MSI X58 Platinum Motherboard
Gaming Benchmarks
Published: 22nd December 2008 | Source: MSI | Price: £229.99 |
Crysis is without doubt one of the most visually stunning and hardware-challenging games to date. By using CrysisBench - a tool developed independently of Crysis - we performed a total of 5 timedemo benchmarks using a GPU-intensive pre-recorded demo. To ensure the most accurate results, the highest and lowest benchmark scores were then removed and an average calculated from the remaining three.
Company of Heroes is Relic's first title to make use of the "Essence Engine". This engine was designed and coded from scratch by Relic in order to make use of special graphical effects, including high dynamic range lighting, dynamic lighting & shadows, advanced shader effects and normal mapping. On May 29, 2007 Relic released a DX10 patch for Company of Heroes which was applied for this test. Running the in game performance test 5 times, the highest and lowest scores were omitted with the average calculated from the remaining 3.
Ubisoft has developed a new engine specifically for Far Cry 2, called Dunia, meaning "world", "earth" or "living" in Parsi. The engine takes advantage of multi-core processors as well as multiple processors and supports DirectX 9 as well as DirectX 10. Running the Far Cry 2 benchmark tool the test was run 5 times with the highest and lowest scores being omitted and the average calculated from the remaining 3.
Asus seem to have the advantage in both First Person Shooters, outscoring the MSI in both Crysis and Far Cry 2. Company of Heroes however favoured the MSI, albeit not by much.
Let's take a look at the overall performance of the setups on test today...
Most Recent Comments
Very good review, was a good read 
1.44V for 3.85gHz Now I'm even more proud of my UD5 doing 3.7@1.35 Did you adjust the VTT voltage too? It's just as important as vCore.
1.44V for 3.85gHz
Now I'm even more proud of my UD5 doing 3.7@1.35 Did you adjust the VTT voltage too? It's just as important as vCore.Great review. Think they're still crazy priced tho.
Hopefully they see some sense l8r in the 09.
Don't have much exerience with MSI mobos, but I am surprized there's no SLI.
Hopefully they see some sense l8r in the 09.
Don't have much exerience with MSI mobos, but I am surprized there's no SLI.
Quality review as always Rich. Bit miffed at lack of SLI seeing as it's such a massive selling point. Puts it at an instant disadvantage. Ah well.
Couple of features I picked up on which I thought were great; the first being the right angled sata plugs.. Such a simple thing! But would make tidy cabling easy - it's just impossible to make the sata cableslook neat if they are sicking up out of the mobo.The other was the bios save feature, thats pretty cool! And a great feature, being able to swop from "warp speed overclock" to "mr easy going day to day" at the press of a button.. 10/10 for that one.
£240 though? Too much I think.. Needs to come with the kitchen sink at that price, and it doesnt.
A fine review.
£240 though? Too much I think.. Needs to come with the kitchen sink at that price, and it doesnt.
A fine review.
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Very good review, was a good read
1.44V for 3.85gHz Now I'm even more proud of my UD5 doing 3.7@1.35 Did you adjust the VTT voltage too? It's just as important as vCore. |
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Originally Posted by name='Rastalovich'
Great review. Think they're still crazy priced tho.
Hopefully they see some sense l8r in the 09. Don't have much exerience with MSI mobos, but I am surprized there's no SLI. |
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Originally Posted by name='Bungral'
Quality review as always Rich. Bit miffed at lack of SLI seeing as it's such a massive selling point. Puts it at an instant disadvantage. Ah well.
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Originally Posted by name='fruityness'
Couple of features I picked up on which I thought were great; the first being the right angled sata plugs.. Such a simple thing! But would make tidy cabling easy - it's just impossible to make the sata cableslook neat if they are sicking up out of the mobo.The other was the bios save feature, thats pretty cool! And a great feature, being able to swop from "warp speed overclock" to "mr easy going day to day" at the press of a button.. 10/10 for that one.
£240 though? Too much I think.. Needs to come with the kitchen sink at that price, and it doesnt. A fine review. |
There are actually two versions listed on MSI's website: one with SLI, one without. The SLI version still seems to be unavailable at the moment, and from what I recall it's still not known whether the current version could be converted with a BIOS flash or not
Iirc someone tried flashing a beta bios to the non sli version and got nothing but BSOD .
It will be nice if they do make it SLI capable tho.
.It will be nice if they do make it SLI capable tho.
I'm curious as to whether there's a difference built-in somewhere that did that. The two boards certainly look the same, though obviously that doesn't mean they are. Wouldn't hurt to perhaps ask them about that.
The Mediocre
- Overclocking could be better
Sorry guys, but i disagree. I have this motheboard and i got these results:
My Maximum Bclk for enter in O.S. Windows Vista X64:
valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=469171 ( Thanks WC Annihilus, now is correct )
My usual clock for 24/7:
valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=469143
Same processor, motherboard and memory of the review.
Sorry for my bad english.
- Overclocking could be better
Sorry guys, but i disagree. I have this motheboard and i got these results:
My Maximum Bclk for enter in O.S. Windows Vista X64:
valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=469171 ( Thanks WC Annihilus, now is correct )
My usual clock for 24/7:
valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=469143
Same processor, motherboard and memory of the review.
Sorry for my bad english.
What voltages? Is it prime stable?
Nice clocks regardless.
Nice clocks regardless.
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What voltages? Is it prime stable?
Nice clocks regardless. |
And the 4GHz I didn`t test with prime95, i used the OCCT for 1 hour and got stable. But i think is stable enough for me play my games.
Ow sorry the voltages:
Well for 4GHz I`m using:
CPU VOLTAGE +0.190 ( 1.39 )
QPI +0.180
MEMORY VOLTAGE 1.65
That's all
Well for 4GHz I`m using:
CPU VOLTAGE +0.190 ( 1.39 )
QPI +0.180
MEMORY VOLTAGE 1.65
That's all
You posted 2 links to the same validation
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Originally Posted by name='WC Annihilus'
You posted 2 links to the same validation
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valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=469171
See now. I think is correct. :sleep:
Is this using the latest BIOS? I might have to give that a go as there has been a new BIOS released since writing the review.
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Originally Posted by name='webbo'
Is this using the latest BIOS? I might have to give that a go as there has been a new BIOS released since writing the review.
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IOS Type AMI BIOS File Size 816KB
Version 1.1 Update Date 2008-11-12
But have the 1.2B ( beta )
CSS Valid
Read the review here