MSI 785GM-E65

MSI 785GM-E65 @ TBreak

“The MSI 785GM-E65 is based on the AMD 785G chipset and suports the new AM3 socket based Phenom II CPUs along with DDR3-1333. It comes equipped with 128MB DDR3 1333MHz IGP boost memory to accelerate onboard VGA 3D performance along with support for Hybrid Corssfire. For full specifications, please check MSI’s website.”

ASRock X58 Extreme

ASRock X58 Extreme @ PcShopTalk

“The VRM and X58 chipset cooling solutions are linked together with a heatpipe; I do not consider this a very good solution because, as we already know, the X58 chipset is very hot also, like the VRM, and when we overclock the system and they will transfer the heat from one to another. I would have preferred this board to have some bigger heatsinks, with one or two heatpipes between the VRM and the X58 chipset.”

MSI X58M Motherboard

MSI X58M Motherboard @ RBMods

“Today we are taking a look at a motherboard from MSI, they sent us a sample of their socket 1366  board which they’ve named the  X58M. It has some cool features such as; Live update,  APS power saving function, etc. We decided to run the board vs a high end Asus board in our tests so lets take a look at how it can perform in both normal benchmarking and overclocking.”

ECS P55H-A P55

ECS P55H-A P55 @ PC Perspective

“Its feature set and benchmarks scores aren’t going to make consumers put it on lay-away for the holidays, but its ease-of-use and no-frills functionality are great selling points along with the $100 price tag. We’ve experienced a lot of ups and downs with ECS’s “Black Series” motherboards and we’ve seen where they’ve had to cut corners a bit to bring the price of the product down.”

MBR: CPU & Mobo Prices – 12/06

Here are some prices for several of the top tier to budget end products available. Several new P55 based motherboards have been added to the list, and I will have AMD boards listed soon. Thanks for your support all!

Intel Core i5 / i7 / 2 Duo Processors
Core i7 975 Extreme Edition
Core i7 940
Core i7 920
Core i7 870
Core i7 860
Core i5 750

Core 2 Duo E8600
Core 2 Duo E8500
Core 2 Duo E8400

AMD Phenom II / Athlon X4 Processors
Phenom II X4 955
Phenom II X4 945
Phenom II X4 940
Phenom II X3 720
Athlon II X4 620

Intel P55 Motherboards
ASUS Maximus III Formula
ASUS P7P55D EVO
EVGA P55 FTW
EVGA P55
EVGA P55LE
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4P
Intel DP55KG
MSI P55- CD53
MSI P55- GD65
MSI P55- GD80

Intel X58 Motherboards
ASUS Rampage II Extreme
ASUS P6T
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2
ASUS Rampage II GENE
EVGA X58 SLI
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R
Intel DX58SO
MSI Eclipse SLI

AMD Motherboards Coming Soon…

Intel DP55KG “Kingsberg”

Intel DP55KG “Kingsberg” @ X-Bit Labs

“Intel mainboards from the Extreme Series use a human skull as an emblem and Intel DP55KG solution is no exception in this respect. In fact, it is pretty interesting, why this serious company decided to choose a not serious symbol like that. Of course, had it been a dog’s or chicken’s skull, we would definitely have much more questions, but I have to admit that it is still a little weird to see this image on boards and boxes.”

Intel DP55WG “Warrensburg”

Intel DP55WG “Warrensburg” @ iXBT Labs

“Today we shall review a motherboard that has maximum PCIe-related features (for a P55-based solution), but lacks heatpipes, additional disk drive controllers — everything that would prevent it from being reasonably priced.”

ASRock P55M Pro

ASRock P55M Pro @ iXBT Labs

“For one of the cheapest boards on the new chipset, this one looks very decent. If you don’t need 6 expansion slots and fully-fledged SLI/CrossFire, then ASRock P55M Pro is a nice choice for an inexpensive machine based on a Core i5 CPU (or future Socket 1156 processors).”

Zotac Geforce 9300-ITX WiFi

Zotac Geforce 9300-ITX WiFi @ PC Perspective

“After getting my hands on the board, I realized there were several other key options that should benefit gamers and HTPC builders alike including the optical and coaxial out ports for connecting the board to a user’s high-end entertainment sound system and built-in CUDA technology that should make Blu-Ray playback seamless and lag-free.”

MSI Big Bang Trinergy

MSI Big Bang Trinergy @ Guru3D

“MSI went back to the drawing board, came up with a new concept called the Big-Bang series motherboards. Today we take a peek at the MSI P55 GD80 Big bang Trinergy — with the Tri for triple lovin’ on top of the regular GD80 functions, yes it makes the mainboard 3-way SLI compatible. Next to all the cool features the board already offers MSI added a few more extra’s next to the fantastic design, V-Kit control, the mystical finger touch buttons.”