MSI P55-GD80 P55 LGA1156 Core i5 Motherboard Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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830 words · ~4 min read
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okay so we're continuing our coverage of the entire MSI p55 lineup this is our
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last video with the p55 gd80 this is
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their flagship p55 board you can tell
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because it actually oh there goes another pure later truck crying out loud
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it's like five minutes apart okay you can tell because the extreme speed is
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actually shiny they have a better quality box as the cameraman pointed out
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to me so let's get this thing open
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here we go so starting with the quick guide
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this is actually a pretty nice looking uh little quick guide that shows you
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everything about this board i mean we're gonna show you the board in a minute so we don't need to spend much time on this
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but we thought it was a pretty cool addition it's in like eight different
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languages which is pretty sweet okay so here we go this is a huge accessory
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package so we've got okay uh crossfire
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bridge here we'll just go through these in order crossfire bridge we have a huge
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sli bridge that's the longest sli bridge i've seen we have two more sli bridges
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okay and we've got an i o shield we've got your usual drivers and MSI extras
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cds hard drive backup user guide here's
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the quick installation guide then MSI winky again okay MSI winky then we've
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got the oc genie um guide as well and then the regular
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motherboard manual so there you go there's a lot of stuff on that side and
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then we've got an esata bracket along with um
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with a SATA to molex power adapter that's pretty cool
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and then we've got oh this is neat this is the little adapters to do the direct
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voltage readouts right from your motherboard so we'll show you what these
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plug into in just a minute those are really cool though then we've got these
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little bricks so that you can easily plug things into them and then plug the
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entire brick right into the board tons of SATA cables a bunch of molex to
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SATA adapters ide cable and then we've got a usb io panel it's a huge accessory
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package that comes with this board very impressive so here we have it the gd80
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this is the cream of the cream for MSI's p55 motherboards let's get it out of the
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box here and uh if i could just figure out how to
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do that then we'd be moving right along there we go
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more trucks going by we really didn't choose this location very well that was
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um bad planning but there you go so we've got oc genie sticker and the
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extreme speed which includes dr moss and the super pipe super pipe basically
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means that it's got a ridiculously thick heat pipe running from the chipset up to
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the dr moss mosfets if you actually look from this angle you can see just how
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huge this thing is it's kind of ridiculous so then other than that
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you've got your usual stuff for a p55 motherboard so you've got your four
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dimms your lga 1156 socket and i shouldn't say oh yeah i should say p55
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but you can't just say core i5 because there is a core i7 or a couple models of
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core i7s for this socket so then we've got our power connector up here for the
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8 pin and then way over here for the 24 pin in their usual locations we've got
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eight SATA ports we've got our base clock adjustment buttons and then a
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couple features that this has that are unique our a the lcd readout here so
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that's your postcode and then these are actually touch sensitive power reset and
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green power buttons i'm not sure what green power does yet but we'll get into
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that more later in our overclocking guide actually this is the first time i've referenced it we do have an
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overclocking guide that we'll be releasing for the p55 and the new lga
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1156 core i5 and core i7 cpus now last
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thing about this board let's talk about the expansion ports a little bit so
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we've got three pci e16x slots but only
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two of them are going to be actually running at 16x one of them should be a
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4x slot and then on the back we've got our i o so you can see here we've got
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ps2 digital audio firewire a couple usb
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and then we've got one of those neat esata usb combo ports a few more usb 2
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gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio thank you for checking out my blog on the MSI p55
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gd 80.