MSI H57M-ED65 Motherboard

Conclusions

MSI H57M-ED65 has tons of extra features for your Core i3 or Core i5 with integrated video, being the perfect choice if you are building a high-end HTPC (Home Theater PC) or a computer for editing and converting audio.

Audio is definitely the highlight of this motherboard, which uses a professional-grade audio codec providing impressive input and output signal-to-noise ratio (104 dB and 108 dB, respectively), which will allow you to edit audio with no white noise (background noise). Plus it comes with an on-board optical SPDIF output and independent 7.1 analog outputs.

This motherboard comes with all four video connections available today (VGA, DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort), so you will be connect your system to any kind of display without the need of any kind of adapter.

The voltage regulator circuit is another high point from H57M-ED65, using DrMOS technology, meaning that it operates at a higher frequency in order to achieve higher efficiency (lower power consumption), plus this motherboard only uses solid capacitors and ferrite chokes. Translation: high-quality components.

And we have overclocking, another highlight from the product, with the practical OC Genie, that allows you to overclock you system by simply pushing a button, “+” and “-” buttons on the motherboard for you to easily increase and decrease the CPU base clock, plus several overclocking options on the motherboard setup.

Another interesting feature from this motherboard is the presence of two PCI Express x16 slots, allowing you to install more video cards if you need more monitors attached or if you want to install two “real” video cards running under CrossFire mode.

In summary, we couldn’t find a single weak point on this motherboard (perhaps its price and it reaches the market?).