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hey what's going on everybody Jays $0.02 here and I am holding in my hand here the next generation of motherboards featuring USB 3.1 and this one is from MSI and it is the x99 a gaming 7 MSI is really made a push towards this gaming line of motherboards and graphics cards and it's doing pretty damn well for itself so today we're going to do a kind of a quick overview and unboxing of this thing and then we're going to hook it up and we're just gonna have a great time and the only thing we're missing is s'mores we don't like s'mores because they're unhealthy and bad they taste amazing the new EVGA silent series power supplies offer excellent silence and efficiency through their new EVGA Eco mode technology and also features a seven year warranty for worryfree gaming click the link in the description to learn more I don't really want to spend a whole lot of time going over the overview on this thing because really it shares and inherits a lot of the features that are already on the z97 gaming series of motherboards especially the gaming seventh the main difference on this thing really being the USB 3.1 now the USB 3.1 actually has up to 10 gigabit per second connection which is twice as fast as USB 3.0 unfortunately I don't have a testing kit so I can't actually test that today but just take my word for it we did take a look at it at CES and it was going very very fast especially compared to USB 3.0 now it features all the same stuff that you would come to expect which is the audio Boost 2.0 with its high quality amplifiers and capacitors on there so you can run high impedance headphones directly off the motherboard with a very low noise floor no hiss or crackle and actually power power-hungry headphones like the sennheiser game zeroes or which just take 150 ohms to drive or they have 150 ohms of resistance to drive and so you usually would need a DAC or an amplifier this can do it built in pretty much all of the MSI gaming motherboards are coming with the killer 28 2200 NIC in there so it's a network prioritization packet prioritization if you're not already aware that you 2200 is basically pack prioritization built into the networking card so that your games get priority traffic when it comes to the network coming in and out of your computer now the USB audio power built into this thing if you guys are running an external DAC basically it's going to allow nice clean solid 5 volt output of the USB power which sometimes on other motherboards when you plug in multiple USB devices the 5 volt can actually drop down as low as 4.6 and that can create a problem for some USB powered decks so this is utilizing and featuring a USB audio power amplifier built in so it's always going to have 5 volts of constant power come out of the USB now this thing would really be a gaming motherboard if it couldn't handle a bunch of graphics cards so it does support up to Quad SLI and quad crossfire now of course it's got all the other mumbo jumbo you would expect like turbo m2 drives for a Gen 3 by 4 one other thing that I really like the MSI is doing and other manufacturers have started doing as well is there promotion of the live streaming community this motherboard actually comes with a free six month premium xsplit license so if you bought this motherboard then you would be able to start live streaming immediately with it with a six month premium key that's pretty cool and that's just a bonus right there so there you go that is the overview portion of the x99 a gaming 7 let's go ahead and hook this thing up into the testbench suit some overclocking and some gaming and let's go ahead and see just how badass this thing really is I love the aesthetics of this board it looks freaking amazing and I guess you guys know what that means it's time for so I'll go ahead and let I'll go ahead and lies cue it up go ahead and say it right now I've gone ahead and installed B motherboard over here and put my lovely Titan on there as you can see and the first thing we're going to test with this motherboard is boot time many guys know the BIOS can actually add a lot of time when it comes to booting up your system so let's go ahead and see how the BIOS does on here I just hit the power button and there's the splash screen for the monitor mmm-hmm dinna to do b49 see down there postcodes a two splash screen and windows boot screen so yeah I mean it's not terrible it's not super fast but I also don't have MSI's memory fastboot on there oh look activate windows because it just recognized that I put a new motherboard on here therefore it's like oh yeah you need to activate so yeah we'll deal with that later one of the troubles of installing tons of motherboards now one of the things I really like about this motherboard because I have looked at this motherboard and looked at the BIOS and stuff before getting to this portion of the video is the amount of options that are actually on this thing it's absolutely insane now gaming motherboards tend to have all the things that a gamer would want you know things like SLI support better sound better networking for packet prioritization probably pilot dip apparently talking is hard things like packet prioritization for gaming and stuff and usually you oh you you give up a few functions like a lot of overclocking support but not the case here now one of the things MSI is really known for is the MSI OC genie in fact that's looking kind of blurry let me let me let me fix that for you there okay that should be a little better I know it's not ideal pointing a