MSI X99S XPOWER AC EATX Compatibility

I have just placed an order for the X99S XPOWER motherboard. I just also looked up compatibility for three of my components on the MSI website and they are not on the list and want to see if they are compatible or if I will have issues:
Memory:
Crucial 32GB Kit (8GBx4) DDR4 2133 MT/s (PC4-17000) CL15 DR x8 Unbuffered DIMM 288-Pin Desktop Memory CT4K8G4DFD8213
Hard Drive (OS):
Crucial M550 1TB SATA 2.5" 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal Solid State Drive CT1024M550SSD1
Hard Drives (Storage - I have four of these and I am planning on running on board raid 10):
Western Digital Red 6 TB NAS Hard Drive 1 to 8-Bay 3.5-inch SATA 6, IntelliPower, 64MB Cache Internal Bare or OEM Drives WD60EFRX
Any guidance will be appreciated on these items. I can still return the above if necessary. I would think they would all work but want to check just in case.
Regards

MSi can't test all avilable components in the market so not listed does not mean not compatible. The things you want to get should not make any problems as these are quality brand items that aren't pretty exotic or totally new. The ram is just ddr4-2133 and should therefor not require tweaking to run stable. Just keep in mind to update bios when you get the board.

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MSI X99S XPOWER won't boot after a Windows 8.1 Update

Hi all, two days ago I was using my PC as normally and Windows needed to restart because of an update from Windows Update. It restarted and won't be able to boot again. I get a 04 debug code (Power on South Bridge Initialization) and I've tried clearing CMOS, without SSD/HDD... and there is no way.
I'm reading something about an Intel drivers update that can modify the firmware, do you know anything about it?
Board: MSI X99S XPOWER
Bios: Version 1.4
VGA: MATRIX GTX 780Ti
PSU: Enermax Platimax 850W
Intel Core i7 5820K
MEM: G.Skill 32GB in 4 sticks (8 GB each) @2400 MHz XMP
HDD: OCZ Vertex 450 256GB
COOLER: Akasa Venom Vodoo
OC: 4 GHz 1.15v
OS: Windows 8.1 x64
Thanks

Windows is not corrupted, I've tried that SSD on another computer without problems and in my computer without HDD/SSD and won't boot anyway.
If I'm able to boot with the secondary BIOS, I'll recover the first one by the following steps:
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BIOS recovery with AFUDOS command
When BIOS updating fails or causes the computer non-bootable, you can recover the
failed BIOS by the steps below.
Preparation:
1. Prepare a bootable USB flash drive.
2. Download the latest BIOS file from the MSI official website at www.msi.com, and
then decompress the file.
3. Copy the AFUDE238.exe and the BIOS file to the bootable USB flash drive
BIOS recovery steps:
1. Power off the computer.
2. Set the Multi-BIOS switch to the functional BIOS ROM.
3. Insert the bootable USB flash drive you have made to the USB port.
4. Boot the computer into the bootable USB flash drive.
5. Set the Multi-BIOS switch to the failed BIOS ROM.
6. Execute the below command to flash the BIOS:
For example: AFUDE238 EXXXXIMS.XXX
7. Restart the computer after the BIOS flashing is complete.
Important
Do not use the Multi-BIOS switch when system is booting up.
But I have a doubt with the "Important" note because I need to change from safe BIOS to failed BIOS with the PC booted, right? So I'll use the Multi-BIOS switch with the system up...
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An OC Newbie Try to Break the World Record by Using MSI X99S XPOWER AC

