Introduction and Technical Specifications

The MSI Z87 MPOWER board is MSI’s refresh of their popular enthusiast-centric board, updated for the next generation of LGA1150 Intel CPUs…

Introduction

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The Z87 MPOWER board is one of the first boards released as part of MSI's Z87 update of the much vaunted MPOWER line. The board supports the next generation of Intel processors based on the LGA1150 socket (Haswell), and is packed full of features and overclocking goodness. In-line with the MPower's established theme, the Z87 MPower board maintain's the black and yellow stylings from the last generation with the MSI brand logo proudly displeased on the chipset heat sink. At a retail price of $229.99, the Z87 MPower would be a nice value add to any enthusiast or gaming system.

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In keeping with its enthusiast appeal, MSI incorporated a full 16-phase digital power delivery system into the Z87 MPower, ensuring CPU stability under the most intense system loads. MSI integrated the following features into the Z87 MPower: eight SATA 6Gb/s ports; an mSATA 6Gb/s port; a Killer E2205 GigE NIC; Atheros 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth adapter support; three PCI-Express x16 slots for up to tri-card support; four PCI-Express x1 slots; Lucidlogix Virtu® MVP 2.0 support; onboard power, reset, BIOS reset, base clock control, OC Genie, and Go2BIOS buttons; multi-BIOS and OC Genie mode switches; 2-digit diagnostic LED display; and USB 2.0 and 3.0 port support.

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Technical Specifications (taken from the MSI website)

CPU

• 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7 / Core™ i5 / Core™ i3 / Pentium® /Celeron® processors for LGA 1150 socket Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.

Chipset

• Intel® Z87 Express Chipset

Memory

• Support four DDR3 DIMMs 1066/1333/1600/1866*/2000*/2133*/2200*/2400*/2600*/2667*/2800*/3000*(OC) DRAM (64GB Max)
– Supports Dual-Channel mode
– Supports non-ECC, un-buffered memory
– Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)

Slots

• 3 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots
– The operating mode will be x16/ x0/ x0, x8/ x8/ x0, or x8/ x4/ x4. Please always install expansion card into the PCI_E2 “First”.
• 4 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots

On-Board SATA

SATAIII controller integrated in Intel® Z87 chipset
– Up to 6Gb/s transfer speed.
– 1 x mSATA 6Gb/s port*
– Supports six SATA ports (SATA1~6) by Z87

SATAIII controller integrated in ASMedia® ASM1061 chipset
– Up to 6Gb/s transfer speed.
– Supports two SATA ports (SATA7~8) by ASM1061
*The SATA6 port will be unavailable when a SSD installed in the mSATA port.
** Supports Intel Core processors on Windows 7 and Windows 8.

RAID
– SATA1~6 ports support Intel Rapid Storage Technology enterprise (AHCI / RAID 0/1/5/10) by Intel Z87

USB

Intel Z87 Express Chipset
– 4 x USB 3.0 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 2 ports available through the internal USB connectors)
– 8 x USB 2.0 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 6 ports available through the internal USB connectors**)

ASMedia ASM1074 Chipset
– 4 x USB 3.0 ports on the back panel
** internal JUSB1 connector supports MSI Super Charger

Audio

• Realtek® ALC1150 Codec
– 7.1-Channel High Definition Audio
– Supports S/PDIF output

LAN

• Supports one PCI Express LAN 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Killer® E2205
*The Killer Network Manager is only available for Windows 7 and Windows 8 currently. The supported drivers for other operating systems would depend on the vendor providing or not.

Multi-GPU

• Supports 3-Way AMD CrossFireTM Technology*
• Supports 2-Way NVIDIA® SLITM Technology
• Supports Lucid Virtu MVP 2.0*
*Supports Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Internal I/O Connectors

– ATX 24-Pin power connector
– 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
– 2 x 4-pin CPU fan connectors
– 3 x 4-pin System fan connectors
– 8 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
– 3 x USB 2.0 connectors (supports additional 6 USB 2.0 ports)
– 1 x USB 3.0 connector (supports additional 2 USB 3.0 ports)
– 1 x Discharge jumper
– 1 x Multi BIOS Switch
– 1 x TPM Module connector
– 1 x Front Panel Audio connector
– 2 x System panel connectors
– 1 x Chassis Intrusion connector
– 14 x V-Check points (7x V-Check connectors, 7x V-Check spots)
– 1x GO2BIOS button
– 1 x OC Genie button
– 1 x Reset button
– 1 x Power button
– 2 x Base Clock control buttons
– 1 x Clear CMOS jumper
– 1 x OC switch
– 1 x 2-Digit Debug Code LED
– 1 x Wi-Fi/ Bluetooth module connector

Back Panel I/O Ports

– 1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse combo port
– 1 x Clear CMOS button
– 1 x Optical S/PDIF-out port
– 2 x USB 2.0 ports
– 6 x USB 3.0 ports
– 1 x RJ45 LAN jack
– 1 x 6 in 1 OFC audio jack
– 2 x HDMI® ports with max. resolution up to 4096×2160@24Hz, 24bpp/ 2560×1600@60Hz, 24bpp/1920×1080@60Hz, 36bpp
– 1 x DisplayPort with max. resolution up to 4096×2160@24Hz, 24bpp/ 3840×2160@60Hz, 24bpp

This platform supports dual-display and triple-display function

BIOS

• The motherboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically.
• The motherboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your motherboard specifications.

Dimensions

• 30.5cm(L) x 24.4cm(W) ATX Form Factor

Mounting

• 9 mounting holes.

 

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