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MSI 990FXA Gaming motherboard

Board is now available in the US for $150 on Newegg! Now we waiting for the reviews..

Thanks for the info! From what you've just said, it should be here in the US sooner than I expected.

Ya know at first that's what I was thinking, it's like doing a moderate CPU overclock and then one day the CPU randomly dies. Doesn't make any sense, but it's the only thing I can think of that contributed to it's death. Regarding the replacement PCB, that's most likely what I'm going to do, just wanting some outside opinions.

I'm currently using a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7 in a Fractal Design Define R4, and cable management is a nightmare since the board is EATX and covers the cable routing cutouts. The UD7 also doesn't match my color scheme, which is red and black. I have a friend who is interested in the UD7 and I can probably break even depending on how much the 990FXA Gaming is. And I would like to get an NVMe SSD in the future, whether it's an Intel 750 or whatever. Seems like the 990FXA Gaming is the perfect board for my build and personal taste. Really hope this board comes out soon.

Hello all, a while back I received a used Qnix QX2710 1440p monitor for free from a friend of mine (he upgraded to a ROG Swift, lucky bastard!) in exchange for me building his kickass gaming rig. I had it for about a month and decided to overclock it to 95Hz, all seemed well at first. One day I was doing some gaming and decided to go out for lunch, and left the PC and monitor on while I was out. When I came back, the monitor was power cycling with a popping noise coming from the speaker, which I had nothing plugged in to. I assumed that the power brick went bad, so I ordered a new one, but the monitor still power cycled. The monitor was way out of warranty so I took the monitor apart, hoping to find some bad capacitors that I could easily fix, but there's only one board with no bad caps. I found a site that sells replacement boards online (http://www.ipsledmonitors.com/QNIX-X-star-PCB-Replacement-p/qnipcb1.htm), do you guys think I should buy a replacement board or maybe try something else? Thanks! PS: I'm honestly not sure if the overclock was what killed the panel, since it was running fine with no dropped frames for about a month, then it randomly died. It's untelling what my friend has done to it, I really want to keep this monitor since it was free and I'm now back to 1080p.

I made that same mistake too, thinking it was already out then noticing it was a completely different board

Anybody know when the MSI 990FXA Gaming motherboard will be coming out and for how much? Really wanting to purchase this board when it finally comes out. Thanks! EDIT: I'm referring to the board that was teased at Computex 2015, red and black board with NVMe support. http://us.msi.com/product/mb/990FXA-GAMING.html#hero-overview

I can honestly understand him wanting an SSD. He's using this PC to make money, and he doesn't want to worry about a hard drive failing on him (the newest HDD he has is a refurb IDE 80GB, wouldn't want to bother with it) since he's going to be using this PC for many years, considering the last PC he used is almost 14 years old. If he's willing to pay for it, I honestly don't see why not go for it. Just my $0.02.

Hey everybody. Today I was asked by a family member to upgrade his PC. He owns a business that creates banners/signs/etc and he uses a big cutter (and printer maybe?) that cuts out the signs from big sheets of various material. The cutting machine hooks up to the PC via the serial port. He was using an ancient Pentium III PC from ~2000 and it's unbearably slow, heck, he's still using a 10GB IDE hard drive! Well anyway, I have an ASRock Dual-VSTA 775 board, Core 2 Duo E6300, 2GB DDR memory, GeForce 8400 GS PCI (Yes, PCI, not PCIe) spare case and PSU that I want to get rid of and considered giving it to him for free. Here comes the issue, he wants an SSD. The board has two SATA-I ports, but personally, I think a SATA-III SSD on a SATA-I controller is kind of a waste. The board has one PCIe x16 @ x4 slot, so I considered getting the MSI Star-SATA6 PCIe controller to connect a SATA-III SSD to. I'm not sure if the board can boot from the PCIe bus, considered it's a cheapo board that's meant to run older hardware (heck, it has an AGP and DDR1 slots). The manual mentions nothing about booting from controller cards from the PCIe slot. I considered installing Windows 8 (with classic shell, of course) and then running Windows 2000 in a VM, because the software for the cutting machine only works on Windows 98SE and Windows 2000. Any advice or help is appreciated, thanks.

I have an ADATA Premier Pro SP900 64GB SSD (OS, editing apps, etc), Hitachi Deskstar 500GB (storage), and a Western Digital Caviar 250GB (games). I edit video and photos for extra cash (vhs to dvd or blu-ray, photos to CDs, etc)I have a Black Magic Intensity Pro on the way so I will be needing an upgrade soon. Twitter Share from @AlphaDangerDen: https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/375060934026203137

Nice! :-)