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we're at Computex 2017 MSI's booth now looking at the X 299 borders there's no 399 yet we'll have it soon but for today we're focusing on jus 99 so the boards to look at this is the flagship this is the X our board we have the specs on the BRM they're using all IR we'll go through that the m7 the Pro carbon tomahawk and then finally the sy+ board before we get into that this coverage is brought to you by Corsair and their vengeance RGB LED memory the ICS on the Vengeance memory are sort of pre selected for overclocking so check the link in the description below for more on that let's start the flagship so a few things here we'll get to them to shields in a minute we had to talk about that but before getting to that for the power components they're using all ir35 2:01 controllers for the voltage controller for vcore i don't know the mosfet yet but we have the basics for the components that's all I are so that is a bit of a trend right now with X 299 we start with gigabyte and we saw it with EVGA as well aside from that the normal assortment of armor and things like that are on the board but for things that are actually interesting they're running an X 16 X 16 and I believe an X 8 X 8 for the other two PCIe slots that will have clarifications in the article in the link in the description below for the m-dot two shields there's new one here this is called frozer so this actually latches will have some b-roll of it latches in here and the frozer one has a it's an aluminum heatsink I'm told we haven't really obviously had time to cast yet but aluminum heatsink there is a three millimeters thick they're all pad on the underside of it not presence in our b-roll because of trade show three millimeters thick heat pad or thermal pad and they've improved the thermal conductivity of had I don't know the specifics that same pad is supposed to be on these as well the difference between these in the previous model that we looked at on the gaming Pro carbon is just that screw and the thermal pad so this screws a bit better than we worked with before small thing but it's the small things that matter with motherboards ultimately so that's the changes there we talked about airflow and problems like that we'll have to test it more but hopefully that helps out there's no sinking to a PCB or anything like that like EVGA is doing so it's just of this heatsink alone this is just LED chipset cover led LED and I'm moving on to the m7 board by the way nope no price for any of these m7 board there's digital LEDs here leds leds leds obviously this PCIe configurations a little bit different so it's x16 there to x16 there's an X 4 and X 8 I believe and we'll post correction in the comments if not other than that this m2 shield is a little bit different from the previous two it still got the mechanical action to it it's got the three millimeter thick their home pad which we can show on b-roll and just closes just like that on top of the devices we've already got a whole content piece on that in the past so if you're curious you can learn more there other than this buttons on the board include go down to just power and the overclocking dial right here the other board has voltage plus and minus buttons as well so this one steps down a bit strip some of the features away to lower the price next or actually for erm phases this one is an 8 + 2 that's a 12 + 2 and then the rest are all a plus 1 so April 20 + 20 + 1 they're all ir35 to 0 1 both controllers and all IR MOSFETs so that's that board covered the next one is the gaming pro carbon this board primarily focuses on things like RGB LEDs it is more of a gamer targeted board unless 7x to 99 enthusiasts h EDT type board so this is something that makes more sense maybe for your cable a Cox refresh or something like that although you still have 4 dims that you won't be able to use this table a classic X so that one it's pretty much RGB LEDs the tomahawk is one of the cheapest boards 4x 299 it's always their lower cost model the color scheme changes a little bit goes to gray and black whereas these others are silver or black and black and it simplifies things like you lose the memory armor and you keep some of the PCI armor on the x16 slots whereas the other ones lose it and that's really all there is there this is another m2 shield we don't know the specifics on this particular model though the last one 4x 299 is a slightly plus model this is normally like a mid-range type board no prices again LEDs simplified here this one - no LEDs that we can see right now led led and to our thoughts no Armour it's an eight plus one phase design so a little bit cheaper to produce the vrm than the previous boards and I think that pretty much wraps up the motherboards for the MSI booth so that's all the X 299 boards as always you can find more information in the description below I've got a whole lot of notes that we took here with engineers and p.m. but we'll detail all that stuff in the article of you're curious about more you know patreon.com slash gamers next comes out directly and as always subscribe for more thanks for watching I'll see you all next time you