MSI MOA North America Overclocking Championship & Product Display Tour Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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all right guys so I'm here at the Masters overclocking Arena from MSI I'm
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here at the welcome Booth right now I'm actually sort of co-hosting this event
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so I'm not just arriving right now but I'm just going to show you guys sort of
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some of the stuff going on here this is at the pull position uh Las Vegas
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Raceway so U anyone who comes to the event can also sign up I believe to do
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some go-karting and then they can also check out the live overclocking over
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there so we got some swag we have uh vibrating hand
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grenades which is bizarre and then we
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also have some dog tags and whatnot so there's a little sign so I'm going to
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head in and we're going to check out some of the new products that MSI is
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showing off oh apparently there's also a buffet coming out so I'm going to have to check that out in a little bit all
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right here we go so this is the video card table so there's some stuff here
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that we're already familiar with we've got the n460 GTX Hawk which as you guys
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probably know was one of the first well I believe it was the first GTX 460 to
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achieve a one gz overclock on air it's been quite a popular product over its
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life cycle we've also got a few things here that are brand new so this is one
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that I've never seen before this is a GTX 580 lightning so I'll have a look at
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the overall specs here it has a 16 phase pwm design that is one of the most
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critical aspects for an overclocking card it also has two 8 Pin PCI Express
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connectors and it is capable of running an up to three-way probably four-way too
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but up to three-way SLI configurations because it does have two SLI Bridges
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we've also got voltage readout points here on the top of the card and it looks
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like we're using a let's see how many heat pipes is that on the uh stock
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cooler this is a twin frozer 3 design
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stock cooler with dual 92 mm fans and it
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looks like we've got 1 2 3 4 five heat pipes directly over the GPU there so
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that's a pretty cool one we've also got a Radeon 6850 and 6970 so the 6850 is
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using their uh ever popular Cyclone
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cooler and then uh this one right here so this is a 6970 lightning so this uses
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an 18 phase pwm design 2 gigs of memory
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just like a normal 6970 and what else have they done here
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to make this card custom well I can see a couple things right off the bat the
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Dual bio switch well it's been moved I guess we've also got the voltage readout
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points as well as the Dual 8 Pin power connectors we saw the GTX 580 and last
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but not least we have goldplated connectors for our dual mini display
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port HDMI and dual DVI connectors I didn't notice that on the GTX 580
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lightning but you can see that that one has uh goldplated DisplayPort HDMI and
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dual H and dual DVI as well so let's
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move along here we're going to have a look I'll be doing unboxings of all of
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these motherboards over the next uh couple weeks but we've got some h67
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boards so these are supporting Intel's latest core I3 and core i5 well they
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support core i7 as well but I probably wouldn't be putting a core i7 on an h67
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board because if you're buying a core i7 I would definitely recommend spending a
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couple extra bucks to get a K series processor and the h67 chipset does not
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support multiplier changing so you really shouldn't use a K series
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processor in it these are the boards that I'm more interested in these are
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their p67 boards so we're moving from the lowest end so this is a c series
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board meaning it only has single Graphics up to their lowest end G Series
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board so this is a great value board that has support
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for there's a lot of noise there right now okay well hopefully I can drown it
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out has support for dual SLI and Crossfire in adx adx mode Let's Move On
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along so the gd65 is an upgraded version
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of the gd55 so it actually uses the same PCB same number of power phases there's
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just a couple key differences you can see there are some spots on this board
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where there are things that appear to be well missing so let's show you what this
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one has it has more say to 6 gbit per second ports it also
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has let's see what else what else is changed oh it has dual e SATA ports on
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the back whereas the 55 board does not
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and I I recall seeing more changes when I did my unboxing but I think it's oh
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yeah there we go we got V checkpoints here at the top whereas here we only
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have solder points for them so those are a couple of the key changes that they've
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made on the 65 version and it looks like
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this one is actually mislabeled this is
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has the same label in front of it as that one but this is a p67a gd80 so this
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one's supporting up to three-way SLI and Crossfire you've also got a
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supplementary power connector here in order to have full support for all those
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gpus it does have more power phases using
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a oh man it looks like a 10 plus 3phase
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power design but I'm actually not 100% % sure one thing you know for sure it is
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is that it is using Dr Moss and their military Class 2 concept what else do we
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have on this one we've got say to 6 GB we've got uh wow six USB 3.0 ports on
