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MSI was established on August 1986. The headquarters are located in New Taipei. MSI started from the motherboard and graphics card industries and extended into consumer and electronics including notebooks, All-in-One PCs, servers, workstations, industrial PCs, household appliances, car products, multimedia, communication devices, and others. If you want to learn more about them, click here.
The motherboard I am going to tell you about today is the MSI Z97-G45 Gaming. It has a socket of LGA 1150, which means that any CPU socket like that will be able to fit into this motherboard. This motherboard has 4 banks of DDR3 memory that can have up to 32GB at the maximum. With such a large amount of memory you may be able to upgrade your computer to make it faster. This motherboard also has 2 PCI express x16 slots that can hold a new video card that you may want to put into it.
Specifications:
VGA: Integrated
Audio: Realtek ALC1150
8 HD Channels
LAN: Qualcomm Killer E2205
Max LAN Speed: 10/100/1000Mbps
Bus Speed: 3000 FSB
Expansion Slots: PCI Express 3.0 x16: 2
PCI Express 2.0 x16: 1
PCI Express x1: 4
SATA 6Gb/s: 6 x SATA 6Gb/s
Specifications for the back panel:
Video Ports: 1xDVI
1xD-SUB
HDMI: 1xHDMI
USB 3.0: 4xUSB 3.0
USB 1.1/2.0: 4xUSB 2.0
Audio Port: 6 ports
Overall this motherboard is a pretty good motherboard to buy if you like to use your computer to play games. This motherboard can be purchased on Newegg at the good price of $139.99. Although before you buy I would check over the specifications to make sure that it is the one you are looking for.]]>