Review MSI Z77A-GD55: Lebih Mudah dengan Tombol Overclock Otomatis

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Alva "Lucky_n00b" Jonathan

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Motherboard

May 20, 2012

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Tidak terasa, sudah hampir satu bulan prosesor Intel Ivy Bridge dirilis ke pasaran. Kemunculan platform baru ini tentunya juga diikuti dengan chipset motherboard baru, yakni Intel Z77. Melihat hal ini, sudah pasti para vendor motherboard langsung berbondong-bondong menawarkan solusi motherboard baru yang menyandang chipset Z77, untuk disandingkan dengan prosesor Ivy Bridge, ataupun pengguna Sandy Bridge yang ingin meng-upgrade motherboard lamanya. Sekarang, kami akan menguji sebuah motherboard berchipset Z77 besutan MSI, yang diberi nama MSI Z77A-GD55.

Anda yang sudah mengenal MSI cukup lama mungkin tidak asing dengan struktur penamaannya. Akhiran -GD55 yang ada menandakan bahwa motherboard ini ditujukan untuk kelas menengah/ mainstream. Sekalipun demikian, MSI masih tetap memberikan sejumlah fitur-fitur khas MSI pada board ini, sebut saja seperti komponen ‘Military Class‘, dan fitur OC Genie. Tanpa menunda lebih lama lagi, mari kita lihat spesifikasi motherboard ini!

Chipset Z77

Spesifikasi

CPU

• Supports 2nd/3rd Gen Intel® Core™ i7 / Core™ i5 / Core™ i3 / Pentium® / Celeron® processors for LGA 1155 socket

Chipset

• Intel® Z77 Chipset

Main Memory

• Support four DDR3 DIMMs 1066/1333/1600/1866*/2000*/2133*/2200*/2400*/2600*/2667*/2800*(OC) DRAM (32GB Max)
– Supports Dual-Channel mode
* To support DDR3 2200*/2400*/2600*/2667*/2800*(OC), you must install an Intel 22nm CPU

Slots

• 2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots
• 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slot
– PCI_E7 supports up to PCIe 2.0 x4 speed (when PCI_E3 or PCI_E6 is empty) or PCIe 2.0 x2 speed (when PCI_E3 or PCI_E6 is installed).
• 4 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots

On-Board SATA

• SATAII controller integrated in Intel® Z77 chipset

– Up to 3Gb/s transfer speed.
– Supports four SATAII ports (SATA3~6) by Z77

• SATAIII controller integrated in Intel® Z77 chipset
– Up to 6Gb/s transfer speed.
– Supports two SATAIII ports (SATA1~2) by Z77

• RAID
– SATA1~6 support Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise (AHCI/ RAID 0/ 1/ 5/ 10) by Intel® Z77

USB 3.0

• 2 x USB 3.0 rear IO ports by Intel® Z77
• 1 x USB 3.0 onboard connector by Intel® Z77

Audio

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

LAN

• Supports one PCI Express LAN 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Intel® 82579V.

Multi-GPU

• Supports ATI® CrossFire™ Technology
• Supports NVIDIA® SLI™ Technology

Internal I/O Connectors

– ATX 24-Pin power connector
– 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
– CPU x 1 / System x 4 FAN connectors
– 1 x Clear CMOS jumper
– 4 x Serial ATAII connectors
– 2 x Serial ATAIII connectors
– 3 x USB 2.0 connectors
– 1 x USB 3.0 connector
– 1 x TPM Module connector
– 1 x Front Panel Audio connector
– 1 x Front Panel connector
– 1 x Chassis Intrusion connector
– 1 x Voice Genie connector (optional)
– 1 x MultiConnect Panel connector (optional)
– 1 x V-Check Points Set (optional)
– 1 x Power button
– 1 x Reset button
– 1 x OC Genie button

Back Panel I/O Ports

– 1 x PS/2 keyboard/ mouse port
– 1 x Clear CMOS button
– 1 x Coaxial S/PDIF-out port
– 1 x Optical S/PDIF-out port
– 4 x USB 2.0 ports
– 2 x USB 3.0 ports
– 1 x RJ45 LAN Jack
– 1 x 6 in 1 audio jack
– 1 x HDMI® port with max. resolution up to 1920×1200 @60Hz
– 1 x DVI-D port with max. resolution up to 1920×1200 @60Hz
– 1 x VGA port with max. resolution up to 2048×1536 @75Hz

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.

Platform Pengujian

Prosesor: Intel Core i7 3770K
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-GD55, BIOS v1.3 Official
Graphic Card : NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 2 Keping dari KHX1600C9D3K4/16GX – total 8GB
Hard Drive: Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB
Power Supply: Corsair Professional Series™ Gold AX850 — 80 PLUS® Gold Certified Fully-Modular Power Supply
Cooling : Corsair Hydro Series™ H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Monitor: Philips 221E
Input: Genius (keyboard dan mouse)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1