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MSI Eclipse is designed with in mind to overshadow all other motherboard. The MSI Eclipse motherboard is based on the upcoming new Intel chipset and supports the new Intel Nehalem architecture CPU. The new colour scheme of the MSI Eclipse is similar to the colours visible during an eclipse. This motherboard is equipped with True 6-Phase DrMOS PWM for the CPU, 2-Phase DrMOS for QPI, 2-Phase DrMOS for chipset, D-LED 2, Creative X-Fi hardware audio, APS, Drive Booster, a Split Thermal System and MSI GreenPower Genie.
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Technical Details
- CPU Socket Type LGA 1366- Number of Memory Slots 6x240pin (support for DDR3)
- Expansion Slots 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16,1x PCI Express x1,PCI Slots 2
- Audio Channels 8 Channels Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio with Onboard LAN Dual GB LAN
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By Skynet (USA)
Everything an i7 and potentional SLI/Crossfire user needs, with a cleverly set of stacked SATA connectors and many extras. If you think of using a huge high-end GPU like ATI 5970-5870 or anything else close to that size you'll lose a PCI-E x1 slot (make that 2, along with a PCI, if you're gonna SLI/Crossfire!), but this in not the motherboard's fault. Everything seems to work fine on mine, except that D-LED 2 device that I received broken and my system would not POST with it on the motherboard. Other than that it's 2nd to none.
By K. Johnson
This board really pissed me off. The only thing this worthless piece of scrap metal does is turn on my fans. The D-LED 2 chip that comes with this board didn't even work. Right out of the box! Swapped out my videocard to make sure it wasn't that also. I tried my luck on MSI's forums and came to find out this boards full of problems. To top it off everyone else cant get their D-LED 2 chips to turn on either or those chips screw up the booting and MSI cant figure it out. Now I have to do a damn RMA and wait another week and hope they dont send me another Dud. You would think that for the price you pay for these high end boards somebody would at least test it out before shipping it to make sure it works. NEVER BUY MSI!!!
By Paul Grichine (Irvine, CA USA)
I've had no problems with this board as of yet. I've had my system for about 3 months now, running on slight overclock. Here is my system:
HAF Coolermaster Case
i7 920 overclocked to 3.3ghz, no voltage adjustment
MSI X58 Eclipse motherboard
EVGA GTX280 non-overclocked edition
WD 1TB Drive
6gb DDR3 1600 Corsair memory
Coolermaster V8 CPU Cooler
some other stuff
First of all, the packaging was great, everything fit on the board OK. Had some issues getting the CPU in, but it fit fine once it was in. Everything else just slipped in great. the 1366 chipset is a pain to get CPU cooler's for. The Bios setup is simple and easy to operate. I've never overclocked a computer, and I found everything I needed in the Bios immediately. Although I'm very happy with the board and will consider MSI again, I do have a couple criticisms.
Bad:
1. It can only support a maximum of 2 video cards. I bought this motherboard mainly cause of the overclocking ability, but if I wish to upgrade to Tri-SLi, I have to downgrade to a 775 790i board, which means changing out my processor. But the Asus board did'nt cover that either, so I guess it's ok. I just wish I knew that before I bought the board, cause I didn't think I was gana do it until Although it does have 3 PCIE slots, the highest one is cannot fit the GTX280 because the GTX280 would cover the slot for the sound card. Sound card is great, though.
2. The LED thingy is useless if you have a large card. My card covers up the slot for it, and would cover up the LED thing. So I never installed it.
Other than that, it's a great motherboard. Everyone will have different experiences with is, so please remember, this is my personal experience. And if you do purchase it, I hope you have better luck than the other reviewer.
By Robert Galvin (Massachusetts USA)
I bought this along with a new Intel i7 920, 6GB of Corsair 1333 memory, nVidia 280 GPU and an NZXT Tempest case. I swapped old parts from my current PC to build this new rig.
