Last month MSI has brought to the exhibition CES 2012 engineering samples of motherboards based on chipset Intel Z77 Express. MSI presented the premium model Z77A-GD80 and its simplified version Z77A-GD65. Now MSI board demonstrated Z77A-GD65, having a more attractive design.
The power system of Z77A-GD65 model is organized on a 9-phase scheme. The motherboard come with dual slot PCI-E 3.0 x16 (running in x8 mode, if both slots used), single slot PCI-E 2.0 x16 (x4, CH) and four-slot PCI-E x1. There are four ports for SATA 6 Gb / s (white connectors) and 3 Gb / s (black connectors).
Access to resources built into the processor GPU may be obtained through D-Sub, DVI and HDMI.
The motherboards is based on chipset Intel Z77 Express is scheduled for April.