Digital Power Design |
Since quite some time MSI has been equipping its boards with digital power designs. On the X99S
MPower 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 |
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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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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M.2 Support
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The new MSI X99S MPower Force motherboard
features an M.2 slot. This motherboard can be equipped with an SSD in
M.2 format and it is wired directly to the X99 PCH via two PCI Express
lanes. In other words up to 10 Gbps can be pushed over the bus through this slot. |
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Guard Pro |
With Guard Pro MSI
describes an entire feature set, which includes:
Circuit protection:
Humidity protection
High Temperature protection
ESD protection
ECO Power
EMI Protections |
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OC Genie 4
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OC Genie is MSI's automatic
overclocking feature. By the touch of this button, the board is
automatically going to overclock the CPU installed up to a certain
extent. |
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