nice if they could have kept it black like the Eclipse. The chipset gets HOT HOT HOT. I mean over 200 degrees hot! Again these are apparantly safe operating temps for the x58 boards, but it makes me wonder how long they will actually last at these temps.

Other Thoughts: I guess eventually I will have to buy a spot fan or something for the chipset. I don't trust those temps to last over the long haul.

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KMB
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/9/2009 8:14:52 PM

Rating + 5 Very Pleased


Pros: Installation was completely without problems.
The board has been totally stable. No reboots, blue screens, etc. Layout is good with plenty of room around the CPU for large coolers.

Cons: IOH temperatures run high. Contacted MSI tech support and they indicated that IOH temperatures of 55-65C are normal. I did not find the MSI utilities to be very intuitive or useful.

Other Thoughts: I have been very pleasantly surprised with the X58 Pro. The price was very good and the board has been trouble free. Works well with G.Skill 1333cl7 3X1 gig memory, 920 cpu, 620 watt PC Power&Cooling, Sapphire 4830 graphics.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/5/2009 9:36:42 PM

Rating + 5 GREAT FOR THAT PRICE!


Pros: cheapest motherboard for i7, and i'm loving it.

has optical sound port, esata port, plenty of great ports

BEST PART: overclocking IS SIMPLE. Theres 3 tiny switches built onto the motherboard for overclocking, with just the flip of a switch, you make a 2.66ghz i7 920 go to 3.33ghz. BUT YOU HAVE TO INSTALL A BETTER FAN! I got the thermaltake CL-P0466 (it comes with LGA1366 adapter) for 60$

Cons: doesn't cure cancer

Other Thoughts: Im yet to see what will happen when i flip the other OC switch, but i'll see eventually

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The HZA
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/4/2009 1:13:36 PM

Rating + 4 MSI X58 Pro


Pros: Overall a good board, cheapest Intel X58 Express board on the market (as of this writing). Overclocking fairly easy and has newest board features.

* Lots of features (although no NVidia SLI)
* Running stable with stock settings
* 6-Dimm Slots for Max 23GB or Memory (Manual states that 24GB will not register)

Cons: Mine is exhibiting an odd behavior with all 6-DIMM's populated and rebooting will cause random reboots. If you power off, then power on, works fine. Rebooting works fine with 3-DIMM's populated. Will probably have to wait for a BIOS update.

Other than that, the SATA locations are a b-tch (edge of the PCB, verses parallel with the PCB).

Other Thoughts: Cheapest way to get an i7, but it runs fine.

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Mike Dawson
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/2/2009 6:26:31 AM

Rating + 5 Just what I wanted.


Pros: What is not to like? Just see the specs. Has everything you need for just about anything.

Cons: Depending on your case some fan ports could be tough to reach.

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Pond Frog
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/2/2009 12:13:34 AM

Rating + 5 It's A Winner!


Pros: The board was received with the newest bios version already factory installed. Initial start up in barebones configuration was 100% trouble free. Added the rest of the system components & on reboot, the system is extremely stable.

Cons: Zero! None! Nada!

Other Thoughts: Matched up with the i7 920, this is a great combination for those who don't want to break the bank.

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Ultimate Computers
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/1/2009 10:40:09 AM

Rating + 5 An AMAZING board for the price!!!!!


Pros: Everything about this board is a pro! Running 12gigs of OCZ ram! So many features make this board the best out there for the price! Boards that are more expensive will only have a fraction of the superior options the bios has for this board! Over clocking this is a charm!!! This is a very stable mobo. It has so many options for upgrading. Newer i7 chips will be coming out soon that may not support "triple channel " memory, so buy this fast and get one of the current i7 processors to take advantage of the awesomely awesome memory options!

Cons: Some goofs might find out that they have less computer skills than they thought and may become blind by the superbness of this motherboard due to fact that they thought they new allot but now have realized they no little or nothing and are having issues with it due to user error!

Other Thoughts: Here is a quick trouble shooting guide for goofs!
1. Doesn't recognize more than 10GB of memory= check compability first. I use OCZ Item#:N82E16820227375 (12gigs 2gigx6). Also CPU connectors (gold barbs)where you place cpu could be bent..DID YOU TOUCH IT? DON'T TOUCH!!!
2. Ati video card problems? = This board is build for Ati. Don't use win xp. Download win 7 Free from microsoft and beta your life away. I use Radeon HD 4850x2 and it works great!
3. The default "optimized" settings giving you issues? Follow the detailed layout of how you are supposed to have your ram set up in their dim slots otherwise your computer will become unstable in optimized mode.
4. Computer keeps going into a power cycle and keeps restarting every 30 seconds= 1. you are having a ram issue and it might not be compatible or 2. when you put the processor on the board you touched one or more golden barbs and bent it/them. Replacement might be the best solution!

