[Fudzilla] MSI's New i5 Board Leaked

[kylzer]

Originally Posted by T3h_Ch33z_Muncha

Which sounds good, but remember how the SB is connected to the CPU (in fact it's not an SB but a PCH - NB and SB combo sort of) - with a slow "DMI" interconnect. No matter how fast the PCIe slots are transferring data, there would be a gigantic bottleneck between the PCH and the CPU. This is the reason Lynnfield has an onboard PCIe controller.

Yeah that makes sense.

[Blameless]

Getting more than 8/8/4 PCI-E lanes out a Lynnfield setup is going to require some fancy work with bridge chips.

[Starbuck5000]

Originally Posted by sccr64472

I built roughly 50 socket 939 systems and nearly every one of them was with an MSI Neo4-F motherboard. I didn't have a problem with any of them. I've personally used a few MSI motherboards and video cards with great results. I know a lot of people bash MSI, but what exactly happened to you personally that brought you to bash them? I wish their warranties were longer, but I have full faith in their products.

I very mistakenly got a MSI P45 board. What a POS, first mobo of mine which i had to take a solder to for something other than vmods.


MSI P45D3 was the board. Same board used at the Toms Hardware OC comp

[CAHOP240]

Originally Posted by Martkilu

Anyone else notice the order of DIMMs?
DIMM 2
DIMM 1
DIMM 4
DIMM 3

Its the same way on the GD70

I'm not sure where all the MSI hate is coming from. I've had two MSI boards (both AMD) and I've never had a problem so it may be a Intel thing. I've had multiple ASUS boards (intel and AMD) and 1 gigabyte board and they've had their quirks.

[Enigma8750]

yea.. I guess the Dimm order is alittle weird. Probably an engineering thing.. who knows.

The first time that I got into the enthusist game I bought the MSI. It was the newest and baddest board for the AM2 that year. I bought it and there was something wrong with something. I was a noob so I sent back all of it and started over again but the board was really nice. I just went with ASUS after that and never looked back. But that MSI board had all the new stuff and their tech support told me about this website called overclock.net that would be able to help me over clock my old 9600BE.

[Arkanor]

Originally Posted by Decade

Erm, didn't Intel already do this in terms of performance?

Performance wise Intel has been slamming AMD into the ground.

If you care about maintaining the size of your wallet though, AMD still offers a pretty good option, Intel's trying to capitalize on people who don't feel like dropping $700 for a CPU, MB and RAM alone.

[Enigma8750]

Originally Posted by Arkanor

Performance wise Intel has been slamming AMD into the ground.

If you care about maintaining the size of your wallet though, AMD still offers a pretty good option, Intel's trying to capitalize on people who don't feel like dropping $700 for a CPU, MB and RAM alone.

And the i5 is born..

[skugpezz]

msi have been making killer boards lately, step up your game asus

[Mootsfox]

After seeing all the i7 boards, this one looks pretty boring.

[Mr.MidЯange]

So Core i7 has an onboard memory controller, but core i5 does not?

But everything else is the same? I wonder if it will really impede on performance?