MSI P67-GD65 motherboard review

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The Motherboard

Once you peek at the block diagram for Intel's chipset, you will notice that it is offering quite a set of features. But motherboard manufacturers like to distinguish themselves, especially with performance products, you like to have something unique, or offer a better feature set opposed to the competition.

The ODM takes the chipset, and then designs a completely new infrastructure surrounding and supplementing that P67 based motherboard. But let's have a look and walk through the features.

MSI P67A-GD65 Preview

Above the packaging, new design, inside it, a P67 motherboard model GD65which comes with a new CPU socket (LGA 1155), and thus new motherboard chipsets. MSI will launch an entire range of these motherboards and for the model shown today is making sure that graphics cards solutions work as there are a total of two PCI Express x16 slots, three PCI Express x1 slots, and two PCI slots on the motherboard.

For those wondering if you like to go multi-GPU with two cards, this is possible in a 8:8 PCIe lane configuration, that is enough for modern high end graphics cards. If you stick to one graphics card you'll get the full x16 PCIe lanes. Included in the bundle is:

  • Motherboard
  • Driver CD
  • User manual
  • Quick installation guide
  • SATA cables
  • I/O shield
  • 2-way SLI connector
  • USB 3.0 bracket with two header

MSI P67A-GD65 Preview

We'll talk about that a little more on the next pages of course. Bundling wise the motherboard comes with everything needed.

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