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Good deal at Newegg?

Yes, that's a pretty hot deal. Of course it is a Newegg Shellshocker, so grab it quick. Price only lasts another few hours.

I do wonder what happened to the other two SATA ports though. The chipset should have six SATA 6G ports, but MSI only implemented 4 and has no eSATA.
 
The chipset probably supports 6 ports, but there's not really room to cram another 2 ports on there (at least on some of em). IIRC the most any ITX Zacate board has was 5 and I think those were utilizing right angled ports. The rest were 4.
 
WiLLiSTER said:
The chipset probably supports 6 ports, but there's not really room to cram another 2 ports on there (at least on some of em). IIRC the most any ITX Zacate board has was 5 and I think those were utilizing right angled ports. The rest were 4.
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Negative.. The Asus had 5 & they were not right angled.. That board also crams wifi onboard.. The simple reason why the MSI doesn't have all 6 is because its cheaper not to.. Same with wifi or any other feature that some boards have & others do not..

Also keep in mind that at 95 bucks this MSI is like 80 bucks cheaper then the asus was.
 
bastage said:
Negative.. The Asus had 5 & they were not right angled.. That board also crams wifi onboard.. The simple reason why the MSI doesn't have all 6 is because its cheaper not to.. Same with wifi or any other feature that some boards have & others do not..

Also keep in mind that at 95 bucks this MSI is like 80 bucks cheaper then the asus was.
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still, the vast majority only implement 4.

I jumped on this deal as soon as I saw it. Its 22$ cheaper than the next cheapest boards (ASrock/Sapphire) when you take out the cost of shipping. I'd bet the fan on this thing is kind of noisy, but I'm sure that can be remedied
 
I picked up one of the Sapphire boards for a few bucks more at Amazon because I had some leftover gift card funds. A noisy fan is one of my worries. Haven't tried it yet, however.
 
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