MSI Z77A-G43 Gaming Crossfire

Hi there,
It´s my first post here so greetings all I have a question regarding MSI Z87 G43 GAMING motherboard and crossfire. I noticed, a bit too late, that the G43 does not crossfire in a x8/x8 mode! Is this a performance compromiser? I mean, I´ve noticed a great scaling in BF4 with seetings in High (no AA; with SSAO) running the game with a 3 screen display - compared with single card I went from 50-80 FPS to 70-130.
So, if I understand correctly from the board specs, I have one graphic card at x16 and the other x4?
Thanks for your attention.

So... I´ve been searching other MSI alternatives towards minimizing the cost of my ignorance. I found MSI Z87-G55 - 3 PCIe 3.0x16. The price is 30€ less than the G45 (110€ vs 140€) and the only visible diference is the network adapter (Realtek® RTL8111G Vs Killer E2205). Can you tell me if this is a good choice?
My specs:
Core i7 4770K
Gskill 2*8GB 1866
SSD Samsung 840
ASUS 7970ghz DCII Top
PowerColor R9280X
Also checked the G55 OC Genie feature in BIOS. I´m currently using that with my G43 and it´s very simple efficient and absolutely stable and trouble free. Is the BIOS in the G55 similar to the G43? Hope you could answer all this m8... sorry for such inquiry :P
Thanks again for your attention

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Hi all,
I setup my new system using msi z77a-g4, i5 2500k and 8gb corsair ram.
It was working fine I was watching a movie when suddenly the system hanged
even after somtime when it was still in hanged state and nothing was working
i restarted by pressing the restart button .... after that it's not even posting.
CPU fan keeps on moving but the display is just blank even keyboard lights are not coming up
Just noticed it seems it's restarting after every few seconds ... guessing this by change in the color of mouse led.
Please help ... i tried to reset the bios by using JBAT1 but still no results
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Bios version don't know
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Intel core i5 2500K sandy bridge 3.3GHZ not overclocked LGA 1155 95W
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MSI Z77A-G43 GAMING LGA 1155 MOTHERBOARD

Does anyone know where I can get one of these in the UK, everywhere I look it says out of stock/discontinued..... I mean everywhere
I have no choice to get a z77 version of the motherboard as im running an i5 3350p ivy bridge which is a 1155 socket.
any help or location of this product would help.... I wish MSI would just sell their stuff too.

Quote from: badboy2k on 07-March-14, 08:49:26
http://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-Z77A-G43-Motherboard-Pentium-Celeron/dp/B007JRGV14/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394153251&sr=8-1&keywords=Z77A-G43
was easy as just typing it in on amazon enjoy!!!!
Thanks for the reply I did see that one but I was looking for the red and black dragon emblem one, its seem everyone of these I find is somehow discontinued.
prefer the red and black as its goes with the colours scheme I have also matches the 2 msi GPU's I have, just wondered if anyone knows of a UK retailers of this version
As a side note the blue and black doesnt look as impressive XD

MSI Z77A-G43 GAMING with CORSAIR Vengeance Pro CMY8GX3M2A1866C9

HI,
I need to know please if i can use this ram kit ?
if yes, can i get the max ram freq (1866MHz) by enableing xmp in bios ?
cpu: I5 3550 Ivy bridge
thanx

XMP will not be found under CPU support. Its not a CPU function. Its a pre-defined memory SPD profile that can be used by board manufacturers as a BIOS feature. A sort of a one-stop shop to apply a certain overclocked memory condition.
The RAM manufacturer will have predefined JEDEC SPD profiles programmed onto a EEPROM chip on the mem module. If its overclocked memory, then additional XMP profile/s may be added. This XMP profile can be applied by enabling the XMP feature in the BIOS. This enabling of the XMP then tries to apply the pre-programmed profile to the CPU memory controller. The mem controller may or may not work at this desired XMP setting. It saves you the effort of setting the overclocked mem profile manually.
With Ivy bridge CPUs the mem controller can apply 1600 as default. Anything above that is not guaranteed.
Thus if you have memory with a XMP 1600 profile, then its most probably 1333 memory with an overclocked XMP profile of 1600.
XMP also will only become visible in the BIOS if the memory actually has a XMP profile.
If your memory has a 1866 XMP profile, then that will be applied to the IMC, or at least an attempt will be made. The IMC may or may not work at that OC'ed mem setting. Further tweaking maybe needed, i.e. increased voltage to stabilise. Experience though shows that most of the memory controllers on Ivy will not have a problem with 1866.

Can i crossfire two radeon 7950's with msi Z77A-G43

Im looking to buy MSI's version of the Radeon 7950 twin Frozr to complete my system but im not sure if i will eventually be able to crossfire two of these cards in the future. I know that this MB only has one PCIe3 slots. Does this matter in crossfire? or will I have to replace the MB in order to corssfire?
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that should work but at PCI-E REV 2.0 speeds just make sure you have gen 3 support turned off or it will not allow crossfire!

