MSI A88X-G45 GAMING 32GB DDR3 AMD Motherboard

MSI GAMING motherboards are designed to provide gamers with best-in-class features and technology. Backed by the imposing looks of MSI's Dragon, each motherboard is an engineering masterpiece tailored to gaming perfection.

FEATURES
Supports AMD Socket FM2+/FM2 A-Series/Athlon™ Processors
Supports XMP/AMP DDR3 Memory
8 x USB 3.0 + 8 x SATA 6Gb/s
Audio Boost: Reward Your Ears with True Quality
Killer Ethernet: Kill Your Lag
Military Class 4: Top Quality & Stability
Military Class Essentials: Total Protection for Military Class Motherboards
OC Genie 4: Overclock in 1 Second
Click BIOS 4: Easily Fine-tune Your System
PCI Express Gen 3: World's 1st PCI Express Gen 3 Motherboard Brand
Multi-GPU: AMD CrossFire Support
Sound Blaster Cinema: Realistic Surround Sound Experience
Gaming Device Port: Optimized with Triple Gold-plating for High Polling Rate Gaming Devices
Smart Fan Control: Optimize All Fan Speed As You Wish
Command Center: Control & Customize Your PC Settings
Fast Boot: Quickly Boot Up & Enter OS in A Few Seconds

THE BEST GAMING WEAPONS AT HAND
The highest frag and the lowest lag with Killer E2200 Game Networking
Crystal clear sound with Audio Boost
Top quality audio solution with Sound Blaster Cinema
Gaming Device Port
Military Class 4 Components
OC Genie 4 & Click BIOS 4
Optimized for multiple graphics cards
Supports DDR3-2400+ memory for super fast loading

KILL YOUR LAG!
The Killer E2200 Intelligent Networking Platform is built for maximum networking performance for online games and high-quality streaming media. Featuring Advanced Stream Detect? Killer E2200 automatically detects and accelerates game traffic ahead of other network traffic for smoother, stutter-free in-game performance and the competitive edge. With this exclusive, automatic traffic prioritization, games and real-time chat get priority over low-level system chatter, giving you the lowest latency for game data on the most controllable network hardware available.

USB AUDIO POWER
USB Audio Power is a breakthrough in Home Theater Entertainment audio quality. Using an unique design, the USB ports onboard provide a TRUE 5V signal that doesn’t drop when more devices are connected.This simply means better signal quality over USB, especially for devices that rely on a perfect signal, like USB DAC’s as they rely on a perfect transmission of audio bits from the motherboard to the DAC. This also means that external low-noise power supplies are no longer essential for better audio quality as USB Audio Power is able to deliver an optimum USB signal.

AUDIO BOOST
Reward your ears with true quality. Get ready for ear-drum shattering sound, with MSI Audio Boost! With Audio Boost we're delivering the highest audio quality so you can enjoy crystal clear sound and music in games.

Because the complete audio circuitry is isolated from other features, you'll enjoy less interference and more stability.

The built-in headphone amplifier allows you to use studio-grade headgear and get the most amazing sound quality out of your gaming PC.

Studio level Integrated 600Ω Headphone amplifier
Gold-flashed audio jacks for pure audio signals
EMI shielded audio codec & amplifier
High quality Japanese audio capacitors
Illuminated Audio Isolation Line

TOP QUALITY AUDIO SOLUTION WITH SOUND BLASTER CINEMA
Hear your enemies perfectly, even on an ear-drum shattering battlefield. Thanks to Sound Blaster Cinema, you're getting amazing surround sound with just stereo headphones. Your most important gaming sound effects are reproduced crystal clear allowing you to focus on your game even during extremely long gaming sessions.

Powered by the SBX Pro Studio technologies, Sound Blaster Cinema enables you to clearly hear specific sounds in gaming environments, making your ears a decisive tool on the battlefield.

GAMING DEVICE PORT
You want more FPS, lower ping, but why use a pro-gaming mouse with old-fashioned standards? MSI Gaming Device Port is optimized for high polling rate mice (500 to 1000 Hz) which lowers your mouse's response time from 8 milliseconds to 1 millisecond! This gives a much smoother mouse response in games. The additional gold plating on the ports enhances the durability drastically and ensures your PS/2 and USB ports are always working when you ship out to a LAN party.

GAMING BENEFITS
more responsive
smoother gameplay
faster reactions

TECHNICAL BENEFITS
3x more gold than regular connectors
10x longer lifetime when plugging and unplugging
prevents oxidation and corrosion

OC GENIE 4
OC Genie is the world's first built-in hardware overclocking technology on motherboards. With this new generation of OC Genie, we're giving you even more performance. The OC Genie button works as you expect it to, but now you have even more control. Flick the OC_MODE switch from the normal "Turbo" to "GAMING" and your PC gets another adrenalin shot! For the more advanced overclockers, we give you complete control of your settings with "My OC Genie".

