Testseek.com have collected 31 expert reviews of the MSI P45 Platinum and the average rating is 74%. Scroll down and see all reviews for MSI P45 Platinum.
June 2008
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The editors liked
External microswitch lets you clear the CMOS. Dual Core Center app gives comprehensive system monitoring
Overclocking capability.
MSI upadate utility makes driver and BIOS updates a snap.
The editors didn't like
Not a top-level performer. Just one external RJ45. No coax S/PDIF port.
A fine wine (or woman) improves with age they say. The MSI P45 Platinum comes across as fine wine which has improved nicely after a couple of BIOS updates. The hardware is excellent, without a doubt some of the best we have seen come out of MSI , if n...
Pushing an unfinished product on the market is never a good move. The board was on sale in early June and it took MSI one month to release a BIOS that would enable a decent overclock.Most annoyingly MSI decided to disable the energy-savings per default...
All in all, the MSI P45 Platinum scores many wins with us, but unfortunately it hits almost as many epic fails. Hopefully some of these will change with software updates and BIOS updates, and we greatly look forward to what can be achieved with UEFI wh...
On the overclocking side, MSI has greatly changed up how it is done. You are not going to dive into this board like you would many other cookie-cutter BIOS motherboards today. The MSI has shown to be a good overclocker, but it is going to require some ...
Abstract: As the name suggests the MSI P45 Platinum is based on the new Intel P45 chipset. This is an evolution of the superb P35 and you need to take a close look to spot the differences between the two pieces of silicon. P35 has a total of 20 lanes of PCI Expres...
MSI K9N2 DiamondWe first heard about nForce 780a SLI at CES, when Nvidia first talked about its plans for Hybrid SLI. To this date, were still waiting for drivers that support Hybrid SLI, but supporting the technology have now been released so the ...
The performance of the MSI P45 Platinum falls somewhere between the two comparison motherboards. In 47 out of 67 benchmarks, the MSI P45 solution performed equally or better than the P45 comparison board, the Asus P5Q Deluxe. Against the X48-DQ6, the ...
Intel’s 4 series chipsets are now starting to make mass production. With Computex 2008 finished, and Intel’s official launch of the final chipsets to make the 4 series now unveiled, motherboard companies are able to finally release their board...
The MSI P45 Platinum is a nice piece of kit. Its not perfect by a long stretch, but it covers all the bases fairly well. Its got a whole host of connectors, an efficient, and funky looking cooling system, onboard power switches, decent overclocking ...
