MSI Intel X99 LGA 2011 DDR4 USB 3.1 Form Factor ATX Motherboard (X99A WORKSTATION)

Got this on the January sale for 40% off. Resulted in my retiring my Sandy Lake E 3930k build and upgrading to Broadwell E. I am running a 6800k overclocked to 4.2 ghz at 1.4v with custom EKWB water cooling loops. 64 GB GSkill RAM running at DDR4 3400 cas 15. I have a poor chip it seems. I can push it to 4.4 ghz at 1.5v but temps hit over 90C quickly on OCCT or Prime95 even with a massive EKWB 360 60 mm radiator. The Broadwell E chips are poor overclockers unlike the Sandy Lake E chips. I am upgrading to 960 mm of radiator space on my loop and will retry the 1.4 ghz-1.5 ghz push. However this is a true manifest for the board that it can support high voltages and speeds, and with 64 GB of memory also overclocked to high speeds. I read the Broadwell E has very good Integrated Memory Controller performance. This is an awesome board and very lucky to have snagged it at $330. Running a Samsung 960 Pro nvme ssd. The LED lights look really awesome. Killer 1535 wifi connects at full 867 Mbps speeds. Bluetooth works as expected. Numerous BIOS options to overclock. I stay way from the auto overclock options, prefer manually fine tuning my overclocks. MSI software comes with a Ramdisk creation option. The MSI dragon on the south bridge looks very cool, I have paired this with a MSI GTX 1080 EK water-cooled GPU and the dragons look nice. If using high memory capacities increase the memory controller voltage. With GSkill 64 GB DDR4 3200 CL4 kits you have headroom up to 1.5v per GSkil to overclock or lower timings.I will upgrade to the 6950X once prices are realistic or when the next gen chips come out and these come out on eBay for half of what they cost new. Will be a nice complement to this high end board (of course the newest chip will be the next to to drool at).Summary: Buy this, you will not regret.

Fantastic board, Has lots of Features and well worth the price IMO.This board has gotten better over time, a lot of the issues with this board have been corrected with updates to the BiosThis board paved the way for a lot of boards you see on the market as of now 2/16/17I could be here all day telling you about this board or you can buy one and experience it yourself, I have purchased the carbon version a few times and have never had a problem with any of these boards.I have paired this mobo with the BP, WB and love it, the design is perfect/effective and looks Great Not only that, when OC it keeps my temps in check

This is a great looking and feature full motherboard for a not-so-expensive-in-comparison-to-others price. Install went easy, everything just works, and it looks so cool without any weird color schemes or weird logos. OC genie put my 5820k 600MHz higher although I'm sure I could push it more if I cared enough, and the UEFI is extremely easy to use even if the boot menu is a little weird at first.One thing that did happen was the USB 3.0 ports were working on and off. It turned out I had downloaded and installed the drivers for an X99S motherboard, rather than for this particular X99A motherboard. Apparently that one letter made a difference because I uninstalled the wrong ones, used the correct ones, and now everything works flawlessly.

It's not under or overkill. The x99a slightly kraito supports both haswell e and broadwell e processors. It has a good bios with good oprions and navigation, over clocks well with oc genie, although you can over clock manually, and it has high quality parts. It also has a full sort assortment of ports and such (10 sata, 1sata express, one m.2, and the full array of i.o connectors). Audio is crisp and clear, and can be tuned with the included audio tool (realtek? Can't remember). The front panel usb 3.0 header also features fast charge and I works well (turns USB data transfer lanes to power lanes). Overall, it's a great x99 motherboard.