Saw an article on MSI forum and thought it’s quite interested, so here I translate it. Don’t really have the time to translate it word by word, so go check here for the original article if you are interested (but you need to speak Chinese, lol…..).
link: forum-tc.msi.com/index.php?topic=113081.0
Long story short, a newbie got inspired by MSI MOA 2014
and started to dig in the OC world. After checking all the rules, he decided to try it on his own. Here’s the gear he used:
CPU: Intel i7-5960X 3.0G (8C16T)
RAM: HyperX Predator DDR4-3000 16GB Kit (4x4GB) CL15
MB: MSI X99S XPOWER AC
VGA: MSI GTX980 GAMING 4G x4
SSD: Plextor M6 Pro 256GB
Power: Cooler Master M2 1500W x2
CPU Cooler: SilverStone TD03
OS: Win 7 64bit SP1
MB
Easy button design and 3 sets of v-check point made it more user friendly for Ocer
Special extreme OC kit (contain with thumb drive, OC fan stand, Delid Die Guard and OC Backplate. Personally think it’s 4 handy tools especially for Ocer)
VGA
Here’s the pic. after assembling all the gear together
This newbie is using air cooling VGA & RAM + water cooling CPU to run 4 way SLI, below is the static under normal usage without OC.
3DMARK - FIRE STRIKE Extreme
3DMARK - FIRE STRIKE ULTRA
Then, he try to use OC Genie buttom push the CPU to Gear 2, CPU 3.7G, RAM 2400, below is the static under this circumstances.
3DMARK - FIRE STRIKE ULTRA
He did mention that overheating would be a major problem of 4 way SLI, water cooling should be a better solution instead of air cooling.
Anyways, after few times of trial, here comes the best combination he can get.
CPU
CPU Frequency: 4.6GHz
DRAM Frequency: 3,200MHz
VGA
GPU Frequency: 1,390MHz
DRAM Frequency: 1,803MHz
3DMARK - FIRE STRIKE Extreme
3DMARK - FIRE STRIKE ULTRA
He upload this onto the HWBOT and found that he ranks 29th place on Fire Strike Extreme and 6th place on Fire Strike Ultra. Looks good!
Link: hwbot.org/submission/2690492_ocbot_3dmark___fire_strike_extreme_4x_geforce_gtx_980_19149_marks
link: hwbot.org/submission/2690575_ocbot_3dmark___fire_strike_ultra_4x_geforce_gtx_980_11338_marks
To better show you the effect of using 4 VGA instead of 1, he used Assassin’s Creed Unity and did some comparison as below.
Single MSI GTX980 GAMING 4G: FPS will between 3X-4X, 50 at some points.
If using MSI GTX980 GAMING 4G * 4 without OC, FPS will between 50 – 70, same as what we heard, the improvement is not as much as we thought.
But when it’s under the loading process, it shows 7XX FPS
All in all, here’s his conclusion:
Under OC mode, MSI XPOWER AC’s stability does meet his expectation, and he’s satisfied with the extreme OC kit. “Memory Try It!” function in BIOS make it easier to adjust.
Oh well, it seems like it’s a good product to be expect!

Quote from: WSGRT on 23-January-15, 13:22:33
this newbie start with the most powerful rig!!! Btw, thanks for translation
Personally think it's quite impressive for a newbie to get such a great score.
And sure he choose a great product to start with!

MSI X99S XPower AC LGA 2011-v3 M.2 SSD Question

I am planning on purchasing the MSI X99S XPower AC LGA 2011-v3 mobo, using the Haswell Intel® Core™ i7-5820K Processor. I have two questions:
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- Crucial M550 512GB SATA M.2 Type 2280 Internal Solid State Drive CT512M550SSD4, or
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If I understand this correctly, the first option (M.2) should be noticeable faster?
2.) Any recommendations on Crucial DDR4 memory? I am going to start with 16 GB, so should I get one stick of 16, or 8GBx2? I believe there are 8 slots, and if so, do I need to fill them in groups of two, or does this not matter? Any recommendation for which ones to use to get my 16?
Thanks! I need to bust out the wallet tomorrow to build my new system.

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1.) I am going to purchase a crucial 512GB SSD. My question is should I purchase the:
- Crucial M550 512GB SATA M.2 Type 2280 Internal Solid State Drive CT512M550SSD4, or
- Crucial M550 512GB SATA 2.5" 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal Solid State Drive CT512M550SSD1
If I understand this correctly, the first option (M.2) should be noticeable faster?
The only difference between the both is the M.2 or SATA 2.5" format. Both are using an SATA interface. The M550 in M.2 format can't utilize the extra bandwith of M.2 as it's controler controler is just SATA. So what you will choose is just up to your format preference.
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2.) Any recommendations on Crucial DDR4 memory? I am going to start with 16 GB, so should I get one stick of 16, or 8GBx2? I believe there are 8 slots, and if so, do I need to fill them in groups of two, or does this not matter? Any recommendation for which ones to use to get my 16?
LGA 2011-v3 is a quad channel platform so get a 4x4 GB kit. Single (one stick) or dual (two sticks) channel will slow system performance.

MSI x99s xpower ac boot issue

Hello,
I am having a problem with cold boot. After shouting down my computer, it cannot start when I press power button.
Sometimes after shouting down fans were still rotating until I turned off power supply.
I was trying to turn on PC without all RAM, without all USB devices, without SDD, and without graphic cards, and it still
couldn't start.
The only way to start my PC is to trying turn it on many times and using Discharge button (also many times).
If it turns on it works good. I can use PC without problems, but if I shout it down, it won't start again, and I have to
make this crazy launching process again.
I do not know what is happening, but I expected more from such expensive hardware...
All components are new (about two weeks).
Board: MSI X99S XPOWER
Bios: Version 1.7
VGA: 2x Asus GTX 980 DC2 OC Strix 4GB GDDR5 (256 Bit) DVI
PSU: Be Quiet! Dark Power PRO 10 850W 80PLUS Platinum, 10.4 dB, 4/1 (OCK) (BN203)
Processor: Intel Core i7-5930K, socket 2011-3, 64bit, 3.5GHz, 140W
MEM: Kingston DDR4 3000 4x8GB C15
HDD: SSD Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB SATA3 2,5"
COOLER: CPU Noctua NH-D15 - 165mm, 1320, 24.6 dBA
OC: no
OS: Windows 8.1 64bit Professional

Hi again. Yesterday I took my brother PC and used his Power Supply - Corsair TX750.
So with his PSU, and mine motherboard PC was starting everytime without problems.
But when I used another motherboard and mine new PSU it also starts everytime.
So looks like PSU: Be Quiet! Dark Power PRO 10 850W and MSI x99s xpower are not compatible.
The problem with Dark Power PRO 10 is that when it starts, I can hear switch inside it.
When I start PC with normal PSU, i press power button and it starts, but when I start with Be Quiet! I press power button, then I can hear switch inside PSU
and then in starts. So the problem is that, when I press power button with MSI x99s and Be Quiet! Dark Power, i cannot hear this switch.
I have no idea what I have do to now
PS:
This switching inside PSU you can hear on this movie at 8:32.