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Jointsnapper
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/28/2009 12:40:46 PM

Rating + 5 works great


Pros: This board has worked flawlessly for me from the first day. I have applied a modest overclock and its worked perfectly. I'll push a little more when I get better cooling. Very cheap price. I have owned 4 MSI boards and they've all had some quirks, but have worked very well. This one is the same.

Cons: The "northbridge" runs pretty hot - but I read that's consistent with the X58 chipset.

Other Thoughts: I7 920
6 gig OCZ 1600
Radeon 4870 1 Gig (MSI)
Velociraptor

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Copterdrvr
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/27/2009 1:17:41 PM

Rating + 5 I love this board!


Pros: Easy install, excellent board layout leaves lots of room for installing the cpu fan, memory, drive connections and USB connections. Very stable with Vista home premium. My ATI 4870 1 gig is also very happy in it's new home. I did have the latest drivers on hand for the original install of the GPU.

I installed 6 gig of Corsair 1330 DDR3 and it works like a champ.

Cons: None whatsoever. Love the board.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
2/27/2009 12:23:20 PM

Rating + 4 No complaints


Pros: Using one with a 940 and one with a 920, both running tri-ddr3 stable for engineering builds. Cut build times by about 40% compared to a Q6600.

Cons: One board had the same no-POST, 30-second reboot loop described below. When I went to RMA I noticed bent pins on the socket. I straightened them with a needle and it now works fine. Not sure if they were bent from the factory or not.

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ccallaghan
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/26/2009 12:02:11 PM

Rating + 2 Doesn't recognize more than 10GB of memory


Pros: Cheap
Decent array of features

Cons: The motherboard with bios version 7 WILL NOT read full 12GB's of memory. I've swapped out all the chips one by one to test if I had a bad chip. All worked the same. Also, the memory configurations in the manual will not work for triple channel. I called MSI Technical support and they sent me an updated bios 7.1B3 and all that did was cause my OS not to boot (hangs with blinking cursor).

Other Thoughts: Core i7 920
2 x QuadroFX 570
12 GB's OCZ 1333
300GB VelociRaptor HD
700W OCZ Modular PowerSupply

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Fester
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/24/2009 11:44:04 AM

Rating + 3 Ati problems


Pros: I7 920 are really good proc, Lights on the board are pretty. Raid works well.

Cons: I have tryed this board with 4 different ati cards ranging from x800 to 4850s and on every one of them the system turns off the monitor at the login screen after loading drivers, Have tried ati newest, I7 hot fix, msi all do the same thing. mobo works great with nvida video card cant figure out if i need to rma the board or use nvidia card?

Other Thoughts: Msi has not been helpful called them on the 2/23 and they were not even bright enough to tell me all new drivers were released the same day. will try those and see if not rma.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/23/2009 5:53:04 AM

Rating + 3


Pros: Not a whole lot of pros on this board really. Once you do get it up and running (which took me awhile) It does seem to be a pretty stable board. However I went to my local (rhymes with fly) electronics and they had way better boards for around the same price as this one.

Cons: The default "optimized" settings resulted in my computer constantly freezing and crashing then on reboot would get no display. Let sit for awhile and it would reboot and tell me the previous overclocking had failed and default values have been restored. Keep in mind I had done absolutely NO overclocking!

Other Thoughts: Had to load the Fail Safe defaults to make it stable enough to actually allow me to get into my operating system and install all my drivers. Once fail safe was loaded I have had zero problems since. And also like the other people have said the Northbridge does run ridiculously hot! isaw temps of around 99 Celsius at the highest however last night after running it for awhile I checked and they were hovering around 77 to 78 Celsius. My solution for this is going to be the antec spot cool which mounts to a motherboard mount and you can point at anything you want. Should help to keep those temps down a little.

MY spec's: Xclio Wind Tunnel case, MSI X58 Pro mb, Corei7 920 @ 2.66ghz, MSI 4870 1gb ddr5, Mushkin DDR3 10666 3x1gb in tripple channel, Corsair fx650 power supply, and Windows Vista home premium 64bit.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/21/2009 7:00:59 PM

Rating + 5 Best bang for the buck


Pros: Works as advertise. My previous PC was 6 years old so all the new fangled BIOS features/intelligence are extremely useful and user friendly.

I don't need SLI so I didn't care about missing out on that.

Currently running a Core i7 920 with stock cooler @ 150MHz FSB which puts it at 3.15GHz.

