MSI A88x G45 Gaming Motherboard

Hello..
I would like to ask why did MSI revert the power phase of this board to a much lower 4+2 power phase?
on CES launch it is said that it was an 8+2 power phase..
Also does this mother board has 3 slot pcie 3.0 x16 configuration??? and not the traditional 2 slot pcie 3.0 x16 and 1 slot pcie 2.0 x16??

you have to ask MSI for the phase question 
For the PCIE part, I checked the msi web and saw below info.
- PCI_E2 supports PCIe 3.0 x16 speed*
- PCI_E5 supports PCIe 3.0 x8 speed*
- PCI_E6 supports PCIe 2.0 x4 speed
• 3 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots**
* Only FM2+ processors can support PCIe 3.0
In short, only PCI_E2/PCIE_E5 support PCIE 3.0 x16 if you use FM2+ CPU

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