Review: MSI Z170A Gaming M9 ACK Motherboard

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/30/2015 09:00 AM | source: | 8 comment(s)

We review the MSI Z170A Gaming M9 ACK. The luxurious big brother of the M7. It is one of the best looking products if you ask me, dressed for success and with added benefits like USB 3.1, multiple M.2 slots and the fastest DDR4 support the product will impress. It also comes with extended looks, AC WIFI, a VRM that can be liquid cooled and then a dozen or so other features.

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waltc3
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#5165997 Posted on: 09/29/2015 10:47 PM

Nice review, but hard to imagine much of a market for this...I imagine thinking about a case for this thing might be a challenge...

The only reason to see a dolled-up motherboard like this is to run it in an open platform, like G3d's test benches...the UEFI layout is ~90% a match for my AMD UEFI setup at home...~$500 (dollars--don't know what the Euro exchange rate is atm) seems far too steep...

The Killer NIC is fine (mine is the E2205)...although I'd like to know why MSI switched from RealTek to Killer as Gb NICs seem pretty much a wash in terms of performance...I think people dislike the "Killer" moniker because it implies that your NIC can speed up the Internet...

...it's just marketing...Remember when Intel claimed its cpus could speed up the Internet...?...

AnarchoPrimitiv
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#5167905 Posted on: 10/03/2015 11:29 PM

please use an m.2 3.0x4

For the m.2 benchmarks, please use a model with 32Gbps speed instead of a 10Gbps so we can see the actual performance. Thank you. Perhaps a Samsung SM951

Hilbert Hagedoorn
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#5167989 Posted on: 10/04/2015 08:22 AM

Sure purchase me one and I'll do that for you, thank you.

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