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Three buttons here, power on/off, reset and MSI's OC Genie II that allows users to overclock the CPU by simply hitting a button placed on the motherboard itself, it takes merely a few seconds. The automated overclock is actually pretty significant as enabling the OC Genie resulted into a clock frequency of 4200 MHz on out Core i7 2600K processor.
Audio is handled by Realtek's 892 codec allowing 8 channels of audio, pretty much the standard norm these days on motherboards. We would like to see some more development done on the audio side of motherboards.
Slot connectivity wise you'll spot two PCI Express x16 slots, three PCI Express x1 slots, and two PCI slots on the motherboard.
The product is going to be very complete as it supports CrossfireX and SLI, it has USB3, SATA3 (6G) and RAID support. It has the usual good features from MSI and a hosts other new features alongside the UEFI (GUI BIOS), which MSI labels Click BIOS interface.
And there you have it, let's startup some actual tests and see how well the motherboard performs in a real-world configuration.