MSI Announces Five X99 Motherboards For Haswell-E

[N.Broekhuijsen]

MSI has five X99 motherboads: two overclocking boards at two price points, two gaming boards at two price points, and a single standard-fare board.

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[Lutfij]

The Mpower boards look like they got a bit of construction area tape treatment while the SLI plus looks like the best stealth board within MSI's range.

 

[Shneiky]

I do agree. MSI's cheapest board is actually the one that has the most "premium" feel. Although MSI has always had a mediocre design team, the SLI looks very good. And me as an MSI hater is giving kudos to MSI - they have earned it.

 

[christinebcw]

I'm seeing a lot of garage-coverings over the back-panel IO-Ports.

Has there been a rash of tornadoes that ripped these out? Maybe earthquakes that crushed them so now these protective structures will save the back-panel IOs? ("Whew! Everything else is flattened but at least I can plug and unplug the stereo jack!")

I admit, I don't keep up with these Architectural PC Digest so much, but are these sturdy coverings in response to some new planetary threat? We just saw a Norwegian company certify that their devices wouldn't cause explosions, even dropped into paint-can shakers of nitroglycerin, so I suppose these new bunker-coverings are part and parcel of this thought process.

Or is this going to be the foundation of the new NASCAR advertising scheme, with logos and badges all over these?