MSI focuses on gamers, even thinking platforms Broadwell-E
With the motherboard MSI X99A Godlike Gaming Carbon prepares to debut the next-generation Intel family Broadwell-E platforms for end users enthusiast.
Alongside new laptop solutions designed for the audience of gamers and the Vortex system, which combines an Intel Core i7 family Skylake two video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, the Taiwanese MSI presented some interesting innovations, also at motherboards at CES 2016 in Las Vegas. Significant as the company is updating its range of solutions based on the Intel X99, to be matched at the current time with the Intel Core family Haswell-E but soon also compatible with the proposals of the family Broadwell-E.
The debut of these processors is expected in the first half of the year, but the motherboard manufacturers optimistically await the official launch by the end of the first quarter. And for this reason that many motherboard manufacturers are updating the product range, so as to be ready on time and put in the hands of users more passionate high-end systems.
The motherboard X99A Godlike Gaming Carbon is the latest addition to MSI regarding solutions with X99 chipset, can support configurations with quad channel DDR4 memory overclocked frequencies exceeding 3,400 MHz as well as running setup video up to a maximum of 4 cards in parallel, so as with NVIDIA SLI technology with the AMD CrossFire. Not missing a slot M.2 for the latest SSD solutions, next to 10 SATA III 2 of which are dedicated to SATA Express; They are also present connections USB 3.1.
The board has obviously been developed with the needs of the enthusiast users, those who turn to Intel Haswell-E Series and presumably will also adopt solutions Broadwell-And once these will be introduced on the market. With the first motherboards based on the Intel Z170 MSI had proposed a support structure of metal type to PCI Express 16x, wanting in this way to ensure that they could be damaged during transport of the system. This feature has also been adopted in the form X99A Godlike Gaming Carbon but extended to DDR4 memory slot, thus they have a side profile of the metallic type that surrounds the traditional plastic structure.
This accessory developed by MSI precisely to systems based on a chipset X99: it is a SLI bridge configurations for up to 4 video cards in parallel, that is coupled to a fan that blows air on the cards in particular on the two conveying the positioned to center. One of the problems of the configurations quad SLI is linked precisely to the difficulty of ensuring proper dissipation of heat generated from the tabs, mounted so close to each other by often do not allow cooling systems to operate efficiently.
