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Review: MSI X79-GD65 (8D)

Introduction

MSI has always been one of my favorite motherboard makers. The first board I tried from them that really impressed me was the P55-GD80. Up until then I had heard lots of bad things about MSI, but that board just blew me out of the water. Since then I have not looked back and have tried out an MSI board whenever I have had the opportunity. MSI has been kind enough to send us a X79-GD65 8D board. Lets take a look at it to see if it will impress once again.

http://www.funkykit.com/images/stori...1/P1013872.jpg

MSI's "about us" page goes into greater detail:

"Since its founding in 1986, MSI has been demonstrating continued success in digital age. To achieve the best user experience, every component is essential. In the past 25 years, MSI always strives to provide digital products based on its core values –“Innovation” and “Style”. The results are products with superior performance, trusted reliability, excellent user experience and expressive style.

Embracing years of experience in design and manufacturing, MSI mainboard and graphics card have achieved maximum productivity by becoming one of the top 3 in the world. Our hard work have led us to become one of the finest brands in the industry with accumulated sales in more than 120 countries, 150 million mainboard users and 100 million graphics card users worldwide.

MSI has won the world-renowned product design awards and nearly 8,000 award recognitions from 350 media in 50 countries worldwide. With the brand slogan of “Innovation with Style”, MSI will continue to pioneer in global market as a principal brand in digital era, as well as lead the world in innovation in the field of global fashion technology with the needs of consumers at its core."

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This X79-GD65 8D will be paired with the Hex-core Intel 3930k processor. It has been put through its paces on previous boards, lets see how it does with this great MSI board.

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Re: Review: MSI X79-GD65 (8D)

Is that... 8 DIMM slots? Dayum!

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Originally Posted by D3matt (Post 5627528)

Is that... 8 DIMM slots? Dayum!

It's pretty common on such boards since the CPUs they fit support 4 channel memory.

Initial batches of this board have gotten dinged a lot in customer reviews due to a BIOS that didn't support newer 3000 series CPUs well though.

Those of you on the newer Intel CPUs should probably make SURE you get one with an updated BIOS version if you're considering this board.

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I've always been curious about MSI. I know they've existed forever, but have always gone with different brands. (ASUS until their shitty motherboard was shitty, and EVGA that I haven't regretted. Yet.)

Maybe if I upgrade to Ivy Bridge sometime late this year I'll give them a try. Too late for new video card...

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MSI are actually the leaders in bang for buck quality MBs lately. The only thing they've done in recent production that was a bit hokey was their one click OCing button. The Lucid chips haven't really caught on big either, but that was just someone else's brainchild they adopted.

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I noticed in the specs it lists a max of 32GB of memory... That can't be true, can it? That's only 4 sticks of 8GB or 8 sticks of 4GB. I would've expected at least 64GB max.

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That might be mislabeled, or they might have been thinking about the consumer base. It'll cost you about $400 to get 64GB worth of RAM (with how expensive the current 8GB sticks out are).

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Meh, I was enjoying your review, right up until it turned into an advertisement.

Sorry.

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Originally Posted by >Omen< (Post 5627537)

The 4D version of the board was a POS and had tons of issues (I had them myself)
However, the 8D board had all of those issues fixed and works great

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Originally Posted by FileTrekker (Post 5627595)

Meh, I was enjoying your review, right up until it turned into an advertisement.

Sorry.

Care to elaborate?
if a board is good I will recommend it to people. There have been quite a few products that have been lackluster at best and got the review to match.
If I think people should buy a good board I will let people know its a good board

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I think what he's trying to say is, you started off good, then proceeded to detail MSI's life story.

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Originally Posted by Supa (Post 5627717)

I think what he's trying to say is, you started off good, then proceeded to detail MSI's life story.

Oh, its just technical specs that they want reviewers to cover for marketing reasons. Mostly just a copy/paste affair for a page or two of the stuff.

After that its all my take on things.

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Originally Posted by kow_ciller (Post 5627710)

The 4D version of the board was a POS and had tons of issues (I had them myself)
However, the 8D board had all of those issues fixed and works great

Actually I was referring to initial response on the 8D version, but primarily just the BIOS regarding 3000 series Intel CPUs.
Newegg.com - MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

That said, it's never a good idea to buy anything from a first batch run of a new MB, esp on a new platform and chipset. ASUS and others have had similar problems on first runs. You'd think they'd at least test well for CPU compatibility though.

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Originally Posted by kow_ciller (Post 5627710)

The 4D version of the board was a POS and had tons of issues (I had them myself)
However, the 8D board had all of those issues fixed and works great

Care to elaborate?
if a board is good I will recommend it to people. There have been quite a few products that have been lackluster at best and got the review to match.
If I think people should buy a good board I will let people know its a good board

No, the review is fine, you just used this forum as a vehicle to plug your website. That put me off. The "click here to read more". Not cool IMO, not sure why it's being let slide tbh.

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Originally Posted by FileTrekker (Post 5627731)

No, the review is fine, you just used this forum as a vehicle to plug your website. That put me off. The "click here to read more". Not cool IMO, not sure why it's being let slide tbh.

I don't see what's wrong with it, it's not like he's the only person to ever post a link to another website on the internet :o Is it even specifically HIS website, or just one he happens to post reviews for?

You don't expect him to repost the whole review here, surely?

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Sorry but going to close this.
Kow you didn't adjust the other review to what we considered.

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That sounds reasonable. Lets go with that and see how it is presented.

was my response to your question along with

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We don't mind you posting the links to your site so long as the content posted here is of a certain standard and not a blatant advert

This is a blatant advert in that there is a pic and short description of MSI then if people want to know the deal with the board they have to leave the thread. There is no info at all about the board, no specs nothing at all. Sorry but closed and your next one will be simply trashed if it is just a advert like this.