MSI and Corbell showcase latest Intel Z87 motherboards at IBIS hotel

MSI Taiwan and Corbell Singapore showcase latest Z87 series motherboards in Singapore
29 Jun 2013

Despite the bad air quality hitting PSI of 400 in the mid afternoon on Friday 21 Jun 2013, the crowd still stream in to the event held by Corbell and MSI. It was a casual event filled with laughter as we meet up old friends. The users came slightly late due to the haze and the rest started off having the buffet dinner before the event starts.

The MSI representative ran through the MSI company profile and show the audience the different flavours of the motherboards completely with a new design and they are the XPOWER, MPOWER MAX and MPOWER boards. The differences are the power phases 32, 20 and 16 for XPOWER, MPOWER MAX and MPOWER respectively. The XPOWER is the highest end board and supports 4 way CrossFire or 4 way SLI with 4 full length PCIe slots and another 1 PCIe full length slot (total of 5).

Something unique about the Z87 XPOWER is that it uses the PLX8747 gen3 switch chip. This way you have the maximum available bandwidth needed in order to run your benchmarks and game with 4 VGA cards. There is also a feature called  Ceasefire.

When you are overclocking with LN2 with 4 VGA cards it can happen that you want to remove one VGA card, however with the LN2 pot on their and all the insulation it is very difficult. With MSI CeaseFire it is very easy to disable one of the PCI-E x16 slots with a simple switch.

Z87 XPOWER

Intel® Z87 Express Chipset

• Supports 4th Gen Intel® Core™ / Pentium® / Celeron® processors for LGA 1150 socket
• Supports DDR3-3000(OC) Memory
• Supports USB 3.0 + SATA 6Gb/s
• 32 Phase DigitALL Power Design
• 4-way Multi-GPU: 4-way NVIDIA SLI & AMD CrossFire Support
• OC Certified: Military Class Burn-in Test Passed
• Military Class 4: Top Quality & Stability
• OC Genie 4: Overclock in 1 Second
• Click BIOS 4: Easily Fine-tune Your System
• PCI Express Gen 3: World’s 1st PCI Express Gen 3 Motherboard Brand
• Audio Boost: Reward Your Ears with True Quality
• Killer Ethernet: Kill Your Lag
• Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3: Amazing Headphone Surround & Gaming Sound Enhancement
• Lucid Virtu MVP 2.0: Uncompromised Game Response Performance
• Wi-Fi 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0, Intel® Wireless Display

MPOWER MAX

Supports 4th Gen Intel^® Core™ / Pentium® / Celeron^® processors for LGA 1150 socket

• Supports DDR3-3000(OC) Memory
• Supports USB 3.0 + SATA 6Gb/s
• 20 Phase DigitALL Power Design
• Multi-GPU: NVIDIA SLI & AMD CrossFire Support
• OC Certified: Military Class Burn-in Test Passed
• Military Class 4: Top Quality & Stability
• OC Genie 4: Overclock in 1 Second
• Click BIOS 4: Easily Fine-tune Your System
• PCI Express Gen 3: World’s 1st PCI Express Gen 3 Motherboard Brand
• Audio Boost: Reward Your Ears with True Quality
• Killer Ethernet: Kill Your Lag
• Sound Blaster Cinema: Realistic Surround Sound Experience
• Lucid Virtu MVP 2.0: Uncompromised Game Response Performance
• Wi-Fi 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0, Intel^® Wireless Display

Z87 MPOWER

Supports 4th Gen Intel® Core™ / Pentium® / Celeron® processors for LGA 1150 socket

• Supports DDR3-3000(OC) Memory
• Supports USB 3.0 + SATA 6Gb/s
• 16 Phase DigitALL Power Design
• Multi-GPU: NVIDIA SLI & AMD CrossFire Support
• OC Certified: Military Class Burn-in Test Passed
• Military Class 4: Top Quality & Stability
• OC Genie 4: Overclock in 1 Second
• Click BIOS 4: Easily Fine-tune Your System
• PCI Express Gen 3: World’s 1st PCI Express Gen 3 Motherboard Brand
• Audio Boost: Reward Your Ears with True Quality
• Killer Ethernet: Kill Your Lag
• Sound Blaster Cinema: Realistic Surround Sound Experience
• Lucid Virtu MVP 2.0: Uncompromised Game Response Performance
• Wi-Fi 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0, Intel® Wireless Display