MSI's Flagship X79 Motherboard

[Fez]

Today MSI have released information on their new Flagship X79 Motherboard

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[StreekG]

Bullets and magazine heat sinks are an acquired taste to some, i really only like the one on my G1 Assassin, however this is still a nice board and a great addition to the X79 lineup.

 

[Fez]

I Would Agree with you there they are suited for certain people and I have to admit I like the look of this board however for me something like this and the other kit to go with it would be out of my price range so I just gotta keep dreaming

 

[yassarikhan786]

Doesn't look as bad as the Assasin 2

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[michaelah500]

The ability to disable individual PCIe 3.0 slots sounds extremely useful for benchmarking and testing different GPUs.

 

[nex-s]

I do like the all black looks and 8 RAM slots, but the guns and bullets on a mainboard or enywhere else are just not for me...

 

[Ya93sin]

Black and gold is such a nice colour scheme as well :/

 

[FunkyMonkey90]

I just hope they bring a full water block out for it before i can afford to buy one.. couldnt live with myself knowing theres a magazine on my board xD

 

[Solidarity]

Why did they ruin the look of it with the bullet heatsink?

 

[stevenwright6379]

to me the heatsink on the south bridge looks more like crayons than bullets, the rest of the heat sink i don't mind and at first i never even noticed that they were parts of weapons

 

[StreekG]

I think when it comes to guns/magazines as heatsinks, the original G1 Assassin does it well and i actually love, its simple, doesn't have half a dozen bullets showing in gold and is definately not a complete gun attached to the board. The gun parts are separated nicely and as an overall package looks pretty neat, but i am being biased because i have one

 

[yassarikhan786]

I think when it comes to guns/magazines as heatsinks, the original G1 Assassin does it well and i actually love, its simple, doesn't have half a dozen bullets showing in gold and is definately not a complete gun attached to the board. The gun parts are separated nicely and as an overall package looks pretty neat, but i am being biased because i have one

Yep, I agree. It's the only military themed board I would buy currently.

 

[Dandaman91]

I think the MSI one looks better than the G1 sniper board & the G1 assassin ... I prefer the all black look tho

 

[SieB]

This MSI board has grown on me tbh, I still don't think all these weapon shaped heatsinks should be put on motherboards though.

 

[Ravious]

TBH I hate the bullet design. The whole board has a brilliant black design then they spoil it with plastic looking weapon heatsinks.

 

[Lollipop]

Remove the bullets and this board would look AAAAAAAAAMAAAAZING.