MSI Photo's Haswell Refresh-motherboard for gamers

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#4802123
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3dfx cards? Gaming3 has you covered!
#4802125
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They should be improving their warranty and RMA service instead of putting more junk out.
#4802128
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mATX is awesome, maybe when skylake arrives and with DDR4 needing only 1 stick per channel unlike its predecessors I might get one for myself! I hate these huge cases :P
#4802140
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That's an awesome theme they got goin' on there.
#4802211
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No next gen I/O panel?
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No next gen I/O panel?
You sir, just made my day! 😀 Third image (the one with 3 pcie slots) look good. Finally a board with 3 double slots side by side + one 1x single at the top, without blocking any connectors at the end of the board when there's a third double slotted card on! :thumbup:
#4802271
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They should be improving their warranty and RMA service instead of putting more junk out.
I had to RMA MSI gaming notebook once. Around 4years ago, no problems. (dead HDD, so no MSI fault) And from boards I had from MSI (high end only) I never had to do anything. My 1st MSI board paired with A-XP2200 is still operational and it survived PSU blow-up and managed to protect everything except cheapest samsung memory back then. - - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - - I always take board with a lot of features and MSI can make such very well. And I like that they made few configurations with PCI slots and with 2 slots between PCIe for better cooling of graphics.
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I had to RMA MSI gaming notebook once. Around 4years ago, no problems. (dead HDD, so no MSI fault) And from boards I had from MSI (high end only) I never had to do anything. My 1st MSI board paired with A-XP2200 is still operational and it survived PSU blow-up and managed to protect everything except cheapest samsung memory back then. - - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - - I always take board with a lot of features and MSI can make such very well. And I like that they made few configurations with PCI slots and with 2 slots between PCIe for better cooling of graphics.
You got lucky, in my case a gd45-plus also killed a 4820k which intel readly gave me a new one(2 weeks), and MSI took 1 month and a half to gave me back the non functioning board. At least the ram was ok and vga too. The 5v line vrm they use are really weak (some voltages to cpu come from 5v line), and that was the problem, it burned two, and I think they didn't even look to the board. But ASUS is no better in terms of quality, this one I have, already has a fan PWM pull-down resistor burned.
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You got lucky, in my case a gd45-plus also killed a 4820k which intel readly gave me a new one(2 weeks), and MSI took 1 month and a half to gave me back the non functioning board. At least the ram was ok and vga too. The 5v line vrm they use are really weak (some voltages to cpu come from 5v line), and that was the problem, it burned two, and I think they didn't even look to the board. But ASUS is no better in terms of quality, this one I have, already has a fan PWM pull-down resistor burned.
You might be just having some bad luck there. I never *knock on wood* had any bad mobo (or any other peice of hardware for that matter) since I started building my own systems.
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No Next-Gen IO Shield? 🙁
#4802610
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You might be just having some bad luck there. I never *knock on wood* had any bad mobo (or any other peice of hardware for that matter) since I started building my own systems.
Since 10 years ago that I build my systems, and I had some, bad boards one from DFI that they repaired for free (still working), some from ASUS but never RMAed them, I solved the problems my self (mainly compatibility issues), one from Abit they gave me the money back and was only the sub woofer output that didn't work. From MSI this was the first and probably the last. CPU's just two, one was my fault, a chirped Athlon XP due to a heavy cooler even though I had it suspended from the PSU. But what I would really like to see was this same chinese motherboards made by the old electronic manufacturers from Europe or even USA.
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That Gaming 9 looks sexy same with the miroITX very nice.