Posted on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 22:06 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla
got to see a prototype of a Haswell motherboard from MSI at CeBIT. As this is a prototype, the board is currently not coated in any fancy colors.
The lay out is quite nice, you can see three PCIe slots 16X as well as four additional PCIe 1X slots. Once can easily notice that the board will aim toward the upper market segment and should be a nice overclocker least due its high quality power components.
It still comes with a PS2 slot as well as two USB 2.0, six USB 3.0, two HDMI and a Display port. There is a place for optical audio, analogue audio and one network card. The back side hides eight SATA ports, diagnostic port, passively cooled chipset as well as four DDR3 memory banks. MSI sticks with this clean design without much logos on the front of the board, and it looks like it will stick with that for the future.
