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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 second or two.
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.
The launch date for Intel's new processors is still quite a bit away from us, but will the processors be equally as interesting as the motherboard shown in this preview? To find out, you will have to read a lot of interesting stuff which will be coming your way soon.
We like to thank MSI for sending out this motherboard for this small preview.
More info on MSI's products can be found here.
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