MSI X299 XPower Gaming AC Motherboard Pictured

btarunr · May 30, 2017

Here's the first picture of MSI's flagship socket LGA2066 motherboard, the MSI X299 XPower Gaming AC. It features a polarizing silvery/white design, which you'll either love or hate. Built in the ATX form-factor (well, midway between ATX and E-ATX), the board draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX, 4-pin ATX, 8-pin EPS, and an optional 4-pin Molex. A 14-phase VRM conditions it for the CPU, which is wired to eight DDR4 DIMM slots, and four PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots (x16/NC/x16/NC or x16/NC/x8/x8 or x8/x8/x8/x8).

Can you imagine five M.2 SSDs in your rig? MSI can, and besides three 32 Gb/s M.2 slots on the board (two 110 mm and one 80 mm), an included PCIe 3.0 x8 riser card gives you two additional 110 mm 32 Gb/s slots. Other storage options include a 32 Gb/s U.2 port, and ten SATA 6 Gb/s. The board supports NVMe RAID and Optane. Networking is care of two Intel i219-V driven GbE interfaces, and an Intel-driven 802.11ac WLAN with Bluetooth 4.1 connection. MSI Mystic Light RGB software marshals not just a splattering of RGB LEDs all over the board, but also an "art in motion" LED ornament on the PCH heatsink.

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Caring1 · May 30, 2017

The silver plastic bits just cheapen it and make it look tacky, also the LED's need a dimmer switch.

Chaitanya · May 30, 2017

Caring1 said:
The silver plastic bits just cheapen it and make it look tacky, also the LED's need a dimmer switch.

Worse is that m.2 shield below 1st PCI-E slot. It few millimeters away from blocking that 2nd slot.

Kronvict · May 30, 2017

I sure hope this isn't their flagship model and a Godlike or similar will be coming out. Not liking this color scheme at all.

bogami · May 30, 2017

Beast! but how can it have such a high class board so a basic audio. The frame looks very cheap and plastic. Great addition part 2x M.2 .

Ubersonic · May 30, 2017

Head designer: Hmm, we should probably consider that some customers will want to use more than three laptop NVMe drives, better add a two drive expansion card!
Assistant designer: Great idea sir, and for desktop NVMe drives?
Head designer: Add a U.2 port!
Assistant designer: Just one sir?
Head designer: And TEN SATA ports for the lols!

MagnuTron · May 30, 2017

Good god.. What are the designers thinking.

Nuckles56 · May 30, 2017

Put some better looking plastic parts on the board or better yet, aluminium for the areas that need it and leave the rest and then this board might have a chance

PLAfiller · May 30, 2017

Reactor Core Two Point Oh.

Duality92 · May 30, 2017

At least they went with the adjustable 2066 socket versus the fixed one, this will please LN2 benchers.

ypsylon · May 31, 2017

We should have Award for the most kitsch piece of hardware in each category.

This one wins the motherboard category hands down (& up!). :laugh:

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MSI X299 XPower Gaming AC Motherboard Pictured

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