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MSI P45-8D Memory Lover Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S775 by massman @ 2008-10-19

Did you know that the "I" in MSI stands for "Innovation"? Well, it doesn´t, but it should be changed, because of one reason: the MSI P45-8D Memory Lover. This motherboard features 8-dimm slot memory configuration, unseen on the mainstream desktop market. Madshrimps has a look at the performances of this motherboard in both DDR2 and DDR3 test setting comparing it to three other P45 motherboards; a 4-way P45 motherboard comparison in other words.

Exploring the bios

Bios

As most of the BIOS out there offer the same standard options, we'll skip the usual stuff and go straight to the more important part of the bios: the tweaking part.

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CPU Voltage: 0,9861v - 1,9551v

CPU GTL REF0: 0,3002v - 0,7778v (0,2502% - 0,6482% of VTT)

CPU GTL REF1: 0,3808v - 0,8237v (0,4569% - 0,6864% of VTT)

DRAM (DDR2) Voltage: 1,428v - 3,324v

DRAM (DDR3) Voltage: 1,19v - 2,77v

DDR_VREF_CA_A/B: 0,63v - 1,345v

MCH voltage: 0,728v - 2,624v

MCH GTL REF: 0,3002v - 0,7870v (0,2502% - 0,6559% of VTT)

VTT FSB voltage: 0,90v - 2,47v (stock set to 1,2v)

ICH voltage: 1,5v - 1,8v

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Comment from SuAside @ 2008/10/19

interesting little piece of work. too bad about the Divider issues.

you have to wonder what they were thinking by naming it the "Memory Lover", the box art used, the color for the memory slots and then the PCB itself though...

Comment from Massman @ 2008/10/20

I presume they called it 'memory lover' because of the support of two types of memory. The box art is pretty cool, especially considering the 'lover'.

The pcb color, however, is UGLY!!

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