Digital Power Design |
Since quite some time
MSI has been equipping its boards with digital power designs. On
the X99S Gaming 7 there are only high-end components when it comes to the
power design. There are for example PWM controllers from PowIRstage as
well as ICs from International Rectifier. Other than that there are
"Black Solid Caps", which offer 10'000 operating hours, which is up to
three times as much than what you get from standard caps.
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Audio Boost
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Audio
Boost is MSIs interpretation of good onboard audio. In this case there
is a Realtek ALC1150 chip, which has been equipped with an EMI shield
and apart from that, there are high quality capacitors. |
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M.2 Support
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The new
MSI X99S Gaming 7 motherboard from MSI features an M.2 slot which is placed between two PCIe slots. This motherboard can be equipped with an SSD in M.2 format and it is wired directly to the
X99 PCH via four PCI Express lanes, therefore offering x4 bandwidth. In other words up to
20 Gbps can be pushed over the bus through this slot, almost more than tripling the performance compared to the SATA-III port. |
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SATA Express |
SATA Express is a new port for storage devices that basically combines two SATA connectors and bundles them. Each SATA Express port has been wired using two PCI Express Gen2 lanes offering a total of 10 Gbps bandwidth. Compared to SATA-III with 6 Gbps bandwidth this is quite an improvement. |
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