MSI Announces First RGB-Lit Keyboard, 'X99 Godlike Gaming'

[N.Broekhuijsen]

MSI unveils all the juicy details about its X99A Godlike Gaming motherboard -- the first motherboard with RGB lighting. It also has a USB Type-C connector with USB 3.1.

MSI Announces First RGB-Lit Keyboard, 'X99 Godlike Gaming' : Read more

 

[SirDrannik]

"MSI Announces First RGB-Lit Keyboard, 'X99 Godlike Gaming'".

Keyboard? Typo there, I believe.

 

[Tiffany Monyata]

"MSI Announces First RGB-Lit Keyboard, 'X99 Godlike Gaming'".

Keyboard? Typo there, I believe.

Major typo 😛

 

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Major Typo Fixed.

 

[Alec Mowat]

Major Typo Fixed.

I still see Keyboard.

 

[tom10167]

you'd think they'd have a picture you know, of the lighting

 

[SirDrannik]

you'd think they'd have a picture you know, of the lighting

It sorta does shows the lighting. The first picture, it looks like red lightning. Not sure. The Image is tiny when I click on it

 

[biggestinsect]

Nice enough looking board. Not sure I would buy something calling itself Godlike - a little presumptuous. OK with the pointless RGB lighting, always liked blinking lights that serve little to no purpose. Think MSI should have used a more neutral than red secondary color to make the RGB more effective. No matter what color the LEDs it will be red.

 

[AndrewJacksonZA]

Major Typo Fixed.

I still see Keyboard.

Same. It probably hasn't migrated to their cache servers yet.

 

[scolaner]

Yyyyyikes. Sorry gang. The hamster wheel spun off track. Fixed.

 

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Correction: Only Private Typo was disciplined. Major Typo now also corrected.

 

[tburns1]

Two n00b questions: Does this LED-lit trend add significantly to heat issues? What is better: One 16 GB memory module, or 8 x 2 GB memory modules (any speed or heat difference)? Thanks.

 

[TechyInAZ]

RGB looks cool, however if it is going to be priced at $500, you'd be better off buying a Rampage VII Extreme and a advanced RGB lighting kit for the PC itself.

 

[littleleo]

"MSI Announces First RGB-Lit Keyboard, 'X99 Godlike Gaming'".

Keyboard? Typo there, I believe.

Wow a keyboard with all those I/O ports, where do you plug in the 2011 v3 CPU? Imagine if they made motherboards, lol.

 

[master9716]

I really like the silver ascent - Chrome would be good also , but they should have done the same thing for the ram slots

 

[SeriousRising]

Make this motherboard black otherwise it doesnt work well in most builds and I would just get a Rampage VII Extreme and some LED's

 

[ykki]

I still wish the name of the mobo was something else.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Make this motherboard black otherwise it doesnt work well in most builds and I would just get a Rampage VII Extreme and some LED's

White would make more sense with 200 different LED color options.

I owned the Rampage II and III .... but the Rampage IV Extreme garnered a whopping 28% negative (1 egg) reviews on newegg and the V followed with 23% 1 eggers and 15% 2 eggers.

On top of that, Rampage held the title of "most failed Motherboard" returned under warranty for 2 consecutive reporting periods.

9.65% - http://www.hardware.fr/articles/920-2/cartes-meres.html
8.80 % - http://www.hardware.fr/articles/927-2/cartes-meres.html

Unfortunately, not too much happiness w./ X99

13% 1 eggers
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157540

16% 1 eggers
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130795

23% 1 eggers
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130796

24 % 1 eggers
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132263


As fort his model..... availability of alternate colored armor or how easy / difficult it would be to remove and paint is something I'd like to read about.

Two n00b questions: Does this LED-lit trend add significantly to heat issues? What is better: One 16 GB memory module, or 8 x 2 GB memory modules (any speed or heat difference)? Thanks.

For X99 (quad channel) MoBos, it's a choice between 4 and 8. On Z97 (dual channel) , 1 stick is not recommended

 

[AndrewJacksonZA]

Can I be nit-picky? I wanna be nit-picky!!! 🙂

The original post still has keyboard as part of the text, even though the link has changed to motherboard.

MSI unveils all the juicy details about its X99A Godlike Gaming motherboard -- the first motherboard with RGB lighting. It also has a USB Type-C connector with USB 3.1.

MSI Announces First RGB-Lit Keyboard, 'X99 Godlike Gaming' : Read more

 

[FunkaGenocide]

Two n00b questions: Does this LED-lit trend add significantly to heat issues? What is better: One 16 GB memory module, or 8 x 2 GB memory modules (any speed or heat difference)? Thanks.

LEDs are exteremely power efficient lighting devices and don't really add any substantial thermal load to your pc or components.

using 2 memory modules will give you a significant boost in memory speed over using 1.