Closer Look
Box Front
Upfront you’ll notice a nice picture of assassin’s creed along with some badges from UBISOFT, FNATIC and AMD
Box Back
At the back of the box, you’ll find the specification and all the features of the board explained in detail.
Inside the box
Along with the package are bunch of accessories:
- Quick Start Guide
- User’s Manual
- 4x SATA Cables
- Case Badge
- I/O Shield
- Driver/Utility DVD
- Door Hanger
- Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD Game Redemption Card
Motherboard front
The MSI A88X-G45 Gaming is an ATX form factor motherboard which inherited the black and red theme from the Gaming Series lineup. Aside from the dragon shaped north bridge and south bridge heatsinks, what really stood out is the pcb of the motherboard, apparently MSI ditched the shit brown pcb and has fully pledged itself with the full matte black finish. Adios marrón amigo!
Motherboard back
MSI really did stick with the all-black layout. Even the base plate of the mounting bracket is black, which I really like since fingerprints are no longer visible when you touch them unlike the old silver ones.
CPU area
AMD Socket FM2+/FM2 A-Series/Athlonâ„¢
Southbridge
The chipset cooling solution is aesthetically pleasing with its black and red dragon motif. The heat sink is also flat enough to avoid clearance problems with the expansion slot area.
VRM
More dragons
RAM
Four DIMM slots to support up to 32GB of DDR3 memory at 2400 MHz speeds. The DIMM slots lack any type of color coding. This is most definitely done for aesthetic reasons and fortunately the manual is very clear about where modules should be installed for proper dual channel memory mode operation.
OC Genie
You’ll find at the top-right corner of the board are the following:
- Power Button
- Reset Button
- OC Genie Button
- Slowmode Switch
- Automatic Overclocking Switch
VGA
The board includes three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots, three PCI-Express x1 and one legacy PCI slot.
Debug LED, Clear Cmos
SATA
The board is packed with 8 SATA 6Gbps ports.
9 Comments
Brawn is <3
Mark Allen Tablante yan ung sinasabe ko sayo bro.
Can I get the BF4 code?
Performance weighed down by processor. Good OC performance, decked-out full ATX feature set, nice fat bundle with free game. Pretty accessible pricing.
^That would be how I would score it.
A good enough board with freebies on the side.
mag itx build ako Ryan 😀
ahh kailan mo sisimulan
boom vanness! lupet nung pagkakasalansang sa Inside the box! 😀 hehehe
Looks like a very promising AMD gaming board. Medio steep lang ng onti yung price vs sa mobo na gusto ko din. Sana babaan nila.