MSI P67A-GD80

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Pros:

Many improvements over previous boards (P67GD55, P67GD60), 12phase power design, Military Class II components, ClickBIOS, OC Genie II feature, USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s, Great layout and design.

Cons:

DDR slots are close the CPU socket (same on many P67 motherboards)

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Last revision on November 3, 2011

Reviewers Liked

Many improvements over previous boards (P67GD55, P67GD60), 12phase power design, Military Class II components, ClickBIOS, OC Genie II feature, USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s, Great layout and design

Reviewers Didn't Like

DDR slots are close the CPU socket (same on many P67 motherboards)

Expert reviews and ratings

We know that the MSI P67A-GD80 offers much better overclocking compared to its GD65 sibling. But, it was a nice surprise seeing 4.8GHz without really doing a whole lot of serious tweaking. Granted, 4.2GHz OC Genie II automation is great. But, all that...

By FutureLooks on June 26, 2011

and Verdict All Pages Page 1 of 16At the start of this year we helped introduce Sandy Bridge along with coverage on 5 different LGA1155 motherboards. One of those boards was MSI’s P67A-GD65, one of their 16 different P67 motherboards that are...

By LanOC Reviews on May 20, 2011

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It is great to see B3-stepping motherboards shipping and available for purchase. This puts Sandy Bridge back on track and makes it a viable option for gamers and enthusiasts who are looking to upgrade. I would call this board a second revision Sandy...

By ThinkComputers on May 01, 2011

MSI has built another very good, if not great series GD80 motherboard. Its Achilles heel is the BIOS and Control Center software. These two aspects of the P67A-GD80 are simply horrible. These are not unusable, but these need to be fixed. The...

By HardOCP on June 21, 2011

We would rate the design of the GD80 a close second, behind the Fatal1ty board in terms of looks. Its black and blue color motif is classic, and the heat sink...

By HotHardware on June 17, 2011

We'd like to thank our friends at MSI for providing the P67A-GD80 motherboard for our review today. MSI continues to impress us with the amount of custom features and applications they bundle with their products. The P67A-GD80 proved to be a supreme...

By PCPer on June 06, 2011

I think there are no mainboards without advantages (except for the defective ones, of course). And despite several downsides, MSI P67A-GD80 (B3) has quite a few indisputable advantages of its own. Let me start by saying that it comes with an...

By X-bit Labs on June 01, 2011

Over the last few years MSI has really improved the quality of their products and the P67A-GD80 is a prime example of this. What they have done is take the standard motherboard design and improve upon it by adding features such as a high-quality...

By Neoseeker on May 11, 2011

With those marks against it, we might not have even bothered to mention that the remaining USB 3.0 ports all share a single 5 Gb/s PCIe lane through a single NEC D720200F1 controller and VIA Labs VL810 hub, except that this restriction stands...

By Tom's Hardware on April 25, 2011

It's nice to finally see the B3 stepping P67 chipsets finding their way to market, once again making Sandy Bridge a viable platform for performance enthusiasts. I suspect most all manufacturers will be offering new B3 boards in a few weeks, if they...

By OverClock Intelligence Agency on March 31, 2011

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