![]() With Z97 Gaming boards, MSI is sticking with the red/black dragon theme first introduced with the MSI’s Z77 motherboards, but unlike previous generation boards, MSI’s latest motherboards hide the copper traces on the PCB much better than previous generation motherboards and now look completely blacked out rather than brown. The MSI Z97 Gaming 7 sports an Intel LGA 1150 socket which will offer support for Intel’s latest 4th generation Intel Core Haswell and “Haswell Refresh” processors. Additionally, it’ll also support Intel’s upcoming 14nm 5th generation Intel Core Broadwell processors which are expected to arrive either end of this year or early next year.įor VRM cooling, MSI is using their new dragon claw inspired design rather than the dragon shaped heatsinks used in previous gaming motherboards. The heatsinks are no taller than typical low profile memory and there’s a good amount of space around the CPU socket, so larger air coolers shouldn’t be an issue. In total, MSI includes 5x 4-pin fan headers. ![]() ![]() 2x 4-pin fan headers (marked orange) are CPU fan headers while 3x 4-pin fan headers (marked green) are system fan headers. ![]()
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