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June 2008
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Supports 1600 MHz 45 nm Intel processors and PCIe 2.0
The MSI P45 Platinum is a fine board for most users - it is certainly choke full of features, and is overall a decent overclocker.But I feel that the P45 Platinum desperately needs a BIOS update to allow it to overclock better, and increase the memory...
The MSI P45 Platinum does a good job for what it is, a P45 motherboard with some extras like an overclocking jumper and support for a FSB1600MHz and with overclocking features that the standard P45 chipset doesn’t have, but many manufacturers offer thi...
Abstract: Intel’s socket 775 is running its last meters in sight of the finish line, as the Nehalem platform is approaching us rapidly now. Only a few more months to go and well be working with brand-new sockets, chipsets, memory ... in short new technol...
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...
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