MSI X99A Godlike Gaming ATX Motherboard Review

[Rookie_MIB]

At $540 on Newegg, this board costs almost as much as a whole PC that would be a modest but competent gamer. I don't see one on my short list.

I made the exact same observation. Now I find myself making excuses at how my next computer needs to be X99. It's kind of like an SSD. Once you try one, it's hard to go back.

. . . I think I need help, maybe an intervention.

Difference is, with a SSD, you're dropping maybe $100.00. For a build using this mobo, $100 isn't going to get you very far at all...

 

[memadmax]

At $540 this mobo doesn't offer anything but apparently some Bus headaches over the competition...
Pass.

Pretty colors thou...

 

[JonDol]

I take this MB as a joke: ALC sound, no Thunderbolt (version 3 please) and yet it is more expensive than the Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming G1.

Do you use thunderbolt 3 ever?

Nope but then I'm still gaming on my 12 years old rig because I considered there wasn't enough inovation or enough performance improvement to justify a new rig. I just upgraded the video card, changed the dead CPU cooler and the PSU once and put a SSD. And yeah, I play 8+ years old titles on full HD with maxed details on my AMD 64 with AGP. It also plays smoothly full HD movies with 12 Gbps video data rate and surround audio.

Then again, give the technology to the masses and they will know what to do with...

 

[HideOut]

In the end it's an outdated platform. No one cares.

 

[RedJaron]

In the end it's an outdated platform. No one cares.

Outdated? Really? Then why did Intel just release Broadwell-E chips for it? Where's the news about an X99 successor? Consider that X58 and X79 each went three years before their successors came out. X99 isn't quite two years old yet.

 

[Eggz]

In the end it's an outdated platform. No one cares.

Outdated? Really? Then why did Intel just release Broadwell-E chips for it? Where's the news about an X99 successor? Consider that X58 and X79 each went three years before their successors came out. X99 isn't quite two years old yet.

Ha, I thought the same thing. Even X79 still performs one par with just about any 6-core chip, and X58 is still doing okay for a lot of tasks as well.

 

[leodmonkey]

Hate the way they change the connectors color ....really awkward, MSI ever heard of standards?


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[Crashman]

USB 3.1 Gen 2 isn't an additional Pro. It's the same thing as the USB 3.1 of older boards. The term "Gen 2" just comes from the renaming of USB 3.0 as USB 3.1 Gen 1.