Connectors and I/O

MSI equipped the X99A XPower Gaming Titanium with six angled SATA and four straight ports. All ports offer 6Gbps bandwidth and they're located in the bottom right corner of the PCB. All SATA ports have been wired directly to the X99 PCH and two of them can be combined to a SATA Express port. There is also one M.2 x4 Gen3 slot as well as a U.2 connector, both offering up to 32 Gbps bandwidth. Overall there is state-of-the-art storage flexibility with this motherboard and gaming systems, workstations as well as enthusiasts rigs can be equipped with plenty of drives. As you might expected from a flagship motherboard, there is a debug LED next to onboard power and reset buttons.


In total there are seven fan headers on the MSI X99A XPower Gaming Titanium. This is more than enough to provide a high-end system with adequate cooling and good cable management. All headers offer 4 Pins, which means fan speeds can be controlled from within Windows, via MSIs Software or BIOS.





Looking at the I/O connectors directly at the back-panel MSI equipped the X99A XPower Gaming Titanium with three USB 2.0 ports, seven USB 3.1 Type A ports, one USB 3.1 Type-C connector, one Gigabit ethernet port, an optical out and an analogue audio panel as well as two threaded connectors for attaching WiFi antennas. Practical: the BIOS reset button.

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Page 2 - Specs and Delivery	Page 16 - Super Pi 1M / 32M
Page 3 - Features	Page 17 - wPrime 1024M Multi Core
Page 4 - Layout	Page 18 - Cinebench
Page 5 - Connectors and I/O	Page 19 - Tomb Raider
Page 6 - BIOS	Page 20 - Metro Last Light
Page 7 - Test setup	Page 21 - Thief
Page 8 - Preview / Gallery	Page 22 - Right Mark Audio Analyzer
Page 9 - 3DMark	Page 23 - BCLK Overclocking
Page 10 - 3DMark 11	Page 24 - Power Consumption
Page 11 - 3DMark Vantage	Page 25 - Performance Rating
Page 12 - PC Mark 8	Page 26 - Price Comparison
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