Or a overpriced one which has more than you need. But that's whats great about these motherboards unlike other where your choice is normally a cheap basic one (which you know wont do what you want. This motherboard has great features I realised now I would of been a bit better to get the next one up the MSI Gaming 7 simply for the on Board OC button. Only once I had to RMA something due to damage in transit, and they where so nice customer service and sorted it out and had a new one with my very quick and when you know that the price is fair, build quality is second to none, MSI products always look sexy and you just know it will work. Years now I have been buying MSI products and my friends always say to me "Are you not sick of always buying the same stuff" and I reply " In over 15 years and hundreds of MSI products, I still to this day have not had one serious issue. MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Intel LGA1150 Z97 ATX Motherboard (1x DDR3, 6x USB3.0, 8x USB2.0, GBE, LAN, HDMI, DVI, VGA) that's all for now, soon i will explore and write about new experiences with this mobo. Not getting good read write performance on barracuda 1 TB 7200 rpm may be due to disk performance ( have to explore the exact reason).ħ. Amazon delivery for this motherboards was quite fast and packaging was really good.
Cooling demand is not much but if you are planning to install a Graphic card then do think about a heavy chassis may be in 2000 - 5000 range.ĥ. So careful when you select chassis for the same. Here the catch is processor power supply, most of regular and mass sold motherboards in INDIA uses 4 pin power supply whereas gaming and advanced motherboards uses 8 pin. Manufacturer or seller should have mentioned the power supply type in advanced. Mobo is capable of performing good without graphic card when i checked with Assassin creed and few PS2 simulated games. Sound quality is average on 2.0 speakers, did not feel that "awesome" as claimed by the manufacturer.
Lets see some of my personal observations:ġ. Writing this product review after using it for 3 months. Be sure to disable IGD from bios if you have a graphics card. Just buy a cheap graphics card instead on installing Intel graphics driver. Intel's auto-update utility doesn't work. Do you trust intel to configure APM properly? Just install some external S.M.A.R.T monitoring tool they allow you to configure APM if needed without any unnecessary drivers.ħ) Intel Graphics (for those without graphics card)ĭrivers are outdated on MSI's webpage. APM causes disks to fail faster is configured aggressively. RST gives you a utility that provides APM (automatic power management) to hard disks.
Why? it doesn't do much and it installs so many unnecessary drivers to do nothing. Never install Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver. Killer Network Manager is buggy never install it.
Just install Realtek High Definition Audio Driver without Sound Blaster. Either It is very buggy or MSI just never bothered to test it. Why have so many utilities to do the same job? if you set your fan speed in MSI UEFI then MSI Commander over-rides the fan speed to something different. There is :Īll these utilities fight with each other. MSI has about 1 million ways you can tweak/overclock this motherboard.
But when you actually enter the code they say there have been too many frauds and thus they will not give me the steam game. MSI promises a promo code for final fantasy steam game on the motherboard box. Going MSI Z97 GAMING Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard