“We were doing an investigation on this issue with hardware partners, including problems in its firmware,” wrote Microsoft’s statement, which write from the BBC, Wednesday (3/2/2010).

Warnings are also carried out to consumers to check their laptop battery, if there is a problem. Especially basic computer user input output system (BIOS).

“Surely we provide the latest information if there had been recent findings,” added Microsoft.

Previously, it was said there was a problem especially on a laptop battery that suddenly overheating, when the laptop runs with Windows 7.

It is important for Microsoft to maintain consumer confidence to Windows 7, because these operating systems provide benefits to the company, increase reached 60 percent.

Despite the cheap price, facilities provided this motherboard was quite complete, such as features ATI Crossfire-X, Triple Channel DDR3 1066, BlueRay True Audio Realtek ALC889, and others. Of course, do not forget to include the MSI specific features of their products, namely DrMOS with three main advantages of GreenPower for power consumption more efficient. Featured XpressCool makes the chipset cooler and RapidBoost that offer stability in overclocking.

In the test session using a test bed CHIP processors (Core i7 965), this motherboard shows a very good performance. Testing the daily application of simulated with the application Sysmark 2007, this motherboard produce a high enough score and satisfactory. Likewise with games testing, tests conducted indicate that this motherboard can run stable without any problems.

If want more performance, MSI EasyOC Switch features include useful for users who want the system to the overclock, without passing through the BIOS settings are quite complex. But for users who are more advanced overclocking knowledge, this feature will not be used.

Conclusion

This motherboard is suitable for users who want to build a Nehalem platform with a limited budget. Pair for this motherboard is the Core i7 920, only with a few tweaks that can be done, the performance of this system will pass the high end systems that cost much more.

PRODUCER: MSI
INFO: www.msi.com
PRICE: –

TECHNICAL DATA
Processor: Intel LGA 1366
Chipset: Intel X58
Southbridge: ICH10R
FSB / HT Bus: 6.4GT / s
Form Factor: ATX
AGP / PCIe x16/PCIe x1: 0/3/2
USB / Firewire / eSATA: 6 / 1 / / 1
Memory Support: Triple Channel DDR3 1066
Chipset Audio: Realtek ALC889 7.1

Benchmark SCORES
Sysmark 2007: 182
Left 4 Dead: 107.03
Quake 4: 289.1