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the back panel so that's pretty exciting thing to see as well as look at that two
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more additional front panel USB 3.0
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ports so we got a TV we got the racetrack back there so that's a pretty
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cool thing to be able to check out I know a lot of the guys who are here for
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the event are also uh racing here we've got a little test
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bench set up we've also got their big bang X power motherboard which is
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actually the one that I use in my own system I'm a big fan of this board
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really like it I've got a 980x extreme Edition processor in mine and this this
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is new this one I haven't seen before this is a non-standard layout board so
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you can see it's actually a little bit wider than a normal ATX board and it's
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also a little bit longer because normally there'd be one slot here and
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then we we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6
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78 eight PCI Express 16x physical slots
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now these aren't going to all run at 16x
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bandwidth I believe this will I'll have to follow up for you guys when I do an
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unboxing of this board and find out how they've managed to achieve this many PCI
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Express slots on a p67 motherboard because remember that board is only
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natively going to support a single 16x or dual 8X and a single 4X PCI Express
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Lots let's see what other kinds of features we've got so we do have a
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supplementary PCIe six pin power connector dual 8 Pin CPU power
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connectors for that LGA 1155 CPU we've got a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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10 11 12 13 14 15 looks like a 16 plus
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2phase power design and then we've got support for dual Channel DDR3 memory
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we've got some dip switches up here which I'm not actually sure what those are for maybe they're for overvolting or
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something like that I can't even begin to speculate until I have some actual
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specs in front of me here oh and it looks like that's a 24 phase power
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design my bad there might actually be other stuff buried in there all right
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we've got our 24 pin connector in its ideal location we've got voltage
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checkpoints we've got uh four PCI SATA 3
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6 GB per second ports we've got support for up to four front USB 3 ports and
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eight additional usb3 ports on the back panel of this board although I mean
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really I can talk about all the stuff all the other things all I want but the
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reality of it is like check this out 8 PCIe 16x slot so you're going to need a
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special case to house this particular motherboard but we're going to get some
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pretty good performance out of the core i7 2600k or any future processors with a
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motherboard like this so I'm also going to take you guys sort of a little bit
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further in you can check out the uh all the liquid nitrogen that is on hand for
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this overclocking event as well as some of the cool camera setups that we're
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using to see uh all of the that we're
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using to actually broadcast live to a live audience for this uh for this event
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we've got our control Booth over here we have live score updates so we actually
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already finished the super pie 32m portion of the competition and now all
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of the teams are about half an hour into the 3D Mark 11 competition right now
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looks like team Pier is in the is in the lead at this moment but it was actually
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uh Team I believe it was team over the edge that took the Super PI 32 million
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portion of the competition let me just have a look at the scores really quick
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here uh at 26257 yes I believe that they were the
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winners for that one so remember the Super PI 32m is actually only 40% of the
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total score and 3D Mark 11 is 60% of the
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total score here's the uh Command Center other Command Center where I'm doing my
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live broadcast C and right now my partner in crime reie from MSI is
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interviewing a couple of ladies and I think that pretty much covers everything
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I wanted to show you guys here I'll just take you around to have a look at some
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of the uh tables where these guys are overclocking in real time right now so
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we've got an MSI GTX 580 running with an MSI Big Bang X power and an Intel Core
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i7 980x extreme Edition
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processor right now they're playing around with their temperatures to make
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sure that they're getting the optimal balance between the low possible
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temperatures and not going down too low so that they run into any instability or
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cold bug issues let's see I thought I had someone
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over here who was blowtorching his pot in order to uh bring the temperatures up
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a little bit you can see everything's getting pretty frosted over
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here let's kind of cruise around and see what else is going down I think uh I
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think one of the teams over here actually had some volt mods on their GTX
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580 so this is one of the crazy iier looking setups I don't want to get in
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the way here so yeah please do step in front of me if you need to last thing I
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want to do is disrupt these guys as they maintain the delicate balance that is
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required for this kind of overclocking
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so they're trying to get into Windows right now it looks like got paper towels
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all over so that's uh ghetto fabulous of
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course look at that you can see the liquid nitrogen that is uh boiling away
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there under the immense heat load that is an overclocked Intel 4E i7 980x so
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