Exterior appreciation
Hand-held box.
The first feeling of the motherboard after opening the box, this motherboard is full of weight, and it is heavy in the hand.
Note that this motherboard is not designed with the currently popular RGB lighting effect. In the author's opinion, MSI prefers to show the luxurious quality of this high-end motherboard through a powerful stack of materials.
Reinforced armor has been added to the back of the motherboard, and the larger MSI dragon pattern adds a bit of domineering to this motherboard!
The CPU-powered heat dissipation module part covers a large size radiator.
This motherboard adopts a 19-phase 105A CPU direct power supply design, and with MSI's third-generation titanium inductor and other high-quality materials, it can help the 12th generation Core processor run more stable and exceed higher.
One-piece radiator with I/O protective armor.
The CPU power supply interface is designed for 8+8pin.
New generation LGA1700 processor base with support for Intel 12th Generation Core desktop processors.
Four DDR5 memory slots, a single slot supports up to 32GB of memory, four is 128GB capacity.
This motherboard can support memory overclocking rates up to DDR5-6666MHz, and players can use the current high-end DDR5 memory to release the powerful performance of the 12th generation Core platform.
The larger piece of armor on the side of the memory has the role of beauty and protection of motherboard components.
The extended area is designed with three PCIe x16 slots, which perfectly supports the new generation of RTX30 series and RX6000 series graphics cards. The two near the CPU are PCIe 5.0 x16 and the one near the edge of the motherboard is PCIe 4.0 x16.
The three PCIe x16 slots are all metal ruggedized, which can effectively avoid the damage of the motherboard caused by the self-weight of large graphics cards.
The motherboard is equipped with five M.2 SSD mounting slots, so players can expand the M.2 SSD installation as much as they like. At the same time, it is all equipped with M.2 Frost Cooling Armor (double-sided armor design) and 7W/mK thermal pad, which can help M.2 SSD run stably without dropping speed.
Heat dissipation armor on the south bridge chip.
6 x SATA 6Gbps interfaces.
The PCB edge is designed with a boot button and a restart key, which is convenient for DIY hardware players to operate the computer bare metal.
The onboard sound card is the flagship Realmtek ALC4082. At the same time, a number of professional audio designs are also adopted, including audio chip shielding armor, audio splitting lines, audio professional capacitors, etc., which can help better sound quality performance.
The Intel I225V 2.5Gbps network chip provides superior wired networking performance.
Wi-Fi 6E wireless card.
Protective armor for the I/O interface area, designed with a gold leaf dragon pattern.
Integrated I/O backplane, more beautiful, more convenient installation, but also can play a protective role.
Dual THUNDERBOLT 4 interfaces with 40Gb/s transfer rate, the performance is quite powerful!
Motherboard BIOS interface at a glance
The interface style of the MSI motherboard BIOS is probably familiar to players.
(Advanced Mode Interface)
(Easy Mode Interface)
With advanced mode interface and simple mode interface, press F7 to switch. If you want to overclock your computer, you need to operate it in the advanced mode interface.
Overclocking interface.
The 12th generation Core processors feature a hybrid architecture design with a performance core (P core) and an energy efficiency core (E core). To overclock a 12th-generation Core processor, players need to master the dynamic overclocking principle.
What is dynamic overclocking? Players can carefully read the Intel 12900K Premiere Review: Hybrid Architecture Goes Up, Dynamic Overclocking Goes Up! This article.
Memory XMP enable option.
The fan speed setting interface is very intuitive, and players can adjust it as they please.
Product summary
At present, this motherboard is on sale in the Jingdong Mall MSI self-operated flagship store, and the reference price is 4999 yuan. 【Purchase Portal】