MSI Z270 GodLike Gaming

[Droidbot]

14 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

is this real? I'd buy it in a fucking heartbeat 

 

just a good board, no BS lighting, no gaudy looking heatsinks or 10 thousand power phases

[NumLock21]

6 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

is this real? I'd buy it in a fucking heartbeat 

 

just a good board, no BS lighting, no gaudy looking heatsinks or 10 thousand power phases

Yes it's real.

Got some custom commercial bios toolkit.

 

 

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/PRIME-B250M-C-CSM/

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/PRIME-Q270M-C-CSM/

[Rune]

51 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Yes it's real.

Got some custom commercial bios toolkit.

 

 

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/PRIME-B250M-C-CSM/

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/PRIME-Q270M-C-CSM/

51 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

is this real? I'd buy it in a fucking heartbeat 

 

just a good board, no BS lighting, no gaudy looking heatsinks or 10 thousand power phases

 

-C is their business line. No flashiness, just functionality. Also, it has integrated Displayport x1, HDMI x1, DVI x1, and VGA x1.Basically the perfect "just fucking work" board.

[Notional]

6 hours ago, Jito463 said:

Or worse....

Is that green?  Brown?  Greenish brown?  Brownish green?  Only the Shadow knows.

Ah yes, in the good old days, when motherboards were simple and nice looking. Like this one:

 

[flibberdipper]

3 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

This board would make for a PERFECT sleeper PC board. Nab a 7600 and a single-slot 1050Ti and bam sleeper PC to the max

[NumLock21]

2 hours ago, Rune said:

 

-C is their business line. No flashiness, just functionality. Also, it has integrated Displayport x1, HDMI x1, DVI x1, and VGA x1.Basically the perfect "just fucking work" board.

It's also part of their CSM (Corporate Stable Model), where there is a stable supply of those boards for at least 1 year. And they also have this neat utility

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25 minutes ago, Notional said:

Ah yes, in the good old days, when motherboards were simple and nice looking. Like this one:

 

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When aesthetics had a function, them cooper actually helped with cooling.

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[Kamina]

Looks like a damn Christmas tree.

[Erina_the_Cute]

22 hours ago, Bleedingyamato said:

My motherboard says gaming on it and I assure you it was not cheap.  Not cheaply made either so far as I know. 

To me it looks and seems cheap, i know most parts arent cheaply made its a homogenised market. Dont like the look, not saying it is literally cheap.

[Notional]

8 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

It's also part of their CSM (Corporate Stable Model), where there is a stable supply of those boards for at least 1 year. And they also have this neat utility

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When aesthetics had a function, them cooper actually helped with cooling.

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Oh yeah, absolutely:

 

 

 

Those were fun times.

[Bleedingyamato]

3 hours ago, Notional said:

Oh yeah, absolutely:

 

 

 

Those were fun times.

Why is there so much copper?    It looks like someone forgot they were making a motherboard and started building a model of a futuristic city using copper for buildings.  

[Notional]

32 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Why is there so much copper?    It looks like someone forgot they were making a motherboard and started building a model of a futuristic city using copper for buildings.  

Well this stupid editor deleted my entire post, so I will make it short. Bottom is south bridge, which is like a chipset (z270 today). The big cooler parts are for the north bridge, which is what links the CPU to ram, pcie slots, southbridge, etc. Everything on a north bridge is pretty much implemented on the CPU today.

 

[Dackzy]

when can we get rid of that ugly dragon?

[Bleedingyamato]

2 hours ago, Notional said:

Well this stupid editor deleted my entire post, so I will make it short. Bottom is south bridge, which is like a chipset (z270 today). The big cooler parts are for the north bridge, which is what links the CPU to ram, pcie slots, southbridge, etc. Everything on a north bridge is pretty much implemented on the CPU today.

 

That happened to me the other day too.  I had a few responses typed out, switched to another tab briefly, and when I came back they were erased...

 

I actually think it looks kind of cool but there's just so much copper.  ?

[Notional]

22 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

That happened to me the other day too.  I had a few responses typed out, switched to another tab briefly, and when I came back they were erased...

 

I actually think it looks kind of cool but there's just so much copper.  ?

