- Jun 6, 2014
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Finally, finish my X99 system builds last week. Just want to share and show this MSI X99S GAMING 9 AC motherboard for you guys, hope this will be helpful.
Spec
CPU: Intel i7-5960X
Motherboard: MSI X99S GAMING 9 AC
Memory: Crucial DDR4-2133MHz 64GB
HDD:WD 1T BLACK SERIES
Graphic: MSI N780 TI LIGHTNING X3
(I haven’t decide which GPU I want to get, so I borrow those gpu from my friends.)
(May get 2-3 nvida 970 or 980 later on for my x99 build)
CPU Cooler: Thermaltake Frio Advanced
Power Supply: Cooler Master Silent Pro M2 1500W
Note: I am not the professional write/reviewer, so the image I take may be bad and low resolution, please forgive me!!!
Unboxing
Huge box, EATX motherboard [12 in. x 10.4 in. (30.5 cm x 26.4 cm) EATX Form Factor]
On the back of the box, it shows the key feature of the motherboard, include: Streaming engine, supports 4-Way SLI/CF, supports new DDR4 momory, Turbo m.2, Build-in Wifi, Audio boost 2, and Killer lan.
Accessories
Streaming engine, inside with AverMedia encoding chip. For those of you play with live stream, this will be a useful feature for your system build. [Record your gaming activities at amazing 1080p quality with 60Mbps bitrate, without sacrificing CPU and graphics performance.]
Turbo M.2, Delivering speeds up to 32Gb/s using Gen3 x4, Turbo M.2 is more than 5 times faster than a regular SATA III connection!
i/o, MSI use red instant of blue for the USB 3.0, support up to 8 USB 3.0 for use.
Also, up to 10 sata 6Gb, and also the Sata express as well. The coolest feature for the new x99 MSI motherboard, is that you can use m.2 and SATA-e at same time, for this will be good for your future upgrade.
As we know, all the x99 motherboard support for new DDR4 momery, MSI and ASRock can support up to 128G DDR4, but the official webside of Gigabyte and ASUS shows their mb can only up to 64G memory.
Spec
CPU: Intel i7-5960X
Motherboard: MSI X99S GAMING 9 AC
Memory: Crucial DDR4-2133MHz 64GB
HDD:WD 1T BLACK SERIES
Graphic: MSI N780 TI LIGHTNING X3
(I haven’t decide which GPU I want to get, so I borrow those gpu from my friends.)
(May get 2-3 nvida 970 or 980 later on for my x99 build)
CPU Cooler: Thermaltake Frio Advanced
Power Supply: Cooler Master Silent Pro M2 1500W
Note: I am not the professional write/reviewer, so the image I take may be bad and low resolution, please forgive me!!!
Unboxing

Huge box, EATX motherboard [12 in. x 10.4 in. (30.5 cm x 26.4 cm) EATX Form Factor]

On the back of the box, it shows the key feature of the motherboard, include: Streaming engine, supports 4-Way SLI/CF, supports new DDR4 momory, Turbo m.2, Build-in Wifi, Audio boost 2, and Killer lan.

Accessories


Streaming engine, inside with AverMedia encoding chip. For those of you play with live stream, this will be a useful feature for your system build. [Record your gaming activities at amazing 1080p quality with 60Mbps bitrate, without sacrificing CPU and graphics performance.]

Turbo M.2, Delivering speeds up to 32Gb/s using Gen3 x4, Turbo M.2 is more than 5 times faster than a regular SATA III connection!

i/o, MSI use red instant of blue for the USB 3.0, support up to 8 USB 3.0 for use.

Also, up to 10 sata 6Gb, and also the Sata express as well. The coolest feature for the new x99 MSI motherboard, is that you can use m.2 and SATA-e at same time, for this will be good for your future upgrade.

As we know, all the x99 motherboard support for new DDR4 momery, MSI and ASRock can support up to 128G DDR4, but the official webside of Gigabyte and ASUS shows their mb can only up to 64G memory.