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MSI Z97-Gaming 5 LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

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Audio boost 2

Reward Your Ears with True Quality
Get ready for ear-drum-amazing sound, with MSI Audio Boost 2! With Audio Boost 2 we're delivering the highest audio quality with the use of Creative Sound Blaster Cinema 2 so you can enjoy crystal clear sound and music through 8-channel HD Audio.

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Isolated Audio PCB
With traditional onboard audio the signal is distorted by electromagnetic signals from the rest of the PCB. Audio Boost 2 acts like a dedicated soundcard by physically isolating the audio circuitry which is separated by a red LED path. Less interference gives you a more clear audio signal.

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Direct Audio Power
Enjoy a heavy caliber audio experience with Direct Audio Power. A dedicated power input to Audio Boost 2 allows for a more powerful and stable power delivery, resulting in a more explosive and pure sound experience.

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Creative Sound Blaster Cinema 2
Thanks to Creative Sound Blaster Cinema 2, you're getting amazing surround sound with just stereo headphones or speakers. Creative Sound Blaster Cinema 2 enables you to clearly hear specific sounds in gaming environments. Hear your enemies perfectly, make your ears a decisive tool to finish on top.

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Dual Headhpone Amplifiers
Prepare for an eargasm. The built-in dual headphone amplifier rewards your high quality headphone with the most amazing studio level sound quality up to 600O delivered from your gaming PC.

Tired of having to connect your headset in difficult to reach places? MSI GAMING motherboards are designed to be easy to use, featuring front & rear audio outputs fueled by Audio Boost 2.

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High Quality Audio Capacitors
With the use of professional Nichicon Japanese capacitors, specially designed for audio purposes, MSI GAMING motherboards provide the highest possible audio signal filtering. Delivering high fidelity crystal clear sound with exceptional acoustics and realism.

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Golden Audio Connectors
With golden audio connectors you get the best possible signal output with less chance of distortion.

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USB Audio Power
When connecting multiple USB devices, most motherboards will be unable to deliver a strong 5V power signal to all USB ports. This is highly noticeable with high-quality external USB DACs where sound quality degrades as the motherboard is unable to deliver a perfect USB signal.

Audio boost 2Only MSI USB Audio Power continuously delivers a stable 5V to the USB ports on motherboards, making sure you can continue to enjoy the crystal clear audio standard you expect.

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Killer™ E2200 Game Networking
The Killer™ E2200 Intelligent Networking Platform is built for maximum networking performance for online games and high-quality streaming media. Featuring Advanced Stream Detect™, Killer E2200 automatically detects and accelerates game traffic ahead of other network traffic for smoother, stutter-free in-game performance and the competitive edge. With this exclusive, automatic traffic prioritization, games and real-time chat get priority over low-level system chatter, giving you the lowest latency for game data on the most controllable network hardware available.

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Push Your SSD To The Limit
Enjoy a blazing fast system boot up and insanely fast loading of applications and games with MSI GAMING motherboards. We offer the next generation of high speed storage support through M.2 and SATA Express. M.2 and SATA Express transfer data through a PCI Express 2.0 x2 interface up to 10Gbps, making it 67% faster than SATA 3.0 solutions.

Faster Storage Solutions with M.2
M.2 is the successor to mSATA, offering a 67% performance increase up to 10Gbps. M.2 is packed in a small form factor and is compatible with three different sizes to fit most storage solutions. All latest generation Intel® based MSI GAMING motherboards feature M.2 storage.

Flexible Fast Storage with SATA Express
SATA Express introduces a new solution in high speed storage through PCI Express, providing more bandwidth for the latest generation SSDs. We offer flexible solutions with an M.2 to SATA Express converter for more convenience.

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XSplit Gamecaster
XSplit Gamecaster lets you easily record your gaming moments and broadcast your live gameplay sessions to Twitch, YouTube, UStream and more.

It's simple, easy to use and ideal for sharing your gameplay with friends, family or the world - Or for capturing those perfect gaming moments, just for the heck of it.

So what are you waiting for? Join the revolution and start streaming and recording with XSplit Gamecaster today.

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SteamOS Support Out of the Box
MSI is committed to PC Gaming and that is why MSI GAMING motherboards support SteamOS by default. Because of this, MSI works close with numerous tier #1 system integrators that released their popular SteamBOX PC's.