camera at the screen but I also am using DisplayPort for this monitor and I can't capture DisplayPort anyway if OC Genie here and clicking that it's kind of like a OneTouch overclock I'll go ahead and hit that and let's go ahead and see what kind of overclock it puts on here this is my 5820k they did actually send with me a 59 30 k with this motherboard but I'm going to go ahead and use my 5820k because then I have something to compare it to because I was already doing overclocking on my other motherboard so I can see if this is getting me any better results or not so right away it says OC Genie is enabled when you go into the BIOS it tells you like don't touch anything in the BIOS for overclocking it's not recommended but we can see here it did overclocked to 3.8 gigahertz did a multiplier of 38 so up from 3.3 23.8 it's pretty modest it's only 500 megabyte or megabytes 500 megahertz nothing huge and then the DRAM went from 20 133 to 2400 now this is obviously not using eggs and B profile too because this is 20 800 megahertz Ram and it's only running at 24 so it's very conservative these must be numbers that MSI feels very confident every single CPU will post with so I'm gonna go ahead and disable OC Genie will restart and then we'll start showing you some of the settings in this board it's actually quite impressive okay so this BIOS is going to look very familiar to anyone with an MSI motherboard we have our Settings tab here it's got lots of different functions in here Advanced PCI subsystem power management setup basically what happens when the power turns off etc etc all that kind of stuff you come to expect boot prioritization settings there or you can just drag the icons here around in the order you want them to boot in very very user friendly and then we have over here hardware profile well this is going to bring up a lot of different stuff here in fact you have all your different fans you can see the RPMs are those fans and you can play with the temperature fan curve on here so just like you do with your video graphics cards your AMD graphics cards you can then utilize a smart fan mode and you can start to control the fan speed based on temperature and this motherboard I'm actually using the CPU fan 1 for the pump so the pump is speeding up is slowing down since it's a PWM pump based on this curve so you can see here the pumps running at twelve hundred and fifty now I could tell it you know just run at full speed or give me fan control etc etc but I prefer to just kind of let it do its own thing it's actually pretty smart CPU is idling right now at 39 Celsius it's actually pretty hot in the BIOS it tends to go under more to load than when sitting at desktop but for overclocking I was actually quite impressed there are a ton and I mean a ton of overclocking functions here in fact way more than the average user is probably going to need so I'm just going to do a basic overclock here we're in advanced mode there's even a simple mode for overclocking where you can do very simple stuff in fact I'll leave it it simple right now we'll do a CPU ratio of 45 that's going to give us 40 500 megahertz as a targeted CPU frequency ring ratio will leave that audio audio auto CPU base clock we'll leave that out 100 DRAM frequency let's go ahead and go for let's go for 20 666 interestingly enough there's no 2800 on there a lot of motherboards actually omitted 2800 because it seemed like there was something going on with the chipset where 2800 was not stable for most motherboards and most Rams so they jump straight from 2666 to 3200 now why am I not going with 3200 well because when you overclock the CPU the memory controller also goes under stress and so you don't want to go too high on your memory first so we're just going to do 20 666 which is an overclock on the memory from 21 33 which is the base clock but we're not going to the XMP speed of 2800 just yet in fact we want to do that we would do that right here at the XMP profile mem try it basically it's a compatibility for performance mode DRAM timing mode we leave that all stock fast boat boot stock then we can start playing with voltages here so we got VCC in voltage is set at 2 I'm going to put that to 2.1 when I put the voltage a little bit high as do 1.35 I already know that's good it turns red because MSI is basically telling you hey bro you're going to burn up your CPU but we're fine or underwater marine voltage will leave all that at Auto and then CPU specifications CPU technology support this is just telling you things about your CPU you can't change anything in their memory Z CPU features this is the screen that I wasn't expecting in here this is the kind of stuff you tend to find on like the M power which is overclocking board you can see you get you get control over everything in here you can even at a very turned off seeonee support but you can even do see state limits you can do the long duration power limit in watts long duration maintained short duration power limit CPU current limit over temperature protection interval V ro V and OCP protection D mi gen to D mi D emphasis control you guys have no idea what any of this is I'm sure but basically this is giving you enthusiast level overclock and we're talking like ln2 trying to break World Records type of control on this and then as well as the digital power look at all the voltage control you get in here CP under voltage protection over current protection switching frequency you can even change the frequent frequency at which the voltage is switching CPU under voltage protection over voltage protection