Get ready for ear-drum shattering sound, with MSI Audio Boost 2! With Audio Boost 2 delivering the highest audio quality with the use of Creative Sound Blaster Cinema 2 so you can enjoy crystal clear sound and music through 8-channel HD audio.
Isolated audio PCB
With traditional onboard audio the signal is distorted by electromagnetic signals from the rest of the PCB. Audio Boost 2 acts like a dedicated soundcard by physically isolating the audio circuitry which is separated by a red LED path. Less interference gives you a more clearly audio signal.
Direct audio power
Enjoy a heavy caliber audio experience with direct audio power. A dedicated power input to Audio Boost 2 allows for a more powerful and stable power delivery, resulting in a more explosive and pure sound experience.
Creative Sound Blaster Cinema 2
Thanks to Creative Sound Blaster Cinema 2, you're getting amazing surround sound with just stereo headphones or speakers. Creative Sound Blaster Cinema 2 enables you to clearly hear specific sounds in gaming environments. Hear your enemies perfectly; make your ears a decisive tool to finish on top.
Dual headhpone amplifiers
The built-in dual headphone amplifier rewards your high quality headphone with the most amazing studio level sound quality up to 600 O delivered from your gaming PC. MSI GAMING motherboards are designed to be easy to use, featuring front & rear audio outputs fueled by Audio Boost 2.
High quality audio capacitors
With the use of professional Nichicon Japanese capacitors, specially designed for audio purposes, MSI GAMING motherboards provide the highest possible audio signal filtering. It is delivering high fidelity crystal clear sound with exceptional acoustics and realism.
USB audio power
When connecting multiple USB devices, most motherboards will be unable to deliver a strong 5 V power signal to all USB ports. This is highly noticeable with high-quality external USB DACs where sound quality degrades as the motherboard is unable to deliver a perfect USB signal.
Killer E2200 game networking
The Killer E2200 intelligent networking platform is built for maximum networking performance for online games and high-quality streaming media. Featuring advanced stream detect, Killer E2200 automatically detects and accelerates game traffic ahead of other network traffic for smoother, stutter-free in-game performance and the competitive edge. With this exclusive, automatic traffic prioritization, games and real-time chat get priority over low-level system chatter, giving you the lowest latency for game data on the most controllable network hardware available.
Push your SSD to the limit
Enjoy a blazing fast system boot up and insanely fast loading of applications and games with MSI GAMING motherboards. MSI offer the next generation of high speed storage support through M. 2 and SATA Express. M.2 and SATA Express transfer data through a PCI Express 2.0 x 2 interfaces up to 10 Gb/s, making it 67% faster than SATA 3.0 solutions.
Gaming device port
MSI gaming device port is optimized to deliver the best connectivity for high end gaming mice to fully utilize its speed. This results in a much faster and smoother mouse response in games.
OC Genie 4
OC Genie is the world's first built-in hardware overclocking technology on motherboards. With this one-second overclocking option we're giving you even more performance. Just hit the button and your PC gets another adrenalin shot.
Click BIOS 4
The MSI Click BIOS 4 is the latest UEFI BIOS with optimizations for Windows 8. Not only that it also reacts faster, runs smoother and has better mouse support. And this all comes with many cool features.
Optimized for multiple graphics cards
Get up to 3 PCI-Express 3.0 x 16 slots, with optimal placement for better fitting and airflow. That way, you can enjoy the best graphics at the highest frame rate jumping off from your screen when running a NVIDIA SLI or AMD CrossFire gaming setup.
Super charger
With MSI super charger you can simply deliver more power than regular USB chargers to your smartphone, tablet, USB game controller or portable console. This allows you to quickly charge these devices for use when you're not gaming on your PC, eliminating the need for wall power sockets.
Smart fan control
Smart fan control gives you complete control of all your fans on the motherboard, convenient for gamers and overclockers.
Dragon heatsink
With an awesome product comes an inspiring heatsink! The heatsink is oversized to provide the best thermal transfer and heat dissipation to enable your PC to just game long time.
1 x CPU , 4 x DIMM 240-pin , 3 x PCIe 3.0 x16 (dual: x8 mode; triple: x8, x4, x4 mode; single card: x16 mode) , 4 x PCIe 2.0 x1
Storage Interfaces
SATA-600 -connectors: 6 x 7pin Serial ATA, 1 x M.2 - RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 10 / RAID 5
RAID Features
Intel Smart Response Technology
Interfaces
1 x LAN (Gigabit Ethernet) , 4 x USB 2.0 , 1 x HDMI , 1 x PS/2 keyboard / mouse , 4 x USB 3.0 , 1 x VGA , 1 x audio line-out - mini-jack , 1 x audio line-in - mini-jack , 1 x audio line-out (side surround) - mini-jack , 1 x audio line-out (rear) - mini-jack , 1 x audio line-out (center/subwoofer) - mini-jack , 1 x microphone - mini-jack , 1 x DVI-D
Internal Interfaces
4 x USB 2.0 - header , 2 x USB 3.0 - header , 1 x audio - header , 1 x serial - header
Power Connectors
24-pin main power connector, 8-pin ATX12V connector
I/O back plate, "Do-Not-Disturb" door hanger, case badge, cable labels
Software Included
MSI Command Center, Killer Network Manager, RAMdisk, MSI Live Update 6, MSI Gaming App
Compatible with Windows 7
"Compatible with Windows 7" software and devices carry Microsoft’s assurance that these products have passed tests for compatibility and reliability with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7.