MSI Teases Z87 XPower Overclocking Motherboard

[N.Broekhuijsen]

MSI is dripping out some serious teasers regarding one or more Z87 motherboards.

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[shadowfamicom]

I have their flagship 2011 Socket board (Big Bang X-power II) and have nothing but great things to say about this board. Owned for over a year, gonna be removing the bullet and gatling gun heatsinks at some point.

 

[bee144]

I have a X58 920 i7 @ 4.2 with a GTX Titan. I'm trying to decide it I want to upgrade to 4770k and Z87....

 

[ikyung]

I hope MSI keeps that full black look. Not many motherboards where even the RAM clips are black along with the OC buttons. Looks extremely smexy

 

[bgunner]

time will tell how well MSI can build an OCing board for the new chips.

 

[amoralman]

I've been deciding on my upgrade for a year now (yeah I know...), and after all my research I will go with MSI. They do have the best bang for the buck, and are reliable!

 

[lp231]

Where are the M&M's? When you show a mobo teaser, you're suppose to post it along with M&M's! BTW, those coconut M&M's taste pretty good, anyone else tried them before?

 

[mouse24]

I'm interested to see how an overclocking mobo will distinguish itself from a non overclocking one, now that the VRMs are on the CPU.

 

[CaedenV]

I have a X58 920 i7 @ 4.2 with a GTX Titan. I'm trying to decide it I want to upgrade to 4770k and Z87....

No real point for it until there are significant platform upgrades such as DDR4 or something. Overclocked it is highly unlikely that your CPU would be the choke point yet.

 

[CaedenV]

I am stoked that MSI is trying to make a name for themselves. I still use ASUS for all of my high end builds for people, but I have relied on MSI for budget and business computers for years and never regretted it, if they can prove themselves this time around then they will gain more of my business. Their last set of boards have all been solid boards, but just lacking in the 'extreme OC' and bells and whistles departments.

 

[dontknownotsure]

trailer for a motherboard? that's hardcore.

 

[patrick47018]

Enough with the strip tease... need Moar! Lulz

 

[sarinaide]

I love the Mat Black effect for Mobo PCB's.

 

[Marcus52]

I have a X58 920 i7 @ 4.2 with a GTX Titan. I'm trying to decide it I want to upgrade to 4770k and Z87....

I'm thinking that Haswell will bring enough of a performance bump to make it worthwhile (about 15%). I also want to move up to PCIe 3, so, have a reason besides the CPU to replace my X58 system.

 

[TheBigTroll]

ehh. the onboard components still arent at the level of the gigabyte up series or stuff from asus. wouldnt be getting their boards anytime soon if they dont increase the quality

 

[10tacle]

If they pull this off, I may re-evaluate by 100% dedication to ASUS for every new high-end gaming rig build.