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MSI X58 Pro-E Review
[Abstract]
Searching for a Mainstream Intel X58Not to sound like a broken record here but the high cost of Intel's high-end CPU microarchitecture, the Core i7, remains a considerable barrier to entry. Alm...
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Temperature
With a temperature reading at the chipset heatsink that broke the 50 degrees Celsius mark, the MSI board was quite a bit warmer than most of its competitors. The modest looking two-piece passive heatsinks may be a reason for its mediocre performance. It was however interesting to note that the other MSI X58 motherboard compared here, the Eclipse SLI, was also on the warm side.
Power Consumption
We enabled MSI's Green Power feature, setting it to Auto in the BIOS before the power consumption test. At both idle and peak, this MSI X58 Pro-E performed better than its peers, with quite a significant margin over the others for the power readings. MSI's active phase switching (APS) power scheme appeared to be working well.
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