MSI showed its new series of motherboards for Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge processors. Some motherboards were already in Las Vegas during the CES show, as a distinctive chip, a Thunderbolt controller, was lacking when.
In the meantime, MSI has are signs overhauled and further completed. Because of Intel’s processorvertraging may the motherboards needs to be reviewed before the Ivy Bridge release. One of the most distinctive factors of MSI’s top model for end users, the Z77A-GD80, Thunderbolt-connection. On it during the CES sign was missing the Thunderbolt chip, however, and also the port was not yet on the pcb and soldered. Also, the heat sinks already mounted, but there may still be some revisions.
The board has, in addition to the pricey Thunderbolt controller, three pci-express slots with sixteen 3.0-lanes and four pci-express-x1-slots. There are four sata-300 and four sata-600 ports, a header for two usb 2.0 and two usb 3.0 ports on the i/o panel. Measuring points for voltages and overklokknoppen are also present, assisted by MSI’s OC Genie II technology and two uefi bioses.
In addition to the GD80 showed MSI also other Z77 boards, including a simpler G45-motherboard in atx and matx format, and a GD55 board. The G43 is a board with the H77 chipset, a chipset that MSI less attention.
