If you happen to be considering a M-ATX X79 powered mainboard, we reported on ASRock's offering early this week. Now, MSI's X79MA-GD45 has also popped-up, to gain some attention.
The X79MA-GD45 offers a 9-phase VRM for CPU power delivery, together with four DIMM slots - powered by a 2-phase VRM. The complement of PCIe slots is made up of dual PCIe 3.0 x16 slots and dual PCIe 2.0 x1 slots. This makes 2-way SLI and CrossFire multi-GPU setups possible.
Moving on to connectivity, the X79MA-GD45 offers two SATA 6Gbps ports, plus four SATA 3Gbps ports. There is no eSATA functionality, reportedly, but you get a dose of USB 3.0 ports, USB 2.0 ports, 8+2 channel HD audio and Gigabit Ethernet.
It's said that the mainboard will also offer a bevy of overclocking features, and is driven by a UEFI.
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