MSI X58 Eclipse SLI LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: EASY OC:
940 to 4ghz with everything on auto, 4.5 with limited tweaking.
Rock Stable:
Threw a lot at the voltages of the cpu and ram in attempts at some funner numbers got a desktop at 5.4 followed by a frightful 6 minutes of rebooting to get the board to reset. it always came back!
LED Display on board is nice.
Year's of FUN

Cons: The half voltage 3rd pci-e slot:
unsure of whether this contributed to a revodrive failure but it worked fine in other two slots. diddnt count off cuz i really dont know if it was a factor and not going to find out.
The NB Heatsink:
Yes, this was horrible. 80C pretty much every time you modded the bios but stranglely every subsequent boot with same bios settings yeilded low temps untill about 56C. Koolance is wonderful for taking care of this not-so-little quirk. Diddn't count off as it diddnt hurt my overclocking.
Not the SLI PLUS:
diddnt count off cuz that was my bad.
USB 3.0 or SATA III:
diddnt count off cuz not availble at time.

Other Thoughts: WISH i would have got the PLUS version
Dont Think I'll be updating board untill they build a video card that uses any of PCI-E 3.0's extra bandwidth.

Being able to put the circle block in the circle hole and the square block in the square hole, does not a 5 egg tech level make. Some folks need to reassess the value of their input regaurding "Tech".

Pros: WOW this MOBO has taked a beating for way over a Yr and still up for more no signs of wear no error yet
cant wait till they come out with something better like this
im always looking at MSI product so far i love this one

Cons: its doesnt cook for me

Other Thoughts: no problems with Bios after a Yr and its very stable overcloking it is an option not a requirement

Pros: After a year of this PC running almost all day everyday
it tells how MSI does its job
its still up and running no faults

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: MSI is a Great Comp
was looking to replace this but theres no need at the moment just need an SSD to make this PC fly lol

Pros: Easy base clock overclocking via mobo switch (for overclocking dumb people like me), clear cmos button on back pannel, nice bios

Cons: wanted to get killer xeno pro but if your gona sli or crossfire GPU cards theres no room so im stuck between choosing another nvidia 260 or xeno :( think the GPU wins. oh and mine was missing a screw so minus an egg lol

Other Thoughts: my first build worked out pretty niceley


this mobo
3.06 ghz core i7
8 gigs ram 2X 4 gb (plan to get more)
evga nvidia gtx 260
1tb hdd
bla bla bla

Pros: I had special needs to install in quiet case lian Li B10 mid atx. The location of #1 Pcie to fit my XFX HD-587A-ZND9 plenty of room as I wil never run in SLI. Creative XFI works great and was able to install my Hauppauge HVR 2250 tv card in the second video Pcie card slot because the other 1X slot covered by my huge video card. This is a very nice board. Some how when I installed in case I had a no boot with a 30-45 second wait and nothing, I checked New Egg RMA instructions which said to test MB out of case which is how I found the problem. Reinstalled in case :) Everything is working great I have great air flow and a quiet machine running I7 960 with Zalman

Cons: :) This set up to fast trying to give to my girlfriend so I can make another one.

Other Thoughts: Corsair 850HX PS and 6g of Corsair Dominator memory, still need to convert HD to SSD to be complete!

Pros: Nice specs, good overclocking capability, plenty of extras.

Cons: Poor build quality/quality assurance. Heatsink on top of the Northbridge and Southbridge is secured via cheap Nylon fasteners and shoddy thermal grease. Built my rig and the IOH temp was over 120 degrees Celcius stock.

Other Thoughts: RMA process took over a week and was not fun.

Pros: This motherboard is awsome everything i put in it and it come out laughing Will be putting an i9 when it finaly hits home users lol and with a SHDD it will be a great killer :D
and newegg shipping why complain newegg rocks and so does the motherboard

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: People complain and give it bad reviews when they hae no idea what the heck their talking about dont complain if u make a mistake MSI has great support and Customer service and RMA why complain u get everything in it and then some more

Pros: Works great. Lots of BIOS features. Easily overcolcked my 920 to a stable 3.5GHz.

Cons: The LED display and the green power thing should have been integrated into the board.

Other Thoughts: Throw the green power thing in the trash. Before you plug the led display in, peal the sticker off, it looks 10x better.

Pros: worked well south bridge runs nice and cool compaired to last rig first rig i put together my self took a while to boot up first time about 20 seconds of just silence and quickly crashing down dreams of a working computer and 1400 dollars down the drain then it came screaming to life with the roar of 2 gtx 260 msi cards which by the way are NOT whisper quiet. that and a V1 cpu cooler is amazing at cooling but is not by any means silent.

Cons: dont get me wrong it worked flawlessly and was pretty good price for what i got but well my coolermaster HAF 922 case has red led fans and i bought some more to replace the non leded ones with more red ones but then i discoved that the mother board as a set of 4 bright blue led lights on it not a con as it turned out but would have been nice to know before i got it but i gotta admit when i got that v1 cooler and the blue lights hit the red ones the result was awsome.

Other Thoughts: get it if u got the money and are ok with some extra lights and a phenominal running mobo that comes with software that over clocks or down clocks your cpu as is needed. quite handy. get it you wont regret it.

i7 920 cpu
msi x58 eclipse mobo
1333 corsair ram 12g 6 x2g sticks
2 msi gtx 260 sli'd

Pros: A very good mobo, bought it together with OCZ 3x2GB OCZ3P1600LV6GK memory, everything works as it would.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Recommend this motherboard.