Beats the pants off my old AMD Athlon FX-51

Cons: No SLI but if you bought this board thinking you were getting SLI you should reconsider what reading level you are at.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/21/2009 8:28:07 AM

Rating + 1 Poor quality


Pros: Other then cheap, none

Cons: Had issues with the board right from go. It would go into a power up cycle that would consist of powering up for about 30 - 45 seconds turn of and restart to repeat the cycle. This was at stock speeds with no video displayed, so trouble shooting was limited to swap of parts. The OEM website was useless as well as tech support. Gave up after 3 days and RMA'd the board, this is the 3rd time I have had issues with a MSI board and it will be my last.

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jOrOb
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/21/2009 3:53:47 AM

Rating + 5 Satisfied


Pros: Solid board with good features. No problems out of the box. I was able to get GSkill memory to run at 13333 with CAS 7 without any difficulties. Some other boards have required voltage changes to get that to work. Layout seems fine, and I have no complaints. Lots of LED's on the board make it an attractive build for a clear case too.

Cons: None so far

Other Thoughts: System specs: i7 920, x58pro, Gskill DDR3 triple (3gb) CAS 7, WD Black 1TB, MSI GF9800GTX+ 512. Have ran Vista64 and Win7 Beta with no problems

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iamsuperbleeder
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/20/2009 11:35:32 PM

Rating + 5 Works great!


Pros: Have only been running it for a few days now, but it's working great! All the SATA ports you could possibly want, 6 USB ports on the back alone (I think another 6 on the board itself!). The drivers on the CD install quickly and easily. The GreenPower tool on the CD allows you to adjust everything from the fan speeds, wattage used, to toggling the status LEDs on the board on and off! Also, MSI offers an OCing tool on the CD as well, but I haven't played with this too much just yet.

Cons: antistatic bag present choking hazard to small children :(

Other Thoughts: This board is working out great for me; couldn't be happier with the purchase! I used it in my "all brand new from scratch" built. Put it in an Antec Nine Hundred Two, layed an i7 902 in it, 6gb (3x2gb in tripple channel), MSI ATI R4870 1gb, 1tb SATA HD and 300gb SATA HD, HD TV Tuner, Wireless Network card.

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ilovebarny
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/18/2009 10:24:01 AM

Rating + 5 Works


Pros: Worked right out of the box, drivers all installed, have had no problems yet.

Cons: When i overclocked (which i did not leave the cpu overclocked) it would like restart 2 times before it would boot. dont know why.

Other Thoughts: layout seems to work great, and like Lyshk0 said, the chipset does run hot.

I7, 6Gb DDR3 1333, Radion 3650, 160gb 7200rpm HD, 500watt psu

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Jonny
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/17/2009 8:08:36 PM

Rating + 5 add


Pros: to add to my previous review I am running Patriot DDR3 ram and it works fine even though not listed under supported ram by MSI just thought id let everyone know

Cons: none

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Jonny
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/17/2009 7:56:36 PM

Rating + 5 so far so good :D


Pros: Good layout with plenty of room for everything you need. Also very easy to over clock with this board, in under 5 minutes i had my i7 920 up to 3.4 Ghz Running stable on stock heatsink and fan under 40 degree C. Also has software for overclocking while in windows why you are actually gaming so you dont have to restart everytime you want to adjust something.

Cons: None that i can find so far is one of the cheapest i7 mobos and def works great and is easy to setup and use

Other Thoughts: Sys specs: this board, i7 920 (running at 3.4) 6 GB DDR3 1333 Ram (triple channel) Nvidia GTX 260 card, 700W generic PSU

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Lyshk0
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/17/2009 3:02:31 PM

Rating + 4 A few quirks...


Pros: Easy setup; ample memory capacity; power, reset, and bios reset buttons on the board; plenty of SATA (w/raid 0,1,5,10). Stable so far.

Cons: IOH runs pretty hot (85 idle, 90-95 loaded). I havent contacted MSI as of yet, but from what I've read, this seems to be common on their x58 eclipse, and x58 premium boards. It has not caused any instability yet, but I am keeping an eye on it.
With IOH running hot, the placement of the heatsink in relation to the 1st PCIEx16 is a little close for comfort. The bundled OverclockingCenter software is very unstable, and has a killer design flaw. I have a 140mm fan for intake on the front that spins 800-900 rpm. The monitors in the prog default to alarm if ANY monitored fan is under 1k rpm. This can be solved by customizing your own values for the alarms, and saving a profile. Unfortunately the program does not keep your settings after you close it, meaning every time you start it up, you have to listen to the alarm until you can set you're profile. There is a "silence" button, but if you click it (or any of the other buttons in that particular toolbar) the prog crashes..

Other Thoughts: As I said, aside from the s/w issue (which will probably be corrected at some point) and the high IOH temps, I have had no real issues wih the board.

Overall I'd say it's worth the money, but if I had to do it again, I'd probably go with a different board.

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