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Optimized for Multiple Graphics Cards
Get up to three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots, with optimal placement for better fitting and airflow. That way, you can enjoy the best graphics at the highest framerate jumping off from your screen when running a NVIDIA® SLI™ or AMD CrossFire™ gaming setup.


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  • Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
  • Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years


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  • Frogg
  • 10/9/2014 8:34:41 PM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
  • Verified Owner

5 out of 5 eggsGreat Board - Great Price

Pros: Price/Feature ratio, looks great, feels sturdy, 4790k booted without having to update BIOS and it had the correct voltage, it was "plug and play" for me.

Audio is clean coming through my USB/3.5mm headphones, no buzz or hum (Turtle Beach PX21).

2 CPU fan ports for easy push/pull cooling.

Cons: None I can think of.

Other Thoughts: Setup and updating of BIOS and drivers was of average difficulty/annoyance. Have not overclocked yet. MSI software utilities are mediocre, but most hardware companies have difficulty executing on software.

I have a RAID 1 for storage that was a bit painful to setup. Had to boot into safe mode, update Intel storage drivers, reboot into safe mode, go to disk management and manually assign it. On my old AM3 AMD board all I had to do was configure the array in CTRL + F screen and it just worked.

I used to get a loud hum through my headphones on my old AM3 board I upgraded from, the hum is gone and there is no interference by moving the mouse or mouse wheel anymore.

Wish it had 2-4 more USB 3 ports on the back I/O panel, I've used most of mine already.

I prefer my motherboards to be of good quality rather than have an overabundance of "features." I think this board offers practical features at a good price point. The design and colors also went with my theme for this build... I don't usually care for that sort of thing but I wanted to have a little fun with this build. I usually go Gigabyte for mobos... I am very pleased with the MSI board though.

i7 4790k cooled by Hyper 212 EVO in push/pull
MSI Z97 Gaming 5
16Gb G. Skill Sniper 2400Mhz
Radeon HD 7850 (upgrade slated for AMD 300 series)
NZXT H440 Red

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  • N/A
  • 10/1/2014 1:40:25 AM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

5 out of 5 eggsUpdate to 9/1 Review

Pros: Board has amazing aesthetics. Lots of ports and options. m.2 support for up to 10gb/s. Amazing UEFI bois. Extremely good and simple overclocking features.

Cons: None now.

Other Thoughts: I had RMA'd my original board in my other reivew to MSI. They sent me a brand new board with all the fixings and it was already updated to v1.5 bios. Board booted beautifully and have had zero issues. I have my i5 4690k OC'd to 4.6Ghz and have plenty of room to go higher.

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  • Zax
  • 9/24/2014 12:06:21 PM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: less than 1 day
  • Verified Owner

1 out of 5 eggsDOA

Pros: Looks great

Cons: Dead on arrival. There is no light indication that it is alive and does absolutely nothing if I try to power it on. I've tried two different PSUs and nothing has helped.

Other Thoughts: Extremely disappointed in the lack of QA on this product. If I had not bought it as a combo with the i7 4790k I would be buying from another company.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,
Based on the symptom you reported, we suggest you checking following steps below since many reasons can cause the situation like this ,
1. Check and make sure that power are connected correctly and firmly (JPWR1 and JPRW2).
2. Check your other major hardware’s (memory, video card, CPU and power supply) to ensure that they are not the cause of the issue.
3. If you need further assistant, please feel free to contact our technical support department directly at 626.271.1004 from M to F, 6am to 6pm Pacific standard Time.

Best Regards,
MSI Review Team | usreview@msi.com

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  • Suki
  • 9/13/2014 6:38:11 AM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
  • Verified Owner

5 out of 5 eggs

Pros: Gorgeous looking motherboard, coupled with a 4790k and an MSI GTX 770, the black/red layout is delicious. Great board layout, has everything you'll need. Booted right up, no hiccups, with the new i7 4790k. Can overclock to 4.7 ghz without touching any voltages. Stays nice and cool in my h440 w/ kraken x61. Plenty of USB ports in the back and front headers. I actually notice a difference in keyboard and mouse functionality with their two red USB ports in the back. I/O shield comes with a type of memory foam, which was a nice touch. Some say the audio isn't good, but coming from an old P45 motherboard, the audio quality is surprisingly good. Friends tell me I actually sound clearer and my music sounds a bit more crisp. Plenty of SATA ports, M.2 is a nice touch but I'll probably never use it.

