The MSI Z87-G45 gaming motherboard is designed to hit gamer’s sweet spot. It carries LGA1150 socket to support powerful 4th Gen Intel Core / Pentium/ Celeron processors, and boasts the latest Intel Z87 chipset. It brings you the multi-GPU choice of either SLI or CrossFireX, and offers PCI-E 3 ports for blistering data transfer as well as HDMI interface for awesome HD video playback. And, all ports are optimized with Triple Gold-plating for high polling rate gaming devices. The Audio Boost, along with Sound Blaster Cinema, provides you with immersive sound quality. Complete with a wealth of features and technologies – like OC GENIE 4, VGA boost, Super RAID, Killer E2200 Intelligent Networking Platform, exclusive Command Center and more, it offers you more than enough for an exceptional experience in every aspect.
The Military Class 4 components ensure rock solid quality and durability you can count on. The Dragon Heat Sink provides the best thermal transfer and heat dissipation to enable your PC to just game 24 hours per day. And, Total Fan Control enables you to easily find the best balance between fan performance and silence.
Military Class 4 ComponentsThe core of Military Class 4 is based on the essentials, helping increase your stability in the toughest conditions. Super Ferrite Choke uses a Ferrite core that is Super-Permeable. This allows the Super Ferrite Choke to run at a 35 degree Celsius lower temperature, have a 30% higher current capacity, a 20% improvement in power efficiency and better overclocking power stability. With the aluminum core design, Dark CAP's have been a staple in high-end design motherboard designs, and provides lower Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR) as well as its over-10-year lifespan.
OC GENIE 4 & VGA BOOSTOC Genie 4 supercharges your speed experience. When used, OC Genie 4 accelerates your entire system and puts it into overdrive. Tuned by the professional over-clockers, OC Genie 4 hands you record-breaking performance on a silver plate. VGA Boost increases the power limitations for MSI GAMING graphics cards when inserted in an MSI GAMING motherboard. It simply upgrades your Power Tuning and current limits allowing your graphics to boost to higher clock speeds when your gaming graphics get more intense and sustain maximum performance for a longer time.
Super RAIDThe MSI Z87A-G45 motherboards offer support for DDR3-3000 MHz memory modules. This means you will not have to miss out on any gaming action, because your in-game levels will be loaded superfast. With MSI Super RAID, you can combine hard drives, SSDs and mSATA into blazing fast bootable drives. Load your operating system, videos or even games faster than ever. You can now enjoy the benefits of bigger and faster storage, without all the trouble that normally surround RAID configurations.
Top Quality Audio with Sound Blaster CinemaWith Audio Boost, it delivers the highest audio quality so you can enjoy crystal clear sound and music in games. Because the complete audio circuitry is isolated from other features, you'll enjoy less interference and more stability. The built-in headphone amplifier allows you to use studio-grade headgear and get the most amazing sound quality out of your gaming PC. Thanks to Sound Blaster Cinema, you're getting amazing surround sound with just stereo headphones. Powered by the SBX Pro Studio technologies, Sound Blaster Cinema enables you to clearly hear specific sounds in gaming environments, making your ears a decisive tool on the battlefield.
Kill Your Lag!The Killer E2200 Intelligent Networking Platform is built for maximum networking performance for online games and high-quality streaming media. Featuring Advanced Stream Detect, Killer E2200 automatically detects and accelerates game traffic ahead of other network traffic for smoother, stutter-free in-game performance and the competitive edge. With this exclusive, automatic traffic prioritization, games and real-time chat get priority over low-level system chatter, giving you the lowest latency for game data on the most controllable network hardware available.
Command CenterWith a very intuitive touch ready interface, Command Center allows users to tune settings to increase system stability, maximize overclocking performance and adjust cooling features. It features a total new fan control interface from which users can control all fans' speed on the motherboard and set profiles. Users can real-time monitor the status of the fans as well as record fan speed, voltage and temperate status into a log file. This feature is both convenient for pro-gamers and over-clockers. Plus, it also integrates an unlimited RAMdisk, so you can create a virtual drive from your system memory enabling speeds 20x faster than a modern SSD.