Msi shows a new x299 motherboard, this time for the mid-range

Since the new Intel X299 platform supports quad chanel memory, the MSI Gaming Pro series has reinforced memory slots on both sides of the socket. The socket is called 'Turbo Socket ' although it is not known if this is the name given by MSI or the generic name of Intel. We can appreciate the presence of 8-pin and 4-pin power connectors on the left side of the board, which means it is very overclock ready.

MSI Gaming Pro for X299 is revealed

A large presence of X299 motherboards is expected at Computex in Taipei in late May, remember that X299 is Intel's new HEDT platform for Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors, the successors of the current Broadwell-E. The latter will continue under the name Core i7 while the former will make the leap to the Core i9 name, with this Intel intends to create a new range that is easier to identify with maximum performance.

Leaked the specifications of the new Intel Core-X i9 and i7

These processors will have to see the faces with the AMD Ryzen 7 that we can already find in the market and the new AMD Ryzen 9 that AMD had saved for the occasion, are new chips based on the Zen microarchitecture with a maximum of 16 cores and 32 threads, almost nothing.

AMD Ryzen 9: 16 cores, 4.1 GHz and 44 PCI-Express lanes

Source: videocardz