OC GENIE auto OC chip P55-GD80 system boots up screen You can see the OC GENIE Enabled on the post screen if you turn on the OC GENIE function. Cell Menu Main performance setting Voltage tuning items: CPU Voltage 0.90000~2.10000V CPU VTT 0.482~2.092V PCH 1.8 0.200~2.400V DRAM 0.930~2.430V PCH 1.05 0.464~1.964V CPU Feature C1E is a power saving function for the CPU to slow down its speed when it is in light loading. The new model has more functions; C-State is a new auto OC function. After enabling the function, the Core i5-750 will automatically raise its speed to 133 X 22 =>2926Mhz. DRAM settings page Advance DRAM configuration page It has several tuning items OC Stepping, that means overclocking step by step. As the picture shows, the start OC is 190Mhz. After entering OS, the speed raised to 200Mhz by every OC step in 2 secs. if you set 5 steps, that means 2 secs is a time period, ex 190->192->194->196->198-200Mhz. Users can save the setting and save the setting time. This page provides 6 profiles for memory capacities. H/W Monitor, system voltage and temperature 200/2000 CPU is in 4GHz situation. When overclocking, u need to adjust the voltage based on different devices. Even the same type, Core i5-750, users need to check the stability by adding or deducting voltage because of the quality of CPU. . |
Testing platform: CPU: Intel Core i5-750 MB: MSI P55-GD80 DRAM: CORSAIR Dominator 2GBX2 DDR3 1866C9D VGA: MSI R4890 CYCLONE DDR5 1GB CrossFireX HD: CORSAIR CMFSSD-64GB2D (RAID 0) POWER: Antec TruePower New TP-750 Cooler: Mega Shadow(Deluxe Edition) MSI’s software for OS - Control Center present the hardware information The more detail information of CPU But the info of Core i7 needs to be corrected again. The status about votalge and temperature, and it also has the total power saving Watts This interface can adjust the settings, especially for the Fan speed. The button for setting MB’s LED/ condition the temperature condition of each phases MSI has made a great improvement on its software design. The software, Control Center, is much more user-friendly than before. System test CPU:Intel Core i5-750 2.66GHz If we use P55 mainboard and enable the Intel Turbo Boost Tech, the CPU frequency will be up to 2.80~2.93Ghz Let’s make a comparison and find out what the difference is, between the OC Genie function and Intel Turbo Boost Tech. After we press the OC Genie button and system boot up, we will see the blue light, which means the OC Genie has been activated. The BIOS settings will be changed to CPU 197 X 17 => 3.34GHz 1.400V DDR3 1576 CL9 9-9-24 1.740V |
The system status after we enable the OC Genie Hyper 4 X PI 32M=> 11m 51.252s CPUMARK 99=> 516 Nuclearus Multi Core => 6449/9414/27970 Fritz Chess Benchmark => 20.54/9858 PCMark Vantage => 13111 As we can see from the pictures above, after we enable the OC Genie function, the performance of the CPU has been doubled and is much higher than using the Turbo Boost function only. This is really good news for those who don’t know how to adjust bios settings or for those who wouldn’t like to spend a lot of time on adjusting bios settings. Regarding its shortcoming, I personally think the core voltage is a little bit high. It will be better if MSI can improve the voltage setting to be more precisely in the future. Next, I, myself will adjust the settings manually. Under the stable condition, it takes me several days to find out the better parameters and lower voltage settings. CPU 200.5 X 20 => 4010MHz DDR3 2005 CL9 9-9-24 OS settings Hyper 4 X PI 32M=> 9m 56.015s CPUMARK 99=> 621 Nuclearus Multi Core => 7616/11373/31711 Fritz Chess Benchmark => 20.54/11834 PCMark Vantage => 15231 [IMG]ttp://img704.imageshack.us/img704/7256/mp55gd804gpcvany.png[/IMG] CrystalMark 2004R3 CINEBENCH R10 1 CPU=> 5680 x CPU=> 20590 |
