Product Showcase

Right, SATA ports -- MSI is equipping the board with a good five SATA ports. All of them come from the Intel PCH and that makes all of these ports SATA 3 and thus 6 GBps capable. At ther rear IO there's also an eSATA connector. To the left a USB 3.0 header. Check the funcky Dragon heatsink, totally MSI Gaming style alright.

Already integrated on the motherboard for you is a Bluetooth/WIFI/WIDI unit. This unit will offer you support of 802.11 ac/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and even Intel WiDi (Wireless Display) and by using a WiDi receiver (not included) you can watch movies on your TV without the need for any cables. The WIDI standard has yet to become popular though.

Here you can see the single PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot, working really well. Bare in mind though that on a 17x17CM based motherboard space is an issue. Larger heatpipe coolers can actually block that PCIe slot. But try to imagine the processor cooled with a nice all-in-one Liquid cooling kit from say Cooler Master, Corsair or NZXT, eh?

The CPU socket position remains a little tricial, bigger heatsinks could block the PCIe x16 slot.

You will get two DIMM slots offer support for dual-channel DDR3 memory up to even 3000 MHz. You can install a maximum of 64GB in total. XMP is fully supported, we'll show you this little critter running at 2133 MHz by just flicking a BIOS switch.

Mini ITX board, who doesn't love that. MSI really created this 17cm Form factor PCB and loaded it with features, and made sure it looks nice as well. As small as it is, this is high-end... even enthusiast grade hardware. We'll load the processor (4770K) up with some liquid cooling and we'll show you that this petite bit of hardware can run the Core i7 4770K at 4800 Mhz stable on all cores.