SATA III performance on the Z68 chipset suffered for some reason
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MSI have been releasing a steady stream of well priced, performance oriented graphics cards and motherboards this year, and today we are looking at their Z68A-GD80-G3 which supports the next generation of PCI Express graphics cards.We have always...
There are a lot of really nice features that the MSI Z68A-GD80 (G3) comes with: support for the next generation PCI-Express Gen 3.0 slot interface, 5 Year Warranty after registration, fast UEFI BIOS that's both appealing easy to use, OC Genie II,...
After years of playing the underdog, MSI has been working hard to become one of the premier motherboard vendors in North America. With the Z68A-GD80 G3, they’re off to a great start. This board was a particularly innovative solution for Sandy...
Intel released the P55 chip set along with the Lynnfield CPU back in Q3 of 2009 while the Sandy Bridge was released in January of 2011 and followed with the Z68 in Q2 of 2011. This nearly two year gap has seen significant architecture improvements...
Not too long ago, I looked at the B3 revision of this board and found it had a lot to offer in terms of its feature set and overclocking ability. I found that the G3 revision had a little bit more to offer the end user, not so much from a performance...
If you ask about my personal opinion of the MSI Z68A-GD80 (G3) mainboard, I may sound pretty disappointed. Of course, my experience was not the easy one because of the encountered error and the numerous attempts to get it sorted out and fixed, which...
We'd like to thank MSI for providing the Z68A-GD80 motherboard for our review. The Z68A-GD80 builds upon the successes MSI had with their previous P67 motherboards and went all out with their next-generation Click BIOS II. Creating software that...
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