MSI P45 Platinum Motherboard - Intel P45, Socket 775, ATX, Audio, PCI Express 2.0, CrossFireX Ready, Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, Firewire, USB 2.0, eSATA, RAID

MSI P45 Platinum Motherboard

MSI’s multiple award-winning P45 Platinum CrossFireX Socket 775 motherboard offers gamers, graphic designers, extreme PC enthusiasts, and multimedia entertainment buffs the best bang for the buck in the industry. Designed for 45nm CPUs and 2-way CrossFireX video performance, this outstanding ATX mainboard is built for most socket 775 65nm and 45nm processors such as Xeon(socket 775 only), Core2 Extreme, Core2 Quad, and Core2 Duo, Pentium Dual Core, Celeron Dual Core, and Celeron processors. The 45nm Quad Core CPU support brings more benefits to multimedia and multitasking by enhancing the performance and reducing the waiting time for any kind of applications. It provides extremely high definition audio/video stream editing and offers higher performance on 3D gaming and professional graphic rendering. Based on the Intel® P45 Chipset, the MSI P45 Platinum motherboard supports DDR2 667/800/1066MHz memory up to 16Gb (To support 16GB max, please check the criteria at Intel website), PCI-Ex 16, SATA, RAID (0/1/5/10), Gigabit LAN, and USB 2.0. This model also includes firewire, eSATA, S/PDIF, and DrMOS. This awesome board sports MSI’s exclusive Green Power Design for earth-friendly efficiency and features Dual Core Center, Live Update Online, and Live Update 3.

Detailed Features

Features
DrMOS
- Excellent energy-saving capability and offers high-computing performance.
- Provide superior energy-saving function and maintain an ultimate low temperature operation.
- Comes with three incredible features.
All Solid Capacitors
- Longer lifespan than electrolytic capacitors
- Endurable to operation under higher frequency & temperature
- Avoid exploding capacitors to cause mainboards failure
All Shielded Choke
- A choke is an inductor responsible for storing power and regulates the current.
- All shielded choke could reduce core power loss, lower EMI interference.
- Store energy longer at higher frequency, achieving higher efficiency.
Circu-Pipe 2
- Equipped with 5 heat-pipe
- Trapezoid plate - Best heat transfer
- Max expansion in limit space - fit with giant CPU cooler
- Exclusive Circu-Pipe2 offers high quality extreme cooling
2-phase Power
- 2-phase Power on Memory/Northbridge
- Power Efficient!
- Lower Temperature
- Max voltage Control
VGA Booster
- Both graphic channel are from Northbridge(MCH), no more bottleneck issue - Native PCI Express 2.0
- Auto detect & switch in 1 x16 / 2 x8 (CF-X) mode
- VGA Booster push the 3D performance up to a new level
OC Jumper
- RapidBoost - OC Jumper
- OC Jumper gives MSI mainboards more tolerance to achieve OC limit
- Make overclocking easier for end-users

M-Connectors
- Easy connect to front panel & chassis cable
- 2x USB, IEEE 1394, front panel (JFP1/2)& audio(JAUD1) M-connector in the package
- Easy to tell the definition of each pin
User Friendly Design
- Functions designed with button to be easy use.
- Help power-users tweaking process in-chasis enviornment
- Onboard SATA ports are stacked on the mainboard to avoid mechanical issue with giant graphic cards like 8800 Ultra.
CrossFireX Support
- Equip with 2 or more PCIe x16 slots, ATI CrossFire Ready.
- The ultimate multi-GPU performance gaming platform.
- Provides 2.7x faster performance than single graphic card solution.
Green Power Design
- With Multi-phase PWM IC, which lead to better power converting, reducing noise and expand the lifespan and stability.
MSI Advanced Live Update Online
The MSI Live Update online is designed to automatically download and update the BIOS and driver when there’s a new version online.
It helps reduce the risk of getting the wrong file and minimize the trouble of searching the files from MSI website.
Dual Core Center
- Key components status hardware monitor.
- Monitor the Dual Core CPU each unit status.
- Optimize System status define.
- Auto speed up with system loading change.
Live Update 3
Live Update 3 is a single utility software that automatically checks BIOS, driver and utility updates and installs for you , which can save your time for searching and lower the risk while updating