For Intel LGA 2011 designed motherboard X79A-GD45 PLUS, presented this week by MSI. As it is easy to guess the name of novelties, it is built on the Intel X79 chipset and is a development of the model MSI X79A-GD45 (8 d).

The power subsystem processor, MSI X79A-GD45 legacy PLUS, includes nine DrMOS voltage regulators. CPU socket is associated with eight DIMM slots, which can accommodate up to 128 GB DDR3-2400 in quad-channel configuration.

MSI X79A-GD45 equipment PLUS three slots PCI Express x 16 3.0, two PCI Express 2.0 x 16 slot (electrically-x 4) and one PCI Express 2.0 x 1 slot.

To connect drives there are two SATA 6 GB/s and four SATA 3 GB/s i/o interfaces List includes four USB 3.0 ports, optical and coaxial SPDIF options, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0 ports and PS/2. To the characteristics of the motherboard is having a diagnostic indicator light, display, POST status, reset the CMOS button, as well as the use of proprietary “technologies” Military Class III, Click BIOS II and OC Genie II.

It is expected that the price of the MSI X79A-GD45 PLUS is $ -250.