MSI is launching the X79A-GD45 PLUS motherboard, which seems to be a more cost effective X79 motherboard sitting in the 200 USD price range. Armed with a 9-phase DrMOS VRM the hardware should definitely deliver though. Not four yet eight DDR3 DIMM slots have been integrated that will support DDR3-2400 MHz memory with in total a nice 128GB of it. Slot connectivity wise you will get three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots (the grey ones). Then there will be two PCI-Express x16 slots (black) which actually are 2.0 x4 slots that connect to the X79 PCH.
Intel X79 Chipset Based
- Military Class III: Top Quality & Stability
- PCI Express Gen 3: World's 1st PCI Express Gen 3 Mainboard Brand
- Click BIOS II: World's 1st Unified UEFI & Software Graphical Interface
- OC Genie II: Overclock in 1 Second
- Supports USB 3.0 & SATA 6Gb/s
In terms of HDD/SDD storage you will get two SATA 6 Gb/s and three SATA 3 Gb/s ports. A total of four USB 3.0 portscan be spotted as well as 8-channel HD audio with optical and coaxial SPDIF outputs. Obviously there the rest being a bit more standard, gigabit Ethernet, PS/2 mouse/keyboard. Have a peek at some photo's.
| Socket | 2011 |
|---|---|
| CPU (Max Support) | i7 |
| FSB/BCLK/Hyper Transport Bus | 100MHz |
| Chipset | Intel® X79 |
| DDR3 Memory | DDR3 1066/1333/1600/1800*/2133*/2400*(*OC) |
| Memory Channel | Quad |
| DIMM Slots | 8 |
| Max Memory (GB) | 128 |
| PCI-Ex16 | 5 |
| PCI-E Gen | Gen3 (16, 16, 8), Gen2 (1, 1) |
| PCI-Ex1 | 1 |
| SATAIII | 2 |
| SATAII | 4 |
| RAID | 0/1/5/10 |
| LAN | 10/100/1000*1 |
| TPM | 1 |
| USB 3.0 ports (Rear) | 2 |
| USB 2.0 ports (Rear) | 6 |
| Audio ports (Rear) | 6+Coaxial / Optical SPDIF |
| Form Factor | ATX |
| DrMOS | Y |
| SLI | Y |
| 3-way SLI | Y |
| CrossFire | Y |
