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MSI 875P Neo MS-6758 Canterwood mainboard

Review Beyond the spec
By Nebojsa Novakovic
Saturday, 31 May 2003, 12:26
Manufacturer: Microstar International
Price: Around $200
Requirements: A Pentium 4 3.0C
Web Site: WWW.MSI.COM.TW
THE MSI 875P Neo, or MS-6758, is one of the most feature-rich mainboards in the sea of high-end Canterwood offerings that have appeared over the past two months. Besides the usual AGP 8X, dual DDR-400, wirespeed Gigabit Ethernet and serial ATA, there are things like triple Firewire, CoreCell for overclocking, even another serial ATA RAID!

I planned to go ahead with a brief review of this board over a week ago, when I heard noises in the background talking about some really unique, unpublicised features of MSI 875P Neo. Like "dynamic overclocking" that uplifts the CPU, FSB and memory speed by some 6 - 8 % during CPU-intensive apps, without users or, for that matter, benchmark routines, able to be aware of that.

MSI has stuck to its colour red, is there - installation was quick using a SuperFlower six-fan chasis with a plenty of space. We ran the usual benchmark test set with matched dual-channel Corsair Platinum LLPT DDR400 SDRAM 2-2-2-6 latency settings, and here are the results:

P4 speed

3.0GHz

3.0GHz

Mainboard

MSI 875P Neo

Intel 875PBZ

FSB Speed

800 FSB

800 FSB

Corsair RAM settings

2-2-2-6

2-3-2-6

Sandra 2003

Memory int MB/s Kingmax

4896

4857

Memory FP MB/s Kingmax

4925

4893

CPU Multimed Int

13871

13824

CPU Multimed FP

22325

22186

CPU Integer

9138

9136

CPU FP

5801

5782

PC Mark 2002

CPU

7459

7456

Memory

8635

8576

 

Overall a good one! A bit faster than the Intel D875PBZ "Bonanza" Canterwood board with the same 3.0 GHz Pentium4, however in this round we haven't explored yet whether that is due to the "dynamic overclocking" or bit faster memory (D875PBZ had 2-3-2-6 settings).

The only drawback is that MSI went backwards from full hardware sound in their Granite Bay board to the Analog Devices CPU-bound software sound here. So, the serious multimedia freaks that like this board also may need a good sound card to take over that function. µ

Pictures

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The Corecell chip

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The motherboard

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The heatsink

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