Following the success of the Z170 XPOWER Titanium, we take a look at the Haswell-E powered X99A XPOWER Gaming Titanium.
MSI X99A XPOWER Gaming Titanium Review
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MSI X99A XPOWER Gaming Titanium Review
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Following the success of the Z170 XPOWER Titanium, we take a look at the Haswell-E powered X99A XPOWER Gaming Titanium.
MSI X99A XPOWER Gaming Titanium Review
Thelosouvlakia
Classy-Fried-Chicken
Great move to use the public bios to test this board else everything might have worked fine and you would be like "Hey this is one damn great board".
Excalabur50
Well-known member
Awesome review Guv and Kudos to you for working with MSI to get those issues sorted as it's a nice looking board and needs to perform as good as it looks
Mysterae
New member
This will be why OverclockersUK have this mobo with "free" ram and M.2 drive bundle for £350. They've picked the ram for you to save on all the returns!
AlienALX
Well-known member
Any money it either gets more expensive or the free ram disappears
IIRC I paid about £230 for my Big Bang Xpower II, which is what this sort of replaces.
Crappy speed - so it faffing should work
Pointless getting 2400mhz with this mobo tbh
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Im pretty sure youll see one fairly quick after this, and a surge in reviews....
Hobby Gamer
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I see 2 BIOS updates for this motherboard were released after the date of this review :
1.2 26-08-2016
1.3 12-09-2016
But neither description lists improved memory support.
Disappointing!
Source : https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/X99A-XPOWER-GAMING-TITANIUM.html#down-bios
1.2 26-08-2016
1.3 12-09-2016
But neither description lists improved memory support.
Disappointing!
Source : https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/X99A-XPOWER-GAMING-TITANIUM.html#down-bios
boatWrat74
New member
MSI X99A Titanium Bios Update (re. RAM compatibility)
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/X99A-XPOWER-GAMING-TITANIUM.html#down-bios
MSI "Support" page for this board (under "Download" tab) is now showing a BIOS version 1.4, dated Sept.26, with note: "Improved memory compatibility problem".
Not sure that last inspires a blazing amount of confidence, i.e., I'd rather see something about "eliminated" memory compatibility problem (if that were possible -- I know, semantics) ...
Also, this seems to have only JUST shown up some time in the last two days. I've definitely been checking there regularly in recent weeks, hoping for just such an update. So whether this BIOS release is "back-dated", or whether they couldn't be bothered to post notice of a newly available BIOS until 1.5 weeks after the fact... neither case inspires a whole lot of confidence there either.
Nevertheless, since there IS now some kind of an update that finally purports to be relevant to the most troubling shortcoming of this MB (I've found scant few reviews of this board other than Tom's at ALL, let alone any that have noted the lack of high-speed RAM support)... I wonder if Tom could give us an updated test of the RAM issue?
Whether or not this is something that can be given immediate further attention, thanks generally for your efforts in any case. I mean, at least I've been warned. I'd have felt rather, umm, "peeved" if I got this board home with a nice set of 4x8GB 3200 CL.14 RAM, only to find my extra ~$60. was wasted on mere aesthetics. There's already quite enough of that going on with my choice of the board itself!
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/X99A-XPOWER-GAMING-TITANIUM.html#down-bios
MSI "Support" page for this board (under "Download" tab) is now showing a BIOS version 1.4, dated Sept.26, with note: "Improved memory compatibility problem".
Not sure that last inspires a blazing amount of confidence, i.e., I'd rather see something about "eliminated" memory compatibility problem (if that were possible -- I know, semantics) ...
Also, this seems to have only JUST shown up some time in the last two days. I've definitely been checking there regularly in recent weeks, hoping for just such an update. So whether this BIOS release is "back-dated", or whether they couldn't be bothered to post notice of a newly available BIOS until 1.5 weeks after the fact... neither case inspires a whole lot of confidence there either.
Nevertheless, since there IS now some kind of an update that finally purports to be relevant to the most troubling shortcoming of this MB (I've found scant few reviews of this board other than Tom's at ALL, let alone any that have noted the lack of high-speed RAM support)... I wonder if Tom could give us an updated test of the RAM issue?
Whether or not this is something that can be given immediate further attention, thanks generally for your efforts in any case. I mean, at least I've been warned. I'd have felt rather, umm, "peeved" if I got this board home with a nice set of 4x8GB 3200 CL.14 RAM, only to find my extra ~$60. was wasted on mere aesthetics. There's already quite enough of that going on with my choice of the board itself!
