Find a new motherboard? this is the new from MSI, MSI P55-GD80, and this model special designed to compete directly against the ASUS Deluxe and Gigabyte UD5 series.

This series comes with a lot of features, and it will be the one option for the newbie to overclocking this board, because the newbie will have enough option to squeeze the performance of this board to have the maximum speed.

From the layout of this P55-GD80 we will clearly see features such as 13 USB 2.0 ports (six headers/ seven ports on the I/O panel), an eSATA/USB combo power port, and support for up to 16GB of dual-channel DDR3 memory with standard BIOS support up to DDR3-2133 includes power-on/reset/clear CMOS switches and a Debug LED panel for the open bench crowd.

Six (black) SATA 3Gb/s ports provided by the P55 chipset that feature RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 support along with Intel’s new version 9 Matrix Storage technology. The dark blue SATA connectors are powered by the JMicron JMB322 3Gb/s SATA chipset that feature RAID 0 and 1 support. The eSATA 3Gb/s port on the I/O panel and IDE port are provided by the JMicron JMB363 chipset.

Two PCIe 2.0 x1 slots, two PCI slots, and three PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (x16/x4 or x8/x8/x4). The x4 PCIe slot (third one on the right) is provided by the P55 chipset and is not designed for optimal graphic’s performance. The layout of the PCI/PCIe slots is very good and allows for a single PCIe x1, PCIe x4, and PCI slot when running SLI or CrossFire

The rear panel features the standard PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports, optical/coaxial S/PDIF out ports, seven USB 2.0 ports, dual Gigabit LAN ports, IEEE 1394a port, audio panel, and a handy eSATA/USB powered combo port.

MSI P55, ASUS withe Deluxe or Gigabyte with UD5 series, Finally the choice is on yours.

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