MSI Shows Off Three Z170 Gaming Motherboards And Features

[N.Broekhuijsen]

MSI is also jumping the gun and showing off another couple of Z170 boards.

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[voodoochicken]

I'm digging it. Gigabtyte white/red is still holding on me though. Really need to see full features on any board after launch though

 

[agentbb007]

How do these compare to the Z170 Krait they just teased? Which is considered to be the higher end mobo?

 

[beoza]

They look nice but I still want to see the ability to order custom boards with different color schemes for both the PCI-E and Memory slots, as well as the heatsinks. Offer green, blue, gold, purple, white or other colors with select boards.

 

[g-unit1111]

How do these compare to the Z170 Krait they just teased? Which is considered to be the higher end mobo?

On Z97 the Krait and Gaming 45 are the same board with a different color scheme (black/white vs black/red). I'm sure that will apply to the Z170 variants.

I'm not sure I get the backplate on the motherboard. It looks cool but you can't see it after installation unless you have a clear case.

 

[Andrewst1021]

I'm hoping for the evga ftw motherboard, I want a gold and black themed build

 

[danlw]

Hopefully taking the pcie lanes from eSata means that a full 16 lanes will still go to the graphics card, even with an m.2 drive installed. The Asrock Extreme6/9 Z97 boards turn the primary graphics slot into an x8 slot if the "Ultra M.2" slot is utilized. I'm hoping that won't have to happen under Z170.

 

[Dagstar]

Love 'em or hate 'em, MSI makes some nice looking mobos.

 

[JayHW]

I'm hoping for the evga ftw motherboard, I want a gold and black themed build

Sorry but all three evga boards are fully black and gray.

 

[MattBooth]

To be quite honest, it's all well and good having two M.2 ports, but I'd rather have that and a set of 6-8 working SATA ports as well. Intel's current tech won't allow for it, unless MSI allow you to dedicate some PCI-Express lanes to this job if not using SLI.

 

[luissantos]

How do companies like MSI get away with using copyrighted materials in this fashion? (in this case, concept art from X-COM)

 

[JackNaylorPE]

How do these compare to the Z170 Krait they just teased? Which is considered to be the higher end mobo?

For Z97 it certainly wasn't the Krait. While the Gaming Series kicked tail in gaming the Karit's performance was, for whatever reason, woeful.

It was only 71% as fast as the MSI Z97 Gaming 9. Here they are ranked by 5 of fastest board

MoBo % of Leader

MSI Z97 Gaming 9 100.00%
MSI Z97 Gaming 5 99.86%
MSI Z97A Gaming 6 98.96%
Asus Z97 TUF Sabranco 96.13%
Gigabyte Z97X Gaming 5 95.00%
Gigabyte Z97X SOC Force 94.95%
Asus Z97 Maximus VII Hero 93.67%
Asus Z97 Maximus VII Formula 93.58%
Asus Z97 Maximus VII Gene 91.69%
Asus Z97-A 89.57%
MSI Z97 Mpower MAX AC 88.20%
MSI Z97S SLI 71.01%