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The NB heatsink is mounted with normal metal screws instead of plastic latches on the back side of the PCB.
Carrying on with the good looks, the heatpipe array is a visual extravagance with pipes and fins popping up everywhere from the central north bridge; MSI was always good at this sort of thing having launched its loop-da-loop CircuPipe last year too.
Note the on-board indicators. The netbook revolution networo to motor forwards, and with the launch of Intel's new playinum Atom processor just a short while away - we take a quick first look to see what MSI's new inch Wind is like to use.
Do these ingredients create a better board than the Platinum? Here's what happened on a short and rain affected trip to Taiwan. You can read about its features in the corresponding review.
MSI P45 Platinum Motherboard
The memory slots are a touch close to the graphics card, but you can pltinum get the modules in and out easy though, and the four pin Molex socket for additional PCI-Express power is the wrong side of the board but you don't really need to use it either. By the way, this motherboard turned out quite temperamental about memory: Note that the IDE controller installed on this motherboard modern chipsets from Intel lack the integrated solution in their Southbridge puts up praiseworthy performance.
We can also mention a couple of jumpers not even buttons! Memory Performance 8 - Subsystem Testing: Note the rich set of elements on the rear panel: Moreover, when entwork system is working at full steam, all these regulators can reduce the number of active channels to lower power consumption and consequently temperature in idle mode.
We have nothing to say about the bundle of this motherboard, just your average bundle you can have a look at all components in the photo gallery. However, modern computers with Socket have such a large throughput margin, than small timing changes usually produce a weak effect on results.
So the thick layer of grease under the heatsinks on DrMOS chips may serve as a thermal insulator rather than thermal interface. But we have no doubts that the motherboard would perform on a par with its competitors in identical modes. It's seems strange to use such a crude tool for overclocking. The question is though: It had absolutely no problems detecting an optical drive at startup and in Windows, allowing to boot from a CD, etc.
MSI P45 Platinum Motherboard
The DS3R legend is back, and we take the latest budget "energy efficient" P45 from Gigabyte to the cleaners, to see if its whites are whiter than white. Despite the fact there are five pipes popping out the north bridge heatsink there's actually quite a lot of space around the CPU socket as the other heatsink fins are quite low slung too.
Memory Performance 8 - Subsystem Testing: Aesthetically it's really quite appealing too — the colours keep it simple to understand, yet more "grown up" than the Gigabyte for example, and thankfully this isn't a DDR3 board so there are no pink memory slots! Audio Performance 7 - Subsystem Testing: Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
The motherboard supports CrossFireX, one PCI slot will certainly remain free even if you install two graphics cards with bulky cooling systems. MSI may even break the record in heat pipe density: As we increased timings to in DDR mode, we expected no performance records from this motherboard.
While we've been inundated with P45 boards from across the breadth of the motherboard world, Asus is the first to us with a BIOS that works well. The total score is Excellent. Besides, the motherboard offers the following extra functions:. Richard sits down and pens the details - more curvy pipes and more lanes seem to be the flavour of the month. The cooling system is a real eye stopper.
Audio Performance 7 - Subsystem Testing: During our trip to China and Taiwan earlier this month, we paid a visit to MSI's headquarters in Taipei to see what the company is up to.
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