MSI P67A-G45 (B3) ATX Intel Motherboard

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Supports Crossfire video cards at 8X in each channel, you will notice that you have to spend considerably more on any other board out there to get this function with Sandy Bridge.Overclocking is amazing with this board, in the bios just set the multiplier for every single core in cpu settings, this allows you to turbo when there is demand so your cpu will only throttle up when it wants to saving you heat and electricity. I am @ 5ghz on all four cores but idle at 1600mhz. Fantastic overclocking board!Runs high efficiency ram at super low settings! I am operating DDR3 1600 at 7.8.7.24 and can nevertheless get to 5GHZ stable!four USB 3 ports on the rear! Thats far better then most 赨 boards out there! Sata port location if your operating crossfire, I had to use l shaped sata cables to get plugged in under one particular of the video cards. This board is MSI's dirty small secret due to the fact it essentially provides additional characteristics then 90% of the higher end 赨+ boards out there. This is the cheapest board you can buy that gives duel 8x PCI-E, I'm a long time Asus fan but now I will start off getting MSI motherboards for all my builds!I'm sure you are like I was and thinking you will need to invest additional but This board is awesome and gives all the high finish capabilities at a mid range value. A+++ MSI

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Every little thing has worked good except for 2 factors. You can't run sli with typical gamer graphics cards like the 460 mainly because it covers the sata 6 ports :(. You possibly could with some affordable home theater cards but then you wouldn't generally do that with a p67.I was getting a super high pitched sound coming from the mother board, i am 100% confident of this. This really had me worried, and took a though to locate a post about it on line. I had to go into bios settings, green power, and alter intel svid mode to aps mode in order to get rid of the sound. I wonder if there will be a fix for this or if I ought to RMA. Running with i5 2500k and corsair vengeance 1600� 8MB

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The board does support SLI, I have it running with 2x GTX 460s and almost everything's operating beautifully. This is a wonderful spending budget board for anyone looking to run two video cards. Overclocked 2500K to 4.5GHz effortlessly. The SATA connectors were positioned in a way that was not meant to be utilised with SLI/Crossfire boards. They really should be 90 degree connectors rather. If you want to plug in a second card for SLI/Crossfire and it's significant sufficient to cover the four SATA two connectors, you can still use two of the four connectors by utilizing 90 degree SATA cables, just have to plug them in before installing the second video card. To the idiot complaining about his video card crushing the SATA connectors, had been you blind when you ordered this board? Get a GD55 if you want 90 degree SATA connectors.

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Great board, booted up just fine. Nice functions.Latest BIOS version installed.New, colored BIOS menu.CPU plus four fan connectors. Absolutely nothing to complain about for the cost. If I paid an arm an a leg for it, then I could come up with a couple of points, but for the price, absolutely nothing.

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OC'd 2500k to 4.5 with 1.3v. Have not tried higher. Seems solid. Good layout. Would purchase again.

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Amazing motherboard! Recognized my DDR3 1600 RAM quickly. You have to enable XMP profile in the BIOS but no will need to tweak voltages or anything.Overclocking is so easy. I just changed the multiplier with no adjustments to voltage and BAM!!! gone from three.33GHz to four.0GHz and program is stable. Other individuals have gone as far as four.5GHz on air but I'm not going to do that... yet!Despite the fact that the documentation included with this motherboard makes no mention of SLI support and different websites listing the SLI support as N/A, MSI customer assistance told me this board supports SLI Documentation is misleading. Why emphasize advertising on Crossfire capability and make no mention of SLI? Other internet sites list this board as not supporting SLI but when I contacted MSI about why the documentation and the print "True PCI-E 2. SLI & Crossfire" on the motherboard conflict, their representative told me the motherboard does support SLI.I removed 1 egg from the rating since of the misleading documentation. BIOS screen is colorful and detected my USB mouse with no issues.My build is as followsCPU: i5-2500kRAM: Patriot DDR3 1600Video: Palit Nvidia GeForce GTX460 1GB SONICPS: 850WOS: Windows 7

