Msi prestige p100 9th review in Spanish (full analysis)

The MSI Prestige P100 9th is the cult of the extreme made PC, and we are fortunate to bring you the review of both the desktop PC and the impressive 5K monitor. Here we will devote ourselves only to analyzing this beast designed and created only for the most demanding users, content creators, designers and working with CAD environments.

This elegant and narrow tower keeps inside an Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti of 11 GB along with an Intel Core i9-9900K and 64 GB of RAM. A beast in which we will test games and perform performance tests to see the degree of optimization of the whole set. You, you only have to worry about the € 3, 799 you must have saved to make it yours.

The MSI Prestige P100 9th technical characteristics

Unboxing

This MSI Prestige P100 9 has arrived in a fairly normal box, built in neutral cardboard with only the silkscreen of "Prestige" on its different faces. All very far from what would come as a design bundle.

Inside, we have the tower tucked inside a cloth bag, which in this case will be white instead of the typical black one. In turn, this chassis is fixed to the central area of ​​the box by means of two very thick polyethylene foam molds.

The bundle consists of the following elements:

• MSI Prestige P100 9th PC Power Cord User Manual

We did not find any other type of cable such as the UTP of the network or a DisplayPort for the monitor. We do not know if the official PVP bundle will be the same or different from this one, what we assure you is that it does not have any accessories.

Exterior design

More and more already mounted desktop PCs are being put up for sale by leading manufacturers. And especially MSI has a complete range of them oriented to design like the Prestige series, or also oriented to gaming like the different Trident series, Nightblade, etc. Specifically, the MSI Prestige P100 9th is distinguished by having been updated with the latest hardware such as the i9-9900K that is inside.

And entered fully into the design of its chassis, we find one that leaves no one indifferent. Far from the aggressive designs of the Trindent towers, in this case we have opted for something much more elegant and minimalist, completely painted in white, brand of the house. The philosophy of a very narrow chassis is only maintained with measures of 404 mm in height, 372 mm in depth and only 132 mm in width with the included base. If we were to remove this, the thickness of the chassis would be only 98mm.

The chassis of the MSI Prestige P100 9th is characterized by a completely clean and slightly curved front, whose finish is aluminum on two levels. With the two levels we mean that, behind the main face, we have a second base separated by a very striking and elegant Sky Blue LED lighting strip. We can customize it through Mystic Light software, since it is RGB.

If we go to the top of the chassis, we also have a design based on two levels. Again a main face finished in quite thick aluminum and with polished bezels is the most visible part. But under this we have a hole with an extension over the entire face to allow hot air to escape from inside. This decorative border is made of golden plastic, and it feels great as a whole.

The lower part is occupied by a somewhat wider base, in order to provide greater stability. In his case, it is built in hard plastic and in a silver finish, contrasting with the golden upper. It has side openings to allow air entry through natural convection, and rubber feet to eliminate vibrations.

The side areas do not have much mystery, since they are two standard metal sheets that can be removed to access the interior of the MSI Prestige P100 9th. Its design is very striking, taking advantage of the openings to suck air in its favor, with a mesh in the shape of a triangle. Of course, it does not have dust filters, so it will eventually absorb the dirt that is in the environment.

Posts and connections

We focus on the left side, which is where MSI has arranged the tower's I / O panel. In it, we find the following positions:

• 1x USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-C1x USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A1x USB 2.02x 3.5mm Jack

The truth is that we have a little of everything, so that nobody feels marginalized. In any chaos it is a typical connectivity in any chassis that is purchased independently, so we are satisfied with the choice.

Moving to the rear area, we have a panel of ports very similar to the rest of the equipment in the desktop range, yes, with an important absence.

The ports of the graphics card will be:

• 3x Display Port 1.4 (GPU) 1x HDMI 2.0b (GPU) 1x USB Type-C (GPU)

We are facing a dedicated RTX 2080 Ti graphics card, making it a normal and current panel, and without losing USB connectivity for VR or any other data device. In this way we have capacity for 4 monitors in high resolution, 4K @ 60 FPS for HDMI and 8K @ 60 FPS for DisplayPorts.

And those of the motherboard will be:

• 2x USB 2.02x USB 3.1 Gen22x USB 3.1 Gen1 RJ-45 port EthernetS / PDIF audio1x HDMI 1.41x DisplayPort 1.25x 3.5mm Jack

We see a lot of variety, but without a doubt what is missing is Thunderbolt 3 connectivity. This is a design-oriented PC, and these types of ports are often used for professional setups. What's more, the MSI Prestige PS341WU itself features a USB-C video port.

