MSI Z77 MPower

Lollipop

Lollipop

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Does anybody know anything about the release of this board? The only thing I have found is 'Coming Soon'... When they said July, i thought they meant this year.

I've been tempted to click the buy button on the GD65, but this board just looks so good, and it has WiFi and Bluetooth!
 
This month its looking like, probably late though because Ive not seen samples yet. Retail will probably fall into September
 
may as well lollipop, not as if your existing rig is exactly a slouch lol
then you can give us all a hands on user review to see how the board is to live with beyond a normal review if tom & co don't mind.

i was originally waiting on this board myself, but my old asus m4a79t-deluxe was dying so had to jump earlier than expected, but my god i love my gd-65 lol
 
ive got another project to build and need a blackout board and the GD65 looks like a fabulous
candidate. other than the OC Genie, is the Click BIOS "informational" as well? more so for
temperature and fan control? i like my EVGA.. but the Z77 board theme has a black and SR-X
red thing (i don't need 5 pink lanes), so the next choice is dark and the blue is darker than red.
i read the O3D review and looking for personal ops..

airdeano
 
You mean giving readouts of RPMs and temps from within the BIOS? It's not too good at that, to be honest.
There are, as far as I can remember, 3 fan headers which are controllable, and the only temperature readout is an average of the CPU.

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yes, like what you were aluding...

fan header count isnt a concern, for me at least. just the rpm monitoiring. using the right fan
in the right position and voltage is all i do.

do the temp monitor appz play nicely with the gd65 as well? or is there some scaleing?

airdeano
 
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yeah, HWMonitor, RealTemp, etc.. some have reported signals that are wayyyyyy off and some
are almost dead nuts accurate. i've got a giggy thats 10° short of accurate, an EVGA 3°
over ASUS 3°-5° up or down using a third-party temp app. using even their own utility can
be insane, too.

airdeano
 
How would I test for sure? What would be seen as the 'true' readings as to which I would calculate the accuracy of the programs?
 
i use a digital probe, or a laser temperature gun (used it for engine/car dyno runs) or a digital
multi-meter (some boards have a voltage check point for temp). most of the time the app is
calculating resistance in a circuit. from that resistance they GUI an reading.
all boards have direct or indirect source to the CPU core pathes, voltage pathes, and other
source tabs. the acuracy only lays in the app and where it gets its frequency from.
the same app, on for different boards can yield different readings. the traces that carry the
freq might be routed differently.

airdeano
 
Yeah. About that.
No xD
I don't have any equipment like that at all.
I have a temperature probe used to check if the meat in the oven is cooked, but I don't think I should be stabbing it into my CPU.
 
the yellow pee stripe isnt appealing.. a gold foil would have been better since it will be a
flagship board for MSI in the Z77 genre.
pickup a gold leaf kit from a hobby store and mod the stripes and now youd have a quaking
good looking board.

airdeano
 
Should be relatively easy to mod that too. Considering the only colour is on the heatsinks, can easily just take them off for painting and everything else is black. Definitely prefer that to the gimicky sabretooth
 
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