Legit Reviews

SSD ramp up very fast in the past 2 years. It started from built in NoteBook which was small capacity and average speed (around 30~50 MB/s). Till now, most brands have 2.5”/1.8” individual SSD products for customers to use in PC or NB. This year, the SSD market competition is very hard, especially p...

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/3966/mx60024.jpg MSI X-Slim X600 Summary Strengths: 1.With a 15.6" LCD and weighing just 2.1kg, this should be the lightest large notebook now available. 2.The matt chassis with special glossy coating and slim form-factor looks good. 3.The product is well pac...

PCMark Vantage http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/1043/mx600pcvan.png Vista performance benchmarks http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7948/mx600vista.png The system performance was above-average. The good DRAM and HDD performance set the tone for smoothness during general use. Although the X600 was ...

The other side of the base accommodates the wireless network card and 2.5" storage device. Intel Wi-Fi Link 5100 supports 802.11 b/g/n; HITACHI 5K500 5400rpm 320GB. http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/7746/mx60021.jpg For better system performance, a high-speed SSD can be installed. This will of...

The base of the X600 has a matt surface. http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/1503/mx60011.jpg Below the keyboard there is a row of very informative status lights. The Fn key is needed to activate shortcut keys. The touch control panel is flush with the chassis. There are stickers that detail the X600...

MSI has made great inroads into the notebook market in the past two years. With the launch of the Atom-equipped U100 last year, MSI successfully boosted its brand profile and consumers' confidence in the MSI brand. In 2009 MSI released a new line of CULV based notebook products – the X-Slim series. ...

MSI X58M Advantage 1. High performance Micro ATX of X58 product. 2. All Japanese made solid capacitors. Debug signal. Built-in power botton. 3. Support ATI CrossFire and NVIDIA SLI. 4. Rich BIOS options. Wide range of power voltage. Outstanding external clock. 5. Price competitive amongst available ...

CrystalMark 2004R3 http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8169/mx58mcm.png CINEBENCH R10 http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6938/mx58mcb.png PCMark Vantage 16444 http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/6981/mx58mpcvan.png X58M has quite good OC performance. Compare with X58 ATX, the performance is nearly no di...

North bridge cooling module http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/5467/mx58m11.jpg Screen shot when system is turned on. http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/2900/mx58mb01.jpg BIOS main page http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/8160/mx58mb02.jpg Cell Menu http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1146/mx58mb03.jp...

X58 chipset has been introduced to the market for 9 months, and is still on top-of-the-range of Intel product line. For some main board manufacturers, Micro ATX is no longer a low-priced product. Ever since DFI released its first Micro ATX X58 in January, MSI and Asus started to include Micro ATX in...

OC 191 X 23 => 4401Mhz DDR3 1913 CL9 9-9-24 1T Hyper 4 X PI 8M 1m 50.090s CPUMARK 99 688 http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8449/fx58fb44gpi.png Install with my i7 950, the system can reach 8 PI 32M stably by 1.212V. The maximum of CPU can be around 4.4G. The maximum rate of overclocking of this D0 ve...

The Test system details: CPU: Intel Core i7 950 MB: FOXCONN Quantum Force Flaming Blade GTI DRAM: CORSAIR XMS3 TR3X6G1600C8 VGA: MSI N9600GT Diamond HD: Intel X25-M 80GB POWER: Corsair 400W Power Supply Cooler: Megahalems http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/558/fx58fb13.jpg DRAM part: The market pric...

REAR IO parts: 8 x USB2.0 1 x Gigabit LAN http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7581/fx58fb11.jpg The North Bridge and CPU PWM heat sink http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/797/fx58fb12s.jpg FOXCONN Flaming Blade GTI version is not support SLI. The capacitors are all not solid state capacitors, and they...

At this half year, the Intel’s core i7 is the key promoted product of the high-end product line. The users are really easy to run out their budget while the CPU is still not cheap at all…. But the pricing of X58 motherboard is a bit “flexible” than the CPU’s. So, some of the manufactures have alread...

The lacquered quality of heat pipe is great, with amazing design of finned plates and cooler area. http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6960/bp5511.jpg LGA 1156 platform is becoming available in the market in less two months. According to more and more news from the Internet, Intel is going to categor...

With the coming of September, the latest Intel LGA 1156 platform of high-intermediate level is also coming. On this platform, Intel recently added the support of Core i7 processor, so in future both Core i5 and Core i7 processors can be used, the successful development that can improve the efficienc...

tanka12345 wrote:A nice board from MSI, but the brown PCB puts me off a bit. Why not stay with Black like the Eclipse series?

MSI P55-GD80

North bridge function is integrated on CPU. The function of P55 chipset is only South bridge. The MSI heatsink on P55 chipset looks quite nice. There’s MSI OC Genie controlling chip on the left. http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/5378/mp55gd6511.jpg OC Genie is spontaneous overclocking chip. Users o...

Core i7, new CPU platform, featured as socket 1366, was launched by Intel last year. Nevertheless based on this structure, it has been positioned as high-end product until now and even in the future. During this period, market demand below high-end served by socket 775 old structure needs to be fulf...

PCMark Vantage 14172 http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7209/djrx5842gpcvan.png Hyper 8 X PI 32M 13m 04.635s CPUMARK 99 659 http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/5338/djrx5820008pi.png 196 X 23=>4510Mhz Hyper 4 X PI 8M 1m 46.845s CPUMARK 99 707 http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7628/djrx584510pi.png T...