Cons: These con's aren't worth an egg but here's my grievences
- The stupid little power port for the audio booster is the dumbest idea, I honestly don't even have that on my PSU and had to use their provided adapter, which mind you is literally 1 inch long. Ended up pulling out the plastic part of the socket, but it fit right back in. Had to be extra careful when I attempted to plug it in again. It works fine now, and I'm happy with the audio quality.
- Had to update BIOS to v1.5, was shipped with v1.0. Sometimes POST would hang because it didn't like my USB 3.0 stick being plugged into it. After updating BIOS everything was fine and it didn't mind the USB stick. I was skeptical about updating at first, but just be sure to use the BACK USB ports, and not the front ones. MFLASH was easy to use. Can't knock an egg off for outdated BIOS though.

Other Thoughts: Great motherboard, I had ordered a MSI z87 G45, but it arrived DOA, so I RMA'd it and couldn't wait a whole week without a computer. Ended up buying this and I'll never look back.

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  • N/A
  • 9/12/2014 12:21:28 PM
  • Tech Level: Somewhat High
  • Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

5 out of 5 eggsGood board

Pros: Board looks great with the red details.

Cons: The padded I/O panel means it takes a bit of leverage and force to get the stand offs to line up with the holes on the board.

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  • N/A
  • 9/9/2014 9:36:58 AM
  • Tech Level: Average
  • Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
  • Verified Owner

5 out of 5 eggsGreat Gaming Motherboard for the price!

Pros: Latest Z97 chipset
3x PCIe slots
lots of room
Looks cool

Cons: Nothing yet

Other Thoughts: I bought this motherboard for a gaming build with an i5-4690K. This is a really sweet motherboard for the price. It looks great and has a good amount of room with the ports well placed. It looks nice too if you care about that sort of thing. I don't look into my PC enough for that to matter to me.

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  • N/A
  • 9/1/2014 1:46:35 AM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

3 out of 5 eggsGreat board, Bad BIOS Updates

Pros: Great board with Great features. 6 Sata 3 6gb/s ports. M.2 support. PCI E 3.0. Killer NIC, Audio Boost. This board is extremely feature rich for a mid grade gaming board.

Cons: I bought my board from a different e-tailer and it came with BIOS v 1.0. When I used the m-flash to update my bios to 1.5, it bricked my board. I am in the process of RMA right now to get a new board. DO NOT UPDATE YOUR BIOS without researching it via the MSI forums. Board worked great prior to BIOS flash.

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  • Laugh
  • 8/27/2014 11:46:38 PM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
  • Verified Owner

5 out of 5 eggsSo Much Better Than Last Generation!

Pros: I had the MSI Z97-G45 for a month and it was terrible.
Now THIS is an amazing motehrboard! Good job MSI. I was nervous about purchasing this but I don't regret it. MSI Z97-Gaming 5 is amazing! Overclocked my i5-4690k with ease and RAM. Looks amazing with the red lights.

Cons: None here, except maybe the temperature should be at the top and be able to disable it.

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  • N/A
  • 8/27/2014 9:41:33 PM
  • Tech Level: Somewhat High
  • Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
  • Verified Owner

4 out of 5 eggsWorks, Cool, Bad MSI Utilities

Pros: This motherboard does what it's supposed to, and it does it very well as far as I can see having owned it for a short time. It has three PCI 16x slots. I had to give up my Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme gamer sound card because there was no slot for it. This is a pro because this on board sound in unbelievably good. OC genie is great. It's a built-in overclocking utility.

Cons: The cons of this motherboard are not part of the hardware itself, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't make MSI products lose points. DO NO INSTALL ALL THE MSI UTILITIES. They may as well be viruses as far as I'm concerned. Oh sure, your computer boots up super fast, but you have to restore windows and start over if you want any of your programs to work. After running into similar disappointments with ASUS utilities, I've learned my lesson. Don't trust software from a hardware company.

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  • N/A
  • 8/19/2014 11:28:28 AM
  • Tech Level: High
  • Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
  • Verified Owner

5 out of 5 eggsA+ mobo has everything you need

Pros: easy to use BIOS, setup of mobo easy to do

Cons: puts out some heat in case not sure if video card or power supply or mobo/cpu not risking overclocking had to turn overclocking off it got so warm in my steel tower

Other Thoughts: if i had to do it over again id still pick this mobo

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