MSI released their entire range of Z97 motherboards. A few flagship motherboards stand out really, the Z97 XPower AC, which I am reviewing as we speak, but just look at MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC for a minu... MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC Motherboard Looks Amazing !
Simply outstanding looks wise! Finally they put an EMI shield over the Audio chip!!! My current Z87-GD65 GAMING board suffers from some pretty bad interference when using the on board sound chip. I just disabled it in BIOS and use my Soundblaster Z card and its perfect.
Yes, worst onboard soundcard I have EVER had, simply unusable. I can only :bang: when reading the "review" sites "testing" the audio quality without any load on cpu/gpu/memory. Example: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6989/...aswell-gigabyte-msi-asrock-and-asus-at-200/19 -79.8db thd+n? LOlOOLLollll :stewpid:
I became a fan of MSI mobos ever since I built my current rig 2 years ago, clean reliable design, dual bios, great pcie spacing, OC friendly (I too have the "OC genie" button, which is a nice stable small OC if you don't want to bother with more, I even use it myself for several months now)... and the looks, well this one looks freaking awesome. Honestly, if I didn't already have what I have now, I would get this in an instant, and pair it with a future "gaming" line MSI video card which has the same color pattern, but I can't be arsed to build it, for like 5-10% performance bump max compared to my current setup, it's just too much of a hassle, but it would certainly LOOK a lot better.