MSI ATX DDR3 2600 LGA 1150 Motherboards Z97-G45 GAMING

This motherboard is the correct choice if you wish to have a gamers advanced system. It supports all the 4th and 5th generation chips by Intel, latest pciexpress 16x for a sli or crossfire (2 nvidias or 3 ati's). It has several inputs for hdd and ssd and the msata slot as well! It supports up to 32 gb of ddr 3 3000mhz OC if i'm not mistaken and has a self video card with hdmi output and dvi vga output. Same goes with the built in audio card, which is a Sound blaster folks! I did buy an external one cause I really need a dedicated audio card (I work on quite a few projects that need high end quality) but it has the sound blaster cinema and sound blaster software that really makes it a great all in one motherboard. I really like the design. Of course I built the pc on my own and I had no problems at all in passing the cables from one place to the other in my ATX case to the Motherboard. This motherboard has spectacular features, really high quality build as I said before, but the thing I liked and enjoy the most is the clever bios it comes with. It's really user friendly, let's you use the keyboard of course but also your mouse! The interface is clever, easy and helps you out a lot on the overclock if you are into it at all. Temperatures are displayed on the home page and all the tabs relevant to all the components mounted on the motherboard are reachable really easily and fast. Also the CD drivers are very useful and come with many interesting tweaks all the Geeks want to have at hand all times.Fantastic motherboard. I really recommend it.Orlando

This seems to be an excellent motherboard. It is solid and has plenty of room for expansion. So far everything works great and the software is great. BUT! IT DOES NOT HAVE WIFI OR BLUETOOTH which is one of the features that is included in this listing (as of August 22, 2014) and is one of the main reasons I purchased this board.I noticed another reviewer had notified Amazon about this (false) listing over a month ago. Yet, this listing has not been corrected. Normally, I would have returned this item, but it is indeed, a great motherboard.So if you need/want the built in WiFi/Bluetooth, I suggest looking further.Back to the positive. Every other aspect of this board gets 5 STARS. This was my first computer build and it went very smoothly thanks to the design and it being well documented. The board itself is so well marked that it is basically self explanatory. Everything was installed and up & running in about 2 1/2 hours.My build:MSI ATX DDR3 2600 LGA 1150 MB Z97-G45Intel Core i5-4690S LGA 1150 - BX80646154690SWindows 7 HP 64bitSamsung SSD 120GB 840EVO For Desktop PCWD Blue 1TB SATA III WD10EZEX HDASUS GT-640 2GB DDR3 Graphics CardCrucial Ballistix Sport 8GB Kit DDR3 1600MT/s (PC3-12800)LG 12X Blu-ray M-Disc Combo Reader Drive UH12S30Thermaltake V4 Black Ed VM30001W2ZCorsair CX Series 600 ATX/EPS Modular PS 80Plus Bronze 552I added an external WiFi adapter for now and everything works great... and FAST! (I am not a gamer! Just wanted a good fast computer with decent graphics.)This is definitely a "5 star" motherboard. Too bad about the false advertising, That cost it a star.Update: August 5th 2015 - I have been running this motherboard for about a year now with absolutely no issues. It is a great board. I am upping it to 5 stars. No WiFi is no big deal! I would buy this board again without hesitation.

The motherboard works very well! The OC Genie and XMProfiles are a very handy tool when trying to overclock. My only wish was that I could use my RAID set-up and fast UEFI boot at the same time.Sound quality is absolutely excellent, however if you experience crackling sound and low volume, try loosening the stand-offs, I/O shield, and the chip cover. I was experiencing a short somewhere that was causing sound issues, but I was able to fix it.The layout is very convenient, as in the CPU and RAM are not in the way. The only layout complaint I have is that there are soldering points on the back of the board that hinder the attachment of third-party CPU coolers (such as the Corsair Hydra 110). If you squeeze the back mounting plate of the cooler to the board while screwing in from the top, it can be done.Quick Summary:Pros-Stylish and efficient layout-Excellent BIOS with great tuning abilities-Wide range of RAM support-Awesome LAN and sound cardCons-Sound card can short if too tight of mounting-Mouse and Keyboard ports (game optimized) are peripheral specific, but not labeled as such-Only 5 fan slots (needed 7)UPDATE: I had a problem with the volume crackling and distorting from the rear audio output. I ran the motherboard outside of my case and it worked fine. I narrowed it down to the mounting screws to the bottom left and middle left stand-offs. I'm not sure if this is a mobo, case, or user error. Works great otherwise!

I bought this mobo some days ago. It work good for a couple of hours until it dies. I bought a new psu thinking that it might the problem. At the end it was not.. i live in DR and because of this i cant return the package if so i will need to pay as much as a new mobo or even more for the replacement because amazon would not help me with the shipping in the US. (Thing is they did this a year ago with a GPU i got defective last year). Im really happy for giving away 130 bucks that took me months to save so i can just get a defective mobo.I just bought a 40$ msi mobo praying for it for not being bad.