🎮 MSI B360 Gaming Plus: Superior Performance Gaming Motherboard with Intel Coffee Lake CPU and Onboard Graphics Review

I just ordered this board and it looks great in my Fractal Design MicroATX case. Enough with my build, let's move on to the board. For the price, this thing offers a lot of the features I'm looking for. What makes this board great 1) Clean design with a modest number of LEDs 2) MSI STEEL ARMOR PCIe, helps avoid GPU slip. So far there have been no problems. 3) I/O and ports, the board has enough USB ports for a budget gaming system. While this board is great for the price, if I were to pick…

It took 2 weeks to get from Canada to California. Arrived in a UPS box, turned inside out and taped together with no proper seal - GOD! Check out the application. sent back. They refuse to return the money, citing that the contacts on the circuit board are damaged. It happened! Is not my fault. This is the second MSI motherboard I've bought that doesn't work. On the first board, the contacts with the graphics card (also MSI) from this supplier were faulty. Called tech support three times. Once…

so far so good will update if problems arise. My build is i5 8400/2666MHz dual channel memory, dual boot hackintosh. XMP worked right away. Better BIOS than my latest MOBO (gigabyte) was an Intel driver that didn't install automatically, the "Control Engine" was found and installed. I don't think it's significant. everything else is installed from the supplied CD. Be sure to uncheck all the junk you don't want to install like Chrome, Mcafee, etc! comes standard with 2 SATA cables. The 24-pin…

Years ago I gave up on mastering overclocking. Almost all components are currently capable of overclocking 10-20% from the factory if they are cool enough to keep it running. That was the main reason I stopped buying overclockable motherboards and processors. With good cooling you get 10-20% anyway and don't have to spend extra money for overclockable components. This is a feature rich board for the price. I had a very specific set of ports/features that I wanted and this board had them all…

I bought this motherboard to install a Windows 10 home server that will mainly serve media and personal files around the house. Why I bought this board: Decent chipset in my preferred form factor Plenty of USB6 ports SATA ports M.2 drive access BIOS power saving options Price was great Thunderbolt port was a bonus Everything was simple and easy to install. No surprises. What was surprising was that my system would not boot after everything was installed. The RAM lights on the motherboard came…