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so when I was shopping for x99 motherboard I just couldn't take my eyes off the x99s slide + motherboard it basically it came in as the cheapest motherboard here in Japan it also came with more features than I could ever want from a motherboard this is the quick review of the x99 slide place mother board from MSI let's get on with it so as you guys may or may not know my previous motherboard was a z87 g45 gaming motherboard from MSI and I had an absolutely fantastic experience on it the onboard audio was good it survived a lightning strike it overclocked like a monster especially at overclock my for 670 K Jen Hwan has well 2 5 gigs on air that's a I've actually got a video on that as well if you wish to sit this however is a different kettle of fish this is the x99 platform which is the LGA 2011 socket now this motherboard comes in at around $250 it features eight DIMM slots it also features a dual handle on the cpu so when you're going to install the CPU you've actually got to install two kind of crank it down with two levers which was actually an interesting thing the motherboard itself it comes pretty much laid out so clearly and easy to read even a dummy could install a CPU in this thing and especially the RAM as well looking at the features of the motherboard I couldn't help but be impressed with every little detail on this motherboard it features 10 SATA ports 6 which support raid 0 2 raid 1 raid 5 I believe 2 which support IDE and AHCA mode and another 2 facade are Express it also comes onboard with an M 2 SATA Express which is the latest solder from n2 if you've got one of those little drives you wish to plug into your motherboard and be drive free sort of the big 2.5 or 3.5 inch drive base then you can do that with this motherboard also this motherboard features two heat sinks and also it looks like it features a 10 plus 5 phase power design so it does have ample power for the CPU and now I have been using this motherboard for quite a look for a little over a few days now and it honestly it overclocks my 5820k very comfortably at around 4 point 4 gigs however personally I did tuned it down to 4.2 gigs just as I'm going to be using this 24/7 and I like to take care of my my gear so looking over to the rear of the motherboard we can see that MSI have included and Intel I to 1/8 Gigabit LAN this is a really good onboard solution it's actually one of the best and probably my personal favorite for an onboard ni C I'm glad they included that the audio is mediocre at best with the realtek eight nine - if it was one thing I would to critique about this motherboard it would be the audio personally I could notice a slight difference between the realtek 1150 and the realtek of 89 - on this motherboard compared to my z87 so continuing on with this motherboard it features three buttons on the motherboard itself one is the overclock genie button if you press that it'll pretty much lock in an automatic overclock straight away without you doing anything I find this to be personally not my favorite way of overclocking I love manually tweaking and getting the best possible overclock myself however it is good for people who are just starting with enthusiast tech and it gives them a great I guess a great sort of overall understanding of how their particular CPU will run which is actually a good thing it also has a power button reset button which is great if you're using this as a test bench and my favorite thing about this is the clear CMOS or clear the maus out of the C button which is on the back of the motherboard and that also lights up blue and if you click it in the light will come off it's a very intuitive design I love it so you actually know when you're hitting that button and you know that everything's been reset kudos to MSI for that that is like literally my favorite clear CMOS button in the world also looking a little bit to the right of the motherboard we see that they've included a dual BIOS feature with a switch as well so you can switch between bosses so if you're flashing your boss and you come into a bad flash you can switch and then you can update the router where it gets reflash that bad boss and you're back in business really cool I love that feature especially on an entry-level x99 motherboard so looking at the PCI Express slots we have four PCI 316 speed slots and we have two PCI two one speed slots so if you want to sli this on this motherboard then this motherboard will only support up to 3-way SLI and also if you're on a 5820k then all support it in 16 speed 8 speed for two-way or 16 speed 8 speed 8 speed for 3-way if you're on a 59 30 K then you will get 16 speed and 16 speed on two-way SLI and 16 speed 16 speed 8 speed on 3-way SLI so the other board also features eight ddr4 quad channel slots for memory all the way up to 64 gigabytes of memory looking at the rear of the motherboard we have a ps2 port we have two USB to ports and eight USB 3 ports which all run off MSI's solid power delivery for Bitcoin mining technology where it pretty much supplies a constant voltage to the USB ports so if you have a Bitcoin miner you don't have to worry about your asag miners dropping out so that's I guess that's a cool feature if you're a Bitcoin miner looking at the audio jacks we have five audio jacks and one extra optical out there the audio jacks being support from manual 5.1 surround as well as a line in and a mic in and also a headphone out there there's also the Intel Ethernet I - one