MSI 990FXA-GD80

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Who says you can't build your next PC out of recycled materials?

Supports both CrossFireX and SLI ; Good variety of both current and legacy ports ; Inexpensive, versus competing boards

PCI Express card slots aren’t labeled to indicate bandwidth ; BIOS supports mouse but isn’t graphical

With its reasonable price and good support for both older add-ons and cutting-edge cards, the 990FXA-GD80 is a good choice for building a socket AM3+ system.

A practical top-end solution.

MSI 990FXA-GD80 is currently the highest-end solution in company's Socket AM3+ series. As such it has and supports everything MSI can offer today. Nonetheless, this motherboard is practical and reasonable enough, without features you could classify as...

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Over the past few years MSI has been a company that has catered to the enthusiast and developed products with the feature sets that we like to see and use. Things like its OC Genie and now OC Genie II one touch hardware-based overclocking system make...

Overclocking ; Click BIOS II ; Military grade construction ; Bundle ; THX Audio ; Control Center ; AM3+ CPU Support ; Multi GPU support AMD and NVIDIA ; Super Charger ; 3TB drive support ; 3 Year Warranty

Large vdroop on vcore ; OC Genie failed to work

After having tested a pretty big cross section of MSI's Intel lineup I was looking forward to getting a crack at what they have to offer in the way of a board built to use AMD's latest "Bulldozer" processors and the 990FX/SB950 chipsets. As you might...

MSI today launched their AMD 9-Series chipsets products: the 990FXA-GD80 and 990FXA-GD65 mainboards. Both of these boards are ready for AMD 'Bulldozer' octa-core AM3+ CPUs when they arrive later this year. The AMD 9-series isn't that different from the...

The MSI 990FXA-GD80 motherboard proved to be a solid performing platform, but it really needs AMD's upcoming Zambezi processors to really show what it can do and those aren't out yet!

Martedì 31 Maggio è la giornata inaugurale del Computex 2011 di Taipei, la principalefiera per i produttori asiatici di componentistica legata al mondo dei PC. Didimensioni ben più ridotte rispetto al CeBit di Hannover, Computex da varie decine dianni...

Mancano ancora alcuni mesi al lancio delle CPU Bulldozer da parte di AMD, tuttavia tutti i produttori partners hanno già apportato le necessarie modifiche alle proprie schede

Nel complesso, le prestazioni della MSI 990FXA-GD80 si sono dimostrate di ottimo livello e le funzionalità aggiuntive presenti in questo prodotto conferiscono alla scheda MSI un valore aggiunto.

MSI'ın AMD işlemciler için hazırladığı üst seviye anakartı ile karşınızdayız. 990FXA-GD80, AMD'nin en yeni işlemcilerine destek veriyor.

MSI'ın 990FXA-GD80 model anakartı, AMD işlemciler hazırlanmış olan bir ürün. Üst uç seviyeye hitap eden anakart, kullanıcılarına yüksek performans vaat ediyor. Bakalım MSI bize nasıl bir anakart hazırlamış.

System: -MSI 24X DVD Burner Black SATA -Thermaltake Black Widow W0319RU 850W -Western Digital RE4 WD5003ABYX 500GB -Thermaltake Chaser MK-I Full Tower Case -ZALMAN CNPS7X LED 92mm Heatsink -MSI 990FXA-GD80 AM3+ AMD 990FX -CORSAIR Vengeance 4GB -MSI...

Great product! Can't go wrong with mil. spec. Got this board as a first ever install. Board doesn't get above 36C on a load (playing games like Starcraft II, Guild Wars, Vindictus to name a few) after playing at least two hours of play. This board has...

Wish it had two USB 3.0 Plug ins. my Case has a usb 3.0 built in and this MOBO comes with one to install as option. But i'll live. Hope this review helped

I'm impressed with the audio portion, the bios, and the overclock genie. I'm happy enough with this mobo that I would definitely consider another MSI product when the time comes.

