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Good board for its class.
Box :
The box as expected is very colorful, promoting the gaming expiriance. This days every brand basically market the same way the products. As packaging the board is laying very secure in, which makes me feel comfortable regarding transport!
Inside the box we find the motherboard its self.
x2 Sata cables
x1 Hard SLI Bridge
x3 RGB cables in variations by typ
x1 IO Shield
x1 MS badge sticker
x3 User manuals and Warranty card
x1 Sticker labels for cable managment
x1 Thank you card
x1 CD with drivers
The Board its self:
We have a good looking black PCB with gray lines on it . x3 Heat sinks in total, 2 of them have plastic covers with RGB .
The 4 Memory slots are with metal protection and 2 of the 3 PCI-E full size slots are also with metal protection for better support on heavy graphic cards.
Connectivity :
On the board we can find x8 Sata ports in total . Which should provide you enough connections for your peripherals .
The is also 6 Fan headers all over the board for maximum cooling !
We can find also x2 m.2 slots ! How ever i need to distress this to you !
If you want to use M.2 on slot 1 , you need to make sure that you dont have installed any other Sata drives connected to the board. If you do have , there is huge chance that the motherboard will not see the m.2 .
How ever the fix to this is really easy , Disconnect the Sata drive ! Connect the M.2 on port one . Boot with your Windows bootable drive and follow the windows install . This should show the M.2 . After this is done and the drive is recognized you can connect back your Sata drives.
Disclaimer !
This issue is known by many different boards. Its not problem only from MSI. This is problem at x370 and Z series from intel to. Its valid problem by boards from Asus and other brands also. This doesn't means the board is bad !
The audio on the board is really good and as most of the boards this days is isolate to reduce the noise and improve the quality.
There is x2 CPU pins on the board. Each one is marked as follow : 1 - 2
To run the board you dont need to connect both of them . You can use the board with just one of them. The second one is supposed to provide more power for really heavy overclocking !
Bios is the same as older x370 chipset . So the navigation there is not really changed.
As overclocking you can use the Boost options and A-XMP profiles. Or you can overclock manual .
The board have just 2 Bios revisions available at the time of writing this . But its working stable with no issues so far.
Software.
MSI give us this useful MSI Update software, who will find all missing drivers for you and install them. It works fine and it saves time from downloads and manual installations.
MSI Mistik light software how ever, is not really that good. As presentation the layout is made well, its kind of simple . But it dosnt really function the way it should. For example i have 3 separate places on the board, where i can set different light effects. How ever the software is not allowing me to do so . Also if you want to make the color of your GPU different, also fails. I do use MSI GPU !
I hope this problem will be resolved in future updates !
In overall i am really happy of the board. It was easy to mount in the PC. Drivers was installed buttery smooth also . I do recommend this product as very good board from a new platform.