a Gigabit LAN port there and the clear CMOS button which I've talked about before so moving back onto the motherboard there's also two USB three outs there's also two USB 2 outs so you can have an extra eight USB ports on the front panel or wherever you want to put them looking at the CPU fan connectors we have two four pin CPU fan connectors as well as three system fan connectors which are four pin as well the also features a front panel audio out and also one TPM connector so let's move on now to the conclusion I'll do a quick mic test as well you guys can hear if there's any noise on the ADC coming into this mic and I'll talk about a few little different things as well so here's a quick test on the amp on the ADC and the ADC itself this is just using my razor carcast headset a lot of you guys probably have headsets and you're gaming so this is on a volume of 50 with the plus 20 decibel feature it does have the noise suppression as well so if noises a problem you can just turn that on however your voice quality will be affected if you use that setting but honestly if people can't hear you can just turn up within decibels and then you can just put on the noise suppression but all in all it's not too bad let's move on now to a conclusion and I'll talk about some negatives with this motherboard as well so let's move on now to a conclusion with the x99s slide + motherboard and the first there's only a negative really the only negative that can point out with this motherboard is the first PCI Express 16 speed slot is slow close to the second PCI Express 16 slot that'll make people with two air-cooling gtx 97 for example have a bit of heat output there so they're clumped up so close together I would have liked to have seen an extra slot in between these two PCI Express 16 speed slots but it's not too much of a problem especially for people water cooling or people on a 5820k who can't get 16 speed 16 speed anyway you can just move the second grabs card down to the third slot however it is a problem for someone who got a 59 30 K and if they get to beast grabs cards in the future and they want to SLI them then they want 16 speed 16 speed PCI 3 so that's something that I kind of it is a bummer with this motherboard I mean ultimately people getting the x99s motherboard I believe they will want to be putting two grams cards in SLI or most people will be I probably will be in the future just not at the moment I'm only using one 1440p monitor but on the side note the USB 3 slot I would have liked to have seen them with the USB 2 front panel out ports as well however they are in a decent position and I do like the intuitive design that MSI has brought with this motherboard I mean they put the all this side up ports are angled where the graphics cards come over them also that USB 3 port is angled as well with it grabs card goes over it and then the one that's not near the graphics card is angled up so it doesn't have a lot of options there a lot of features and ultimately yeah when I got this motherboard out of the box I was surprised at how heavy it was it felt really good I mean it felt really heavy it felt solid it just came feature-packed I was like wow okay this is actually worth the money so if you're looking for a motherboard that's good Bay for money on the x99 platform if that could be said good value on x9 then this is certainly it you're getting just feature packed motherboard it comes with all these buttons on board the month the motherboard as well like a power button OC Genie button reset button you're also getting a bias switch button there which is a really cool impotent implementation and the best clear CMOS button I've ever seen in the world so kudos to MSI for that this motherboard honestly it is pretty good bang for buck the real tech alc 819 it's not that bad I mean if you're an audiophile you're most likely going to have audiophile grade gear anyway so that's not even going to be a problem for the average person like me who's not an audiophile it really doesn't matter and the mic in I mean the Lycans not bad the line I'm actually recording off it now so you guys can let me know how it sounded sounds in the comments below I've tested it before I think it sounds absolutely fine other than that the the actual Intel I to 1/8 V they're on board ni C is really good for gaming so if you're a gamer you are going to love the onboard implementation of the N I see with this motherboard other than that I mean yeah it hasn't been proved problematic they have to update the BIOS with the B clock strap that is something that's a bit of a problem at the moment as in the BIOS I can't find anywhere to unlock the big clock strap feature so I believe they will update that in a future boss other than that the mother wood is a solid overclocker it meaning overclocks my 5820k really well the temps minutes at 4.2 gigs at the moment and it's just running powering along the heat sinks aren't even getting warm though when I did overclocked at 4.5 gigahertz at one point like 3-2 volt or something like that it was getting pretty hot the heat sinks were getting pretty borderline hot so if you're on a 59 6 DX and you want to go this motherboard just be careful when you're overclocking that's just a little caution there other than that yeah it's just an amazing board I can highly recommend it to people who is value minded and they want to jump on the x99 platform sorry guys hope you enjoyed this review if you have any 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