Review MSI P67A-GD65: High End dengan Segudang Fitur

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Bhisma Sidarto

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May 30, 2011

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Dalam hierarki produk MSI, GD65 melambangkan salah satu produk high end mereka. MSI P67A-GD65 merupakan reinkarnasi dari produk tersebut untuk Intel 6 Series Chipset atau yang lebih dikenal dengan nama Cougar Point. Produk high end selalu menjanjikan segudang fitur. Apakah MSI P67A-GD65 akan mengikuti jejak itu? Bagaimana pula performanya? Silahkan baca review berikut ini!

Spesifikasi

CPU

• Supports Intel® Sandy Bridge processors in LGA1155 package.
Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.

Chipset

• Intel® P67 (B3) Chipset

Main Memory

• Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.5 Volt DDR3 1066/1333/1600*/2133*(OC) DRAM, 32GB Max
– Supports 1GB/ 2GB/ 4GB/ 8GB DRAM size
– Supports Dual channel mode

Slots

• 2 PCI Express gen2 x16 slots
• 3 PCI Express gen2 x1 slots
• 2 32-bit v2.3 master PCI bus slots.
– Support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface.

On-Board SATA

• SATAII controller integrated in Intel® P67 (B3) chipset
– Up to 3Gb/s transfer speed.
– Supports four SATAII ports (SATA3~6) by P67 (B3) PCH

• SATAIII controller integrated in Intel® P67 (B3) & Marvell SE9128 chipsets
– Up to 6Gb/s transfer speed.
– Supports two SATAIII ports (SATA1~2) by P67 (B3) PCH
– Supports two SATAIII ports (SATA7~8) by Marvell SE9128
– SATA1~6 ports support RAID 0/1/5/10 mode by Intel P67 (B3) PCH
– SATA7~8 ports support RAID 0/1 mode by Marvell SE9128

• eSATAII controller integrated in JMicron® JMB362 chipset
– Supports two eSATA ports (back panel)

USB 3.0

• 4 USB 3.0 ports(2 by back panel, 2 by interanl ports) by NEC® uPD720200F1

Audio

• Chipset integrated by Realtek® ALC892
– Flexible 8-channel audio with jack sensing
– Compliant with Azalia 1.0 Spec
– Meet Microsoft Vista Premium spec

LAN

• Supports one PCI Express LAN 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Realtek 8111E.

IEEE1394 / FireWire

• VIA® VT6308P chipset
– Supports up to two 1394 ports. (Rear panel x1, pinheader x1)
– Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps.

Internal I/O Connectors

– ATX 24-Pin power connector
– 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
– CPU x 1 / System x 4 FAN connectors
– CD-in connector
– Front panel audio connector
– Front panel connector
– 1 x chasis intrusion connector
– 1 x USB 2.0 connector
– 1 x USB 3.0 connector
– 4 x Serial ATAII connectors
– 4 x Serial ATAIII connectors
– 1 x IEEE1394 connector
– 1 x Clear CMOS jumper
– 1 x SPDIF-out connector
– 1 x TPM module connector
– 1 x Serial port connector
– 1 x Voltage Check Point
– 1 x Power button
– 1 x Reset button
– 1 x OC Genie button

Back Panel I/O Ports

– 1 x PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard port
– 8 x USB 2.0 ports
– 1 x Clear CMOS button
– 1 x Coaxial SPDIF port
– 1 x Optical SPDIF port
– 1 x IEEE1394 port
– 2 x eSATA ports
– 1 x RJ45 LAN Jack
– 2 x USB 3.0 ports
– 1 x 6 in 1 audio jack

BIOS

• The mainboard BIOS provides “Plug & Play” BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically.
• The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your mainboard specifications.

Dimension

• 30.5cm(L) x 24.5cm(W) ATX Form Factor

Mounting

• 9 mounting holes.