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The new one has none of the defects of the original

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Good thing i didnt have to go through msi to get it rmad because they seem like a nightmare

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Deducting a star from a perfect score because with equipment this expensive there should be no reason a defect leaves the factory

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Original review belowout of the 6 msi motherboards ive bought in the past 6 years this is the only one to arrive defective

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Very disappointing considering its such an expensive chipset and socket

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Every time required no intervention to make the os work with the new chipset

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Going from z97 to x99 i assume shouldnt be a problem but i couldnt even load windows this time

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Additional issues include board recognizes video cards out of order card in 1st pcie x16 is recognized as card 2 on bus 6 card in 2nd pcie x16 is recognized as card 1 on bus 4 nvidia control panel often errors with no nvidia graphics adapter detected despite there being 2 970s in sli that worked flawlessly on the previous z97 board they just came out of