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May 13, 2012

MSI Launches Thunderbolt Motherboard Z77A-GD80




Micro-Star International has made the formal introduction of the Z77A-GD80 motherboard, which features Intel's high-bandwidth interface standard.

Thunderbolt is the fastest data connection available on a PC, running at 10 Gbps and transmitting both PCI Express and DisplayPort signals through a single cable. The former protocol performs data transfer, while the latter obviously adds to the maximum number of supported displays. Even daisy-chaining works.

The main point of TB on the new MSI motherboard is to allow extra add-on cards to be installed without straining the bandwidth. The rest of the specs are what one might expect from a high-end motherboard. This is the top-tier Z77 chipset we are talking about after all.

The LGA 1155 socket supports second and third-generation CPUs from the Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 series, as well as Pentium and Celeron. Four DIMM slots are present, which means that the top memory capacity is of 64 GB DDR3 (the frequency is 2,667 MHz). Speaking of slots, there are three PCI Express x16 Gen 3 sockets, plus a PCI Express x1 slot. 

2-way NVIDIA SLI and 3-way AMD CrossFireX multi-GPU setups should be easy to use, provided the PSU is good enough. Moving on, for storage, MSI chose to implement two SATA 6.0 Gbps ports and four SATA 3.0 Gbps ports with RAID support, plus a couple of SATA 6.0 Gbps connectors without RAID.

As for everything else that made the spec list, there is Gigabit Ethernet, THX TruStudio surround sound (7.1 channel), a mini-DisplayPort, HDMI. D-Sub, Military Class III components, Active Phase Switching (APS) and DrMOS II.

Finally, the well-known OC Genie II technology overclocks the whole system with the press of a single button. And if that's not enough, buyers can use the My OC Genie section in the MSI ClickBIOS II interface to make customizations to even that. Just don't expect all of this to come cheap whenever sales start.


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