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MSI 875P Neo MS-6758 Canterwood mainboard
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:
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P4 speed |
3.0GHz |
3.0GHz |
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Mainboard |
MSI 875P Neo |
Intel 875PBZ |
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FSB Speed |
800 FSB |
800 FSB |
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Corsair RAM settings |
2-2-2-6 |
2-3-2-6 |
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Sandra 2003 |
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Memory int MB/s Kingmax |
4896 |
4857 |
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Memory FP MB/s Kingmax |
4925 |
4893 |
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CPU Multimed Int |
13871 |
13824 |
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CPU Multimed FP |
22325 |
22186 |
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CPU Integer |
9138 |
9136 |
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CPU FP |
5801 |
5782 |
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PC Mark 2002 |
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CPU |
7459 |
7456 |
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Memory |
8635 |
8576 |
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
The Corecell chip
The motherboard
The heatsink
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