OC3D Review: MSI P7N Platinum Nvidia 750i based motherboard

[FarFarAway]

Check out MSI's P7N, will it live up to expectations?

Link

 

[JN]

Nice review mate and a decent board to boot!

Now all that MSI need to do is remove Zippy, Bungle and George from the "board colour scheme" team, and they'll have a perfect board

Seriously tho...surprisingly decent OC results from an Nvidia chipset.

 

[Luigi]

Yes, i mean thats better than the 780i boards which are a 'better' chipset..

 

[Bungral]

That is some serious overclocking results.. I mean it beat the others by quite a chunk! Also the 0% CPU utilization was quite impressive.

 

[Rastalovich]

Great review.

I`m still feeling these 780 boards are `good` without being great.

Some excel with something in 1 area and lose something in another, all very minimally. But appear solid.

Like to see an SLI vS CF of the `best` of the 780i`s vS the `best` 35/38. From a gaming pov, be pretty interesting. All the same stuff cept the gfxcards, that perhaps are close as single cards maybe.

With the prices tho, I don`t think u can turn ur nose up at them.

 

[ionicle]

if they combined that boards performance and features with the DFi black and green colour scheme, you'd be onto a winner

performs sweet though

 

[Ham]

Dam good looking (oc wise...) board tbh. May invest in one for the bench rig.

 

[Mullet]

Very nice review Matt....bargain!!

 

[Luigi]

Absolutely...

Why not test 35/38 against 780i with the same gfx card (single) to keep things simple... i think i know which ill put my money on.

 

[Ham]

Absolutely...

Why not test 35/38 against 780i with the same gfx card (single) to keep things simple... i think i know which ill put my money on.

You mean exactly like what he's done on page 9?

Edit: And 10...

 

[FarFarAway]

Aye that's what I did

It's a great board with awesome overclocking, muchas surprising!

 

[NickS]

Wow, very surprising indeed. MSI loves to boast their boards on paper and break them on the bench table up until lately. Very pleased with them. Plus, a great review, Kempez

I take it I'm the only one who LIKES the boards looks & color scheme? Maybe because I'm used to my P35 Neo2-Fr's and it's the same scheme.

 

[Luigi]

Great review.

I`m still feeling these 780 boards are `good` without being great.

Some excel with something in 1 area and lose something in another, all very minimally. But appear solid.

Like to see an SLI vS CF of the `best` of the 780i`s vS the `best` 35/38. From a gaming pov, be pretty interesting. All the same stuff cept the gfxcards, that perhaps are close as single cards maybe.

With the prices tho, I don`t think u can turn ur nose up at them.

I was refering to this...

 

[FarFarAway]

Wow, very surprising indeed. MSI loves to boast their boards on paper and break them on the bench table up until lately. Very pleased with them. Plus, a great review, Kempez

Yep I was impressed, especially at that cracking price!

I take it I'm the only one who LIKES the boards looks & color scheme? Maybe because I'm used to my P35 Neo2-Fr's and it's the same scheme.

Pretty much lol

I was refering to this...

I would love to have time to set up a Crossfire VS SLI review but I am snowed in with more reviews than time to do them at the moment....and more pretty interesting and exciting ones waiting to be done.

CF vs SLI would be interesting although I don't have a lot of faith in either solution due to ongoing software and hardware quality/issues

 

[Linson]

Specs:

MSI P7N SLI PLAT

Intel Q6600

8800GT

PSU

2x2GB 800

Problem is , it only detects 2cores... bios doesnt even have any option..... Any users got this problem?

Freshly installed XP and Vista.... both same

I think it this board is compatible but wont work with Q6600.....

 

[NickS]

Hey Kempez, when testing a quad, how much vDroop did you encounter?

 

[FarFarAway]

From what I recall it droops about 0.02v, but that's from memory

 

[NickS]

Dang that's not bad, at ALL.

 

[mehdi19]

Hi guys a have a few question about the board where you able to achieve that oce with 4gb of ram? does the thermalright ultra extreme fit on the board?

and does it support tri sli?

 

[FarFarAway]

No it was 2GB of RAM but that wouldn't matter as you can unlink it

I would expect the Thermalright to fit, yes

I do not believe it supports Tri SLI