MSI Z87 Mpower but without wireless and a far better price!

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The MSI Z87 MPower is a fantastic board but seems to be over shadowed by the Z87X-OC and the Hero which are of similar price.

MSI have dropped bluetooth etc and in turn dropped the price to a far nicer £149.99inc. Nicely done :D

MSI Z87 Mpower SP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard @ £149.99 inc VAT

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The MSI® Z87 MPOWER is the motherboard for those living on the edge. No other motherboard is tested more extensively and over a longer period of time than MSI’s Z87 MPOWER and that translates directly to better stability and higher overclocks for you. When overclocking, you don’t want a single component to limit you.

The new Z87 MPOWER comes equipped with the most impressive thermal design to date. The massive heat sink has been designed and tested to be compatible with any air or liquid cooler and SuperPipe technology maximizes the heat sinks efficiency.

- CPU Support: 4th Gen Intel® Core™ / Pentium® / Celeron® processors
- CPU Socket: LGA1150
- Chipset: Intel® Z87 Express Chipset
- Graphics Interface: 3 * PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots with 4th Gen Intel® Core™ processors, AMD CrossFire / NVIDIA SLI Support
- Display Interface: 1* DisplayPort, 2 * HDMI - Requires CPU Graphics
- Memory Support: 4 DIMMs, Dual Channel DDR3-3000(OC)
- Expansion slots: 4 * PCI-E x1 slots
- SATA / mSATA: 8 * SATA 6Gb/s, 1 * mSATA
- SATA RAID: RAID 0,1,5,10 - Available at ports SATA1-SATA6
- USB / IEEE 1394: 8 * USB 3.0, 8 * USB 2.0
- LAN: Killer™ E2205 Gigabit Ethernet
- Audio: 8-channel HD Audio with Sound Blaster Cinema

Only £149.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
Just wish it had more yellow. As it is, I'd say the Z87X-OC and the Hero are the prettier boards. Still, £150 is a great price.
 
Why cant motherboard manufacturer keep to one color,boards looks ok but get rid of the yellow and keep it black.
 
Why after so many years is a i7 920 at stock doing all I want, either I purchased right or I got something that was future proof for my needs for a good while.

Still I cant bring myself to change socket when I can have a 4ghx 920 by loading the BIOS, I am waiting for the next big step :)
 
JediFragger said:
Loving this board!!! Just wish I had more of a reason to upgrade from Sandy@5Ghz!!
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Nice CPU, what motherboard you using with your 5GHz Sandy? I've got one that does 4.9GHz with the Z77 MPower.

Probally do more with one of the luxury motherboards, the thing with Haswell it seems regardless of the motherboard, it won't make the CPU clock any higher, all down to the CPU, shame really.

I've even got a Gigabyte Z77X-UP7 motherboard that I never got around to using, maybe that would get it to 5GHz.

Oh yes nice motherboard that Z87 MPower. :)
 
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Hey Nelly, long time! I use an Asrock z68 Extreme4. Quite a good mobo for the Sandys :)

Just a shame that their's not a compelling reason for upgrades, I'm a guy who likes the latest stuff too!
 
JediFragger said:
Hey Nelly, long time! I use an Asrock z68 Extreme4. Quite a good mobo for the Sandys :)
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Cool :) I never used the P67 chipset, I read they were the boards to have to clock Sandybridge higher on slightly lower volts to get 5GHz on air easier. Yeah the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 was sure popular. :)

Their was a post on these forums over a year ago where a guy used his Asus P67 PRO to clock higher than his equivelent Z68 PRO mobo, I would easily sacrifice onboard GPU power for the luxury.
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Just a shame that their's not a compelling reason for upgrades, I'm a guy who likes the latest stuff too!
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The price is awesome for this MSI Z87 MPower, my last two boards were MPower's - so easy to overclock, I think MSI has best UEFI layout, but everyones different I guess. :)
 
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