MSI Announces the Z170A MPower Gaming Titanium

btarunr · May 23, 2016

MSI announced its second Gaming Titanium socket LGA1151 motherboard after the Z170A XPower Gaming Titanium, the Z170A MPower Gaming Titanium. This board features a slightly lighter feature-set than its XPower sibling. It retains the silvery white color-scheme of the PCB, with silver/chrome heatsinks and heatspreaders; and even features a white back-plate on its reverse side. The rather minimalist-looking board features a 11-phase CPU VRM; and features reinforcement braces along its four DDR4 DIMM slots, and three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots (x16/NC/x4 or x8/x8/x4). Other expansion slots include three PCIe 3.0 x1.

Storage connectivity includes two 32 Gb/s M.2 slots, one 32 Gb/s U.2 port, and six SATA 6 Gb/s. Among its modern connectivity options are two USB 3.1 ports (one each of type-A and type-C), seven USB 3.0 (including one internal type-C port), AudioBoost 3 onboard 8-channel audio, and one gigabit Ethernet connection (driven by an Intel controller). The company didn't reveal pricing or availability.

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davido_labido · May 23, 2016

That looks far better than the first imo!! I might have to grab one of those myself!

Chaitanya · May 23, 2016

Looks really nice.

TheLostSwede · May 23, 2016

If only that DVI port was a DisplayPort...

hojnikb · May 23, 2016

i really dig this white pcb scheme

natr0n · May 23, 2016

We need more white boards.

atomicus · May 23, 2016

Is this white or silver... I can't tell?

natr0n · May 23, 2016

atomicus said:
Is this white or silver... I can't tell?

silver really

Jack1n · May 23, 2016

atomicus said:
Is this white or silver... I can't tell?

Since the board is called Titanium i believe it is a metallic color.

TheinsanegamerN · May 23, 2016

Man, PS/2 on a high end gaming board in 2016.....

The only thing more ridiculous is the new 42 inch, 1.3k dell 4k monitor having a VGA connector on it. Let the tech die already.

hojnikb · May 23, 2016

TheinsanegamerN said:
Man, PS/2 on a high end gaming board in 2016.....

The only thing more ridiculous is the new 42 inch, 1.3k dell 4k monitor having a VGA connector on it. Let the tech die already.

Whats wrong with ps/2 ?

TheinsanegamerN · May 23, 2016

hojnikb said:
Whats wrong with ps/2 ?

What's wrong with VGA? Nothing in particular, but it's still antiquated tech that very few people still use. When was the last time you bought a PS/2 keyboard? Who still uses a 15+ year old keyboard with a brand new skylake system?

Just seems silly a $150+ board still has a keyboard connector from the 90s, when USB has been the standard for over a decade. Especially when PS/2 could be Finicky at times.

hojnikb · May 23, 2016

Maybe people still rock perfectly fine Model Ms. Having no ps/2 connector would be a deal breaker for them

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Ruru · May 23, 2016

The first time I see a mobo which looks cooler than Asus Sabertooth series.

TheLostSwede · May 23, 2016

TheinsanegamerN said:
What's wrong with VGA? Nothing in particular, but it's still antiquated tech that very few people still use. When was the last time you bought a PS/2 keyboard? Who still uses a 15+ year old keyboard with a brand new skylake system?

Just seems silly a $150+ board still has a keyboard connector from the 90s, when USB has been the standard for over a decade. Especially when PS/2 could be Finicky at times.

A lot of "gamers" claim PS/2 has superior n-key rollover compared to USB, although this no longer seems to be an issue with recent gaming keyboards, but hey, each to their own...

As for VGA and even DVI, I've hoped to see their demise for quite some time, but alas...

Enterprise24 · May 23, 2016

Delid die guard like Z97 XPower Please.

silentbogo · May 23, 2016

TheinsanegamerN said:
but it's still antiquated tech that very few people still use

It's an antiquated tech that many people still use.
Not everyone even bothers to know that their 5000+dpi gaming mice with super-fast response times and 2KHz sampling rates are still bound by limitations of 64KB/s best case USB HID communication speed (not too far away from PS/2).

TheLostSwede said:
As for VGA and even DVI, I've hoped to see their demise for quite some time, but alas...

As soon as 1440p goes mainstream. I'm forced to upgrade my monitor because this transition has already started: my Skylake PC has no analog output on iGP DVI port, just as my upcoming 1070 won't have one. I'm still happy with my shitty 1080p display from LG, but I guess it is time to finally spend some cash on that Dell Ultrasharp I've been looking at for the past 5 months.

xkm1948 · May 23, 2016

I wonder when there will be transparent MoBo PCB. That will give some serious light pollution.

silentbogo · May 23, 2016

xkm1948 said:
I wonder when there will be transparent MoBo PCB. That will give some serious light pollution.

@xkm1948 , don't give them any ideas...

OneCool · May 23, 2016

R-T-B · May 24, 2016

TheinsanegamerN said:
Who still uses a 15+ year old keyboard with a brand new skylake system?

If it weren't for my forced mobo change (which lacked PS/2), I'd STILL be using my 1989 IBM Model M... So me.

Also, PS/2 actually has quite a few advantages over USB-HID, ironically.

Basard · May 24, 2016

TheinsanegamerN said:
Man, PS/2 on a high end gaming board in 2016.....

The only thing more ridiculous is the new 42 inch, 1.3k dell 4k monitor having a VGA connector on it. Let the tech die already.

My grandma would LOVE it! LOL!

She's rockin a 1000w PSU, Crosshair IV mobo, Phenom II x6, Dominator RAM... lol... Hell, she's even got an ROG 5870 with 2GB VRAM! The Sims screams on that computer! Now we just gotta get her an SSD! Still using PS/2 and VGA...

Jermelescu · May 24, 2016

TheinsanegamerN said:
What's wrong with VGA? Nothing in particular, but it's still antiquated tech that very few people still use. When was the last time you bought a PS/2 keyboard? Who still uses a 15+ year old keyboard with a brand new skylake system?

Just seems silly a $150+ board still has a keyboard connector from the 90s, when USB has been the standard for over a decade. Especially when PS/2 could be Finicky at times.

Even though my PC is pretty new, my keyboard is probably older than you and I'd rather change my mobo. Of course, I'm the 0.0001%.

TheLostSwede · May 24, 2016

silentbogo said:
As soon as 1440p goes mainstream. I'm forced to upgrade my monitor because this transition has already started: my Skylake PC has no analog output on iGP DVI port, just as my upcoming 1070 won't have one. I'm still happy with my shitty 1080p display from LG, but I guess it is time to finally spend some cash on that Dell Ultrasharp I've been looking at for the past 5 months.

Got a U2515H about a year ago and it's a really decent screen for the money. Not sure it's the perfect gaming screen, but it's a nice step up from what I had.

silentbogo · May 24, 2016

TheLostSwede said:
Got a U2515H about a year ago and it's a really decent screen for the money. Not sure it's the perfect gaming screen, but it's a nice step up from what I had.

I'm not picky about response times. The one I am considering is a slightly used P2416D. At $200 price tag I can survive. It is definitely better than my current LG 22M35A.

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