Interior and hardware

We go immediately inside the MSI Prestige P100 9th, which offers us a very tidy and clean mounting configuration of unnecessary cables. This is how we make sure we have the correct cooling. Throughout the interior we see multiple plates that make up the chassis and mounting sockets for the ITX motherboard, GPU, PSU, and hard drives.

GPU

Let's start with the left wall, in which we have very accessible both the GPU and the bracket that holds the heatsink to the motherboard. The gap has been left enough to be able to work on it without removing the plate, in case we decide to improve the thermal solution. The same goes for the GPU, where we see that there is clearly room to introduce an even bigger one. Likewise, we see the 90mm fan of the PSU SFX that has been installed.

The GPU we see is nothing less than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. One of the most powerful graphics cards today and second only to the Titan RTX. This monster with a Ventus series heatsink customized by the brand, has a Turing architecture capable of taking Ray Tracing and DLSS to the highest level under any type of resolution, thanks to a 1545 MHz graphics processor that has 4352 CUDA Cores, and a speed of 10 Gigaray / s. In the VRAM section, we have 11 GB GDDR6 at 14 Gbps working on a 352-bit bus at a speed of no less than 616 GB / s. Without a doubt the maximum aspiration for every gamer.

CPU and board

Continuing with the right area, we can see the wiring of the PSU and the entire CPU heatsink. In addition, we have two elegant trays for the two mechanical hard drives that have been installed.

The CPU we have is an Intel Core i9-9900K under LGA 1151 socket, the most powerful currently in the blue giant. It has an 8-core count and 16 processing threads thanks to HyperThreading, under a manufacturing process of 14nm ++ Coffee Lake Refresh. It works at a base frequency of 3.6 GHz and 5.0 GHz in Turbo Boost mode, although it supports considerable overclocking thanks to having its multiplier unlocked. It has 16 MB of L3 cache memory and a TDP of 95W.

The CPU is installed on a motherboard, of course, of the brand and with some customization to adapt it to the circumstances. The base is the MSI MPG Z390I Gaming Edge AC model, of course with the Z390 chipset with overclocking capability, although limited to two DIMM slots. In them, the maximum available capacity has been installed, with two 32 GB modules making a total of 64 GB DDR4 from the Samsung manufacturer working at 2666 MHz. The truth is that higher speed memories could have been used, since the DIMM slot allows it and also the motherboard.

This motherboard features a Realtek ALC892 audio codec. It is not the most advanced available, but it has outputs for 7.1 channels and digital S / PDIF. Network connectivity is also not the most advanced, although we have both Ethernet and Wi-Fi. In the first case, a Realtek 8111H chip is used working at 1 Gbps, and in the second case, an Intel Wireless 9462 chip working on 802.11ac at a maximum of 1.73 Gbps.

PSU and storage

We continue with the storage of the MSI Prestige P100 9th, which in this case is very good and very complete, since both SSD and HDD have been used for it.

Regarding the SSD, we have the Samsung PM981A model that offers us 1 TB of space. This unit is M.2 type working over NVMe in a PCIe 3.0 x4 slot. The motherboard has a second M.2 PCIe slot to expand if we want.

And regarding mechanical storage, we have a dual 2.5-inch Seagate Barracuda HDD and a capacity of 2 TB each. Thanks to a configuration in RAID 0 we have 4 TB of storage in a single virtual drive.

Finally, the power supply is a Modular SFX model FSP650-57SAB with 80 Plus Gold certification that delivers 650W of power for the entire PC. It is a fairly acceptable source, although it is true that the power requirements of this equipment are going to be quite high, and a 750W in case we dare to overclock would not be too much. Also, for the high price we pay for a Platinum certification it would also be appreciated.

Included software

Being the MSI Prestige P100 9th, the manufacturer's own programs could not be missing. In this case we have the complete pack with the Creator OSD, MSI Mystic Light and the Creator Center.

The first program is used to manage many aspects of the monitor, of course aimed at using your own brand. With it we can modify the basic image configuration, manage aspects of the peripherals or create macros to speed up the most common actions.

About the second, its use is clear, modifying the RGB lighting of the chassis and other MSI peripherals that we have compatible.

Finally, Creator Center is the program that all Prestige laptops install. In it we have the corresponding real-time monitoring panel of our hardware, the list of applications to access them and of course the different performance profiles for the equipment.

