MSI X99 Motherboards - PAX Prime 2014 Showfloor
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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right guys we here at MSI checking out their x99 lineup starting with the x99s
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SLI plus this Bo's pretty interesting you got four PCIe 16x slots so you can
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do quad SLI or Crossfire and dual PCI e1x slots if you want like sound cards
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or Raid cards or something like that for power on the motherboard it's fairly
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straightforward with your 24 pin and 8 Pin CPU power you've got four fan
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headers so not a ton of fan headers but probably enough one of those being your
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CPU which is pre- designated for that although if you want to plug in a case
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fan you can just ignore the RPM and you're good to go anyways uh you've got
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eight RAM slots a standard socket which by the way is ginormous if you haven't
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heard me that say that in previous videos One USB 3.0 header two USB 2.0
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headers power and reset on board along with an OC Genie button if you want to
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just press that and be good to go before we go I/O you got a PS2 Port which is
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fantastic because even USB 2.0 can be frustrating to use sometimes dual USB
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2.0 8 USB 3.0 an Ethernet port which I
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believe is powered by Intel and standard audio jacks for their x99s gaming 7
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board things are fairly similar the iio is the same except for their Ethernet
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which is powered by killer this time not Intel like it was before so you get a
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killer chip on this board no Wireless just land killer other than that the I/O
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is exactly the same the socker is obviously same the same amount of RAM
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slots same amount of power same amount of fan headers most things are pretty
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similar except this board does come with audio boost this is audio boost 2 not
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audio boost one anymore so there's actually audio grade capacitors on this
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board which is a kind of a big deal um but if you've been watching some of Li
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actives videos lately we've kind of figured out that it's more important to have really nice headphones but this
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should help so it's good to see actually on the board and this is their gaming
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series board so it's got all the nice red and black accents all over it then
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we come to their x99s X power AC this
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one has Intel Lan and wireless no more killer it comes with AC on board so you
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have AC Wireless that comes with the board which is pretty interesting the io
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on this one has changed a little bit there's a PS2 Port still which I'm
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really happy about dual USB 2.0 and then
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 USB 3.0 on the back
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and a USB 3.0 right angle header and USB 3.0 vertical header so you can have a
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crap ton of USB 3 .0 if that's what you want dual land ports those Wireless
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Jacks that I was just talking about and a standard audio setup the audio boost
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though is a little bit different this is audio boost 1.0 not audio Boost 2.0 so
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it doesn't have the the audio grade capacitors that are on the gaming series
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board but you do get other things like voltage checkpoints up here at the top
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manual overclocking buttons still an OC Genie button if you want to do that on
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an X powerboard and that's that's about
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it in terms of overclocking other than other features like the X power just
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being generally good for over over clocking there's actually one more thing that I want to point out before we're
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done here and that's the the lightning bolt button right here which will just
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completely obliterate any settings that you have in your BIOS possible and just
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resets the entire thing back to factory settings which is actually pretty cool
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to see cuz I've almost pricked boards by kind of messing around with too much
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