MSI 990FXA gaming, AMD 990FX motherboard - Socket AM3 + [7893-001R]

Who wants to combine the latest AM3 + -Prozessorgeneration AMD with multiple graphics cards from AMD or NVIDIA, is an optimal platform with this motherboard. When MSI 990FXA Gaming is a top model with 990FX chipset. Accordingly, it not only looks damn good, but it also has a very extensive facilities including a number of OC and gaming features at Bo (a) rd. A modern UEFI also brings many comfort features with itself and is by the MSI gaming software (eg OC Genie 4) suitably supplemented.

The 990FX is based on the 890FX. Like him, he has over the smaller series of 800er- and 900 series mainly through better connectivity of graphics cards, as 32 instead of 16 lanes are available, thus enabling a higher bandwidth. For this reason, the 990FX is predestined for multi-VGA configurations. Opposite the 890FX not only combinations of several AMD cards (= CrossFireX) are possible, but also the use of multiple NVIDIA cards (= SLI).

The MSI 990FXA gaming this provides the opportunity to work together up to three AMD or two NVIDIA graphics cards. For this, three PCIe 2.0 x16 slots are available. In addition, two PCIe x1 slots and a classic PCI expansion slot available. In addition, the 990FX has broad compatibility and is fully applicable to all AM3 and AM3 + CPUs. With high-quality capacitors (Military Class 4) equipped, the motherboard provides the bargain for a long service life.

Even otherwise the board in ATX format is populated according luxuriously appointed four DDR3 memory modules natively support a clock frequency of 1.866 MHz or 2.133 MHz overclocked and can be used with a total capacity of up to 32GB. Furthermore there are numerous internal interfaces: 6x SATA 6G ports, a header for USB 3.0 and three headers for USB 2.0 (max 6 ports.), Two 3-pin and three 4-pin (max 2 ports.) -fan ports and S / PDIF-out or a serial port header (COM).

A little highlight on MSI 990FXA Gaming is also that there are on the I / O panel on the back of the motherboard two brand new USB 3.1 ports with Type A connector, provided by the ASMedia ASM1142 additional chip. These new USB ports with maximum attainable speed of 10 Gbit / s twice as fast as conventional USB 3.0 ports.

On the motherboard back can be via the I / O Shield also other devices and components via 8x USB 2.0, Gigabit LAN (with Killer E2205 chip), universal PS / 2 or six audio jacks for 7.1 sound with the MSI 990FXA Gaming connect. In audio level the motherboard offers among others duplicate Headphone Amplifier (Creative Sound Blaster Cinema 2) and high-quality capacitors for crystal-clear gaming audio.

Technical Details:

    Format: ATX
    Color: Black, Red
    Chipset: AMD 990FX / SB950
    Socket: AM3 + (for FX / Phenom II / Athlon II / Sempron CPUs)
    RAM: 4x DDR3 (up to 2133 MHz [OC], up to 32 GB)
    Dual-Channel
    Slots (physically):
    3x PCIe (2.0) x16 (2x 16 lanes, 1x 4 Lanes)
    1x PCI
    2x PCIe x1
    Internal connections:
    6x SATA 6G (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10)
    2x USB 3.0 (1x header by VIA VL806 controller)
    6x USB 2.0 (3x header)
    5x fan (3x 4-pin, 2x 3-Pin)
    1x Serial Port (COM)
    1x S / PDIF-out
    1x TPM
    Power / reset / LED / front-Audio
    External connections:
    2x USB 3.1 Type-A (by ASMedia ASM1142)
    8x USB 2.0
    1x Gigabit LAN (Killer E2205)
    6x audio (7.1, ALC 1150)
    1x PS / 2 keyboard / mouse
    1x S / PDIF (optical)
    Power supply:
    1x 24-pin ATX
    1x 8-pin EPS