MSI P55-GD55 LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard

World-renown mainboard and graphics card manufacturer, MSI, has attracted the attention of major worldwide media and power users since the launch of its Xtreme Speed P55 mainboard series. Not only does this series boast a total feature set and specs, but the Xtreme Speed P55 features many MSI-exclusive performance enhancing designs. The series has received wide media acclaim for its outstanding overclocking capabilities, especially the P55 series’ flagship product, the P55-GD55.

Featuring DrMOS and OC Genie, this mainboard's overclocking capabilities are truly amazing. The Taiwan overclocker, Coolaler, was able to overclock the Intel Core i7 860 CPU (2.8GHz)to 5.39 GHz with MSI’s P55-GD80 mainboard, breaking the world record and pushing the processor 92% past its set frequency. This performance surpasses the competition, and beautifully demonstrates MSI's P55 series overclocking prowess.

The MSI P55-GD55 owes much of its outstanding overclocking ability to its equipped MSI-exclusive technologies, such as the one second auto-overclocking feature OC Genie and 1>4 phase total DrMOS power supply design. Other features include the real-time overclocking function Direct OC, Live update and backup feature M-Flash, Power eSATA that acts as both a power source and two eSATA ports, etc. These features coupled with the mainboard's spec set and performance make the MSI P55-GD55 the hottest P55 product around.