MSI 785GM-E65 Motherboard Reviews, Tests, Overclocking

MSI 785GM-E65 Motherboard Reviews

Professional Reviews

bit-tech.net
A review with images of the board and BIOS, lots of stress testing and the board's layout is explaind thouroughly. The MSI 785G-E65 was compared to the following motherboards:

ECS A785GM-M
Asus M4A785TD-V Evo
Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H
M4A78-HTPC.

Conclusion: This mobo performs good at stock speeds, but was very hard to overclock, it wasn't very stable, and in the end bit-tech got it stable just over 3GHz, a poor result. The IGP is supported by 128MB GDDR3 Sideport memory, this extra memory should help with easing the demands on the main memory, but bit-tech didn't see much benefit.

Overclocking: The overclocking results were very poor, bit-tech.net reached 3.12GHz with a Phenom II 720 Black Edition, HTT set to 233MHz and a 14x multiplier, the CPU voltage was raised to 1.488V.

Bechmarks: Everest, Sandra, HDtach, GIMP, Handbrake h.264 ,MPC-HC, 7zip, Far Cry 2, Call of Duty 4.

iXBT Labs
A review with a few of photos of the box and board. ixbtlabs looks at the differences between the motherboards in the MSI 785G product line. The MSI 785GM-E65 was compared with a Gigabyte MA785GT-UD3H.

Conclusion: Better than expected and peripheral functionality is good. It has full overclocking support, a stable power supply and is a great power saver, which can be explained because of the good power supply design.

Overclocking: A Phenom II X3 720 (2.8 GHz Black Edition) was over overclocked with an Increased multiplier (CPU core and NB) @3850MHZ. The Phenom II X4 810 (2.6 GHz) was overclocked using the Increased reference clock and reduced CPU NB/HT multipliers @3640, it became apparent that in the last case overclocking was limited by the motherboard..

Bechmark tested: 7-Zip, WinRAR, Crysis, World in Conflict and FarCry 2.

tbreak.com

The MSI 785GM-E65 was compared to the MSI 790GX-G65, ECS A790GXM-AD3 and the ECS A780GM-A Ultra.

Conclusion: Capable of supporting 140w CPUs, which makes it easier to upgrade the CPU in future. The ATi HD 4200 IGP has its own dedicated 1Gbit 1333MHz boost memory for enhanced graphics performance. The MSI 785GM-E65 also had a better performance in most benchmarks.

Overclocking: tbreak.com did not perform any overclocking.

Bechmarks:3Dmark06, PCmark05, PCmark and 3Dmark Vantage, Cinebench, Company of Heroes, Crysis CPU, ET: Quake Wars, HalfLife 2, STALKER, SupremeCommander, Office 2003, Photoshap CS3, Winrar, Firefix 2.

tomshardware.com
An AMD 785G-Based Motherboards Round-Up. The MSI 785GM-E65 was compared to the following motherboards:

ASRock M3A785GXH/128M
Asus M4A785TD-V EVO
Biostar TA785GE 128M
Foxconn Cinema Premium
Gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H
ECS A785GM-M.

Conclusion: MSI supplies rich features and excellent legacy connectivity support. The SidePort memory is a real extra and there is good BIOS control for unlocking dormant CPU cores.

Overclocking: SidePort memory was overloaded to 1,700 MHz but the integrated GPU wasn't that overclock-friendly as the final OC result was only 800 MHz.

Bechmarks:iTunes, Lame Audio Encoder, TMPGEnc 4.6, DivX 6.8.5, Xvid 1.2.1, MainConcept Reference 1.6.1, Autodesk 3ds Max 2009, Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus 8.5, WinRAR 3.80, WinZip 12, Left 4 Dead, Crysis, World in Conflict.

User Reviews

From the people who bought their mobo at newegg 84% rated it above average.

Foreign Sites (translated by Google)

Serbian site benchmark.rs compared the 785GM-E65 to the ASUS M4A78T-E. Since a Phenom II 965 Black Editon was compared to an AMD Athlon II X2 245 the results are a bit incompatible.
play01.com has lots of images of the board and benchmarks, all testing was done with an Athlon X3 425, that was pumped up to 3645MHz.
coolaler.com The MSI 780GM-E65 (HD3200) & MSI 785GM-E65 (HD4200) were compared on this site, with lots of benchmark screens.
coolaler.com results of the Phenom II X4 B50 are actually the results for a Phenom II X4 550, it seems that CPU-Z and even windows are sometimes confused about this matter.
publish.it168.com is a Chines review of five pages with lots of images from the board.
vozforums.com Tons of pics from the MSI 785GM-E65, ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO and ECS Black Series A785GM-M, you will also find lots of benchmark screens.
tweakpc.de compares the MSI 785GM-E65 to the DFI Blood-Iron LanParty 785G-M35, below are their results for x264.

Motherboard x.264 Encoding (First Pass)
(higher is better)

MSI 785GM-E35
52.02

ECS A785GM-M
51.78

ASRock M3A-785GXH-128M
51.70

DFI 785G-M35
51.41

Problems and Solutions

On the official MSI forum you'll find various topics like flashing the BIOS, memory problems and other issues.

Professional Reviews (Continued)

The review by motherboards.org has 17 pages with a dedicated page for the IGP and there are overclocking results that squeezed 3050MHz out of a Phenom II 810. Their conclusion: Good fro people who use this board as a basis for a HTPC, bad for people who want to play directX 10.1 games on the IGP. In the youtube section below you can see their video on this subject.
pcstats.com has a dedicated page for ATI Stream and HD Acceleration where they tested the transcoding results by Cyberlink's MediaShow Espresso.
techradar.com has a very short review with some benchmark results and tested the power consumption of a Radeon HD 4890 in conjunction with a Phenom II 965 being 226Watts.
pcwizkidstechtalk has a very short review with a youtube video that is also at the bottom of this page.
bjorn3d.com is one of the few sites that uses the HD Tach benchmark, they 'discovered' that the SB710 Southbridge still has issues with the SATA burstrate performance. They expect this problem to be resolved when the 8 series Southbridge will arrive.
guru3d.com used the new 3.0 beta AMD overdrive software which has some cool new options.
neoseeker.com has a 785G Motherboard Roundup where the MSI 785GM-E65 was compared to the ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO, Gigabyte MA785G-UD3H, Gigabyte MA785GMT-UD2H and the ECS A785GM-M.

Miscellaneous

pcper.com has a preview with some comments and a few images.
diybbs.zol.com is a chinese forum with OC results of an Athlon II 240.
oc.com is also a chinese forum, an Athlon II 245 was OCed @3627.5MHz.
overclockersclub.com has an AMD 785G Chipset Motherboard Preview where the 785GM-E65 is shown together with Gigabyte's MA785G-UD3H and MA785GMT-UD2H.
Only part of Korean site gigglehd.com was translated by Google since most of the texts are incorporated in the images.
Vietnamese site voz.vn with a preview.