MSI's Z87 MPower Motherboard Revealed & Unboxed

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French hardware website 59Hardware has unboxed and revealed the MSI Z87 MPower motherboard, the company’s upcoming high-end offering for Intel’s 4th Generation “Haswell” processors.

Finally, the Z87 MPower features five connectors for PWM fans (2 x CPU and 3 x Case), an internal USB 3.0 connector, and draws power from a standard 24-pin ATX classic and two 8-pin ATX connectors.

Further information on technical specifications, pricing and availability will be available in June.

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Tarun Iyer
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Tarun Iyer was a contributor for Tom's Hardware who wrote news covering a wide range of technology topics, including processors, graphics cards, cooling systems, and computer peripherals. He also covered tech trends such as the development of adaptive all-in-one PCs.

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  • unknown9122
    Now that is a snazzy motherboard.
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  • Affiliated
    That's quite an impressive motherboard.
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  • Love MSI the last few years. This may be my next board, from a MSI Z68.
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  • swordrage
    Now that's an interesting heat sink design. I hope that is not a cover to hide the actual thing.
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  • SvRommelvS
    Two HDMI ports, is one HDMI-In?
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  • JOSHSKORN
    There's no point to having so many PCI-e 2.0 slots if your GPUs are going to cover them up.
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  • ronch79
    As the cost of WiFi ASICs get cheaper and mobo makers increasingly include it with their boards, I foresee a future where PCIe Wifi cards will become less and less appealing, kinda like the way sound cards started off as such and now only a few people buy them because all boards have on-board sound which is good enough for most folks.
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  • claptrap22
    That does look quite impressive, both aesthetically and technically. Built my machine with a Z77a-GD80 and have had no complaints. Would definitely consider this for another build or for a friend's build.
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  • thundervore
    This looks great, its too bad I just finished building a Ivy bridge rig using a Z77 UD5H and a 3770K CPU. I would love a Hanswell rig but if memory servs right its best to wait for the "tick" to upgrade. Either way my Ivy Bridge rig will last me for the next 5 years, similar to how my Q6600 IP35 rig lasted (now repurposed to a Windows Home Server V1).
    As for the board, they are still not saying if all 3 USB ports runs off the south bridge, if the sata ports are all SATA6 and runs off the south bridge as well. I also rather have an Intel NIC than a Killer NIC, personal preference.
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