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Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2014

I've recently bought four of these motherboards (separately) for PC building. Each has worked flawlessly. MSI's mouse-controllable BIOS is really nice and very easy to navigate. Additionally it makes overclocking as easy or tweak-able as users could ask..

The board includes a USB 3.0 header, but you will need to buy your connectors separately for installation in the case.

Although I haven't used the utility, I've read several reviews of owners having issues with MSI's automatic updating utility. I've flashed the BIOS to v 07 on each of these using the old-school flash drive method and have had no trouble at all.

MSI also includes a lot of additional overclocking/monitoring tools including the MSI Command Center which I do use and like very well. It also includes RAMDisk software for creating a memory partition in system RAM which is pretty slick.

I've used Patriod Black Viper PC1600 DDR3 DIMMS in each system.

No complaints whatsoever.

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William Bauer

Excellent Z87 motherboard for the price

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2013

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this is an excellent motherboard for the price- especially considering it has the Z87 chipset. I have been using for about a month now and I have had 0 problems with it. The BIOS features support a mouse and is super easy to use. Much better than the older boards that I have used. I bought to go with an Intel 4130 core I-3 processor. I have this board and also 8 GB of Corsair Vengeance 1600 ram. This paired up with a WD Black 1 TB drive and MSI 7770 Video card, running win 7 Ultimate 64 bit edition make for a very capable machine. I am not an extreme gamer and only occasionally play games and mostly use this for surfing the web and listening to music on it, as well as for watching Netflix and Amazon Prime movies. I have used MSI previously and I have never had any problems with any of their boards that I have used. I always have had really good luck with them. The board seems very well made. This has plenty of USB 2.0 ports - more than enough for me (6 USB 2.0 on the back and 2 USB 3.0 on the back also for a total of 8 USB ports just on the back). It does have a USB 3.0 header on the motherboard, as well as USB 2.0 headers on the board. It has plenty of SATA 3 ports and it does support crossfire, but not SLI. I also found the onboard audio is decent. I did hook it up and plug it into my Logitech 5.1 speaker set to try it out. I normally don't use the onboard audio or my Creative X-fi sound card at all (except when I watch movies for surround processing). For music listening and most general use I normally use a high-end outboard DAC hooked up through the USB port and an audiophile grade headphone amp with audiophile grade headphones.

This board also has lots of fan connections on it. It does have 2 CPU fan connections as well. The MSI website is also a very good source of information about their products, and they always have their drivers online. They do release new BIOS updates and driver versions regularly. Eventually I may upgrade to a K series I-5 or I-7 and SSD boot drive at some point in the future if I have the money. This is more than fast enough for me for what I use it for.

Update on 07/12/15
Approx 6 months ago I upgraded to the i7 4790K (along with a Hyper 212 EVO heatsink to keep the temps down) and also have been using an Intel 240 gig SSD for a little while now. A few months ago I also bought an EVGA 760 2GB graphics card (found on sale at my local BB). The motherboard is still working just fine without any problems. Heatsink also mounted up just fine with no issues. I haven't tried overclocking the processor, and to be honest, I feel no need to with a 4 gig base speed and 4.4 turbo.

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Debborah Richmond

Excellent MB for the price.

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2014

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This is an excellent MB for the price. Coupled with an SSD, 16Gb of memory, and a 500-Watt power supply, this thing is quite stable with its i5-3570k processor (non-overclocked). There seems to be plenty of room for cards (I don't use anything other than a TV tuner card). The graphics are suitable for my workload (running Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom); the network interface works well. Nothing negative to say about this MB.

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Morgan VanYperen

Excellent - User-friendly and feature-rich

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2014

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I'm definitely a fan of this motherboard. The instruction manual is very helpful - especially if you're a first-time builder, like me. Once everything is put together, the BIOS has a nice, user friendly interface. It has a brief description of what the settings do, and googling them also helps. Also, built into the bios, there's a utility that determines your computer's capabilities at startup and will make a smart overclocking profile for you to use if you want. It's easy to make it all custom if you feel confident doing it on your own. Finally, there are nice utilities provided that you can use once booted into windows, in order to more easily change settings to speed up your computer and improve it's performance or longevity. Some other motherboards come with more bells and whistles, but this one is a great deal and works quite well.

