It sports a pair of PCIe 2.0 16x slots that can handle Crossfire (no SLI), though that second slot will run at 4x and not a single legacy PCI slot. DDR3 support goes up to 16GB of DDR3-2133 MHz via overclocking in the BIOS and there are six SATA-300 ports with RAID support and a PATA port supported by an additional JMicron controller. There is also a total of 14 USB 2.0 ports, a single Gigabit Ethernet connection and 7.1 support via a Realtek ALC889 chip.
“Motherboards based on the new H55, H57 and Q57 chipsets are targeted to the new Core i3 and Core i5 processors with integrated video, and MSI has so far released four different models based on H55 and one model based on H57, H57M-ED65 (a.k.a. MS-7587), which brings lots of extra features. Let’s take a look on this motherboard.”Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
- GIGABYTE GA-H57M-USB3 @ Tweaktown
- Biostar TH55XE Motherboard @ Hardware Secrets
- Gigabyte-GA- X58A-UD7 @ Hardwareoverclock
- Intel DP55WG: a Different Inexpensive LGA1156 Mainboard @ X-bit Labs
- MSI P55-GD80 @ Metku.net
- Intel DH55TC Motherboard @ Hardware Secrets
- Intel H55, H57 Chipsets @ iXBT Labs
- Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4: Short Review of a Small Good Mainboard @ X-bit Labs
- Seven Intel P55 Motherboards Tested From Asus, DFI, MSI, Gigabyte @ Madshrimps
- Jetway NC93-330W-LF ITX Motherboard @ Pro-Clockers
- Asrock A330ION – What were they thinking? @ eTeknix
- Zotac IONITX-F-E Mini ITX Mobo Review @ XtremeComputing
- ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO AMD 785G Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers