MSI P45 Platinum top of the range motherboard

MSI have launched the P45 Platinum, this is their top of the range motherboard which has been designed to compete with the likes of Asus and Gigabyte, both of which have high-end P45 offerings. TweakTown has one of these motherboards and has been putting it through its paces.

One thing that we have to point out though, is the fact that their MSI P45 Platinum is an early sample. This means that it is not the full retail package, but the board will be the same that will hit the store shelves. Here are TweakTown’s final thoughts about the board “Intel’s 4 series chipsets are now starting to make mass production. With Computex 2008 finished, and Intel’s official launch of the final chipsets to make the 4 series now unveiled, motherboard companies are able to finally release their boards. As expected, we are now beginning to see quite a few offerings surface.

MSI’s first P45 motherboard has impressed us; despite not having a full retail package with the board, the silicon used was retail quality, so we are testing what you will receive on the store shelves, and what we have found to be very impressive.

The P45 chipset has a good overall feel; its overclocking at this early stage is impressive, and while we only managed to hit 504MHz FSB, we only had a few hours to really test the board compared to a full 24 hrs of tweaking. In just 2 hours we managed to make over 500MHz. We can only see a better result if given more time to play.”