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MSI X99 motherboards now fully support Intel next-gen Broadwell-E processors
Last week Broadwell-EP XEON processors launched, MSI just outted a press release indicating that X99 based motherboards all are compatible with it with the corresponding BIOS update.
That means boards like the Xpower and Godlike etc all are supporting Broadwell-E processors. MSI X99 motherboards latest BIOS list with latest Broadwell-E(P) CPU support,available for download at MSI.
Marketing Name (Latest BIOS Ver):
- X99S MPOWER (E7885IMS.M80)
- X99A SLI Krait Edition (E7885IMS.N50)
- X99S SLI Krait Edition (E7885IMS.N50)
- X99A RAIDER (E7885IMS.P20)
- X99A RAIDER (E7885IMS.P20)
- X99A GAMING 7 (E7885IMS.HC0)
- X99S GAMING 7 (E7885IMS.HC0)
- X99A SLI PLUS (E7885IMS.1A0)
- X99S SLI PLUS (E7885IMS.1A0)
- X99A MPOWER (E7885IMS.M80)
- X99A GODLIKE GAMING (E7883IMS.130)
- X99A GODLIKE GAMING CARBON (E7883IMS.210)
- X99A GAMING 9 ACK (E7882IMS.320)
- X99S GAMING 9 ACK (E7882IMS.260)
- X99S GAMING 9 AC (E7882IMS.190)
- X99A XPOWER AC (E7881IMS.A30)
- X99S XPOWER AC (E7881IMS.190)
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#5253620 Posted on: 04/04/2016 12:13 PM
Sorry, wrong mainboard. But lately I've been a bit careful about BIOS versions and flashing, so probably wouldn't have tried it unless I got a new CPU
Sorry, wrong mainboard. But lately I've been a bit careful about BIOS versions and flashing, so probably wouldn't have tried it unless I got a new CPU

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#5253783 Posted on: 04/04/2016 10:19 PM
Thats one heck of a CINEBENCH R15 score. Over 3x times what my setup can manage...I bet its expensive with 44 threads on 1 cpu?
Thats one heck of a CINEBENCH R15 score. Over 3x times what my setup can manage...I bet its expensive with 44 threads on 1 cpu?

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#5253913 Posted on: 04/05/2016 07:31 AM
hehe I thought the same, got to 1337 exactly the last time I ran cinebench
Thats one heck of a CINEBENCH R15 score. Over 3x times what my setup can manage...I bet its expensive with 44 threads on 1 cpu? 

hehe I thought the same, got to 1337 exactly the last time I ran cinebench

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#5254027 Posted on: 04/05/2016 02:25 PM
This interests me, as I do some music and video stuffs, and the DPC latency of the 170 chipsets can cause issues with these tasks.
I still use my 4790k on a z87 chipset because of the very low DPC characteristics, and can't think spending a ton of money on the new 170 chipsets and future 8 core cpus that will cause issues.
The X99 chipsets have very similar DPC characteristics to the z87/z97 chipsets.
I'm just wondering how much an 8 core or 10 core broadwell-E will be.
I'm guessing these don't have unlocked multipliers?
This interests me, as I do some music and video stuffs, and the DPC latency of the 170 chipsets can cause issues with these tasks.
I still use my 4790k on a z87 chipset because of the very low DPC characteristics, and can't think spending a ton of money on the new 170 chipsets and future 8 core cpus that will cause issues.
The X99 chipsets have very similar DPC characteristics to the z87/z97 chipsets.
I'm just wondering how much an 8 core or 10 core broadwell-E will be.
I'm guessing these don't have unlocked multipliers?
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FYI, I got an infinite boot loop after flashing the X99S Krait bios. Tried twice with the same result. Even after getting out of it by clearing cmos and then just changing the boot order & saving resulted in infinite boot loop. Guess there is a price to pay for being first to offer support for new cpu's. Any one else have experience with this?