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It’s fair to say that the 965 series has firmly entrenched itself in the minds and hearts of the Core 2 wielding folk of the world. While those who want SLI or a slight bit more of an overclock are jumping all over the 680i, the 965P still represent...
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It’s been a while coming but we managed to arrange another look at an Intel P965 based motherboard from MSI. Our first look at the P965 offering from MSI really left us with a sour taste in our mouth. While we were looking at high-end boards, MSI se...
Intel’s P965 chipset has really shown us lately there is really no great point in getting a more expensive 975X chipset based motherboard but why? P965 has native DDR-2 800 memory support, its FSB overclocking potential is usually higher and it supp...
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Crikey, the last MSI mainboard I took a serious look at for HEXUS seems to be the K7N2. nForce2, baby, way back in March 2003. 42 months ago. Three and one half years ago. I repeat, crikey. How things have changed since those heady days of Socket A an...
Overclocking wise, we managed to push the CPU bus on the MSI to a heady 410MHz or so with perfect stability, giving most Core 2 Duo overclockers a decent headroom to explore should retail examples do the same. Combined with the generous voltage ranges...
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maximumpc.com Updated: 2011-10-04 00:22:21
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Among the great mysteries of the universe—the Pyramids, Easter Island, the final season of Seinfeld—you can also include MSI’s RAM color coding. While the rest of the industry has settled on mounting two DIMMs in slots of the same color to enable dual-...
CrossFire on the cheap and good online update tools for drivers and BIOS.
Outdated POST LED technology.
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This is a high-end board that supports Intel Pentium 4 and Pentium D processors on the LGA 775 package as well as Core 2 Duo. It has 1066 MHz FSB and 4 DDR2 DIMM slots that support up to 8 GB of RAM. For storage, it has seven SATA II ports. Expansion...
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digital-daily.com Updated: 2011-10-04 00:22:21
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Quite recently, we reviewed the motherboard...
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Our review of MSI P965 Platinum, a mainstream socket 775 motherboard based on Intel P965 chipset with several extra features and supporting all new Core 2 Duo CPUs and also DDR2-1066/PC2-8500 memories.
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We received two late entries into our P965 roundup, the MSI P965 Platinum and ECS PX1 Extreme motherboards. Both of these motherboards are touted by their manufacturers as offering high-end performance features and options not found on their P965 value...
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In general we found that the MSI P965 Platinum motherboard performed very well in practically all the benchmarks tossed its way.
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Core 2 Duo has brought upon us a massive influx of motherboards all vying to hold together your fancy new Core 2 PC. Despite these many options however, there are only a handful of chipsets being employed by motherboard manufacturers in all Core 2 supp...
My initial impression of the board - other than the DIMM socket coloring - was highly favorable. The MSI P965 Platinum has a nice clean layout, was easy to install, is completely passively cooled, and had an excellent BIOS featuring MSIs "Cell Menu"...
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