MSI has announced the availability of motherboards MSI Z77A-GD80, announced in mid-March.
One of the key features of MSI Z77A-GD80 is the presence of Thunderbolt interface. In addition, the manufacturer notes the use of a proprietary design for overclocking OC Genie II and the use of high-quality components Military Class III.
The motherboard is designed for processors Intel Core i7, i5 and i3 second and third generation, as well as the Pentium and Celeron LGA1155. Its based on Intel Z77 Express controller and Intel Thunderbolt. Four DIMM slots can accept up to 64 GB DDR3 memory (up to DDR3-2667). The list of expansion slots includes three slots PCI Express Gen3 x16 slots and four PCI Express Gen1 x1. The motherboard supports 3-way AMD CrossFireX and 2-way NVIDIA SLI.
There is also an eight-channel audio system mention THX TruStudioPRO, AC adapter Gigabite Ethernet, four SATA 6 Gb / s (two of them - with support for RAID) and four SATA 3Gb / s with RAID, as well as four-port USB 3.0. In addition, there are 10 ports USB 2.0.