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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.

Test suite and methodology

Test setup

Intel Test Setup
CPU	Intel Core 2 E8500 (from )
Cooling	Noctua NH-U12P
Mainboard	Asus Maximum II Formula MSI P45 Platinum DFI Lanparty DK P45-T2RS Plus MSI P45-8D Memory Lover
Memory	2 * 1GB PC6400 TeamGroup 2 * 1GB PC8500 Crucial Ballistix 2 * 2GB PC14400 OCZ Reaper
Other	Sapphire HD4850 Antec 1000W Western Digital 320Gb SATA HDD Windows XP SP3 Dutch

Methodology: benchmarks

To compare all motherboards, we used the following benchmarks:

3DMark01

3DMark03

3DMark05

3DMark06

Aquamark

Superpi 1M

Superpi 32M

Lavalys Everest: Memory latency

Cinebench 10

PCMark05

TechArp HD x264 benchmark

Trackmania Nations

Methodology: test settings

We used two different test settings:

- CPU @ 333x9.5; Memory @ 400 4-4-4-10
- CPU @ 500x8; Memory @ 500 5-5-5-15

Next to that, we also tested the DDR3 performance

- CPU @ 333x9,5; Memory @ 667 7-6-5-20

Madshrimps (c)

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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