MSI Z87 MPOWER Pro Reviews

MSI once again offering multiple levels of offerings even within the same product category and with the Mpower it happens to be a more value oriented overclocking board. The Z87 Mpower is a very impressive board in its own right as its value/features quotient makes it a tough to beat offer for most users. Yes there are lower priced boards that can overclock but to have an overclocking focused board with select components and loads of features including WiFi/BT 4.0 all in one package that really is not represented by any other offering I have seen to date. This board will be just at home on a test bench as it would blasting away at your favorite games so if your looking for an awesome dual purpose board for your next build be sure to check out the Z87 Mpower.

Before continuing with our final thoughts on this board, we would like to take this opportunity to give our friends at MSI a hearty “Thank You” for giving us the opportunity and pleasure of reviewing their latest refresh of the MPower series, the Z87 MPower motherboard. With the Z87 MPower board, MSI took an existing design with the Z77 MPower and perfected it. The Z87 MPower preserves all the attributes that made the Z77 MPower an award-winning product with some notable additions of its own. MSI chose to update the heat sink design leading to more affective cooling of the VRMs and Z87 chipset. MSI includes a total of eight SATA ports, an mSATA slot, and an enhanced audio chipset to truly elevate the Z87 MPower to new heights. The board was rock solid in testing with performance to match. While its BIOS was mainly unchanged from the previous generation, MSI did tweak it to add enhancements such as the graphical-based hardware monitoring and the visual board layout utility. Adding in the Killer NIC to the mix was just the icing on the cake.