Yeah but back then north bridges tended to have a tiny 4 cm fan on them, which was quite loud. A popular mod back then was to put a big passive heatsink on it.

[Castdeath97]

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X99A GODLIKE GAMING was world's first motherboard to introduce RGB LED on motherboards. Z270 GODLIKE GAMING takes it to another level

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[Bleedingyamato]

2 hours ago, Notional said:

Yeah but back then north bridges tended to have a tiny 4 cm fan on them, which was quite loud. A popular mod back then was to put a big passive heatsink on it.

How could such a tiny fan be so loud?  

 

I've been thinking it could be fun to do that with a locked (lower tdp) CPU.  Put Cryorig's largest air cooler on the CPU and see what happens in terms of noise and temperature reduction.  

 

That or do the same thing with an AIO cooler.  

[Notional]

2 hours ago, Bleedingyamato said:

How could such a tiny fan be so loud?  

 

I've been thinking it could be fun to do that with a locked (lower tdp) CPU.  Put Cryorig's largest air cooler on the CPU and see what happens in terms of noise and temperature reduction.  

 

That or do the same thing with an AIO cooler.  

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The smaller the fan, the higher the rpm's usually are. Higher rpm's give more air resistance, which in turns, create more noise. 

 

Well you can buy passive cases, that can handle mid/high end CPU's and GPU's. They are big, bulky, heavy and expensive though.

[NumLock21]

5 hours ago, Bleedingyamato said:

That happened to me the other day too.  I had a few responses typed out, switched to another tab briefly, and when I came back they were erased...

 

I actually think it looks kind of cool but there's just so much copper.  ?

There is never too much copper. All of these boards, they do look nice in person. 

[Bleedingyamato]

3 hours ago, Notional said:

The smaller the fan, the higher the rpm's usually are. Higher rpm's give more air resistance, which in turns, create more noise. 

 

Well you can buy passive cases, that can handle mid/high end CPU's and GPU's. They are big, bulky, heavy and expensive though.

I wasn't thinking passive but more like massive overkill for an air cooler vs the cooling needs of what's being cooled.   

 

 

2 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

There is never too much copper. All of these boards, they do look nice in person. 

Silver would be better though.  At least for looks.  No idea if it can function as a heatsink.  

[NumLock21]

33 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

I wasn't thinking passive but more like massive overkill for an air cooler vs the cooling needs of what's being cooled.   

 

 

Silver would be better though.  At least for looks.  No idea if it can function as a heatsink.  

 

[Belgarathian]

Why do we have 4x16 PCIe slots? Are you going to Crossfire 4x RX 580? 

 

Creatives would use AM4, or X99 so.... I don't see the point? 

[Drak3]

3 minutes ago, Belgarathian said:

Why do we have 4x16 PCIe slots? Are you going to Crossfire 4x RX 580? 

 

Creatives would use AM4, or X99 so.... I don't see the point? 

Not necessarily, it's far more common to have physical x16 slots wired to be x4 or x8, than it is to have physical x4 or x8 slots. Plus, running 4 way Xfire on consumer chipsets isn't a new thing (albeit rather unpopular). It's likely that two x16 slots are wired x4/x8 through the chipset, and are MEANT to be used for storage, but can be used however the user wants (especially as it only has one X1 slot).

 

It's what I expect of the Godlike series though, psuedo-nigh compromising what options one has, with the limiter being the CPU.

[Master Disaster]

Ladies & Gentleman of the internet, I am proud to be here today in order to present to you the winner of the LTTF 2017 ugliest motherboard of all time award...

 

 

The ECS KA1 MVP Extreme, the world's first and only puce motherboard. Revere in its horrific majesty as you reach for the sick bucket and make it known as far and wide as you can, puce is not a good colour for a motherboard.

[Jito463]

4 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Ladies & Gentleman of the internet, I am proud to be here today in order to present to you the winner of the LTTF 2017 ugliest motherboard of all time award...

 

 

The ECS KA1 MVP Extreme, the world's first and only puce motherboard. Revere in its horrific majesty as you reach for the sick bucket and make it known as far and wide as you can, puce is not a good colour for a motherboard.

[DildorTheDecent]

On 2017-5-24 at 5:32 PM, NumLock21 said:

probably has a PLX chip in there somewhere.

ew