Introduction

MSI P67A-GD65 Sandy bridge mobo preview

Santa babeeh uhuuuuuueh... Sandy babeeh uhuuuuuueh... Hey ya'll, we covered a couple of motherboard previews based on Sandy Bridge processors by now alright. One name still missing is MSI, recently they as well submitted their P67 based motherboard for a preview, and once launched, a review.

So as you guys know early January 2011 Intel is to launch Sandy Bridge based processors. New Intel processors always comes with a new motherboard chipset to support them. The P series motherboard chipsets (codename Cougar point) are performance series without any integrated graphics connectivity, the H series of course vice versa.

In today's article we'll show you a new offering from MSI as we'll preview their upcoming P67A-GD65 Sandy bridge ready motherboard. Now since the processors and chipset itself are still under NDA we can not disclose nor discuss them.

You'll notice a very impressive motherboard loaded with features and technologies, and a little extra as well.

Powered by Intel's P67 chipset, the motherboards come with two PCIe slots with NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFire support, featuring what MSI now calls a Military Class II design that makes use of a six phase power SFC choke setup. This should provide up to 30% better efficiency than standard chokes, as well as good Hi-c CAP's and Japanese made solid capacitors with a claimed life-time of 10 years.

Next to that MSI as well is making a move towards UEFI, the all new graphics user interface that replaces the BIOS.

Have a peek and then head onwards to the next page, where we'll dive into a photo shoot of the Sandy Santa bridge motherboard.