A Quick Look at MSI's X79 Motherboards
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 7, 2011 3:24 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- CPUs
- Intel
- MSI
- X79
- Sandy Bridge E
Sandy Bridge E is right around the corner and the amount of Socket-2011 related emails we're getting is going up. The latest is from MSI - we got an email with pics of the company's X79 lineup including the ultra high-end Big Bang XPower II and the micro-ATX X79MA-GD45. Check out the gallery below for shots of all the boards.
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MySchizoBuddy - Monday, November 7, 2011 - link
How many GPUs can it support?are these still PCIe 2 or v3
piroroadkill - Monday, November 7, 2011 - link
Sandy Bridge E has a PCIe 3.0 controller, I'm pretty sure.CharonPDX - Monday, November 7, 2011 - link
If you zoom in on the picture, you can see "PCI-E 3.0" silk screened on at least the all-black-slot board and the first two blue-slot boards.Gunbuster - Monday, November 7, 2011 - link
Ugly and out of date looking. MSI needs to hire a new designer for the heatsink and stuff.They even look clunky compared to the MSI Z68 boards...
DanNeely - Monday, November 7, 2011 - link
Some of the boards have 2 different style retention clips on the PCIe 16x slots.After seeing AMD Llano boards with quad back panel USB3, only 2 ports on these boards seems rather stingy.
Is dual Lan going out of fashion?
softdrinkviking - Monday, November 7, 2011 - link
bullet-shaped heatsink looks like a junior-high aged wet-dream.sarth - Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - link
Thought they were crayons ;)Operandi - Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - link
I thought they were stupid, and they are.Tormeh - Thursday, November 10, 2011 - link
Seconded.GokieKS - Monday, November 7, 2011 - link
These component makers sure love their gun motifs.