CLICK BIOS 4
The MSI Click BIOS 4 is the latest UEFI BIOS with optimizations for Windows 8. Besides that, it also reacts faster, runs smoother and has better mouse support. And all this comes with advanced and cool features.

OPTIMIZED FOR MULTIPLE GRAPHICS CARDS
MSI GAMING motherboards feature one or more PCI-Express 3.0 slots, perfectly aligned and with enough space for an optimal airflow when using multiple graphics cards. That way, you will never have to worry about an overheating PC, while you are enjoying the best graphics jumping off from your monitor when running AMD CrossFire gaming setup.

TOTAL CONTROL
MSI's exclusive Command Center software is a very powerful tool to push your motherboard to the max. With a very intuitive touch ready interface, Command Center allows users to tune settings to increase system stability, maximize overclocking performance and adjust cooling features.

GRAPHICAL FAN CONTROL & MONITORING
Command Center features a total new fan control interface from which users can control all fans' speed on the motherboard and set profiles. Users can real-time monitor the status of the fans as well as record fan speed, voltage and temperate status into a log file. This feature is both convenient for pro-gamers and overclockers.

UNLIMITED RAMDISK
MSI Command Center integrates an unlimited RAMdisk with the retail value of $35. With a RAMdisk you can create a virtual drive from your system memory enabling speeds 20x faster than a modern SSD. There are options to load complete game images, you can speed up your browser or your page file which increases your whole system's performance.

SUPPORTS DDR3-2400+ MEMORY FOR SUPER FAST LOADING
Tired of everlasting loading screens? The MSI Gaming series motherboards offer support for DDR3-2400+ memory modules. That way, you will not have to miss out on any gaming action because your in-game levels will be loaded superfast!

SMART FAN CONTROL
Smart Fan Control gives you complete control of all your fans to enable you to find the best balance of fan performance and silence. Because you can also monitor and record all your fan information, a great pool of information is available to base the fan settings on.

DRAGON HEAT SINK
With an awesome product comes an inspiring heat sink! Styled after the iconic MSI GAMING Dragon. The heat sink is oversized to provide the best thermal transfer and heat dissipation to enable your PC to just game 24 hours per day.

Technical Details

Model

Brand : MSI
Model : A88X-G45 GAMING

Specifications

CPU 
AMD Socket FM2+/ FM2 A-Series/Athlon™ Processors

Main Memory
Support four DDR3 1333/1600/1866/2133/2400 (OC) MHz. up to 64GB Max
Supports Dual-Channel mode
Supports non-ECC, un-buffered memory
Supports AMD Memory Profile (AMP)
Supports Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)

Slots
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
3 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots
1 x PCI slots

Graphics
1 x VGA port, supporting a maximum resolution of 1920x1200 @ 60Hz, 24bpp
1 x DVI-D port, supporting the maximum resolutions of 2560x1600@ 60Hz, 24bpp/ 1920x1200 @ 60Hz, 24bpp
1 x HDMI port, supporting the maximum resolutions of 4096x2160@ 24Hz, 36bpp*/ 3840x2160@ 30Hz, 36bpp*/1920x1200@ 120Hz, 36bpp and 1920x1200@ 60Hz, 36bpp
1 x DisplayPort, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096x2160@ 24HZ, 24bpp

On-Board SATA
SATAIII controller integrated in AMD A88X chipset
Up to 6Gb/s transfer speed.
Supports eight SATAIII ports (SATA1~8) by A88X

RAID
Supports RAID 0, RAID1, RAID5 and RAID10 by AMD A88X

USB
AMD A88X Chipset
4 x USB 3.0 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 2 ports available through the internal USB connectors)
8 x USB 2.0 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 6 ports available through the internal USB connectors)
VIA VL805 Chipset
4 x USB 3.0 ports on the back panel

Audio
Realtek® ALC1150 Codec
7.1-Channel High Definition Audio
Supports S/PDIF output

LAN
Killer E2205 Gigabit LAN controller
1 x LAN port on the backpanel

Internal I/O 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

Back Panel I/O Ports
1 x PS/2 keyboard/ mouse combo port
2 x USB 2.0 ports
6 x USB 3.0 ports
1 x VGA port
1 x DVI-D port
1 x HDMI port
1 x DisplayPor
1 x Optical S/PDIF-Out connector
1 x LAN (RJ45) port
6 x audio jacks

Multi-GPU Support
Supports 3-Way AMD® CrossFireTM Technology

BIOS
The motherboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically.
The motherboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your motherboard specifications.

Dimension
12 in. x 9.6 in. (30.5 cm x 24.4 cm) ATX Form Factor

Mounting
9 mounting holes