MSI Z77A-G43 crossfire?

i got a quick 1
can the MSI Z77A-G43 run dual crossfire yes or no?
can't find a soilid answer on the main website saying yes or no but looking at the express slots i think
just don't want to make a mistake.
i'm doing some searching for a clan mate not to well known in pc building.

I have the same question...? Do you mean 'dual' Crossfire as in 4 Videocards.. or 2 Videocards in PCI_E2 & PCI_E4?
The answer is... this board can run 2 cards in Crossfire. In E2 & E4 as explained in the owners manual.
You can not use the other slots for CrossFire.
Tell your Clan Mate..that All are welcome here, and not to think any question is unable to be asked. We were All newbee's at one point in time.. and a lot of us still are not experts. We just like to help and be helped.
Plus if the posting guide is read, it will be learned that going to 'Profile' and listing the PCs equipment will give us better information about the PC, to be able to help better.
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MSI Z77A-G43 (MS-7758) + MSI 970 4G - PCIE2.0 instead 3.0

Hello,
I got parts descripted in tittle and GPUID and Nvidia panel cant show gtx970 in pcie3.0
Operating system64-bit Windows 8.1 (6.3.9600)
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Processor Intel Core i5-2500 Processor 3,3Ghz
MSI GtX970 with Bios NV316MH.182 - Driver version9.18.13.4475
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Module 2 - 4.096 MB Kingston DDR3 @ 667 MHz
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Hard drive model 256 GB SAMSUNG EVO
Hard drive model - 500GB no SSD
PSU: EVGA B2 750W

Ok, thx for reply. Honestly no idea about that.
Just one question, The difference PCIE3 in a gtx970 is significant in relation to PCIE2 in the same 970?
thank you
i found that
http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Impact-of-PCI-E-Speed-on-Gaming-Performance-518/
Oks, you can close this post.

Black screen at boot MSI Z77A-G43 with HD7850

Hi,
I've tried everything You suggested in this topic. I've upgrade and downgrade bios (official 2.3, 2.4, 2.8, 2,9 / beta 256, 281,296) few times but still is black screen at boot. Now i'm on the newest beta bios 296 and still same issue on Sapphire HD 7850 with my Z77a-G43 board. I know for sure that sapphire working well because I've checked on other mobo with even worst PSU (400W instead 550W Volcano). Before hd 7850 I had gtx460 and swith those few times and always gtx460 works fine, so I don't understand anything right now.
Tried different slots, also clear cmos.
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Can You help me somehow, maybe I did not check something else?

Quote from: The CPU Whisperer on 22-April-13, 16:06:05
Do you see the same problem on bios 2.90?
The Z77A-G43 seems the have difficulties accepting HD7xxx AMD VGA cards lately.
It seems that the problem is gone. I thought of it being an ATI driver issue ~ but not even the latest didn't fix it. But since I flashed to BIOS 2.9 I haven't encountered the problem anymore. So I believe something is fixed between 2.3 to 2.9.
However my problem was a bit different that the OP has.
Oh, and I said this on other thread so I say it here too: MSI and Asus 7xxx cards haven't faced the kind of issues Sapphires are having. I'm so glad to my choice... as I almost picked Sapphire but then read comments on Newegg which weren't in favor for Sapphire.

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MSI H87-G43 Gaming VGA Boost?

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1.Is "VGA Boost" feature = overclocking?
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2.Can MSI VGA Boost feature work with other brand graphics card? or it only work with MSI Graphics card ?
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I just built this pc and pressed the power button. Nothing happens for a few seconds and then I hear 3 beeps from the PC speaker. It powers off by itself and opens again, with 3 beeps again, and repeats this until i press the power button to close it down forcefully.
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MSI Z77A-G43 UEFI Overvolt+Intel Exteme Tuner Overvolt combo

Hey all,
I just wanted to run past you an experiment I did and I think worked.
I currently overclock my i5-3570k with an every day overclock of 4.4 at no offset voltage and a benchmark overclock of 4.7 at +.14V - however my benchmark overclock isnt exactly stable.
I noticed in Exteme Intel Tuning Utility There's a slider there for additional mV turbo voltage. I'm multiplier overclocking for my benchmark overclock with no power saving features and my voltage tops out at around 1.34V but when I add additional mV on Intel Extreme Tuner it goes to 1.38V. It also made me pass my 3dmark at 4.7 which is hit-or-miss but now worked every single time and also passed IBT.
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also obligatory 3dmark link
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1.400v's on the CPU is the industry recommended limit for an everyday machine, so whatever way it gets there shouldn't make any difference.
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I noticed in Exteme Intel Tuning Utility There's a slider there for additional mV turbo voltage. I'm multiplier overclocking for my benchmark overclock with no power saving features and my voltage tops out at around 1.34V but when I add additional mV on Intel Extreme Tuner it goes to 1.38V. It also made me pass my 3dmark at 4.7 which is hit-or-miss but now worked every single time and also passed IBT.
Could this truly be modifying my input voltage on the CPU beyond the motherboard's limited offset mV overclocking?
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