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- CPU Socket Type LGA 1366; CPU Type Intel Core i7; Quick Path; Chipsets; X58- Number of Memory Slots 6x240pin (support for DDR3); DDR3 1066 / 1333 / 1600 (OC); Maximum Memory Supported Max: 24GB (DDR3); Triple Channel Memory Bus
- Expansion Slots: 3 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 ;PCI Slots 2. Storage Devices: PATA 1 x ATA100 2 Dev. Max; 6 + 2 SATA 3Gb/s; SATA RAID 0/1/5/10.
- Audio Channels 8 Channels
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By Debojyoti Dutta (Santa Clara)
The board is ok once you get it right. I bought it because it was much cheaper than the others and I thought that most X58 boards should be similar in performance for someone who doesnt overclock. I was wrong. The IOH is very hot (~70degC on idle). I had pressed the heatsinks and it went down to 57C. Then I added a bigger CPU fan and the temps went up again to 80C on idle! My case is a decent one - antec solo. I was surprised that this is a common issue with lots of these boards. I should have checked before.
In hindsight I should have just got another board. Also, it wasnt stable with Corsair premium memory. Changed brands to OCZ and it has been stable (with a hot IOH). Hopefully the temps will go down when I change the case and add a spotcool fan. But this seems to be a design oversight.
I would not recommend this board unless someone got it at half the price of the other ones.
By Anne A. Vitasek (Corsicana Texas)
[...] after buying this product, the box looked great and exciting, after opening it it got better but then the heat problem was very true, did exactly what he said as described, worked like a charm, but then noticed my memory modules was not seeing full 6 gigs, only 4 but after installing the HDD it would constantly crash blue always in the form of a memory crash, so i took all memory sticks out and only kept one in of course, ran through windows vista fine but after loading to vistas desktop got numerous errors from memory module still, after hours of figuring the motherboard out, turned out to be a defeat in the modules itself, in the middle of a RMA of this product, for anyone who is looking for a 3way sli, skip this board, this is by far the worst board i have ever worked with. no doubt, if you dont agree, buy the board like a did and youll see. real good board but still very buggy and needs to be reworked on, take this item off of amazon period
By Thom R. Spengler (Oregon)
If you are looking into making a Nehalem system, this isn't a bad board. It's far and away faster than my Core 2 Quad system. MSI has a good price on this system. However, you really need to "finish building" this motherboard for MSI.
The problem is over-heating on the x58 "Northbridge" IOH chip set. This is the chip with the big heatsink that says "MSI." With my proc running a cool 30C, the IOH was running a very hot +80C, so I put a fan on the IOH, but the chip temp only dropped to 70C (still too hot.) However the heatsink was very cool to the touch.
This made me think that the heatsink had a poor thermal bond to the IOH chip, so I pinched the nylon heatsink holders, pulled 'em out and slid off the heatsink. Heatsink was bonded by a flimsy piece of double-stick tape. I scraped the tape off with a fingernail (being carefull to not disturb the black insulating film,) applied a good heatsink compound and re-assembled the heatsink.
Voila! Heat problem solved, IOH down to 45C. If you're comfortable doing this modification, it's a great board for the $$. If not you might want to find another board, as a hot 80C degrees IOH just might burn up in a year or two... right after the warranty goes away.
NOTES: 1. You can find out more with a google search on "MSI hot x58 IOH"
2. You can see the chip temps by going into BIOS
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