MSI has finally shown its Godlike motherboard, intended for Intel Kaby Lake processors and which has finally been dubbed the MSI X270 Godlike, a motherboard with enormous performance.
What looked like it was going to be a high-end motherboard for Intel Basins Falls processors, has surprised us and has become a Kaby Lake motherboard. A few days ago we saw a sample of an MSI board called Godlike, well, now we know that this is the MSI X270 Godlike, a high-end motherboard with unmatched performance. Developed for Kaby Lake processors, it has 18 power phases, which will allow a good amount of overclocking, except if it is the i7 7700K, since we must remember that Intel advises against overclocking it, due to its serious temperature problems.
This motherboard has four DIMM sockets for DDR4 RAM, supporting a maximum of 64GB at a maximum frequency of 4133MHz. It also stands out from this motherboard that it has no less than four PCIe 3.0 x16 ports, all of them, shielded and also has three M.2 ports for SSD units and all three have the M.2 Shield, the passive heatsink for these drives, plus a single PCIe x1 slot. The motherboard has an additional 6-pin connector, predictably for the processor, offering a more stable voltage.
Regarding connectivity, we see that this huge motherboard makes use of the Killer network card, which provides it with an Ethernet and WiFi connection. Thanks to this network card, this motherboard has three Gigabit Ethernet ports and WiFi antennas that allow up to 867Mbps. The ASMedia ASM3142 controller has been integrated, which gives us several USB 3.1 Gen2 ports, a high-end audio card such as the Audio Boost 4 Xtreme has been integrated, it has switches to disconnect the PCIe 3.0 x16 ports that we do not use, until Eight SATA III ports, a U.2 port, an LED display for when we overclock, special buttons for this practice with Power, reset and overclocking buttons, and I play irrigated, how could it be otherwise, through RGB LEDs.
No price or availability of this motherboard has been revealed, but less than € 300, it sure doesn't cost. Here we have several doubts and that is that Kaby Lake processors do not have support for so many PCIe 3.0 x16 and M.2 SSD ports, therefore, it is possible that it integrates another type of controller, although we are not very clear about it. When we know the full specifications, we will discuss it.
