Question 1

What is the transfer speed for the wireless on this board?

Accepted Answer

I have TW cable connected through a Ubee router. With the LAN NIC disabled I ran a test through Speedtest .net. Getting 26.04 download with 4.41 upload on a ping of 25ms. My TW connection is a 30Mbps connection. Killer Network enabled on the motherboard. Get better with the LAN NIC enabled in conjunction with wireless. Killer Network works great for me. Just a side note, I have several devices using wireless, but I placed priority on my MSI system.
Intel 4790K overclocked to 4.4, 16GB Crucial Tactical Ram, H100i GTX water cooler, 2 Samsung 850 Pro 256 GB SSD's in a RAID 0, With Two 2TB WD enterprise Drives in a RAID 1 for backup.

Question 2

I understand that 2-way SLI requires the bandwidth to drop to x8/x8, which is still more than enough. However, what I would like to know is if I can use any combination of the PCIE x16 slots and still get x8/x8? I want to use the first and last PCIE x16 slots to provide as much air flow between the cards as possible.

Thank you.

Accepted Answer

Please refer to the owners manual for the slot configuration on all mother boards.

What I have seen on 2 MSI boards is that for them to work together they must be the same RAM size and installed in 1 & 3 and then 2 & 4.  You can down load the owners manual on all MSI motherboards on their website.  Maybe there is a difference but I have not seen it yet.

Depending on the size of the tower you are using you will have more room for fans than you can imagine.  5-7 case fans. CPU fan or water cooled fan and a fan on the power supply.  the case fans are very reasonable priced at newegg and air flow is not a problem that we have experienced.

Plus this MSI motherboard had special heat dispersion all over the board.

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