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The Audio Boost 3 is similar to Purity Sound 3, though MSI's implementation might be even better. Moving away from storage to audio we find that like Asrock MSI has gone with the Realtek ALC1150 codec and like Asrock they have paired it with some extras to create what their marketing department named Audio Boost 3. For example one M.2 slot can be used along with all six SATA ports, while using both M.2 slots will reduce the available SATA ports to just four. This means that there are 10 storage interfaces available, though a maximum of seven can be used simultaneously. They have however made sure that there are two M.2 slots and two SATA Express ports. MSI has helped save costs by not implementing a 3rd party SATA controller and instead leaving the Z170A Gaming M7 with the standard 6 SATA ports from the Z170 chipset. On-board we find three PCI Express x16 slots which allow for x8/x8 dual graphics card configurations or x8/x8/x4 triple cards. It's surprisingly well equipped though keep in mind that it costs much less than Asrock Z170 Extreme7+ and Asus ROG Maximus VIII Hero, so we aren't expecting the same level of features. The Z170A Gaming M7 is much more than a dazzling design. The massive power phase cooling and those red traces from the CPU to the DIMM slots make this a rather striking motherboard. The Z170A Gaming M7 has been given the standard gaming red/black color scheme and it has to be said the board looks impressive. If you can't afford the $300 asking price for the Titanium Edition board then perhaps the $210 Z170A Gaming M7 is a more practical choice. Someone obviously hit invert color by mistake. The board looks like the result of a printing error.
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For those not all geared up for gaming there is the Pro series, but that sounds pretty boring.Īt the top of MSI's Z170 range is the Z170A XPower Gaming Titanium Edition - quite the mouthful. In fact buying a non-gaming brand MSI motherboard is the new challenge, as they have the Enthusiast Gaming, Performance Gaming and Arsenal Gaming series. they must have sold well because today the formula remains much the same. These boards featured elaborate heatsinks with red dragons etched into them and well.
Then a few years ago the company jumped on the 'gaming' brand train by releasing its 'Gaming Series' motherboards, the first of which were based on the Intel Z77 and B75 chipsets.
You do not really *need* to have 231 sessions of Chrome open, rarely a Word or Excel document exceeds 5 Mb (megabytes, not gigabytes) in size, etc., and IF you need to have that then you need a stable system.There was a time not that long ago when just about every MSI motherboard was built on a black PCB and featured a few blue highlights, namely blue PCIe and DIMM slots.
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Then, if you use a lot of high end, professional or semi-professional software and ONLY IF you use those, like as an example software for graphic processing or photos, or you do video editing or CAD/CAM (and rendering) or, say, forensics to name a few, THEN the 4 Gb starts representing a real world limitation, BUT what you really need apart the larger amount of RAM is an absolute (or at least very, very high) stability of the OS, you don't want to have a crash when 3/4th into a rendering session or halfway through a video animation.
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The whole point that a lot of people misses IMHO is that there is EITHER a *need* for more than 4 Gb of Ram (or 3.85 or whatever the 32 bit OS will be able to actually accesss) OR there is not this *need*.Īny and all "normal" activities on a PC can be carried within the 3.x Gb of RAM, and this does mean "any and all normal activities".
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Since there are drivers for 7, it would be much smarter to procure a Windows 7 license, it makes little sense anyway to have XP (32 bit) on a motherboard with 16 Gb of Ram (you didn't specify it, but if you have a XP 圆4 license then you should know how the 64 bit version of XP never was "mainstream" as at the time people with suitable machines were very few). I see no benefit in running a system whose core OS is so outdated that it requires a never ending battle in order to maintain compatibility with up to date hardware and software technologies.Īre you implying that the old, obsolete, unsupported, OS has the same market value as a new, supported if you want to run XP, you should find a motherboard that has XP drivers, that MSI seems like a very recent one and it is unlikely that drivers for XP for it exist at all. My advice is simple, sell your unsupported operating system and spend that money on a supported operating system instead.