Military Class 4 Components
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MSI's fancy name for high quality components, the Military Class 4 Components certified motherboard are equiped with Hi-c
CAP, Super Ferrite Choke and Dark CAPs for better stability, durability,
efficiency and current and DrMOS 4 is the name of new MOSFETs which
should deliver
more than 600+ Watts for extreme overclocking. |
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OC PCB
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The Z87 Xpower does not just give you 32-Phases for
those that like to go crazy on the CPU voltages but MSI is also using 50% more layers for
Xtreme overclocking. So, if you are an Xtreme overclocker with some LN2
to spare, you know
what it means when you are running to break the world record and the
mainboard starts to fail because some part of it is wet and
you need to unmount whole the system. The rest of the features and
design solutions include the clean CPU socket area which should have more
compatibilty with LN2 containers, V-Check points for voltage monitoring,
buttons for overcloking on the fly for Bclk, multiplier. While many overlcockers
will not exactly like the "overclock on the fly" features which can be
done easily in BIOS, it can be used when system is at the
limit and when benchmarks finish and the system come back into Idle from
Load and also it helps in some benchmarks like Vantage or 3Dmark 06, when
in order to get higher score you need to run higher GT tests and for CPU tests
when you
underclock the CPU frequency. |
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DigitALL Power PWM
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Like all the large motherboard manufacturers, for
quite some years, MSI has been also equipping its motherboards with
digital power design. |
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Audio Boost
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MSI equips its motherboard with an improved audio
implementation which includes the Realtek ALC1150 chip, EMI isolation,
built-in headphone amplifier, high quality capacitors and PCB separation. |
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Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Module
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MSI bundle its motherboard with an unpluggable mPCIe card
equiped with a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth module from Intel. The latter supports
802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and Intel WiDi. |
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Killer Ethernet
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It is rather obvious, that MSI is not only
optimizing this board for overclocking but also for gaming. Next to
the beefed up audio solution there is the Killer Ethernet chip, which
gives gamers additional control over a variety of network settings,
which in the end can help reduce latency. |
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MSI Z87 MPower Max Review 