MSI P67A-G43 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard
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 Rating: Review Date: 08/17/11 |
MSI P67A-G43 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard
Cons:Although I am not sure as of yet, I think I can hear a faint squeal from one of the capacitors
Pros:Great priceAll the essentials for high end gamingFeels very durableLooks very nice in person |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/16/11 |
MSI P67A-G43 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard
Cons:lacks some features of higher-tier mobos, but for the price not a factor
Pros:works easily and greatBIOS simple to useeasy OC menu Comment:
nice board all-in-all, budget-wise. It does lack some of the bells and whistles some may want, but it does perfectly fine. Great for mid-tier gaming, even uper tier as well |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/07/11 |
MSI P67A-G43 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard
Cons:weird stuff happened when I tried to "live update" before installing the LAN driver (Ubuntu command line interface I think)
Pros:Works greatBIOS was not too tricky to understand Comment:
Have had no issues with this board. Haven't tried OCing, but it seems like it wouldn't be hard. BIOS gives CPU temp, which is a nice quick check for correct CPU heatsink installation. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/04/11 |
MSI P67A-G43 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard
Cons:only one ps/2 port
Pros:good mobo, not hard to install Comment:
It's a good motherboard for the price, no complaints thus far |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/02/11 |
MSI P67A-G43 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard
Cons:None
Pros:Affordable, efficient, solid built Comment:
I bought this from another source and it was frankly the best mobo. Truely efficient and worth the money. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/25/11 |
MSI P67A-G43 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard
Cons:
For me, none so far
Pros: Has all the features that I need and would actually use SLI & Crossfire ready Comment:
Running an i5 2500k b 4.3GHz on this motherboard. I achieved the 4.3GHz on stock voltage and is prime95 stable for 24 hours. So although this is a budget board, decent overclocks can be done. I haven't tried going over 4.3 yet because it is good enough for me right now. This board has both crossfire and sli support, a very rare feature on a value board like this. If you don't think you would use all the features of a higher end board, then I highly recommend that you consider buying the P67A-G43. Rated 5 stars because it fits my needs perfectly and I'm yet to see a BSOD |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/24/11 |
MSI P67A-G43 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard
Cons:
- For some reasons even after updating the bios, my mouse (Steelseries Xai) still won't work in the bios. It moves horizontaly but not verticaly, wtf? Anyway I'm used to navigate only with my keyboard in the bios since forever so no big deal.- The 1 and only HUGE cons I have is that for some strange reasons everytime I boot my computer and that was also before/after bios update, the whole screen gets black with 2 letters or numbers in the bottom right corner and it says like that for exactly 2min before it does beep and show the POST. I try to reboot the less possible cause it's very annoying.
Pros: - Very good price considering what you get.- Finaly a nicer bios than the blue one after 11 years lol.- You have all the super duper mega ultra OC features from the overpriced boards that cost 2-3x more. Comment:
Other than my issues above I would recommand this board to anybody that needs a LGA1155 socket. I bought this with a it 2500K and I managed to pull mine up to 4.50Ghz with a decent 1.33v (Low vDroop) and all the rest on Auto in the bios and all energy saving stuff enabled. It's a lie that it's gonna be less stable if you don't disable them. Maybe it was several years ago but Intel said it was designed to be OC together. 4.60Ghz wasn't even Prime stable with 1.365v so I gave up. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/13/11 |
MSI P67A-G43 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard
Cons:
none
Pros: Good build quality, Decent layout, Bios is nice, everything works easily Comment:
Got this board for my latest build and have been very happy with it. The build was easy everything worked without issue. For the money its a great budget board. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/28/11 |
MSI P67A-G43 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard
Cons:
Temp 2 runs a little high on the bios
Pros: Great Value, Recognised everything correct timings Comment:
Great budget gaming board, runs well and has solid overclocking. Possibly supports sli? |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/20/11 |
MSI P67A-G43 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard
Cons:
manual sucks for details. Power LED would not turn on for the first few days of using it. Then one day it magically turned on!
Pros: budget board with all the features you need.16x and 8x pci-express SLI and Crossfire compatiblesolid design with quality electronic parts used. Board is expected to last for a very long time Comment:
Ask yourself this question. Do you really need all those other ports? Do you really need two ethernet ports instead of one? firewire? esata? four usb3 instead of two? Are those ports really worth the extra $70? onboard overclocking buttons/power buttons from newer msi boards are pretty useless too. How many times will you be actually pushing those buttons?This board is basic and comes with everything you need for the average person. if you need the esata port, but a esata bracket on ebay for a few bucks. firewire, and two ethernet ports are pretty useless for me. 10 usb slots is plenty. This board comes with 16x and 8x pci-express slots!! Most other mid range boards from gigabyte and asus comes with a 16x and 4x. As a bonus this is both SLI and crossfire compatible! (you will need to buy a sli bridge on ebay to do sli). Has all the standard overclocking features.Motherboard overclocking potential is fairly even across all brands with all of them using the P67 chipset. Overclocked my intel 2500k to 4.5ghz stable on 1.33volts. This is a great way to get the latest and greatest for a budget price. Save yourself a few extra dollars in going with this board and spend that money saved on a new 2tb green drive. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/14/11 |
MSI P67A-G43 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard
Cons:
SATA ports
Pros: PricePCIE is 8x/8x instead of 16x/4xColor Scheme Comment:
Bought this on special combo with i5 2500k. Great board, great price but I am wishing the GD65 was on special last week like it is this week. I put in 2 6950s and the second one covers 4 of the SATA ports. Thanks to the right angle cables included in the box I can still use 2 of them but I will need a couple left angle cables if I want to use my other 2 ports. I am still happy with this great board, just be aware of using massive cards like the 6950. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/10/11 |
MSI P67A-G43 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard
Cons:
Buzzing noises
Pros: Affordable, has everything a budget gaming computer would need. Comment:
This is a overall good budget motherboard for people who want to overclock. One problem was a buzzing noise but I solved that by disabling intel speedstep. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/04/11 |
MSI P67A-G43 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard
Cons:
have not noticed any yet but will update this when I find it
Pros: This is definitely a good buy, it supports both SLI and CF and has military class II components with OC Genie, currently I am just running it with my GTX 560 and it runs very smooth when i am playing WOW. Definitely worth the buy in my opinion and when I am ready I'll buy another awesome MSI GTX 560 to run SLI. Comment:
I would recommend this to anyone who doesn't want to spend a fortune or have a small budget this board is definitely the way to go. |
This is the ideal board if you are on a budget and still want all the performance that you would expect from something like an ASUS P67 or Z68, at half the price. It has fewer ports on the back, but unless this lacks something in specific that you require, you can save some money and have no worry about sacrificing performance. I have my i5 2500k going at 4.5GHz 40 degrees idle with a third party heatsink.