User Reviews
- Pros and cons from people who bought this mobo from newegg
- Toppc has detailed images of his board and test setup on xtremesystems
Overclocking
- Lots of images and test setup with a thermalright cooler, his result for superPI @4016MHZ with a core i5 can also be seen on xtremesystems
- A core i5 @4596MHZ and a core i7 860 @4021MHZ on xtremesystems
- A core i7 870 @4521MHZ on a UK overclockers forum
- DDR3 2400 and a massive cooler on inpai.com
- Overclock settings for a core i5 on korean site playwares.com
Miscellaneous
- overclocking-tv.com has tons and tons of images, every detail you can imagine has been photographed as well as the complete OC Genie manual, besides that there is a video where an MSI employee is interviewed and gives a demostration. (video can also be seen belo in the youtube section.)
- The preview by hardwarecanucks gives a good explanation of the Xtreme Speed features like DrMOS, OC Genie and SuperPipe. There are also detailed images of chipsets and back plate.
- Lots of images on xtremesystems.org, besides that there's an images P55-GD80 of the with an XIGMATEK Thor's Hammer S126384 copper cooler.
- First look by hardwarezone
- A pictorial preview by anandtech
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Professional Reviews
- overclock3d.net benchmarks were done WITH (cpu @4.0GHZ) and WITHOUT (cpu @2.93GHZ) the OC genie. The OC Genie lets you overclock the processor automatically at the push of a button. After running the benchmarking scenes of POV-Ray, a raytracing tool for making high-quality computer graphics, results for multi-core were 4719 (OC) and 3596, the overclocked CPU was about 31% faster with this benchmark.
- guru3d.com investigated new hardware features like the V-Kit concept allowing Voltage monitoring by using voltage measuring points for various voltages used by the motherboard. Dip-switches on the board can increase the voltage by 0.2 Volts, in future MSI wants to equip all its P55 mobos with the V-Kit. guru3d also tested the OC genie and got 3743 MHz out of an i7 870 and 3400 MHZ out of an i5. In their conlusion they point out that the P55 chipset only has 16 PCie lanes, so if you use SLI or crossfire the ports will only have 8 lanes per slot. Up till now however this is no problem (tests have shown that high-end mobos deliver up to 2% gain) but it might be a problem for Graphic Cards in the (near) future.
- hardocp has screenshots of the MSI Control Center and all BIOS screens. With IOmeter and DUmeter they tested the subsystem. The
P55-GD80 was tested with an i5 750 @stockSpeed and @3.2GHZ and was compared to and P7P55D Deluxe with an i5 750 and an ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution (socket 1366) with an i7 965. In the multimedia benchmarks the i7 965 was ahead of all other configurations. The gap in gaming benchmarks was a lot smaller, the overclocked i5 with the P55-GD80 could compete with the i7 and X58 mobo. Below are their results for LAME MP3 decoding:
| Motherboard |
LAME 3.98.1 time in seconds (lower is better) |
| MSI P55-GD80 i5 3.2GHZ |
 124 |
| MSI P55-GD80 i5 2.66GHZ |
 148 |
| ASUS P7P55D deluxe i5 2.66GHZ |
 147 |
| ASUS P6T6 WS i7 3.2GHZ |
 121 |
- madshrimps compared the Gigabyte P55-UD3, Gigabyte P55-UD6 and the MSI P55-GD80. The results with superPI, Wprime, Cinebench, PCmark and 3dmark are extremely close, in turbo mode some benchmarks differ a bit more. The gigabyte boards however produce more memory bandwidth. Interesting might be the cooling part, with aircooling they reached 4.4GHz, with the P55-UD6 motherboard and extreme cooling they reached 5.270GHz!!
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