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Published: 2016-05-06, Author: Mark , review by: Techreport.com
MSI's Z170A SLI Plus comes out of our tests looking like a go-to mainstream motherboard for the Z170 chipset. It delivers a solid feature set, polished firmware and Windows utilities, and plenty of overclocking prowess. MSI includes the features that mos...
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Published: 2016-04-13, Author: Ian , review by: anandtech.com
Sometimes all you need is something that works and is cost effective. When looking at the MSI Z170A SLI PLUS, and then subsequently testing it without any issues in our benchmark suite, I was pleasantly surprised. Here was a motherboard with something mor...
Published: 2016-01-15, Author: Tom , review by: overclock3d.net
We've often spoke about how certain reviews have a conclusion that pretty much writes itself and the MSI Z170A SLI PLUS is one such product.If you look at the top of the page you'll see the SLI PLUS costs a meagre £108. That definitely counts as value ter...
The MSI Z170A SLI Plus motherboard has got about everything you need to build a screaming Skylake gaming system and nothing you don't. It has a perfectly located M.2 slot if you want to step up to the newest in SSD technology for loading big game levels...
Price, Solid performance, Click BIOS 5 is easy to navigate, 32 Gb/s M.2 slot and USB 3.1, All black design looks good
Command Center software needs some work, Two of the SATA ports face straight up
One thing I really like about this motherboard is that it has everything you need and not much of what you don't need. Almost all of the Z170 motherboards that we've reviewed so far have SATA Express ports, but I really don't know a single person who uses...
So all this brings us to the end… time to wrap things up in a couple of paragraphs, right? Right! To start, I had zero issues with this board throughout all the testing and overclocking I completed. I updated the BIOS to the latest version at the websit...
& conclusion Aside from trimming down on a few features there's very little wrong with the Z170A SLI PLUS motherboard. It has plenty of features for any given PC gamer with his or her DiY build including multi-GPU functionality. The complete dark black l...
Published: 2016-04-08, Author: Luke , review by: kitguru.net
Solid performance throughout without any instability or incompatibility concerns (including with 3200MHz DDR4), 10Gbps USB 3.1 TypeC connector and two 5Gbps USB 3.0 internal headers, SLI and CrossFire support with good spacing and strengthened PCIe slots,
SATAExpress may be missed for front panel USB 3.1 functionality, Overly conservative selection of rear IO ports – only four USB TypeA and no 4K60capable display output or optical SPDIF, Single CPUfocused overclocking preset is of limited use and no automa
The MSI Z170A SLI Plus is a commendable Z170 offering that gives budget buyers access to SLI support without being forced into the purchase of a ‘Gaming‘ branded alternative.Performance from the motherboard is good; we didn't notice any cause for concern...
