MSI Launches new X99 and Z170 Titanium motherboards

[WYP]

MSI has launched new X99 and Z170 Titanium motherboards, U.2 SSD support, front-panel USB Type-C and an enhanced Titanium design aesthetic. The X99 XPower Titanium also contains an RGB LED header and an OC CPU socket.



Read more on MSI's two new Titanium Gaming motherboards.

 

[GiantKiwi]

Holy crap. A new motherboard which isn't covered in RGB LED's :O

Does the X99 also have the snazzy rear heatshield?

 

[Excalabur50]

Love the PCIE spacing on the X99A as it is just right for quad gpu's for those who want them

 

[tolagarf]

What?! No RGB? Stop the press!! Instant buy

 

[SuB]

So has anyone got *actual* colour images of these boards instead of just greyscaled ones with select colourd bits (the red button) ? I'd like to see the actual colour of em

 

[GiantKiwi]

So has anyone got *actual* colour images of these boards instead of just greyscaled ones with select colourd bits (the red button) ? I'd like to see the actual colour of em

I don't think that is greyscale, the speckled look seems to be the actual colour instead of photoshop.

Love the PCIE spacing on the X99A as it is just right for quad gpu's for those who want them

But why? Other than to spend ludicrous amounts of money because you can, the comparative gains on each additional card after a pair is next to completely pointless.

I'm not saying i've not done it before, because I have - but AMD was 100% efficiency on 1st, ~75% on 2nd, ~40% on third and ~35% on 4th. And Nvidia only being slightly better. (Quad Crossfire was HD6950's bios updated to 6970's; Quad SLI was 680's.).

 

[SuB]

I don't think that is greyscale, the speckled look seems to be the actual colour instead of photoshop.

Nah it's not chief, if you take the image, duplicate the layer, greyscale it, negative it and then 50% opacity it and set to linear light in PS, it'l show any image differences by pixel.

This is the result

Notice how the board has disappeared? You simply cannot achieve that without first pre-desaturating the image. The images are greyscaled, there's no real colour in them.. so I'll ask again. Colour photos of actual board please

 

[CreatiXx]

Well here you've got your photo's mate ^^ should be the same colour

http://imgur.com/a/Sp0RD

 

[NeverBackDown]

Looks better than the render. I actually like the color

 

[Excalabur50]

But why? Other than to spend ludicrous amounts of money because you can, the comparative gains on each additional card after a pair is next to completely pointless.

I'm not saying i've not done it before, because I have - but AMD was 100% efficiency on 1st, ~75% on 2nd, ~40% on third and ~35% on 4th. And Nvidia only being slightly better. (Quad Crossfire was HD6950's bios updated to 6970's; Quad SLI was 680's.).

Some people do it for the benching and clocking and since this is one of MSI's clocking boards it's good not to have the cards sandwiched together

 

[SuB]

Well here you've got your photo's mate ^^ should be the same colour

http://imgur.com/a/Sp0RD

Nice, thanks. Shame it's a different board though. But do you get my point? They're deliberately pushing it with greyscaled images, while the real thing is close, i don't get why they are doing it y'know? Seems ... odd

 

[Kushiro]

The kids in art class couldnt get the color right. Too much white or black.

 

[CreatiXx]

yes a different board i do think the colours will stay the same with the new titanium boards though. True, the real thing IS nice. Dont really understand why they're pushing it with the photoshop on it. Some times the real deal is nicer than the shopped one's

 

[tolagarf]

Is there any pricing yet for the X99 board? I'm tempted... Although I'm an ASUS fanboi, their latest ROG Strix boards is too much RGB disco 70's style for me.

 

[MSIRawZ]

Is there any pricing yet for the X99 board? I'm tempted... Although I'm an ASUS fanboi, their latest ROG Strix boards is too much RGB disco 70's style for me.

Move away from the dark side mate lol

MSRP will be around £340 in the UK.

 

[barnsley]

Why does nobody make high end boards that are understated? At this rate I don't think I'll ever spend more than £150 on a motherboard.

If Asus mess up the WS I'm getting a x99/z170 sli plus.

 

[Doomslayer]

Why does nobody make high end boards that are understated? At this rate I don't think I'll ever spend more than £150 on a motherboard.

If Asus mess up the WS I'm getting a x99/z170 sli plus.

Cause companies don't know or want too knowing MSI they will probably stuff up the X99 SLI Plus board with the ASUS WS board it will be interesting to see how they stuff up that board too, Seems like all of these big companies have LED on the brain now.

 

[tolagarf]

Move away from the dark side mate lol

MSRP will be around £340 in the UK.

Wow... That's a bit too much just to get silver color. Thanks for the quick response though.