{"id":54751,"date":"2013-06-04T13:03:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T11:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54751"},"modified":"2013-06-04T13:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T11:04:43","slug":"msi-haswell-itx-motherboards-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54751-msi-haswell-itx-motherboards-revealed","title":{"rendered":"MSI Haswell ITX motherboards revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel&#8217;s Haswell family is quickly shaping up to be a decent release, even though power consumption and heat generation are higher than its predecessor, Ivy Bridge. MSI has revealed three new ITX boards at the conference covering the three Intel chipsets.<\/p>\n<p>Haswell boards have three chipsets for consumers to choose from &#8211; B85, H87 and Z87. There are some business-focused chipsets as well like P85, but most people won&#8217;t really go for them. MSI has had a good lineup of ITX motherboards for the Intel LGA1155 platform in the past and Haswell doesn&#8217;t change that.<\/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-54751 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54751-msi-haswell-itx-motherboards-revealed\/attachment\/msi-b85i'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MSI-B85I-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"MSI B85I\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-54754\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-54754'>\n\t\t\t\tMSI B85I\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54751-msi-haswell-itx-motherboards-revealed\/attachment\/msi-h87i'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MSI-H87I-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"MSI H87I\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-54755\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-54755'>\n\t\t\t\tMSI H87I\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54751-msi-haswell-itx-motherboards-revealed\/attachment\/msi-z87i'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MSI-Z87I-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"MSI Z87I\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-54756\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-54756'>\n\t\t\t\tMSI Z87I\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It starts with the B85I, the version without a frill to be seen. It offers four SATA 6GB\/s ports, a full-speed PCI-Express 3.0 slot, up to 32GB of dual-channel DDR3 RAM, four VRM phases and built-in m-PCI-E slot for hooking up a wireless card to the board. It only has HDMI and DVI video ports, Gigabit ethernet, two USB 3.0 ports for the front panel, 5.1 audio and four USB 2.0 ports at the back.<\/p>\n<p>The H87I boosts that up with a bundled Realtek 802.11n Wi-Foimodule and antennae, heatsinks for the VRM phases and 7.1-channel audio. The Z87I is the flashy one, offering identical ports and features to the B85I and H87I, but also unlocking the multiplier controls to allow for some overclocking love. Most Haswell processors top out at 4.6GHz however, so the available headroom with a stock cooler will be quite limited.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"MSI Intros Trio of Mini-ITX LGA1150 Motherboards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/184905\/msi-intros-trio-of-mini-itx-lga1150-motherboards.html\" target=\"_blank\">TechpowerUp<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Hardware news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54700-geforce-gtx770-price-roundup.html\">Geforce GTX770 SA price roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54688-intel-atom-the-basis-of-future-celeron-pentium-chips.html\">Intel Atom the basis of future Celeron, Pentium chips<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54690-intel-haswell-cpu-review-roundup.html\">Intel Haswell CPU review roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three boards based on the B85, H87 and Z87 chipsets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":54752,"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":[31,10121,9675,5203,10194,10193,10192],"class_list":["post-54751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-computex-2013","tag-itx","tag-msi","tag-msi-b85i","tag-msi-h87i","tag-msi-z87i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54751","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54784,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54751\/revisions\/54784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}