![]() This is complemented by a 90° right-angle USB 3.0 header - a nice touch for what is fast becoming the most awkward motherboard connector behind the 24-pin and 8-pin power connectors. Fitting a pair of dual-slot GPUs will obscure a pair of these, but that still leaves a couple for expansion cards.Įlsewhere the G45 Gaming offers the standard Z87 chipset’s six SATA 6gbps ports, but compliments them with a full set of 90° right-angled connectors to help keep cabling tidy. Alongside are no less than four PCI-E 1x slots. As they’re all PCI-E 3.0 though, this still means double the bandwidth of like-for-like PCI-E 2.0 slots. The slots share x16 lanes of bandwidth between them, so a single slot gets x16 lanes, a pair of slots both run with x8 lanes and three cards run at x8, x4, x4. ![]() It supports up to three-card CrossFire and two-card SLI thanks to a trio of PCI-E 3.0 16x slots. The G45 Gaming’s feature set also belies its low price. Despite the cut-price though, the G45-Gaming more than looks the part, with a black PCB, VRM heatsinks and Southbridge cooler, trimmed in an anodised red, dragon-styled trim. The Z87-G45-Gaming sits at that mid-range point and at less than £115 is substantially cheaper than many of the other enthusiast-targeted boards on the market. ![]() Further up are the super-high end MPower overclocking boards, but for most of us MSI is offering a fairly straightforward choice between its entry, mid-level and high-end Z87 boards. ![]() Below £100 there’s the G41 and G43, before bumping up to the £120 G45-Gaming and £170 GD65-gaming. ![]() Unlike many of its competitors, who seem to operate with the objective of drowning the market in overlapping SKUs, MSI’s Z87 product stack is refreshingly simple to follow. MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Review Manufacturer: MSI ![]()
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