Question 1

Will this motherboard support a dual slot video card.  The Sapphire nitro r7 370?

Accepted Answer

Yes just make sure you put it in the  PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot

Generally i think most motherboards support dual slot cards, its more a matter of if your case will!

Question 2

is it good with windows 10/ or 7?

Accepted Answer

It does fine with win 7.  I do not know about 10.  Win 7 is still more stable then 8.1 or 10 that I have found.  This is a nice board.  I was impressed with it

Question 3

What is the Maximum amount of RAM this board supports?

Accepted Answer

As the information states on newegg the max is 32 gigs of DDR3 2133(OC)/ 1866/ 1600/ 1333 took me longer to answer this than it took to look it up.

Question 4

Will this accept a 3TB Hard Drive?

Accepted Answer

As long as you are using a 64bit OS it will show the full 3tb, if you use 32bit OS iirc it can partition it into 2.2gb and 800mb.

Question 5

When i plug in a Ethernet cable into this motherboard, all the other connections stop working, including the ones on my gpu. I am at my wits end, does anyone know why this would happen?

Accepted Answer

I have had one of these in service for a year or so with no issues. I can think of no good reason what you describe should happen. Most likely you have a bad motherboard. The only other thing I can think of (and this is a stretch!) would be a power supply that is on the ragged edge, but even so, simply plugging in an ethernet cable shouldn't be enough to overwhelm it to that degree. My vote is a bad board.....although one thing you might check is that your ethernet cable is definitely good, and that there isn't something shorting the terminals in the socket when you plug it in. (Although I consider that a stretch too!)

Question 6

What cables do I purchase with this? HDD Cable?

Accepted Answer

All cables needed come with the motherboard. It comes with 2 Sata cables but if you plan on adding more drives then just get what is needed

Question 7

Can I use a AMD A4-7300 APU in this motherboard to replace a Gigabyte model: F2A68HM-DS2H v: x.x  motherboard that has died?

Accepted Answer

yes, there is a small chance windows will not work or have to be reactivated.  even though the same chipset think of a motherboard as a road map.  One board my require a left turn the other a right turn.  I would put 90% odds that it will just fire though.

Question 8

Does the come with wireless wifi capability ?

Accepted Answer

This board does not feature onboard wifi but if you would like to add a PCI wifi card or usb wifi card, it is fully capable.

Question 9

What is the space between the memory slots and CPU socket.  Was wondering about the space for a HSF.  If you own this board, what HSF are you using?

Accepted Answer

I used the stock cooler that came with AMD CPU I put in it.  Or apu as it is called.

There was no room problems.  Cool master makes  nice coolers.  Search YouTube to see if they installed it on this mobo.

Dont know what your using this mobo for.  But MSI boards have very bad noise in the audio if your going to hook it up to a sound system for music or such.

I stopped using msi for that reason.  Went to Ausu

Question 10

Trying to pick out some RAM for this. I see on the list of RAM,  it says  (OC) next to the 2133.  Does it require special overclocking or can i just buy 2133MHz RAM and install it?

Accepted Answer

I went to the MSI website.  It will list all the memory that will work with this board.  I have learned the hard way not doing this will cause problems.  Not all memory is the same even if it says the same speed and type.

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