Tests and performance tests

It is time to stress test and benchmark the MSI Prestige P100 9th to see how it performs as a whole and in its various components.

Testing bench:

• Device: MSI Prestige P100 9th Monitor: ViewSonic VX3211-4k-MHD and MSI Prestige PS341WU

SSD performance

We start with a test to assess the read and write capabilities of the team's Samsung M.2 storage drive. To do this, we have used the CristalDiskMark 6.0.2 software.

SSD performance is very good. We know this unit well for being inside many laptops and it never disappoints, with read and write rates of over 3000 MB / s.

Benchmarks and synthetic tests

Let's see below the synthetic test block. For this we have used the following programs:

• Cinebench R15Cinebench R20PCMark 83DMark Time Spy, Fire Strike, Fire Strike Ultra and Port Royal

It is possible that high temperatures influence the performance of the hardware somewhat, since for example in our test bench the RTX 2080 Ti gave somewhat higher performance, as well as the 9900K with a top range motherboard.

Gaming performance

To establish a real performance of this MSI Prestige P100 9, we have tested a total of 6 titles with fairly existing graphics, which are the following, and with the following configuration:

• Final Fantasy XV, standard, TAA, DirectX 12 DOOM, Ultra, TAA, Open GL Deus EX Mankind Divided, Alto, Anisotropico x4, DirectX 12 Far Cry 5, Alto, TAA, DirectX 12 Metro Exodus, Alto, Anisotropico x16, DirectX 12 Shadow of the Tomb Rider, High, TAA + Anisotropic x4, DirectX 12

More or less the same thing happens here as before, the FPS rates are slightly lower than the tests that were done in the past with the GPU, although the hardware is different. Especially the RAM and the motherboard.

Temperatures

The stress process to which the MSI Prestige P100 9 has been subjected has taken around 60 minutes, in order to have a reliable average temperature. This process has been carried out with Furmark, Prime95 and the capture of temperatures with HWiNFO.

MSI Prestige P100 9	Idle	Full
CPU	42 ° C	85 ° C
GPU	40 ° C	75 ° C

A liquid cooling system such as that of the Corsair ONE would have suited this configuration, although here the width of the chassis does not allow us to do it. In any case, for being such a small enclosure with such extremely powerful hardware, the results are quite good, although the GPU is slightly up for laps at those 75⁰C

Final words and conclusion about the MSI Prestige P100 9th

If there is anything we can highlight about the MSI Prestige P100 9th it is its impressive hardware. It consists of only TOP components, such as Intel's 9900K or Nvidia's RTX 2080 Ti, which any gamer would dream of having inside their PC.

But other elements such as storage or RAM are also good decisions for this content creator-oriented PC. We have a total of 5 TB within this beast, and a 650W PSU that if we do not think about overclocking it will be more than enough. Perhaps the 64 GB of RAM with a higher frequency would have been a good improvement for gaming.

Design is also one of its strengths, since in a very compact and above all, very thin chassis we have a complete system of enthusiastic range. We love the layout of the hardware inside and the choice of a good air-cooling system that keeps temperatures more or less acceptable.

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It includes, of course, Windows 10 Pro, along with the main programs used by MSI for its equipment, which in any case we can download from the manufacturer's page if we ever decide to reset the equipment.

We finish with the price and availability of the MSI Prestige P100 9, which we can buy for the brutal sum of € 3, 799. It is a very high price, but it is that the Corsair ONE amounts to 3900 euros. If any professional needs an already assembled PC, compact and with TOP hardware, this MSI will be one of the star options. And you can also complement it with the 5K MSI Prestige PS341WU monitor, which we will also analyze.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ HARDWARE TOP AND PERFORMANCE TOP	- NETWORK CONNECTIVITY IS SOMETHING BASIC
+ ELEGANT AND QUALITY DESIGN	- WE DO NOT HAVE THUNDERBOLT 3
+ GOOD TEMPERATURES TO BE AIR COOLED
+ SOMEWHERE CHEAPER THAN THE COMPETITION
+ 5 TB OF STORAGE
+ IDEAL FOR CREATORS + MSI PRESTIGE PS341WU

The professional review team awards him the platinum medal

MSI Prestige P100 9th

DESIGN - 96%

CONSTRUCTION - 97%

REFRIGERATION - 89%

PERFORMANCE - 96%

95%

The ultimate design PC with TOP hardware and air cooling