I bought this motherboard round about a month ago, and it’s working great! I highly recommend it for anyone who needs a quality motherboard with good specs, easy installation, and ease of use.
SPECS:
This motherboard is a brand-new board using the LGA1151 socket, great for new 9 series Intel processors. The other specs are held in the page above, and I don’t feel like copying them here. It also has built in Ethernet, WiFi, and Bluetooth, all of which work flawlessly. Don’t buy a separate card if you get this motherboard. On-board communication between parts is fast enough that it will never be the bottleneck in your system.
BUILD QUALITY:
This motherboard is excellently built, with a nice, solid feel to it. I’ve handled boards before that feel like they’ll break in your hands, but this one felt solid and build well. There are of course some plastic pieces, but those felt nice as well, and looked good. The PCIe ports were reinforced and will hold even heavy graphics cards.
INSTALLATION:
Motherboards are never easy to install- if you’re looking for one here, you obviously understand that. This wasn’t worse than any I’ve done before, and it has nine holes to allow you to mount it solidly to the interior of your case. There is also a nice CD that comes along with it to install drivers and other utilities. This installer crashed three times before I could get everything and contains a bit of bloatware (that you can opt out of), but it installs drivers that Windows will install by itself and utilities that only gamers will want.
AESTHETICS:
This motherboard looks pretty nice. It’s black, but you can see that from the picture. One thing I didn’t realize until I plugged it in is that it has some LEDs on the bottom of it! They’re not in the most useful place, being on the back side of the board, but if you have a clear case, I’m sure it’s fine. This motherboard also supports RGB on many components and has a nice control panel for such that can be installed.
BIOS:
MSI put a lot of effort into their BIOS to make it look futuristic and appeal to gamers. You probably won’t need to use it much unless you’re into overclocking (although this can be done with their DragonCenter utility), but if you do have to, it looks pretty good, has tons more options that you’ll ever need, and is remarkably stable.
I/O
This motherboard has lots of ports out the back, many of which you won’t need because they’re on the back and supports lots of stuff for the front. The front maxes out at eight active USB ports, depending on the internal connectors.
MISCELLANEOUS:
I’ve had problems with motherboards not knowing how to wake up properly from sleep. This motherboard does not have that problem. I appreciate that. This board supports water cooling. Also, the dragons are cool.
All in all, this is an excellent motherboard for anyone who needs a 9 series Intel CPU and excellent functionality.
| Processor | pentium |
|---|---|
| RAM | DDR4 |
| Memory Speed | 4400 MHz |
| Wireless Type | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 4 |
