Heya guys, So I bought a MSI mobo for once. I've never bought anything MSI so the company is new to me. I feel people miss this great value for money when it comes to other companies like Asus and Gigabyte.
Anyway it came into the mail yestarday with a lovely box :B Along with my new cpu, Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon).
Out of the box I must admit its one very sexy looking motherboard, Very neat and well laid out. Well worth the 128 quid I paid on sale.
So, getting it all stuffed into my computer and boot it up I did have one very annoying issue. The debug LCD, which displays error codes ( EVERY MOBO NEEDS THESE) said there wasn't ram installed. I quickly drilled it down to one of the water cooling bolts touching the motherboard and shorting out two of the ram slots. So anyone with a custom loop that gets a error of 55, PLEASE check that nothing is shorting out the board. Apart from that it boots right up with no error codes and I've never had a issue thus this far.
Of course, This is a very early review I may add more as time goes on.
Anyway, Bios is very easy to use, very fast and I have no trouble with it at all. I know some people hate it but I don't see the problem with it. Went into memory and clicked XMP for my ram, Set it to 1866mhz and bang on the right timings with no problems and no errors in memtest. So again, Better than what I had with my asus and gigabyte boards!
So, Now that I've settled in with it. I'll need to see what this motherboard can take overclocking wise. I'd love to see my CPU upto 5ghz and I believe it's quite possible considering my cooling set up.
Anyway, As I said before I believe this motherboard is very underlooked and should be considered next to asus and gigabyte mobos! Very very happy with my buy and I heard the RMA service for MSI is quite good, So there's another plus!
I'll most likely report back when I start overclocking this cpu and see how it goes. Cheers.
Anyway it came into the mail yestarday with a lovely box :B Along with my new cpu, Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon).
Out of the box I must admit its one very sexy looking motherboard, Very neat and well laid out. Well worth the 128 quid I paid on sale.
So, getting it all stuffed into my computer and boot it up I did have one very annoying issue. The debug LCD, which displays error codes ( EVERY MOBO NEEDS THESE) said there wasn't ram installed. I quickly drilled it down to one of the water cooling bolts touching the motherboard and shorting out two of the ram slots. So anyone with a custom loop that gets a error of 55, PLEASE check that nothing is shorting out the board. Apart from that it boots right up with no error codes and I've never had a issue thus this far.
Of course, This is a very early review I may add more as time goes on.
Anyway, Bios is very easy to use, very fast and I have no trouble with it at all. I know some people hate it but I don't see the problem with it. Went into memory and clicked XMP for my ram, Set it to 1866mhz and bang on the right timings with no problems and no errors in memtest. So again, Better than what I had with my asus and gigabyte boards!
So, Now that I've settled in with it. I'll need to see what this motherboard can take overclocking wise. I'd love to see my CPU upto 5ghz and I believe it's quite possible considering my cooling set up.
Anyway, As I said before I believe this motherboard is very underlooked and should be considered next to asus and gigabyte mobos! Very very happy with my buy and I heard the RMA service for MSI is quite good, So there's another plus!
I'll most likely report back when I start overclocking this cpu and see how it goes. Cheers.
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