MSI X99A SLI Krait Edition anyone got one?

[Gazb]

As the title says, just looking of the non crazy priced X99 motherboards at the moment, and features wise the MSI X99A SLI Krait Edition looks very solid, and there doesn't appear to be many reports of issues with MSI X99 boards (though that could be down to lower numbers of them sold or something like that).

Haven't used an MSI motherboard is a long time, so no idea how good and reliable these days. (or what their support is like)

So if anyone happens to have (or had) one of these let know what you think.

 

[Gazb]

That's interesting. I thought judging by what I'd found/read most people seemed to be quite happy with the SLI Plus, only issues when overclocking some memory which was fixed in a BIOS update.

More importantly I didn't come across any booting with USB devices connected issues that a lot of Asus users seem to have been reported.

 

[Gazb]

I do see people on msi forums complaining about the range of fan speed adjustment not going low enough. One said you can't set system fans lower than 50% speed which seems crazy.

 

[Gazb]

Maybe a Gigabyte X99 SOC would be the safest X99 option (less stuff on the board to cause issues lol).
Though I was wanting to have 8 DIMM slots so I could just add more later on.
And the krait seems really nicely specced (USB 3.1, M.2 32Gbs) for the price, and the MSI boards seem to do nicely in benchmarks being 'slightly' faster than most others. (Though I guess it could he in the margin of error)

Think my dilemma is, Asus boards tend to be very expensive for what they are, a lot have booting with USB attached issues and their support/RMA is pretty rubbish, so I'm not wanting to take the risk (even though the X99 TUF does look nice but it's also ~£280).

And on the whole, I don't want a motherboard with the killer LAN adapter, as they can be problematic, whereas Intel NIC's are rock solid.

 

[Gazb]

Still a couple of weeks before I'll be ordering so I'll be interested to see how you get on with it.

Been looking at the ASRock boards, and it does look like the Extreme 6 is a reliable board. Not a fan of the blue heat sinks though... Then I spotted the Fatal1y Killer... Lol
In fact I see there is also a version with USB 3.1 type C.

 

[Gazb]

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I'm actually warming to the red and pure black of the x99x killer though.

I'm the same, and more importantly while it has an qualcom/atheros killer NIC (which will probably be junk), it also has an Intel NIC, you could just disable the Killer one and not have any potential issues with it.