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MSI Launches ECO series Socket 1151 Motherboards
MSI announces its 2nd generation of ECO motherboards, based on Intel's 100-series 'Skylake' chipset. Introducing 3 new models, the MSI H170M ECO, B150M ECO, and H110M ECO.
This is made possible through the new MSI ECO Series motherboards optimized PCB and circuitry design. This allows for saving more energy without sacrificing performance, compatibility or functionality. ECO Genie and ECO Center Pro allows the user to completely control the system's power consumption and feature set through an easy to use interface.
The 2nd generation MSI ECO Series motherboards offer more features than ever, without impacting it's power efficiency or performance. Reliable and efficient Intel Gigabit LAN with 15kv anti-surge LAN Protect offers a stable and secure networking solution. Through carefully selected and thoroughly tested components and materials, Guard-Pro and Military Class 4 provide industry leading stability. Even Audio Boost can now be found on MSI ECO Series motherboards as a testament to technical ingenuity.
MSI ECO Series motherboards are focusing on power efficiency. ECO PCB is a groundbreaking hardware design for ECO Series to use less power. Included in the new PCB design is hardware based control to cut off all power to features on the motherboard. The hardware control of onboard features also allows control of standby power.
ECO Series revolutionary PCB design preserves optimal performance while saving power. Where other power saving options highly impact performance because of undervolting and lowering clock speeds, MSI ECO Series motherboards are capable of delivering 100% performance while operating in any power saving mode.
No need to worry about compatibility. While others exclude support for high TDP processors to save power, MSI ECO Series motherboards support all Intel 6th generation Core, Pentium and Celeron processors. Because of its power saving nature MSI ECO Series motherboards are optimized for Intel S & T series power efficient processors. High speed DDR4 memory is also supported in both single and dual channel mode.
The 2nd generation ECO motherboards are packed with more features then ever. Equipped with DDR4 Boost, a high quality Gigabit network solution from Intel, Audio Boost and much more, the MSI ECO Series motherboards are optimized to deliver great power efficiency and a rich user experience at the same time.
ECO Genie is a new solution in BIOS to set up and customize ECO profile easily. Besides the 3 pre-configured modes, it allows to set the details such as disabling hyper-threading, or choosing voltage modes.
Always connected with INTEL Gigabit LAN networking. MSI ECO Series motherboards feature INTEL Gigabit LAN, optimized to deliver a stable and efficient network connection at low CPU usage. With the 15kv anti-surge LAN Protect to lower your system under risk.
ECO Center Pro allows turning off the power completely for casefans, LEDs… etc. For more convenience in power saving ECO Center Pro offers 3 pre-configured fully customizable power saving modes through ECO mode, Lounge mode and Server mode.
You can visit the product pages of the H110M ECO, B150M ECO, and H170M ECO.
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#5196746 Posted on: 11/26/2015 03:21 PM
it fit my idea of eco
+1
(but i agree with color)
it fit my idea of eco
+1
(but i agree with color)
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#5196908 Posted on: 11/26/2015 06:54 PM
Under specs; the last line says : Windows 10 Ready
The meaning of "Ready" does not standardize as i know there were times OSes that were not available yet and mobos boxes specs were written "Windows "X" Ready while windows 10 is already on the shelves months ago.
Under specs; the last line says : Windows 10 Ready
The meaning of "Ready" does not standardize as i know there were times OSes that were not available yet and mobos boxes specs were written "Windows "X" Ready while windows 10 is already on the shelves months ago.
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#5197066 Posted on: 11/27/2015 12:08 AM
Under specs; the last line says : Windows 10 Ready
The meaning of "Ready" does not standardize as i know there were times OSes that were not available yet and mobos boxes specs were written "Windows "X" Ready while windows 10 is already on the shelves months ago.
Until few month it was "Windows 8 ready"... just a marketing sticker on a box.
Under specs; the last line says : Windows 10 Ready
The meaning of "Ready" does not standardize as i know there were times OSes that were not available yet and mobos boxes specs were written "Windows "X" Ready while windows 10 is already on the shelves months ago.
Until few month it was "Windows 8 ready"... just a marketing sticker on a box.
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#5197812 Posted on: 11/28/2015 01:03 PM
performance on an i7 will only be 100%, if HT is NOT turned off. at least when i look at the "possible" performance. not sure how much sense it makes to disable feats, instead of just getting the next smaller cpu (i5) etc, and get the same energy consumption AND save some money when buying.
i mean, sure you will see a gain in efficiency, and have lower overall power consumption, but i doubt its gonna be much more than lets say what a premium/enthusiast board will use when setup correctly in bios (not when used for OC)
i mean i my i7-3770k (stock clocks) with custom WC, 7 fans, asus DSX, 4 ssd's, and an oced 750ti running a FHD 27" led, and i use 65w when on desktop, surfing the web/streaming...
performance on an i7 will only be 100%, if HT is NOT turned off. at least when i look at the "possible" performance. not sure how much sense it makes to disable feats, instead of just getting the next smaller cpu (i5) etc, and get the same energy consumption AND save some money when buying.
i mean, sure you will see a gain in efficiency, and have lower overall power consumption, but i doubt its gonna be much more than lets say what a premium/enthusiast board will use when setup correctly in bios (not when used for OC)
i mean i my i7-3770k (stock clocks) with custom WC, 7 fans, asus DSX, 4 ssd's, and an oced 750ti running a FHD 27" led, and i use 65w when on desktop, surfing the web/streaming...
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Nice new features- even less visually appealing than last batch.
Aesthetically I think these went in a bad direction. I remember when they were showing off a white pcb for the first generation and being interested. Then they went with the economic brown. But now they lost the green color scheme too and they look just the lower end "military class" mobos MSI has made in the past. Shame. I think they would move more of these if they would give them a little personality.