MSI Z68MAED55 (B3) Motherboard

MSI Z68MA-ED55 (B3) offers two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots that support CrossFireX. Unfortunately, the second slot only up to x4 bandwidth. Uniquely, the rest of the existing expansion slots, all PCI-Express 2.0 x1. In other words, this motherboard has no PCI slots.

Besides without PCI, MSI also does not provide eSATA. No there is also easy to clear CMOS switch on the rear panel and the indicator will be the POST (Power-On Self-Test). Even so, the MSI provides USB 3.0 and FireWire.

For those who want to overclock his system Sandy Bridge quickly, MSI Z68MA-ED55 (B3) has the OC Genie II equipped with a button. Simply press this button, the system will automatically overclock. There are also a number of other facilities, including such typical MSI Active Phase Switching (complete with 6 units as an indicator LEDs) that can save power.

specification

Z68 Express Chipset Intel
LGA1155 socket
Pentium Processor Support G620T s / d Core i7-2600K
Base Clock 38 s / d 600 MHz
Number of Channels / Main Memory Slot 2 / 4
Main Memory Support DDR3-1066 s / d DDR3-2133, up to 32GB
At Integrated graphics processors
Expansion Slots 2 PCI-Express 2.0 x16, 2 PCI-Express 2.0 x1
SLI / CrossFireX CrossFireX (x16 x4)
Port SATA / PATA Port 4 (3Gbps) RAID, 2 (6Gbps) RAID / -
ESATA port -
Audio ALC892 (HD)
RTL8111E LAN (gigabit)
USB 2.0/FireWire 12 / 2, 2 USB 3.0