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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.

3DMark bench suite and Aquamark3

Futuremarks tests

These synthetic 3D benchmarks from Futuremark allow you to evaluate the expected performance of a system with different generations of games. As each 3DMark uses different features and quality settings, it allows you to get an idea of how your system will perform.

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3DMark01

3DMark01 has become more and more a system benchmark rather than a graphics card benchmark over the years. Nowadays, you can really see the difference in DDR2 and DDR3 memory setups, high and low FSB setups and so on.

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3DMark03

3DMark03 is very GPU dependent, which comes down to: the more cores, the higher the score. SLI and CF performance increase is spectacular in this benchmark.

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3DMark05

This product of the 3DMark series is again more CPU dependent than its predecessor, meaning that an overclocked CPU will have a big influence on the end score.

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3DMark06

3DMark06 features a CPU test which only relies on the processing power, in other words: it doesn't matter which graphics card you're running, at same clocks, the cpu score will remain the same, making it ideal for cpu comparisons.

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Aquamark3

While this 3D benchmark is aging quickly, it still serves as a good evaluation tool for system performance, as it stresses the VGA, CPU and memory subsystem, any advantage had from a faster motherboard or memory setting will be apparent.

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Let's have a look at some 2D benchmarks ->

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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