Testseek.com have collected 42 expert reviews of the MSI 970 Gaming and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for MSI 970 Gaming.
October 2014
(82%)
42 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(74%)
611 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
82010042
The editors liked
Attractive styling. Surprisingly low price. Support for two graphics cards and AMD's FX-9590. Robust software suite includes RAMDisk app. High-end audio and Ethernet.
Good price/performance ratio
Good multi-core performance (vs Intel i5)
Good aesthetics
Surprisingly low price
Given looks
Features
Support for two graphics cards and AMD's power-hungry FX-9590
High-end audio and Ethernet features
Attractive black-and-red styling
Robust software suite includes RAMDisk app
Good overclockability
Excellent bang for the buck
Pushes 970 chipset beyond its specifications
The editors didn't like
Only two USB 3.0 ports on I/O plate. Limited PCIe lanes
PCIe 2.0 for dual-video-card configs. Its 970 chipset means some modern features are absent
Lower memory support (vs Intel 9 series)
Aging 970 chipset means some modern features are absent
The 970-Gaming SLI is an awesome value product. There are four varieties of USB ports on the back panel IO; you get USB 2.0 ports with extra power, normal USB 2.0, USB 3.0, and USB 3.1. You get 20 Gbps M.2, 2-way CrossFireX/SLI support in mechanically re...
Abstract: Intel might still have the edge on single threaded applications, but an AMD system can give very solid multi-threaded performance without blowing the budget. Built on the ATX form factor, the board has an AM3+ socket and will support Athlon II, Phenom II ...
If you are a PC gamer or building a gaming HTPC and you want to use AMD processor architecture then you need this motherboard. At HMP we have reviewed a number of motherboards designed for gaming but we have not seen a motherboard with so much considerati...
Published: 2015-01-30, Author: Ryan , review by: HEXUS.net
Gaming audio and networking, Aggressive pricing, Updated feature-set, Capable overclocker
Mediocre USB 3.0 implementation
The MSI 970 Gaming motherboard sports an aggressive price tag of £80 ($100). Whether it needs to be that aggressively-priced is questionable. MSI, we feel, could have considered the 990FX chipset for enhanced PCIe lane availability while only marginally i...
Published: 2014-09-29, Author: Leo , review by: kitguru.net
Low price, Backwards support for AM3 and AM3processors, Killer Gigabit NIC, Sound Blaster Cinema 2 software, Gaming peripheral ports, Support for dual graphics cards, Smart styling, Effective Click BIOS is easy to navigate using a mouse, Solid performance
AMD 970 chipset does not support USB 3.0, OC Genie 4 barely overclocks the FX8350 CPU, The passive coolers require a decent amount of air flow to avoid problems, Poor positioning of the EPS power connector
The MSI 970 Gaming motherboard looks very smart in appearance with a colour scheme that is mainly black with a hint of red. This has a downside as the board is slightly more complicated to set up than we would like, thanks to the absence of colour coding ...
The 970 Gaming put in some solid benchmark results and despite a few hiccups, namely the very average on-board audio and poor SATA 6Gbps write speed, did manage to overclock out test CPU to 4.6GHz, which isn't bad at all for a £70 motherboard. What's more...
Your AMDmirable PartnerMSI Gaming 970By DinThe socket AM3+ (and its original AM3) has been around for some time and had originally been introduced to cater for the Bulldozer-based CPU. Compared to the LGA changing history of the Blue Camp, AMD meanwhile u...
La MSI 970 GAMING, posee cualidades bastante atractivas esteticamente, un enfoque exitoso para el segmento gamer que busca un equilibrio entre rendimiento y belleza por parte de MSI.Esta placa madre si bien no posee el chipset tope de línea de AMD, MSI sa...
Abstract: En septiembre tuvimos el placer de probar la potencia de lo nuevo de AMD con sus FX-8370E y FX-9590, una nueva familia de productos que por precio y prestaciones venía a competir con los Core i3 y Core i5 de Intel. Para entonces, quedó claro que las opcio...
La placa MSI 970 Gaming responde a una modernización estética del exitoso modelo 970A-G46, aunque con añadidos que justifican la nomenclatura “Gaming”. Permite la combinación de procesadores FX con hasta 2 tarjetas gráficas en CrossFire/SLI con una excele...