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theFallenMarvel

First Choice for First Build

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2013

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I decided to build my own PC and by reliable recommendations and numerous positive reviews I decided to go with this motherboard. I was not at all disappointed with this motherboad. It fit perfectly in my NZXT Phantom 410 Mid-Tower case. It comes with MSI software for motherboard configuration which is very handy. It also includes a manual that guides you through the ins and outs of the connection ports and such.

I paired this with the Intel-5 4670k CPU which so far is great. It literally takes less than 30 seconds for it to boot into Windows. This really made my first PC build a very positive experience and I recommend this to anyone who is a first time builder like myself. Great quality product.

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Bernie

SWEET

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2016

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I build my own PC for the first time and i decided to use this motherboard, I had this motherboard for a few years now and it is awesome. I like playing games (I'm not hardcore like the kids today), but playing Bioshock, or Broken Age, or Tomb Raider on it is great. The games played smoothly and had no problems so far, plus doing everyday stuff is no problem. It's been almost two years now and I'm glad I made the purchase. Running on Windows 7, with 8 GB of Memory, and with a NVIDA GeForce GTX 760.

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Mufasa

Very Disappointed

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2014

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By recommendation from a friend, I came upon this motherboard for my first PC build. From what I have seen on the internet, I thought that MSI was a good brand that built quality motherboards that were "Military Class." How I was wrong. Installation went nice for a first time PC builder like myself. However, during the installation of Windows 7, I encountered a problem when the computer had to reboot. The monitor would enter sleep mode, but the actual computer would stay on. It would then require a manual shut down and a manual push of the power button. Since this was prior to any software being installed on the computer, I had reason to believe that it was the motherboard. Through further research on the internet, I found out that another person on the internet had the EXACT same problem on the EXACT same motherboard. This person managed to solve the problem by simply purchasing a different motherboard. After that I have returned this product. If anyone with knowledge on this or has experienced a similar problem, I am welcome to comments.

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Hayden Watkins

First one Dead on Arrival, Second works Fine, but no SLI - Only Crossfire

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2014

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I understand that computer hardware isn't perfect and sometimes things come to you dead on arrival, so I didn't take away stars for that, but it may be an indication of their QC process. Specifically, two of the RAM slots were dead and they were next to each other, meaning that I couldn't boot up using dual channel. Sent it back through Amazon and bought a second one myself because I was in a hurry. It worked fine.

Regarding the features:

If you're planning to do SLI, this does NOT support it, only Crossfire.

If you're planning to Overclock, pay the extra for the gaming version of this board. The Overclock Genie on this one has one setting and will probably put you around 4.0 Ghz on an i5-4670K, and it's only available in the Bios. The gaming version has a button on the motherboard itself that allows you to overclock it to a higher setting like that 4.3 or 4.4 you were looking for. Otherwise the OC genie is actually kinda nice if you're not looking to go crazy because it manages all those little voltages that you may or may not understand. Also, the gaming version has a button to reset the CMOS to default. This way if you over-overclock it and it won't boot up, you don't have to get nasty and pull out the CMOS battery on the motherboard.

The long and short - it's reliable and better than a basic board, but if you're a gamer you'll want the gaming version.

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Ricardo Alvarez-Correa

Great motherboard

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2013

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So far so good.. This motherboard is all you need to build a "haswell" system. it offers you crossfire, front usb 3.0 , and don't be fooled by the title , actually this motherboard supports ddr3 1600 non-oc . So if you are on a budget and need a motherboard, I think this motherboard is the best you can get and besides that its MSI so you have nothing to worry about (I have use MSI in all my build.. and not a single problem.)

If you are a hardcore gamer and really care about every little thing it will be better to go for the z87-g65 .. but this is also a nice option

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Brian

Notes

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2013

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The motherboard has an excellend overclocking software with loads of functionality. Using an aftermarket chip cooler I could only orient the brackets so that the fan blows vertically and not towards the back of the computer. This is something to consider when picking your case, either use; standard cooler, case with a vent at the top/bottom. This is the board to get though. I have 32 gigs of memory in it, and I5 4670k, and 2 graphics cards + audio card. I still have room for a LAN card if i want it.

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