Product Showcase

Right, SATA ports -- MSI is equipping the MSI A88X-G45 Gaming Edition with a very nice eight SATA ports. All of them lead from the AMD A88X chipset and that makes all of these ports SATA 3 and thus 6 GBps capable.

Here we can see AMD Socket FM2+/ FM2 A-Series/Athlon Processors for APU grade AMD processors. We can spot 4 power phases, add to that another 2 for the memory subsystem.

You will spot three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots, working in this order:

3 x PCIe x16 slots
- PCI_E2 supports PCIe 3.0 x16 speed
- PCI_E5 supports PCIe 3.0 x8 speed
- PCI_E6 supports PCIe 2.0 x4 speed

Then there are 3 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots and even a PCI slot. You will get four DIMM slots offer support for dual-channel DDR3 memory up to even 2400 MHz. You can install a maximum of 64 GB in total. XMP and AMP are fully supported, we'll show you this little critter running at 2133 MHz by just flicking a BIOS option.

Check that out. ATX boards, who doesn't love them? MSI really created this Form factor PCB and loaded it with features, and made sure it looks nice as well.

Here is an overview of the internal PCB connectors:

- 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
- 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
- 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
- 1 x 4-pin CPU fan connector
- 2 x 4-pin system fan connectors
- 2 x 3-pin system fan connectors
- 1 x Front panel audio connector
- 2 x System panel connectors
- 1 x Chassis Intrusion connector
- 1 x TPM module connector
- 1 x Serial port connector
- 1 x Clear CMOS jumper
- 1 x OC Genie button
- 1 x Power button
- 1 x Reset button
- 1 x OC Genie mode switch
- 1 x Slow mode booting switch
- 1 x 2-Digit Debug Code LEDs