BIOS Features
MSI’s has incorporated their ClickBIOS II technology into the X79A-GD65 (8D) motherboard, which they tout as being the world’s first Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and software GUI. This application allows users to have full control over their BIOS settings from the UEFI BIOS itself and after users boot into Windows as well. Their GUI also has touchscreen support and a generous amount of overclocking options for novice and experienced overclockers.
Main Menu
Standard Mode – Main Menu
System Status Menu
Advanced Menu
Advanced Menu, PCI Subsystem Settings
Boot Menu
Overclocking Settings Menu
Overclocking Settings Menu, Advanced DRAM Configuration
Overclocking Settings Menu, CPU/DRAM voltage options
Overclocking Settings Menu, CPU Specifications
Overclocking Settings Menu, CPU Features
ClickBIOS GUI from Windows 7 desktop
The one thing the X79A-GD65
The one thing the X79A-GD65 (8D) has going for it is the number of DIMM slots you have. Of course 8 DIMMS can give you a huge workable memory footprint of 32GB for not much money now days. The MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) costs $290.00 at Newegg. Other enthusiast set motherboards start around the $250 mark.
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Nice review, thanks! These
Nice review, thanks! These look to be great boards and MSI continues to pump out quality product. That said a few things really disappoint me on the new Intel IB chipset lineup that are in no way unique to this board. The most disappointing to me is the lack of native SATA3 ports.
: – Supports two SATAIII ports (SATA1~2) by X79
Really Intel? Still only 2 ports? Lacking is too kind a word IMHO. This is supposed to be an enthusiast chipset yet it has no more native SATA3 ports than the “old” P67 based board I’m currently running. So as an enthusiast the only way I get SATA3 speeds with more than 2 SSD’s in a RAID0 is an aftermarket solution taking up an expansion slot.
Aside from that I’m really impressed by the temps you achieved on air with that OC. 4.6Ghz~1.5v and only 50c on air with a 125TDP cpu HT enabled? That’s the best I’ve seen to date. I cant keep my 2500K 4.6Ghz~1.3v that cool using a H70 under load. You guys testing in a walk in freezer? 😉
Anyway thanks for the review. All I have to do now is find a reason to justify an upgrade with the boss. I don’t think upgradeitis is gonna cut it this time around.
I recently bought the MSI
I recently bought the MSI x79A GD45 8D . I installed the components, and switched on. Unfortunately the computer kept on restarting every couple of seconds. I couldn’t even get into the BIOS
You have to reset the cmos at
You have to reset the cmos at the back of the pc 😉
I have recently bought one of
I have recently bought one of these unfortunately when I turn it on I get no display. There is a dubug code FF on the board.