MSI X58 Pro Motherboard
Synthetic 3D Benchmarks
Published: 25th March 2009 | Source: MSI | Price: £158.69 |
Cinebench 10 is a benchmarking tool based on the powerful 3D software Cinema 4D. The suite uses complex renders to gauge the performance of the entire PC system in both single-core and multi-core modes. Testing was performed a total of 5 times with the highest and lowest results being omitted and an average created from the remaining 3 results.
3DMark is a popular synthetic gaming benchmark used by many gamers and overclockers to gauge the performance of their PC's. All 3DMark runs were performed a total of 5 times with the highest and lowest results being removed and an average calculated from the remaining 3 results. Also included are the CrossfireX results to give an indication of how 8x PCIe lanes perform.
Results Analysis
A fairly average turnout was to be had in the synthetic 3D Benchmarks area of this review. The MSI motherboard neither disgraced or excelled in any of the tests, finishing in the middle of the pack the majority of the time.Let's see how it gets on in our run of real world gaming...
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I guess this is for people who don't care about looks and want a cheaper alternative.
The opposite of this would probably be a bloodrage in terms of aesthetics and price.
The opposite of this would probably be a bloodrage in terms of aesthetics and price.
At last! A board UNDER £200!
And its pretty good.
And its pretty good
.Quite a few sub £200 boards now, 6 iirc. Nice review
I don`t think the esthetics of the mobo should be equally graded as performance. If u have a mobo that works 100% faster than the one that looks "kewl", u'd be a tad foolish to pick the slower one cos the memory slots glow in the dark.
I was gonna slate all the other cards on the list, cos quite frankly I feel this mobo embarasses the lot of them in terms of pricing.
They all peak and trough in various areas, but they don't all cost £50-60 more than this.
No SLI ? Think I could live with that.
Good stuff.
I was gonna slate all the other cards on the list, cos quite frankly I feel this mobo embarasses the lot of them in terms of pricing.
They all peak and trough in various areas, but they don't all cost £50-60 more than this.
No SLI ? Think I could live with that.
Good stuff.
I think some people go on looks more than you would think Rast 
Great little board at a price point that motherboard manufacturers should be working downwards in price from. The market is going to die unless others follow MSI's price trend.
Great little board at a price point that motherboard manufacturers should be working downwards in price from. The market is going to die unless others follow MSI's price trend.
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Originally Posted by name='Rastalovich'
I don`t think the esthetics of the mobo should be equally graded as performance. If u have a mobo that works 100% faster than the one that looks "kewl", u'd be a tad foolish to pick the slower one cos the memory slots glow in the dark.
I was gonna slate all the other cards on the list, cos quite frankly I feel this mobo embarasses the lot of them in terms of pricing. They all peak and trough in various areas, but they don't all cost £50-60 more than this. No SLI ? Think I could live with that. Good stuff. |
The looks of the board are very important to some, however the board was not marked down soley for looks but also for the packaging which pales in comparison to some of the other boards on test.
Oh, and the board IS sli capable
Fair play, the board performs well and aside from the voltage irregularities, is a decent all round effort form MSI but who the hell wants a brown motherboard (or anything else for that matter) "Aesthetics (what on earth were MSI thinking of?)" , too right mate, there's a reason brown is the colour of sh*t !
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