V droop control put that at 100 right now see if you phase control I mean they just give you so much stuff that for the average person you would just never ever use so right now we're just going to try for basic 4.5 gigahertz and 2666 on the memory and 2.1 volts into the package 1.3 5 volts on the cpu it's a little bit on the higher side but I think we'll post let's say this is kind of an important number because 4.5 wasn't very stable and either my Asus board or my as rock board I had to bump it down to 4.4 over time because it degraded slightly but we are currently right now in here and booted 4.5 gigahertz so now we need to do a little stress test and see if it holds up and either way it kind of got my overclocking vote of approval because it's giving you all the functions you could ever possibly need for overclocking and in a gaming motherboard that's pretty awesome now if it doesn't crash immediately that's a good thing now we're stressing the CPU the FPU the cache and the memory all at once on here and temperatures look like they're sitting in the sixty three fifty seven forty eight forty so yeah looks like we're sitting right around the mid-60s on the temperatures that's good because high 80s is actually JMX for the 2011 - three sockets so looks like we're doing pretty good there so what we'll do now is we'll just let this run for a minute and then we'll come back and see how its how its performing or whether or not it's stayed stable I should say well this thing's been going for about eight minutes now and as you can see we've got no crashes whatsoever no errors and the temperature seems to have stabilized right around the mid 70s on the Coors it's actually very very good considering how much voltage is being pumped into this thing so now if this was an overclocking tutorial I would tell you to start bringing down the voltage if you're ok with this frequency or step it up one more notch on the frequency multiplier and see if you get a post I don't think we will but for the sake of it we'll go ahead and try 4.6 just to see if it posts and then we'll kind of go ahead and do a wrap-up about this motherboard how I feel about it well 4.6 is trying to boot into Windows and we got a crash yeah I didn't think 4.6 was going to happen I couldn't get that to happen on any one of my systems and heck even 4.5 wasn't even get able to get into the desktop on my either my asrock nor my x99 deluxe board so that's kind of interesting so I'm not sure what MSI is doing differently here but we do seem to have a little bit better stability so I'm going to put that back to 4.5 and let's go ahead and talk about the how I feel about this board well there we go guys the x99 a gaming seven from MSI I don't tend to go this deep into motherboard reviews or actually pain in the ass honestly to hook them up and get all the drivers installed and stuff there's a lot of stuff I wasn't able to even cover with this otherwise the video would have been you know five hours long I mean all the stuff you saw me doing with the overclock you could do with their own desktop utilities but I'm an old-school overclocker I like to do things the old-school way through BIOS and as you can see there UEFI BIOS it's very easy to navigate it's very friendly and they give you a lot more functions than I thought that they would I mean the functions that we were seeing here were like empower level really makes me wonder how the x99 X power is is performing when it comes to all the overclocking functions so I mean not only as a software and the BIOS and the motherboard great but be action of it is fantastic I mean it utilizes all of the lineage from like the military class specs that it's put on a lot of their high-end motherboards it's got multi layer PCBs it's got you know sound house isolation for the built-in audio so you're not getting cracking and popping and stuff everything about it just seems very very solid now granted it's red and black and that seems to be a little bit overdone it does look really really good I mean the heat sinks on there fantastic looking the board layouts great the matte PCB looks fantastic the only thing I'm not a huge fan of though is the way that it has green buttons and a blue LED in there that just kind of kills it for me make it all red or maybe even a white LED would look better I think the blue and the green murder it once it's on and if you had it sitting up in a normal case with a case window that would really take away from the overall black and red that the gaming line has really come to to stand for well guys that is it for the x99 a gaming segment I think it's going to stay on my test bench for a while when I do motherboard reviews I like to put my favorites in the systems and right now the msi x99s definitely a very solid solid motherboard can't really think of anything I don't like about it with the exception of the lights like I said and that's very very it's very trivial so anyway guys follow on social media if you guys have any questions thanks for watching thanks for being a fan of the channel and I look forward to making my next J's $0.02 video I would say I don't know what it's about but I actually do I'm actually getting caught up and the amount of stuff there is to do including skunkworks build right around the corner said that before so that means you don't believe me but it's soon I promise oh hey there see you guys come in welcome to the venture is night with Jays two cents and coconut monkey tonight we're going to be reviewing the dxracer chair so buckle up because it's gonna be fun for me