Manufactures, Y U tease us?

We have had the Z87 G1 Killer tease from Gigabyte, now we have the Z87 MSI BigBang teaser from MSI.

I hate the runup to a new set of CPUs and mobos with all the little teasers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9gJkyQyeSs

defo investing the Gigabyte board i think, looks sexy with all the gold

Too early to tell who i'll be rooting for in this generation, but I am feeling bias towards MSI.
Let's hope the Z87's GD65 board is as great as Z77's was (is).

Josh Weston said:

Too early to tell who i'll be rooting for in this generation, but I am feeling bias towards MSI.
Let's hope the Z87's GD65 board is as great as Z77's was (is).

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Yeah MSI's Z77 lineup is quite nice (have a GD65 myself, although not yet enough experience
with it to really legitimately be able to sing its praises). I really hope they can keep this up

It's been a long time coming now but MSI are finally getting their motherboards to the same level as their GPUs.

I wish they would do a Lightning series motherboard.

I too like Josh am starting to feel a bias toward MSI boards. I hve never personally owned one but the OC3D community seems to have had great success with their Z77 offering and on top of that they're very aesthetically pleasing

I too am starting to like MSI boards as the one I just bought is the first since their horrible diamond board for amd they really seem to have come a long way.

I have a feeling that this round is going to MSI or Asus. The Sabertooth series are good boards, though I personally don't care for the ROG stuff

Tbh, I'm personally not biased towards any - despite pretty much only recommending MSI boards on here.

The Asus line of P8Z77 boards, along with the Maximus and Sabretooth lines are just as good as MSI boards. Same performance, and possibly more features (although a lot of those are things you'd never actually use).

But, MSI were able to price their ranges a lot more competitively. Where Asus give you a lot more features between the LX, Pro and Deluxe boards, the price differences between them are significantly more - was about £50 between them when they first came out. The MSI boards had only £10 or so between the GD55 and 65, and only £20 iirc between the G45 and GD55... However, MSI didn't really offer much performance, or feature differentiation between their lines.

I think it all comes down to price. If the P8Z77 deluxe could be offered for GD65/mPower price, then I'd probably recommend that. They're both amazing boards, and all the ones I've mentioned here can easily reach maximum safe 24/7 overclocks on Ivy of around 4.5ghz depending on the chip of course.

I just think performance wise, Ivybridge took a lot away from the motherboard - the memory controller for instance and so less is required from the motherboard in order to get decent overclocks. If that's the same for Haswell - which I think we can all assume it will be, then I don't think there will really be much point in anyone spending over GD45/55 pricing in order to get great performance and features.

i follow gigabyte msi asus and asrock on FB there all teasing pictures etc to be honest i love gigabyte and asus always have.

but this time round im rooting for msi as there boards this gen anyway have been Killer excuse the pun as there now using killer nic's lol

I've still got an old MSI board, a 890fxa AMD number, and it's goes like the absolute CLAPPERS.
Don't know why I told you that xPPPP

I personally love the teaser pics before a new generation, gets me pumped for what about to come

jamesriley94 said:

I just think performance wise, Ivybridge took a lot away from the motherboard - the memory controller for instance and so less is required from the motherboard in order to get decent overclocks. If that's the same for Haswell - which I think we can all assume it will be, then I don't think there will really be much point in anyone spending over GD45/55 pricing in order to get great performance and features.

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Looks like Haswell will take even more away from the mobo.

http://anandtech.com/show/6898/intel-details-haswell-overclocked-at-idf-beijing

Ever since Sandy, there hasn't really been a need for having above a mid range, or even a low end mobo for a high overclock. Nearly all 1155 mobos are capable of achieving 4.5ghz, even with higher end boards you are maybe shaving off .1 or .2 of a volt to get the same OC. You can push further with the higher end boards though, from 4.5ghz upwards and do more extreme OCing.

The only real benefit of a higher end 1155 board was the 2 x16 PCIE lanes for SLI/CFX, even though 2 x8 lanes offers little to next to no difference from 2 x16 lanes.

But even with PCIE lanes now, we have PCIE 3 with double the bandwidth, so even PCIE lanes don't really matter when buying a mobo anymore. All you need is a board that does 2 x16 PCIE 3 lanes, which even most of the lower end boards do now.

SieB said:

Looks like Haswell will take even more away from the mobo.

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I was actually quite surprized when I heard they were integrating the voltage regulation circuitry on to the die too. It means there'll be less of a distinction between the Motherboard manafacturers.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20121226225930_Intel_s_Haswell_to_Feature_Secrete_Weapon_Integrated_Voltage_Regulator.html

Although there's things like Inductors and Caps which you need for Buck Converters that are far too big to fit on the package, but the trend is very much towards integrating the whole motherboard onto the CPU. Broadwell is to swallow the southbridge for instance.

This newest generation of processing power definitely excites me, but I'm approaching it with cautious optimism because of the uncertainty of how less being on the board will actually function in a real world setting, as well as what this will mean for performance enthusiasts.

MSI just posted this on their Facebook:



The plastic cap in the socket says 'LGA115x' so I'm assuming that it's the new socket 1150 (Now that the z77 boards are all out anyway). It also has Military Class 4 components, but the main thing I noticed was that this board has 2 x 8 pin CPU power.

That must be one beefy z87 board

pretty sure that says CPU1

2 CPU's

MrKambo said:

pretty sure that says CPU1

2 CPU's

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I don't think so. Along the left edge of the picture you can see 'SPDIF_HDMI_DP1' so that's where the I/O will be and in the bottom right corner you can see a little list
Dimm1
Dimm2
Dimm3
So that's where the RAM will be. Won't be much space left for another CPU socket on that board. And besides, it would be the new mainstream socket so I seriously doubt that we're even going to see multi socket boards for LGA 1150

one can dream

Some of the x79 boards have 2x 8pin CPU power as well. It's for extra "POWA" for extreme OCing.

Don't see why an 1150 mobo would need it though, seen as Haswell is meant to have a lower TPD and all.

SieB said:

Some of the x79 boards have 2x 8pin CPU power as well. It's for extra "POWA" for extreme OCing.

Don't see why an 1150 mobo would need it though, seen as Haswell is meant to have a lower TPD and all.

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4770K has a TDP of 84W according to what i saw this morning