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with the RGB craze taking over the tech world MSI brought to the table and x99 board that well has full RGB LED implementation with custom controls though besides the RGB x' is the motherboard any good let's find out what would a tech city this is brian coming to you guys today with a motherboard review and this time we have the x99 a gaming Pro carbon from MSI which is their latest motherboard to hit the streets especially in regards to the release of the 6800 K they're getting on straight into the important stuff how well does it perform well I had my 6800 K at one point three five volt for 20 minutes and the MOSFET heatsink only managed to hit 48 degrees in a 25 degree ambient environment definitely impressive as for the VRMs itself it features Niko's PK 6 1 6 ba MOSFETs on the low side which are rated at 50 amps and then for the high side they have PK 632 pa MOSFETs which are rated at 88 amps chokes are rated for 60 amps and also included this tank a rated solid state dark caps right beside that is the steel reinforced DIMM slots with four phases dedicated juicing over 3.4 gigahertz overclocks and more the ddr4 memory for a total of 12 phases on the VR m8 being dedicated to the CPU just above that you have three fan headers with one being a water pump header used for powering double the standard with 24 watt available for pumps and a dr. debug LED right beside that which doubles down as a CPU temps for nomina whilst in Windows Renault Meter a new metal moving down the board there are two USB three front port headers with one having vertical and the other having horizontal mounting configuration there is also a USB 3.1 C in the middle the side of three ports the carbon has six on the right side of the board and a further four more on the bottom of the board giving users more options than normal for cable management in between that is also one u dot two port and one solder Express power and reset buttons have also been implemented on this board and finally finally the return of the missile launch button which has made its way back to motherboards Ashley doesn't launch any sails but this button will allow you to overclock the board very easily if they are in the BIOS all you have to do is turn the nozzle left or right to set the automatic overclock and you should be good to go I found a practice it was a little bit aggressive however you may want to be careful especially if you set this knob to either the 10 or 11 setting though I found it did hit a 4.2 gigahertz overclock with ease which was only a hundred megahertz off my 4.3 gigahertz overclock there is also a dual blast with a switch located directly above that to the left of the missile launch button is your three cidery connections one of those being solder expressed to us beef pronounced front panel power front audio and a fan header with an interesting port right beside that the RGB out which allows you to hook up RGB LEDs to the motherboard and then control the RGB strips from the motherboard in Windows itself via the gaming app something that works really well in practice 2 moving up the board there is the trusted platform module support connector therefore PCIe 16 speed slots with still Armour which have support for up to 3 Way SLI and to one speed slots embedded in between and in the center of all that is an m dot 2 slot supporting three different sizes of configuration moving over to the back of the board there is a ps2 slot 5 USB 3.1 headers 1 USB 3.1 C and 4 USB to ports and wafer it a clear CMOS button yeah for the N ICMS I have gone with the Intel 2 1 8 V which also includes the MSI networking app allowing you to still play games on a congested Network kind of like the killer yet better since it features the Intel n IC the sound there's the realtek 1150 with 5 analog jacks and 1 optical out there is also a dual headphone amplifiers and when testing the audio with my V motors it was crystal clear with really low levels of crosstalk and also plenty of extra volume to go if you wanted to send yourself deaf the mic in port itself is also pretty good and features noise suppression though let's give this a quick test in raw mode so here's what the x99 a gaming Pro carbon motherboard will sound like with a V motive boom for a plug directly into that mic in port this is on a D 10 DB boost with 50 volume so this is what it like raw but let's get back to the review so the x99 a carbon hits just about everything I would want from the motherboard and then some the software unlike most other motherboards is actually really useful the gaming app allows you to control your RGB colors on not only the motherboard and individual parts of it but other devices like for instance external RGB or even your graphics card if it is an msi variant also included is a six-month xsplit license gaming hot key app and a two month license of what the fast which can apparently help with some competitive online gameplay there is also the msi ramdisk app and another interesting piece of software called the dragon i app allowing you to watch your favorite streamers while USA waiting for a game queue to pop also surprisingly the carbon is actually a 2036 pin socket with msi providing an additional 25 pins which they say helps with overclocking and since they have been taking overclocking records as of late and my 6800 K had no problems hitting 4.3 gigahertz at 1.3 5 volt I'll take their word for it though lastly let's talk about the UEFI BIOS two modes simple in advance going straight into advanced I saw there were plenty of options there for overclocking and with the ability to change your fan speeds manually and also save your overclocking profiles there was nothing that I could fold about this boss so there we have it everything I could want from a motherboard personally I was happy to report that the PCB size was also juicy thick and everything in general worked extremely well with the layout of the port's also being a very nice touch to giving modest extra options though if I had to fall one thing about this motherboard it'd be that I'd like to see an additional ni C included to give a total of 2 though everything else on this board just blew me away the RGB is and the implementation of those in the heatsinks looked really nice the software worked really well the audio was good both on the input and output and overclocking was solid ultimately though it is a board that I can highly recommend coming in at 499 a 2d or 329 USD it does carry a premium however keep in mind it is a premium product anyways if you liked this review then be sure to overclock that like button and let me know in the comments below have you got a motherboard with RGB on it at the moment if so what mother or do you want our jeebies momentum on your motherboard we'd love to hear your comments as usual and if you have any questions about the msi x99s carbon then be sure to drop a cone in the comment section below - and I'll get back to you as soon as I can so if you didn't know already I'm slowly becoming an RGB fanboy I know right anyway guys I'll catch you in the next Tech video very soon he's out for now bye there's also also power consumption was pretty good on this motherboard when I was testing it from the wall we had about 70 to 80 watts on idle and also at 4.3 gigahertz in i-264 the the wattage was about 180 watts from the wall so a pretty good motherboard in general for power consumption especially given the power that it gives out and that's about it for now guys if you liked this video them