MSI 870A Fuzion Power Edition EXCLUSIVE Review
CPU Performance Continued
Published: 23rd September 2010 | Source: MSI | Price: £120 Est |
Cinebench R11.5
The latest iteration of Cinebench's rendering benchmark takes greater advantage of multiple cores. With this in mind, what better way to test a processor with no less than six cores?
Once again no surprises here. The error margins of Cinebench are somewhat low so it comes to no surprise that the test results of our reference frequency examples remain head to head.
PovRay
Persistence Of Vision RAYtracer is an application for creating three dimensional graphics. Within the program is a very popular benchmark that measures the processor's ability to render such images.
The PovRay results appear just as impressive.
PCMark Vantage
PCMark Vantage is Futuremark's flagship "System Wide" benchmark. With a large focus on day to day operations, it's an excellent means of judging the capability of a computer as a whole.
Finally we will have a close look at gaming with the Power Edition as well as Lucid Hydra performance.
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MSI have really got a winner with this M/B, for that price I'm thinking of buying one and building a AMD system to play around with.
And for how long did that OC genie work ?
great looking board....
great looking board....
When he pressed the OC genie button it automatically opened up an msn chat with me 
Cheers for the heads up tom, board looks mental.
Cheers for the heads up tom, board looks mental.
"The 870A Fuzion is akin to engines such as VW Group's 1.4TSI Petrol. Upon face value, it is a bog standard 4 cylinder engine with not a lot going for it. However, with its Turbo Charger + Super Charger combo setup, it pushes out peak performance (~175bhp) similar to many 2.0 engines." -That is the engine i have in my Seat Leon!! Love it! If this board is the same...it really rules! ;-)
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When he pressed the OC genie button it automatically opened up an msn chat with me |
I have the MSI P55-GD65 and the OC genie button works like Poo
It's days like this that remind me what utter rip off merchants Intel are.
Fantastic as ever guys, and a special thanks to Mul for absolutely kicking the s**t out of it.
Fabulous stuff.
Fantastic as ever guys, and a special thanks to Mul for absolutely kicking the s**t out of it.
Fabulous stuff.
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When he pressed the OC genie button it automatically opened up an msn chat with me Cheers for the heads up tom, board looks mental. |
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Dude, I didn't know you were on here! It's D3FiN3 SiN/firestormcomputers from OCN . |
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Dude, I didn't know you were on here! It's D3FiN3 SiN/firestormcomputers from OCN . |
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All the cool kids are here |
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All the cool kids are here |
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All the cool kids are here |
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All the cool kids are here |
I guess this board really surprised you guys
Mr. El Gappo is an AMD legend.
And yes, I am now a cool kid.
And yes, I am now a cool kid
.This going to be great for cheap builds
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I guess this board really surprised you guys |
for a board that has the lucid hydra chip its cheap
LOL Hey Sin!
TTl your cpu-z sig is looking much healthier now
TTl your cpu-z sig is looking much healthier now
What's the best heat sink for this if i want to fill all memory slots, the RAM is 35mm tall.
Also can I run 2x460 SLI on this motherboard?
Also can I run 2x460 SLI on this motherboard?
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What's the best heat sink for this if i want to fill all memory slots, the RAM is 35mm tall. Also can I run 2x460 SLI on this motherboard? |
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2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (16x/16x Dual CrossfireX, SLI, ATi + nVidia)
2 x PCIe 1x 1 x PCI |
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The Noctua NH14 will clear regular ram. It only has issues with Dominator ram. |
Ah OK. Well I was right about the 'regular' ram bit.
I wasn't aware that loads of companies made oversized tbh. I know Gskill do that Ripjaw stuff.
I wasn't aware that loads of companies made oversized tbh. I know Gskill do that Ripjaw stuff.
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but if i get a ATI and Nvidia graphics card, does the Lucid chip allow me to use Phyx?
Yes. Infact, you can use an Nvidia card for Physx with *any* motherboard and any ATI card.
You do need to run a Physx mod/hack (mod is a nicer word) but yes, you can.
You might need to run that mod for this board, I don't know. Usually Nvidia disables Physx when it sees an ATI card present. And the way it does this is the driver looks at the Device manager and then at the DEV_ID for the graphics cards. If it sees the ATI DEV number (1002 as the vendor code) then it simply disables the Physx function. However, this is easy to get around using GenL Physx Mod 1.04ff.
Google is your friend
You do need to run a Physx mod/hack (mod is a nicer word) but yes, you can.
You might need to run that mod for this board, I don't know. Usually Nvidia disables Physx when it sees an ATI card present. And the way it does this is the driver looks at the Device manager and then at the DEV_ID for the graphics cards. If it sees the ATI DEV number (1002 as the vendor code) then it simply disables the Physx function. However, this is easy to get around using GenL Physx Mod 1.04ff.
Google is your friend
With Lucid set up right then yes you will be able to go into the Nvid driver panel and set it to PhysX
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