Our first look at a non-Intel Z87 motherboard today is the Z87-G45 Gaming from the folks over at MSI. With a gaming focus I am really excited to see what the board is all about. At a quick glance at both the packaging and the board itself it’s clear that MSI is going with the dragon theme that we saw on a few of their notebooks this year at CES. I’m curious if the MSI Z87-G45 Gaming will be on fire, or just fizzle out. Let’s take a closer look and find out!
Product Name: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
Review Sample Provided by: MSI
Written By: Wes
Pictures by: Wes
Specifications |
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CPU Support |
4th Gen Intel® Core™ / Pentium® / Celeron® processors |
CPU Socket |
LGA1150 |
Chipset |
Intel® Z87 Express Chipset |
Graphics Interface |
3 * PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots with 4th Gen Intel® Core™ processors, AMD CrossFire / NVIDIA SLI Support |
Display Interface |
HDMI, DVI, D-Sub - Requires CPU Graphics |
Memory Support |
4 DIMMs, Dual Channel DDR3-3000(OC) |
Expansion slots |
4 * PCI-E x1 slots |
SATA / mSATA |
6 * SATA 6Gb/s, 1 * mSATA |
SATA RAID |
RAID 0,1,5,10 - Available at ports SATA1-SATA6 |
USB / IEEE 1394 |
6 * USB 3.0, 8 * USB 2.0 |
LAN |
Killer™ E2205 Gigabit Ethernet |
Audio |
8-channel HD Audio with Sound Blaster Cinema |