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MSI demos X79 motherboards with PCI Express 3.0 and UEFI BIOS at IDF 2011

September 20th, 2011        

MSI demos X79 motherboards with PCI Express 3.0 and UEFI BIOS at IDF 2011

While MSI wasn’t quite ready to publicly divulge all the details of its forthcoming X79-based motherboards, it was more than happy to give us a teaser. The famous Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer shows off three upcoming models from the company at IDF, all toting PCI Express 3.0 slots, overclocking buttons and that snazzy UEFI BIOS, despite Intel saying that X79 most probably will not have PCI Express 3.0 support in the final product.

MSI demos X79 motherboards with PCI Express 3.0 and UEFI BIOS at IDF 2011

The new UEFI BIOS makes changing settings a snap, and is carried over from the company’s existing Sandy Bridge boards — it even comes with a button that launches a browser, but unfortunately the machines in the booth weren’t configured to support it. We’ll know more in Q4 when Sandy Bridge-E goes live.

MSI demos X79 motherboards with PCI Express 3.0 and UEFI BIOS at IDF 2011

MSI demos X79 motherboards with PCI Express 3.0 and UEFI BIOS at IDF 2011

MSI demos X79 motherboards with PCI Express 3.0 and UEFI BIOS at IDF 2011

MSI demos X79 motherboards with PCI Express 3.0 and UEFI BIOS at IDF 2011

MSI demos X79 motherboards with PCI Express 3.0 and UEFI BIOS at IDF 2011

MSI demos X79 motherboards with PCI Express 3.0 and UEFI BIOS at IDF 2011

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