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right guys we here at MSI checking out their x99 lineup starting with the x99s
SLI plus this Bo's pretty interesting you got four PCIe 16x slots so you can
do quad SLI or Crossfire and dual PCI e1x slots if you want like sound cards
or Raid cards or something like that for power on the motherboard it's fairly
straightforward with your 24 pin and 8 Pin CPU power you've got four fan
headers so not a ton of fan headers but probably enough one of those being your
CPU which is pre- designated for that although if you want to plug in a case
fan you can just ignore the RPM and you're good to go anyways uh you've got
eight RAM slots a standard socket which by the way is ginormous if you haven't
heard me that say that in previous videos One USB 3.0 header two USB 2.0
headers power and reset on board along with an OC Genie button if you want to
just press that and be good to go before we go I/O you got a PS2 Port which is
fantastic because even USB 2.0 can be frustrating to use sometimes dual USB
2.0 8 USB 3.0 an Ethernet port which I
believe is powered by Intel and standard audio jacks for their x99s gaming 7
board things are fairly similar the iio is the same except for their Ethernet
which is powered by killer this time not Intel like it was before so you get a
killer chip on this board no Wireless just land killer other than that the I/O
is exactly the same the socker is obviously same the same amount of RAM
slots same amount of power same amount of fan headers most things are pretty
similar except this board does come with audio boost this is audio boost 2 not
audio boost one anymore so there's actually audio grade capacitors on this
board which is a kind of a big deal um but if you've been watching some of Li
actives videos lately we've kind of figured out that it's more important to have really nice headphones but this
should help so it's good to see actually on the board and this is their gaming
series board so it's got all the nice red and black accents all over it then
we come to their x99s X power AC this
one has Intel Lan and wireless no more killer it comes with AC on board so you
have AC Wireless that comes with the board which is pretty interesting the io
on this one has changed a little bit there's a PS2 Port still which I'm
really happy about dual USB 2.0 and then
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 USB 3.0 on the back
and a USB 3.0 right angle header and USB 3.0 vertical header so you can have a
crap ton of USB 3 .0 if that's what you want dual land ports those Wireless
Jacks that I was just talking about and a standard audio setup the audio boost
though is a little bit different this is audio boost 1.0 not audio Boost 2.0 so
it doesn't have the the audio grade capacitors that are on the gaming series
board but you do get other things like voltage checkpoints up here at the top
manual overclocking buttons still an OC Genie button if you want to do that on
an X powerboard and that's that's about
it in terms of overclocking other than other features like the X power just
being generally good for over over clocking there's actually one more thing that I want to point out before we're
done here and that's the the lightning bolt button right here which will just
completely obliterate any settings that you have in your BIOS possible and just
resets the entire thing back to factory settings which is actually pretty cool
to see cuz I've almost pricked boards by kind of messing around with too much
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