Right away, most things seemed pretty good. The only real issue I could find was that the LCD2 (LCD which connects to the MLB) appeared to be bad...I never got anything to show on it and the LCD actually looked a little crushed. No big deal, as I would rarely ever see it.
Brought up the machine and installed Vista 64x and started getting things back to normal (apps, settings, peripherals, etc). Shut it down for the day.
On boot, the next day, I found that CMOS settings were complaining that they needed to be set, which I did (and, once again, saved them). I power-cycled the box and found the same error come up, again. I figured it was the battery, so I swapped it out...no change/no luck.
As I'm wondering what to do about this issue, I decide to use MSI's Windows tool to flash the BIOS from 1.0 to 1.1 (Don't yell...I was just following THEIR instructions!...I should have known better not to flash BIOS in Windows!). Well...it hung during the flash...I dreaded what I would see, on reboot...I was right...the PC never displayed video and just went into rolling reboots!
So, this MLB has a feature that allows you to recover from a bad flash. I'm saved! Not quite...from everything I read on their support site, the feature didn't work until BIOS v1.1 (this MLB shipped with v1.0). I never successfully flashed to v1.1, so I couldn't recover from the corrupt BIOS! Ugh...call to MSI for an RMA (since their support was not helpful at all).
I 2-day shipped the MLB back to MSI on 12/24...I received it back on 1/15. Installed it and found it booted with no video (or, drive access chatter). I also noted that the LCD2 was still as bad as when I returned it (which I HAD mentioned in the RMA!).
Pulled the MLB back out of the machine and cabled it outside of the enclosure (to rule out it being shorted somewhere inside the case). Still no boot. For the Hell of it, I pulled the LCD2 off the MLB (and, it's keyed so it will only insert the correct way)...hey, it now boots! I explained this to MSI support and they had no explanation. But, they said they would send me a new LCD2 (I didn't really care...I was just happy to have the PC booting after so long, waiting!).
So, I go into BIOS and see that they flashed me (at MSI) to BIOS v1.2. Cool, I thought! I set all my CMOS settings (drive boot order, date/time, etc) and do the old F10 save and exit. Well, it does something weird...it doesn't soft boot, but instead powers off and then back on! And, it comes up telling me that my CMOS settings are bad and need to be changed.
No matter what I do, every time I change the CMOS settings, when I save the system power-cycles and loses the settings! GRR!!! I call support and ask "What the Hell?!". I also told them (in the RMA) about this CMOS issue (not saving settings)...they supposedly "tested" it and it worked...fire that tester, MSI!
So, they are now going to ship me a recertified board, while I deal with this one (I found that by hitting F2, after F11, I can get it to boot by choosing my system drive...go into Vista and set date/time). The only problem with this workaround (besides the obvious - I *shouldn't* have to workaround anything) is that whenever Vista wants to restart or shutdown (through manual request, or from software installs or Vista updates), the system in fact power-cycles. Even hitting CTRL/ALT/DEL (prior to loading the OS) power-cycles the box!?
So, I buy a brand new $300+ dollar MLB...never actually have it working...and, now after weeks of wating, I am going to end up with a re-certified MLB from MSI. The reason I went through MSI in the first place, was that the Amazon vendor who sold me this MLB (Technology Galaxy) informed me that it would be "quicker" to go direct to MSI.
Well, I started building this PC a couple of days before Christmas. I had purchased all parts in mid-December, but waited for my vacation to start the build...you know, in case of troubles! :( Here it is, January 18th, and the PC is still a mess. I expect to see the recertified MLB hit the house in a few days...we'll see how that MLB fares. PS - MSI already charged my credit card $350 for this "new" MLB...even though the BRAND NEW one cost me less than that. MSI warranty/repair does not carry new parts...just recertified stuff. They refund the money after they receive my old (new!) MLB back.
If MSI had either 1) warned in the docs against using *their* flash tool and 2) had their Support/Test-people actually do their jobs, I may have been up and running around the 1st of the year.
So...my first experience with MSI MLBs is: My last...I will go back to ASUS, on the next upgrade.
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