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MSI P7N SLI Platinum (750i) Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S775 by geoffrey @ 2008-06-22

In this review we take a look at this affordable NVIDIA 750i based motherboard from MSI. It allows you to build an SLI gaming system powered by an Intel S775 CPU. Is this product good enough for the enthusiast? We compare its performance to an X38 based S775 board and also let you explore the BIOS of the MSI with our virtual tour.

Test setup & Benchmark methodology

Test setup

Geoffreys' Test Setup



CPU	Intel E6600 @ 3,6GHz
Cooling	Zalman 9700 LED
Mainboard	MSI P7N SLI Platinum Asus P5E
Memory	2x1Gb TEAMGROUP Xtreem 800MHz 4-4-4-10-35-4-10-10-10-2T
Graphics	Leadtek WinFast PX9600GT 512MB Extreme
Other	FSP Epsilon 900 PSU Maxtor 80Gb PATA HDD Seagate 200GB SATA HDD Antec Nine Hundred housing 20" Dell UltraSharp 2007FP TFT monitor

The Intel E6600 was being overclocked to 3,6GHz by changing the FSB from 266MHz to 400MHz and by keeping the multiplier at default (9). This way the CPU would score more or less on par with the highest clocked Wolfdale CPU's.

Teamgroup's pair of 1Gb DDR2 sticks were clocked to default settings via the Intel X38 chipset.

ForceWare 174.12 drivers for GeForce 9600GT video cards

While Windows Vista is now officially launched, we decided to test with a mature Windows OS (XP SP2).

Benchmark methodology

To compare both mainboards with each other we ran them both at stock speed, as well as overclocked speeds.
Stock settings can be seen above, while with the overclocked settings the CPU was running at 3,6GHz by setting the front side bus to 1600MHz (400MHz ) and keeping the multiplier at default (9x). The memory was also running @ 400MHz (800MHz DDR) 1/1 with the FSB while the latencies were kept the same.

In our game benchmark FRAPS was used to measure the FPS during repeated manual run-throughs of a certain part of the games tested, the minimum, maximum and average values were recorded.

HardwareOC Prey benchmark

Futuremark 3D Mark 2001

Futuremark 3D Mark 2006

Driverheaven's Adobe Photoshop CS2 benchmark

Cinebench 9.5

SiSoft Sandra 2007 Memory bandwidth & CPU multimedia tests

Superpi v1.5 XS 1M & 4M tests

Crysis

Colin McRae D.I.R.T.

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

Comment from Massman @ 2008/06/22

Said it already, but I just love the bios thing

Comment from Cranox @ 2008/06/23

Fault detected

Second page :
ABIT Fatal1ty FP-IN9-SLI: Board overview

must be MSI P7N SLI Platinum (750i)

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/1324/foutiv1.jpg

Comment from jmke @ 2008/06/23

Thanks

Comment from Faiakes @ 2008/06/23

Actually, I have this board and it allows me to OC my E6750 to 3.2GHz (8x400 bus) with no additional vCore!

Comment from geoffrey @ 2008/06/25

So you found it as easy in use as I did?

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