We know that the MSI P67A-GD80 offers much better overclocking compared to its GD65 sibling. But, it was a nice surprise seeing 4.8GHz without really doing a whole lot of serious tweaking. Granted, 4.2GHz OC Genie II automation is great. But, all that ...
MSI has built another very good, if not great series GD80 motherboard. Its Achilles heel is the BIOS and Control Center software. These two aspects of the P67A-GD80 are simply horrible. These are not unusable, but these need to be fixed. The P67A-GD80...
Abstract: We would rate the design of the GD80 a close second, behind the Fatal1ty board in terms of looks. Its black and blue color motif is classic, and the heat sink designs...
Superb overclocker, Great DX10, DX11 gamer, Three PCIe x16 slots with SLI/CrossfireX support, Excellent bundle of accessories
No major weaknesses were identified during our review, ‹ Overclocking Results, Review Index, Introduction and FeaturesSpecifications, Packaging, Layout, Included ExtrasBIOS FeaturesTesting Configuration and Benchmarks UsedSynthetic CPU and Memory TestsMe
We'd like to thank our friends at MSI for providing the P67A-GD80 motherboard for our review today. MSI continues to impress us with the amount of custom features and applications they bundle with their products. The P67A-GD80 proved to be a supreme overc...
I think there are no mainboards without advantages (except for the defective ones, of course). And despite several downsides, MSI P67A-GD80 (B3) has quite a few indisputable advantages of its own. Let me start by saying that it comes with an extremely...
and Verdict All Pages Page 1 of 16At the start of this year we helped introduce Sandy Bridge along with coverage on 5 different LGA1155 motherboards. One of those boards was MSI’s P67A-GD65, one of their 16 different P67 motherboards that are currentl...
Over the last few years MSI has really improved the quality of their products and the P67A-GD80 is a prime example of this. What they have done is take the standard motherboard design and improve upon it by adding features such as a high-quality 16-pha...
Many improvements over previous boards (P67-GD55, P67GD60), 12-phase power design, Military Class II components, ClickBIOS, OC Genie II feature, USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s, Great layout and design
DDR slots are close the CPU socket (same on many P67 motherboards)
It is great to see B3-stepping motherboards shipping and available for purchase. This puts Sandy Bridge back on track and makes it a viable option for gamers and enthusiasts who are looking to upgrade. I would call this board a second revision Sandy ...
Abstract: With those marks against it, we might not have even bothered to mention that the remaining USB 3.0 ports all share a single 5 Gb/s PCIe lane through a single NEC D720200F1 controller and VIA Labs VL810 hub, except that this restriction stands even..
It's nice to finally see the B3 stepping P67 chipsets finding their way to market, once again making Sandy Bridge a viable platform for performance enthusiasts. I suspect most all manufacturers will be offering new B3 boards in a few weeks, if they h...
