[H]ard|OCP reviews MSI P45 Platinum motherboard
MSI brings their P45 Platinum to the table making use of Intel's P45 chipset. In addition to building this board around the P45 chipset, MSI has added some new features to their P45 chipset based boards that are certainly worth looking at.
MSI has been in the motherboard game for a number of years producing enthusiast level boards and everything below that. Most of the time boards are boards and they just differ a bit in the feature department. Now MSI is stepping up to the plate with a ton of new features and design ideas now available on their P45 motherboards. With the introduction of the MSI P45 Platinum MSI follows the industry trends with their own features designed to improve efficiency and reduce power consumption. MSI has also stepped up their game and now use 2-phase power on their memory and MCH for improved stability. While this is certainly a step in the right direction MSI is hardly the first to use a 2-phase power solution for their MCH and memory slots. MSI chose all solid capacitors for the P45 Platinum...
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