OC Genie
■Push to overclock in 1 second
MSI’s original invention, a fully automatic, smart overclocking chip.
It will automatically detect the optimal settings for your individual system
■Advantages
1. 300% higher than Turbo Boost
2. Overclock 4 core B-clock & Ratio by OC Genie
3. Turbo Boost only overclock a little Ratio
SuperPipe
■Decrease of temperature by 50°C
The thick design of 8mm heatpipe
A surface increase of more than 56% compared to other competitors.
■Advantages
1. 8mm extra thick heatpipe
2. 60% thicker than traditional heatpipe
3. Thickest heatpipe used on mainboard
CPU
• Supports Intel® i5 / i7 based processors in LGA1156 package.
Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.
Chipset
• Intel® P55 Chipset
- Supports QPI up to 6.4GT/s
- Hi-Speed USB (USB2.0) controller, 480Mb/sec.
- 6 SATAII ports with transfer rate up to 3Gb/s.
- PCI Master v2.3, I/O APIC.
- ACPI 2.0 compliant.
- Serial ATA RAID 0/1/5/10.
- Integrated AHCI controller.
Main Memory
• Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.5 Volt DDR3 1066/1333/1600*/2000*/2133* (OC) SDRAM, 16GB Max
- Supports 1Gb/ 2Gb/ 4Gb DRAM size
- Supports Dual channel mode
Slots
• 2 PCI Express gen2 x16 slots
- If two graphics cards are installed at PCI_E2 & PCI_E4 slots, these two PCIE x16 lanes will auto arrange from x16/ x0 to x8/ x8
- supports ATI® Crossfire™ & NVIDIA SLI
• 1 PCI Express gen2 x4 slot
• 2 PCI Express gen2 x1 slots
• 2 PCI slots, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface
