MSI adds Z170A MATE motherboard

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/11/2015 09:12 AM | source: | 4 comment(s)

This one surfaced on the web today, it is the Z170A MATE motherboard from MSI and seems to be a budget Z170 motherboard. As simple as it looks, I do like the all black design. The Skylake ready motherboard has a 6-phase CPU VRM, four DDR4 DIMM slots and one PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot.

It also has another PCI-Express 3.0 x16 but that one is connected as a Gen 3.0 x4 and leads to the PCH Z170 chipset, then three PCI-Express 3.0 x1, and yes yes, two legacy PCI slots. Storage is kept pretty basic but since the Z170 chipset has a lot to offer it still has a M.2 32 Gb/s slot, a SATA-Express 16 Gb/s connector and six SATA 6 Gb/s ports. More than enough tbh.

This board costs only US $120.

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theoneofgod
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#5140023 Posted on: 08/11/2015 09:09 AM

Yes it has PCI slots. Some still have PCI hardware

rl66
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#5140041 Posted on: 08/11/2015 09:46 AM

Yes it has PCI slots. Some still have PCI hardware

you can't imagine how much things are still in PCI and serial DB9...

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#5140203 Posted on: 08/11/2015 03:40 PM

Does it have HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2?

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#5140212 Posted on: 08/11/2015 03:56 PM

you can't imagine how much things are still in PCI and serial DB9...

I have PCI soundcard, and I hope as I upgrade CPU and MB, it will have PCI.
I think people can easily imagine a lot of PCI stuff. What is much harder to imagine is that 1/2 of PCIe cards which are not Graphics Cards or SSD/raid controller are actually PCI design with PCI-2-PCIe bridge chips.

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