14 DAY TRIAL // For those of you that have grown tired of hearing more details on some of the upcoming motherboards that will be featured with Intel's next-generation P55 chipset, we now have a couple of particulars on one of MSI's upcoming boards. The Taiwanese manufacturer is preparing to update its product portfolio with a couple of new additions, some of which will be based on the said chipset and come in various form factors. One such board is the P55M-GD45, which will boast an mATX design and provide users with support for Intel's next-generation LGA 1156 processors.
Like other motherboard makers, MSI will take full advantage of the features enabled by Intel's next-generation mainstream platform and will roll out a series of boards based on the same chipset. The P55M-GD45 is likely one of the first mATX boards that the Taiwanese company will roll out in the near future.
On that note, the said board has recently made its way on the Internet, providing us with an early look at what MSI has in store for its customers. According to early pictures of the board, the P55M-GD45 has been built on black PCB, featuring black and blue board components.
It sports a 4-phase power design with DrMOS and APS technologies, two PCI-Express x16 slots (one working at x16, another at x4) for CrossFireX setups and the OC Genie overclocking tool. Additional features include the V-Check points, the Winki 2.0 Linux operating system, two eSATA and six SATA 3.0 Gbps ports, Gigabit Ethernet, a 7.1 channel audio and an integrated power button.
Unfortunately, as it is the case with most unreleased products, we have no details on the board's pricing and availability, but we have a strong feeling MSI will soon take the wraps off what could be its first P55-based mATX board.
