MSI P55-GD85 LGA 1156 Intel Motherboard Review
Test Configuration
To spice things up for this review I decided to overclock the MSI P55-GD85 for the performance benchmarks. Since The highest memory multiplier was DDR3-1600 and I had DDR3-2000C7 sticks I opted for 21×166 which yielded 3.5GHz and DDR3-2000C7. Since my EVGA P55 FTW was on loan to a friend I opted for the Gigabyte P55A-UD6 as a comparison. I set both boards to 21×166, selected the XMP profile on the Corsair Dominator GT 2000C7 sticks, set the vcore to 1.35v, vtt to 1.30v, vdimm to 1.65v, and set the fan to 100% in BIOS. Windows 7 Professional x64 with ATI’s 10.1 drivers with default visual quality settings were used along with the latest versions of the selected benchmarks.
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Component |
Brand/Model |
Live Pricing |
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Processor |
Intel Core i7 860 |
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Motherboard |
MSI P55-GD85
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Memory |
Corsair Dominator GT DDR3-2000 C7 2x2GB
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Video Card |
Asus Matrix HD 4890 |
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Hard Drive |
Seagate 7200.10 320GB |
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Case |
Dimastech Bench Table Hard V2 |
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Cooling |
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus |
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Power Supply |
Corsair HX1000 |
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Operating System |
Windows Vista Ultimate |
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