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It does what you want for a great cost. 4x USB three., 10+ USB 2. ports, optical, etc., all the listed stuff. The graphical BIOS is fairly easy to figure out too. Zero efficiency complaints so far. The automatic overclocker feature (OC Genie II) sets the voltages genuinely high when you use it to overclock, giving some high temperatures I wasn't comfy with. Superior off to manually OC if you ever want to, which is of course incredibly effortless with Sandy Bridge (just boost the multiplier). Manually OCing with this motherboard is really uncomplicated in general.The proper side standoffs are closer to the center than I'd like so pressing down on the proper side calls for also bracing the board underneath to stop bending. I'm not an audiophile so I can't really tell the distinction in between good, wonderful, and poor sound, so look to other reviews for that. Obviously this isn't the most potent motherboard in the globe, so for those individuals that know what capabilities they'll use and what characteristics they won't, this is a excellent motherboard. For example, I won't be doing SLI/Crossfire until my card shows signs of struggle so it's good to be in a position to do x16/x8 down the road, but at the similar time I'll never do a crazy triple Crossfire setup or anything.Core i5-2500GSkill 2x4 GB 1866 PC14900 eVGA GTX 460 1 GB SSC+WD 1 TB Black

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Bought this board with a i5 2500K, it runs cool at 35 degrees, the new version of the bios is great and the automatic OC function is easy to use. I like the USB 3 but it's not very usefull in the back of the case. This is my first MSI board and i'm not disapointed at all. i would buy another MSI board in the future, i was surprise how good it works.

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Got this cheap in a bundle with an i5 and like it a lot. Only problem is the extra USB 3.0 slot comes from inside case, so makes your PC look funny. The board was also small so had to be careful plugging stuff into it.

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it has a nice layout,each and every function works as it designed to,straightforward to OC my 2500k to 4.5g. i know it could be in a position to go further but thats truly not important for me. even 4.5g is already overkill for my day-to-day usages. also its cost is low, compare to OP(overpriced) Asus board, this board doesnt charge that a great deal for the brand. esp compared to the asus p8p67. it doesn't support SLI, neither the handbook or MSI website states it supports SLI. I asked MSI tech support, they told the specification clearly says it is N/A for SLI. the text on the board may possibly be since the PCB is used for quite a few other diverse boards that support SLI. but this 1 doesn't.I don't think its the board's fault so i didnt eliminate any egg for this, but clearly newegg wants to alter that title.

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Works once you have everything installed. I like the Genie overclock (which by the way is in the bios) there is no button on this certain motherboard.It handles overclocks. Wow where do I start.Ƒ) No IDE port so I had to purchase a new DVD/ROM for SATA.ƒ) The 6 ports are separated into 4ǘ Haven't attempted, but don't think it will raid 6 disks together.Ɠ) Can't set more than one of the RAID devices as a boot option at a time.Ɣ) If you're installing something older than Windows 7 SP1 on a RAID array....excellent luck. Remember there is no IDE port. No Floppy port. You believe, oh I'll just use some thing like nlite to "slipstream" the drivers in. Nicely 1st, ought to folks wouldn't know how to do that and secondly it doesn't work. Because the DVD it is reading from is on the identical SATA ports you're attempting to get drivers for and since there is no IDE port, it fails just before it gets to install the drivers. Says the iastor.sys is corrupted. "Slipstreaming" may possibly function with a usb DVD rom if you take place to have 1, which I didn't.ƕ) Can't boot in some bios settings concerning drives/SATAƖ) far more but limited to 1000 characters. Oh yeah, look I have yet another 1000 characters. Cons continued.Ɨ) I bought a bigger CPU heatsink and memory is really now trapped under the heatsink. If I wanted to remove it I'd have to partially get rid of the heatsink from the CPU to get to the initial memory slot.Ƙ) More layout concerns, and this was the biggest 1. I installed two XFX 6950's and they don't fit!!!! The SATA ports are spot correct under exactly where one of the cards would go. I literally had to crush...and I mean CRUSH the SATA cords to the point I didn't believe they would function. I mean I bench 225 lbs 17 times and I had to use a sizeable amount of force to crush the sata cords down sufficient to get the card installed. Those ports should be somewhere else.Other than these rather Huge and nearly show stopping problems...it works as expected.