I had a gigabyte 990 chipset mobo before this and it was a nightmare. This was smooth sailing. Everything works, even the overclock genie (after a little tweaking). Gigabyte required software to recognize my 3.0TB drive(which windows did not recognize...

Lack of features compared to gigabyte. It could use more USB ports. The raid drivers are kinda janky. I had to call customer support to get some help with this. On the up side, English seemed to be their first language

I had a power supply go “POP” and when it did it took out the motherboard with….I had just built the system a few months before, so needless to say I was bummed…The great thing was that MSI RMA’d the board without any hassle

MSI won’t give me free stuff even though I’m their #1 fan

Great Design, Good placements for PCIE, comes with good Manuals and has insane stabilty for my use. Graphic Design with CS5 and Adobe Illustrator no problem . Gaming with BF3 SWTOR and WoW no problem. Board runs stable and fits perfect in my Full...

Nothing really

Awesome board. Lots of features and somewhat good supporting software. UEFI is outstanding

OC genie is finicky. Dont bother with it. I had tried it right out of the box a few times and it was very unstable. BSODS galore. If your going to OC just use the UEFI interface. Also the Update software in windowsis annoying with its random popups

If you're going to flash your bios, you need to flash w/ Bootable USB key. Get a friend to help if you're not sure. Flash at your own risk! 1st, google: "BIOS update using a USB Flash Drive - MSI". and look at MSI's pdf. 2nd: Follow those instructions...

This is a solid board with many options for OCing ; PCI slot well-placed in the space between your 2 VGAs, for an expansion device ; To those who've had problems: I'm a computer technician w/ my own business for ~4 yrs. and call me a geek but I LOVE...

I can't help everybody with their computer issues ; To those having BIOS troubles: although it's a feature that comes with this board, using the BIOS's built-in M-Flash is not a good way to go. Especially using windows to flash your BIOS is better left...

I've been using MSI motherboards sense 2006 for my personal use and pc's I've built for other people and never had an issue with any of them. I can't say that for other motherboard brands I've tried.

I haven’t bothered to over clock because this board works great as is

Spend all my free time on the computer and the house is a mess

My BIOS Firmware was rev .80 I used live update to go to rev .90 My heart almost jumped while Flashing was going on when the computer abruptly shut down, I don't even feel like flashing was complete cause there was no confirmation. This Board is not...

The moment I posted this board went to the BIOS and was happy to see a almost fully updated Click Bios II which I love ; This board is top notch slick and cool, SLI is the only real reason besides UEFI to get this board otherwise get 890FXA-GD70 It has...

Also this Board can't achieve 7.9 WEI for ram and processor While my 890FXA-GD70 did at 4.2Ghz same ram same stock fan same processor. It gets a WEI of 7.7 With a 4.0Ghz overclock stable ; I get BOSD Errors and I'm Assuming this board is faulty But I...

The first one I bought lasted around 30 days then gave me an error, but MSI quickly RMAd it and sent me a brand new one and the current MOBO has been WORKING FLAWLESSLY for almost 4 months now. My system is a 1100t @ 4.0GHZ 1.46v 3GHZ NB and SLId GTX...

1. 7 Expansions Slots ; 2. Expansion Slot Spacing ; 3. Not too flashy basic blue/silver color

1. Only 6 Sata ; 2. Not as much voltage control as I would prefer ; 3. First one did die on me for some odd reason ; When overclocking the CPU voltage around 1.5v it will fluctuate as much as .05-almost .1 causing instability

this is the second MSI mobo i have used and both have been great i have no complaints.

Started right up after installation and after i updated the drivers this ran like a dream. Great mobo for under $200. recognized all my components right away. The bios takes a little getting used to but after getting used to it, it is a dream to use

the usb 3.0 bracket was a hassle to install but i dont have any usb 3.0 devices so i didnt mess with it anymore (besides there are 2 usb 3.0 ports on the i/o panel)