MSI X99S Xpower AC Cycles on and Off

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MOVED: An OC Newbie Try to Break the World Record by Using MSI X99S XPOWER AC

This topic has been moved to User Reviews & Modding.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=252672.0

Quote from: WSGRT on 23-January-15, 13:22:33
this newbie start with the most powerful rig!!! Btw, thanks for translation
Personally think it's quite impressive for a newbie to get such a great score.
And sure he choose a great product to start with!

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My BIOS B has the most recent for this board (1.6 dated 2015-01-17). Yesterday, when I spoke to MSI tech support, they told me to stick the USB drive with the bios into one of the rear USB ports of the motherboard instead of the direct USB port adjacent to the BIOS selector switch on the board, restart my pc, and when I get to the bios screen to switch over the BIOS switch to A, then run M-FLASH and the A should be updated. I did this, I can use my keyboard and mouse with this configuration, however, after I switch over to the A BIOS and start M-FLASH, I get the red 5 second restart warning, and my pc turns off and upon restart it freezes and does not even start the BIOS update for A. Hmmmm... At least I am part way there. I will try again tonight. BTW - I do not get a "please set multi BIOS switch to the target BIOS ROM then press any key to continue" dialogue box. I will advise later tonight my results.

Re: MSI X99S XPower AC won't post, only debug code 00

Aye...but at least I know for sure now that it's the boards as the cpu is brand new

What key are you pressing? Delete?
If it really doesn't work send your laptop in for repairs.

Re: MSI X99S XPOWER AC - won't boot - debug code 67

tried the psu on another board with same power cable and works fine,

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>>How to contact MSI.<<

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X99S XPOWER AC - Not utilizing full 40 lanes on 5960x

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I have a tri SLI setup that is running at 16x/8x/8x bandwidth with my 5960X. The 5960X has 40 lanes so I should be running 16x/16x/8x?
I have the following
E1 - GTX Titan
E2 - GTX Titan
E3 - empty
E4 - GTX Titan
E5 - empty
E6 - ZxR Sound Card
M2_1 - XP941 SSD
Looking in the manual at the PCIe bandwidth table, both E1 and E4 are 16x capable. But, inside of the manual, I see no combination in the PCIe table that allows for E1, E2, E4 to run 16x/8x/16x. The only one there is E1 16x, E4 16x, and E6 at 16x meaning I would have to switch E2 GTX Titan with E6 ZxR sound card.
Can you please make a bios update that will fix this? No watercooler is going to space their cards out unevenly. Maybe it works better for air coolers, but it doesn't look nice for watercoolers (not to mention I do not have a bridge block that supports such an odd arrangement of GPUs).
I am looking to the full 40 lanes because two cards will be ran in SLI for display, where as the third card will run as a dedicated CUDA compute card. I'm looking to have the display cards run 16x, and the CUDA compute card to run 8x.
Thanks.

Quote from: blade52x on 19-October-14, 23:33:55
Hi.
I have a tri SLI setup that is running at 16x/8x/8x bandwidth with my 5960X. The 5960X has 40 lanes so I should be running 16x/16x/8x?
I have the following
E1 - GTX Titan
E2 - GTX Titan
E3 - empty
E4 - GTX Titan
E5 - empty
E6 - ZxR Sound Card
M2_1 - XP941 SSD
Looking in the manual at the PCIe bandwidth table, both E1 and E4 are 16x capable. But, inside of the manual, I see no combination in the PCIe table that allows for E1, E2, E4 to run 16x/8x/16x. The only one there is E1 16x, E4 16x, and E6 at 16x meaning I would have to switch E2 GTX Titan with E6 ZxR sound card.
Can you please make a bios update that will fix this?
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/X99S-XPOWER-AC.html#hero-specification
3-way mode: x16/ x0/ x0/ x16/ x8
For the CPU that supports 40 PCIe lanes
There is no BIOS update able to change the hardware design.

MSI x99s MPower: who is selling it?

I guess the subject says it all. I'm looking online but can't find the x99s Mpower for sale anywhere. Any ideas if, when, and where it is for sale?

Yeah, I got my eye on this one two. I already own a Haswell based system so I don't need to upgrade now. But, my nephew is wanting to buy the guts of my system (motherboard, memory, CPU) to replace the older components in his system. He knows he can get the stuff from me relatively cheap.
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I am able to see the list of wireless connections available but when I try to connect my wireless it just says unable to connect.
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