MSI X79A-GD45 PLUS Motherboard

Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/23/2013 12:41 PM | 0 comment(s) ]

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