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 MSI P55-GD80 Lynnfield Motherboard Preview

 By: Hilbert Hagedoorn Edited by  | Published: August 1, 2009  


 

MSI P55-GD80 preview

We flip the board around again 90 degrees and stumble into low-level connectivity. Spot front panel headers, three more USB headers, a Firewire header and audio connectors. You just can't deny that this is going to bee a very complete motherboard alright. But let's zoom in a little to the lower right segment of the photo.

MSI P55-GD80 preview

You can notice some interesting features here like dual LED POST display. We see GreenPower, Reset and Power on-board "touch" buttons. Now it might look like MSI forget to install something there but in fact these are Easy Button II switches : electromagnetic touch button for Rest/Power/GreenPower (LED light switch), there is no "physical" button, you just touch PCB directly.

Above it we see three buttons:  OC Genie, and two on board controls for flexible clock speeds. So that OC Genie button then ... it leads to core logic located in-between the PCIe slots.

MSI P55-GD80 preview

This is the OC Genie IC, embedded into the motherboard the OC Genie is an overclocker ASIC. It's primary function is to find an optimal overclocking settings for your configuration. Prior to boot up you push the OC Genie button and then the OC Genie will setup the BIOS for you.



 


 

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