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MSI B85-G43 Gaming, Intel LGA1150 ATX Motherboard (4x DDR3, 4x USB 3, 8x USB 2, GBE, LAN, VGA, HDMI, DVI) £58.95 @ amazon (check comments for detail specs)
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Supports 4th Gen Intel® Core™ / Pentium® / Celeron® processors for LGA 1150 socket
Supports DDR3-1600 Memory
USB 3.0 + SATA 6Gb/s
Audio Boost: Reward Your Ears with True Quality
Killer Ethernet: Kill Your Lag
Military Class 4: Top Quality & Stability
OC Genie 4: Overclock in 1 Second
Click BIOS 4: Easily Fine-tune Your System
PCI Express Gen 3: World's 1st PCI Express Gen 3 Motherboard Brand
Multi-GPU: AMD CrossFire Support
Sound Blaster Cinema: Realistic Surround Sound Experience
Gaming Device Port: Optimized with Triple Gold-plating for High Polling Rate Gaming Devices
Total Fan Control: Optimize All Fan Speed As You Wish
The best gaming weapons at hand
• The highest frag and the lowest lag with Killer E2200 Game Networking
• Crystal clear sound with Audio Boost
• Top quality audio solution with Sound Blaster Cinema
• Superb graphics with VGA Boost
• Blazing fast booting with Super RAID
• Gaming Device Port
• Military Class 4 Components
• OC Genie 4 & Click BIOS 4
• Optimized for multiple graphics cards
• Supports DDR3-3000 memory for super fast loading
Supports DDR3-1600 Memory
USB 3.0 + SATA 6Gb/s
Audio Boost: Reward Your Ears with True Quality
Killer Ethernet: Kill Your Lag
Military Class 4: Top Quality & Stability
OC Genie 4: Overclock in 1 Second
Click BIOS 4: Easily Fine-tune Your System
PCI Express Gen 3: World's 1st PCI Express Gen 3 Motherboard Brand
Multi-GPU: AMD CrossFire Support
Sound Blaster Cinema: Realistic Surround Sound Experience
Gaming Device Port: Optimized with Triple Gold-plating for High Polling Rate Gaming Devices
Total Fan Control: Optimize All Fan Speed As You Wish
The best gaming weapons at hand
• The highest frag and the lowest lag with Killer E2200 Game Networking
• Crystal clear sound with Audio Boost
• Top quality audio solution with Sound Blaster Cinema
• Superb graphics with VGA Boost
• Blazing fast booting with Super RAID
• Gaming Device Port
• Military Class 4 Components
• OC Genie 4 & Click BIOS 4
• Optimized for multiple graphics cards
• Supports DDR3-3000 memory for super fast loading
overclockzone.com
Are there any other features lacking ? I noticed this is a b85 chipset board and I believe they are aimed at business use so was wondering how they differ to the more common z87 boards in terms of using it for gaming ?
I have been slowly building a pc (very slowly I might add) and will be leaving the more cost diminishing items till last (ie: SSD & HDD, GPU, CPU & RAM) so was wondering if going for a b85 would be wise as I'd rather stick with the more mainstream z87 boards for possible future upgrade options.
I paid 65 for the Asrock pro3 z87 motherboard which has been great. Ram and cpu both overclocked easily and running at good temps (20 idle 50 load)
The only things the B85 chipset lacks over it's bigger brother is no overclocking and less USB3 and SATA3 connections as far as I'm aware.
It can still support all the top end Intel processor's. You may be able to get a Z87 board for near this price but it's not going to offer the superior audio and LAN connections this does.
I'm only running a H81 chipset motherboard in my gaming rig and it has been perfect so far.
So I'd personally recommend this board.
Does it have coax / opt as in picture of board or is it lacking like that last photo
Just got an 4th Gen i7 laptop so I'll have to pass on this. I checked up Hackintoshing with this board, can get 10.8.4 working but nothing later, that I know of.
Also, just an addition to Xela333s comment regarding no overclock. While unexpected it seems MSI have including overclocking capabilites on their b85 chipset boards
techpowerup.com/for…03/
Tempted by one of these and something Haswell flavoured to replace my aging phenom something-or-other.
Are you asking what GPU is built in to the chipset on this board? If so there isn't one. The GPU is contained within the Intel CPU that you install in the board.
This link should answer your questions >
uk.msi.com/pro…tml
Thanks. I thought it might be based on the cpu as no mention on msi site except there was a vga driver
bit-tech.net/new…k/1
Edit GLOBAL one is a lot faster than all the other choices.
No. Only 4th gen (4xxx) chips.
It says on their site that this has OC'ing ability or is it just limited ? uk.msi.com/pro…tml
even the
cpubenchmark.net/cpu…GHz
lol hammers the machine I'm on now with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 revision B2 and better than my q6600 as well
i5 4570, you don't want to OC on a B85
why not ?
Does anyone know when was the first bios update issued by MSI that intel wanted them to use ?
Does overclock though uk.msi.com/new…tml
2tb full of steam games I can't afford an ssd that big
I think he meant for the OS and/or SSD caching?
Yeah I know
You can Overclock on this just fine. Don't pay attention to those who say you can't.
You seem to also get all the same gaming features on this board as MSI's Z87 gaming range, minus SLI support. You can CrossFire still however.
You only really lack RAID support really.
Hot hot hot at £59!
using which version BIOS ?
The Maximus Hero is just a bit more... A fantastiv board.
asus.com/Mot…se/