Sandra Memory Bandwidth -24517 MB/s EVEREST Memory Read -18357 MB/s P55-GD80 has a great performance on the voltage ratio under the 200/2000 settings. This time, msi overclocking feature gives me a brand new feeling. Compare to the experience of using mainboards of msi, there were always some minor problems or the overclocking performance of the memory wasn’t as good as other brands. However, P55-GD80 has no above problems which I mentioned. It went smoothly when I adjusted the bios setting. Also, like other mainboard manufacturers, it shows a great overclocking performance. Finally, we adjust the CPU frequency to 210/2100 CPU 210.5 X 20 => 4209MHz DDR3 2105 CL9 9-9-24 OS settings Hyper 4 X PI 32M=> 9m 28.823s CPUMARK 99=> 651 Nuclearus Multi Core => 7977/11893/33234 Fritz Chess Benchmark => 20.54/12362 CrystalMark 2004R3 CINEBENCH R10 1 CPU=> 5950 x CPU=> 21514 Sandra Memory Bandwidth -25789 MB/s EVEREST Memory Read -19136 MB/s The 210/2100 CPU frequency setting brings the CPU frequency up to 4.2GHz, so the parameter of CPU/Dram/VTT voltage is higher. Finally, there was no problem during the test. Besides the overclocking ability of the mainboard, the quality of the CPU and memory is one of the important factors, MSI P55-GD80 passed many tests under the condition of 210/2100 frequency setting, which proves the overclocking ability and stability of MSI P55-GD80. MSI P55-GD80 Advantages 1.MSI P55-GD80 has many innovative features, like Direct OC/V-Kit/Easy Button…,and etc. 2.Embed with OC Genie auto OC chip. Press OC Genie button and we can get an excellent overclocking performance. 3.Three PCI-E X16 and support ATI CrossFireX and Nvidia SLI Tech. 4.With all Japanese solid capacitors, 8mm super pipe and easy Power/Reset bottoms 5.Use DrMOS to save power. The Control Center software is very user-friendly. 6.Excellent BIOS design with high adjustable voltage range and great CPU/DDR3 overclocking ability. Disadvantages 1.The carton design should be improved because P55-GD80 is a high-end product. 2.Currently, on the market there is not much demand on P55 chipset mainboard’s price is higher than 200 USD. If we use the OC Genie function, the voltage will be a little bit high. Performances ★★★★★★★★★☆ Materials ★★★★★★★★★☆ Specifications ★★★★★★★★☆☆ Externals ★★★★★★★★☆☆ C/P Value ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ Sometimes I feel the trend of the market development is quite strange. It seems that there is a tendency that manufacturers like to have a competition, which especially focus on the components of the mainboards. Each manufacturer adds more functions and creates new features on the mainboard, so that the price is getting higher and higher. If the price of the P55 product is more than 300 USD, I doubt if the consumer will buy it In my opinion, if you want to use Intel CPU as your platform and you are already an owner of LGA 775, it will be more cost-effective. You can just upgrade your CPU. For example, Q8400 or Q9550. However, if you would like to buy a new platform and you have enough budget, Intel Core i5-750 with 155~200USD mainboard will be a better choice. The C/P value is much higher. Finally, if you have sufficient budget, using the LGA 1366 platform is also a good choice for upgrading Intel i9 in the future. For me, I can strongly feel that MSI has great improvement on its new product quality and the selections of the components. No matter the software, overclocking features or the components on the MSI P55 mainboard make me feel impressive, especially the stability of the BIOS. Intel has released the P55 chipset recently, and it is defined as a middle-end product. Currently, the price is approximately 155~280USD. Within this price range, the P55 product is also divided into three classes, which are high-end products, middle-end products, and low-end products. Comparing to the P55 high-end product in the market, MSI P55 is much more cost-effective. This is one of the reasons that MSI deserves so much praise. Although the quality of MSI P55 mainboard is excellent, I still hope they can maintain the cost-effective price strategy, so that the users who don’t have a lot of budget still can buy a mainboard with excellent performance and innovative features. |
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