MSI P55-GD80 Lynnfield Motherboard Preview

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MSI P55-GD80 preview

You know, it's always cool and mysterious when you receive an early sample .. after unboxing instantly we were impressed. That's a hot looking feature rich motherboards alright. the one thing that immediately strikes us is that everything on this motherboard seems to be focused at performance, this will be a killer overclocked alright. We'll chat about it a little more later on though.

MSI P55-GD80 preview

We received the final retail sample already and as such it comes packed with a massive bundle. Among the gear inside the kit you'll find :

  • MSI Driver/Utility CD
  • SATA cables
  • SATA power cable
  • USB Bracket
  • IDE cable
  • V-Check cables
  • CrossfireX bridges
  • SLI bridges
  • Back IO shield
  • Manual
  • Oh yes, and one fine motherboard :)

MSI P55-GD80 preview

So here we have the motherboard itself, it's a fairly impressive looking motherboard alright. Though pricing on P55 motherboards still needs to be announced we expect it to be in the 250 USD price range. Some of the more notable features:

  • 4x DDR3-2133OC
  • 2x Gb LAN
  • 3x PCI-E16
  • 8x SATA
  • 1x eSATA
  • 9xUSB
  • S/PDIF
  • DrMOS
  • OC Geni
  • V-Kit
  • APS
  • SuperPip
  • Winki 2

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