{"id":53773,"date":"2013-05-13T12:45:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T10:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=53773"},"modified":"2013-05-13T12:49:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T10:49:46","slug":"msis-z87-mpower-max-poses-for-a-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/53773-msis-z87-mpower-max-poses-for-a-picture","title":{"rendered":"MSI&#8217;s Z87 MPower MAX poses for a picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Intel Haswell launch date\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/53298-intel-haswell-launch-date.html\">Intel&#8217;s Haswell is less than a month away<\/a> and will be launching on 4 June 2013 as the doors for Computex Taipei 2013 open to allow a flood of some of the biggest nerds in the IT industry to gawk at what others are working on.<\/p>\n<p>Some motherboard manufacturers have had their products leak (unintentionally or intentionally, who knows) and lately we&#8217;ve seen boards from ASRock strike a pose but nothing from it&#8217;s other competitor, MSI. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egypthardware.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">EgyptHardware<\/a> managed to get hold of the upcoming Haswell-compatible MPower MAX motherboard, though, and what a beauty it is.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-53773 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/53773-msis-z87-mpower-max-poses-for-a-picture\/attachment\/msi-z87-mpower-max-front'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MSI-Z87-MPower-MAX-front-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"MSI Z87 MPower MAX front\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-53775\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-53775'>\n\t\t\t\tMSI Z87 MPower MAX front\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/53773-msis-z87-mpower-max-poses-for-a-picture\/attachment\/msi-z87-mpower-max-ports'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MSI-Z87-MPower-MAX-ports-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"MSI Z87 MPower MAX ports\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-53774\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-53774'>\n\t\t\t\tMSI Z87 MPower MAX ports\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/53773-msis-z87-mpower-max-poses-for-a-picture\/attachment\/msi-z87-mpower-max-oc-buttons'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MSI-Z87-MPower-MAX-OC-buttons-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"MSI Z87 MPower MAX OC buttons\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-53776\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-53776'>\n\t\t\t\tMSI Z87 MPower MAX OC buttons\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It looks like MSI is trying to imitate the <a title=\"ASRock\u2019s new Z87 motherboard lineup detailed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/53533-asrocks-new-z87-lineup-detailed.html\">ASRock Z87 OC Formula<\/a> with the black-and-yellow colour scheme and even has the same set of buttons for easy overclocking using on-screen controls, although rather oddly these are located at the bottom of the motherboard.<\/p>\n<p>In the pictures we can also see their in-house audio chip, called Audio Blast, that should deliver a swift kicking to the Realtek audio chips we&#8217;ve been suffering with for years. The I\/O panel on the board is well featured\u00a0 &#8211; there&#8217;s just two USB 2.0 ports, six USB 3.0. Gigabit Ethernet, two HDMI ports, Displayport, audio, and optical outputs.<\/p>\n<p>A welcome addition is the CMOS reset button on the back. That&#8217;ll make recovering from a bad overclock much easier without reaching into the chassis and fiddling with the CMOS button.<\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s zoomed out, one can clearly see the two massive heatsinks with yellow striping, ten SATA 6GB\/s ports (the red sticker warning is probably about using the mSATA slot in the middle of the board), four DDR3 slots and dual 8-pin PEG connectors for delivering extra power to the CPU.\u00a0 The layout is clean and functional, although you&#8217;ll be better suited to running dual graphics because of the PCI-Express slot placements.<\/p>\n<p>EgyptHardware took down their post, but Tom&#8217;s Hardware saved the snaps for posterity.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"MSI Z87 MPower MAX Motherboard Photographed - Tom's Hardware\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/news\/MSI-MPower-MAX-Z87-Motherboard,22497.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tom&#8217;s Hardware<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Hardware news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/53730-nzxt-h630-chassis-is-a-full-tower-behemoth.html\">NZXT H630 chassis is a full-tower behemoth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/53648-seagate-joins-the-consumer-ssd-race.html\">Seagate joins the consumer SSD race<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/53429-sa-ddr3-memory-price-roundup.html\">SA DDR3 memory pricing roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MPower MAX looks like MSI&#8217;s arrow to the ASRock Z87 OC Formula&#8217;s knee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":53778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4338,9888,9693,5203,9946],"class_list":["post-53773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-intel-haswell","tag-intel-z87","tag-lga1150","tag-msi","tag-msi-z87-mpower-max"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53837,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53773\/revisions\/53837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}