Review: MSI Prestige P100

by Tarinder Sandhu on 2 April 2020, 14:01

Tags: MSI, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Conclusion

The Prestige P100 marries good looks with a solid smattering of high-end kit.

MSI is the latest company to show that you don't need hulking chassis to offer considerable performance from every facet of your PC.

The Prestige P100 marries good looks with a solid smattering of high-end kit, highlighted by a Core i9-9900K, 64GB RAM, fast NVMe and an RTX 2080 Ti card.

Though initially impressive that it's all cooled by humble air, the CPU all-core frequency of around 4.4GHz is on the low side. We'd naturally prefer an AIO in such a confined space along with a quieter noise profile for the GPU.

Aimed mostly at creators and gamers, Thunderbolt and super-fast USB ought to be standard, as well, but let all of this not take away from the fact this is a high-performance PC in almost every area.

A few tweaks would take the MSI Prestige P100 from solid to great.

The Good
 
The Bad
Solid in every area
Looks good for the most part
Fast storage and heaps of RAM
Solid build and good looks
 
CPU runs at 4.4GHz all-core
Becomes noisy when gaming
Could do with Thunderbolt



MSI Prestige P100

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My first though was that it looks like an old Xbox 360 with a few frills.
USB 2.0 is present because there is a huge amount of brand new hardware that comes with just USB 2 still. Looking at for example audio interfaces they are nearly all only 2.0
Salazaar
My first though was that it looks like an old Xbox 360 with a few frills.
yea. so does the Fractal Design ERA ITX. I wonder what's up with that
3dcandy
USB 2.0 is present because there is a huge amount of brand new hardware that comes with just USB 2 still. Looking at for example audio interfaces they are nearly all only 2.0

USB ports are backwards compatible
Xlucine
USB ports are backwards compatible

Of course they are… not the point though not everyone wants to buy a different cable etc. They all come with an olde cable! I know many people who wouldn't understand and would just return the product