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MicroStar releases Skylake mainboard

by on18 September 2015

 

Cheap, but Night Elf does not support overclocking

MicroStar is showing off its new mainboard for Intel's Skylake processors.

The board has a few oddities in that it is designed for gamers, costs significantly less than higher-end solutions but does not support overclocking.

Dubbed the MSI B150M Night Elf mainboard is in a micro-ATX form-factor and features 6-phase voltage regulator module for CPUs, which consists of solid-state inductors and capacitors.

The platform is powered by entry-level Intel B150 core-logic set that only supports eight PCI Express 3.0 lanes and is generally aimed at office PCs.

It has four DDR4 memory slots, two PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots for graphics cards, two PCIe x1 slots for add-in-cards, six Serial ATA-6Gb/s ports, 8-channel audio, six USB 3.0 ports, and the usual Ethernet connection.

IT only has one DVI output and will not work with DisplayPort or HDMI monitors without a discrete graphics adapter is used.

The is no M.2 slot for solid-state drives, SATA Express connector, USB 3.1 ports or anything else we would expect from a gaming machine.

It does have LED illumination, EMI-shielded audio sub-system, MSI Gaming LAN software that puts games above other applications as well as support for DDR4 memory tweaking.

No word on price but it is expected to be a the low end.

Last modified on 18 September 2015
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