MSI Intel H81 LGA 1150 DDR3 USB 3.1 Micro ATX Motherboard (H81M-E33)

Pros: OC Genie Works Great Tiny Cons: Only 4 Sata Ports No Front panel USB 3.0 Only 1 Case Fan No handbook No future proofing or expand-ability Purchased this board because my Gigabyte board went out. I wish I had read more details on it before I bought it, but I'm not unhappy. This board is tiny. When I opened the box, I thought I messed up and got an ITX. It did fit in my Phantek Enthoo Pro even. Fit my 750TI and 16GB of ram with my i7 4790k. Love the OC Genie in the user friendly Bios. The only bad things I didn't realize is that it only has 4 Sata ports, 1 CPU fan and 1 Case Fan port, and no front USB 3.0. I plugged my CPU fan in to the CPU slot, and a case fan controller into the Case Fan slot and it didn't work for my fan controller. I ended up plugging my fan controller into the CPU slot and my CPU fan into the fan controller. I don't recall if you're suppose to do it this was to begin with or not because I built this computer almost five years ago. I can't hold it against the board though because it's my fault for not reading. I just got this board as a place holder until I can afford an expensive one. I would recommend this board to anyone that wants something cheap and works great.

Perfect little MB for our Intel G3258 build. Allows for over clocking and easy to use. Very small however like others say it's not even micro ATX it's almost iTX size! Still works if you don't need a lot of extras plugged in. Allowed me to over clock that little Pentium to 4.3Ghz with no other mods! 4.4Ghz wouldn't boot, and I haven't messed with anything since. I did try to push the dram up to 1400Mhz clock speed, since it defaulted my 1600 down to 1333 automatically. that may have had a part in why it didn't boot at 4.4Ghz? I don't know and right now don't really care, since my son is excited I left it set up at 3.8Ghz to play on right now. plugged in a HDD, 2x4Gb of ram, SATA DVD R/W, 1x case fan, 430 GT graphics, Edimax wifi plug, loaded windows and off we went! would definitely recommend for a cheap and easy build.

Its a motherboard, There isn't really anything special about this board. It is really small, which the photos do not portray well. I bought this board to replace the replace the CPU which required a motherboard upgrade also in a HP tower. Pros... Happily accepted an used i5 I purchased for it. Fastboot is very fast when paired with Windows 10 and an SSD USB 3.0 Ports are very nice to have Came with the latest BIOS firmware already installed which is 67 Mouse and Keyboard UEFI Notes... The HP case supports M-ATX and the screws line up with this motherboard, but the stock HP motherboard was slightly larger and had extra screw holes that this board does not have which is not a big deal, it works and is sturdy. The old product key for windows on the side of the HP chassis does not work on this new motherboard and will require you to purchase Windows or call Microsoft for a solution. Though I already knew this before buying this board so no stars deduction there. Initial Problems.... I did have some initial trouble with the ethernet. In the very beginning, my router did not recognize this motherboard nor did this motherboard accept an ethernet connection and the light did not light up. I had installed the drivers and Windows recognizes the drivers. However, because I had a temporary wifi card, I didn't really contact anyone yet due to the holidays. I did leave the ethernet cable connected for a few days and eventually the router recognized the motherboard and I have pulled on the ethernet cable to see if the cable would disconnect and it doesn't. To this day, it runs flawless and I have no idea what happened and what fixed it. Also, the 4 pin and 3 pin fan headers spin my case fan too fast at around 2000rpm which is very loud. CPU temps are around 30C idle and 50C under load so temps could not have caused the fan to spin that fast. Bios fan controls only had the ability of increasing the speed from that. I had a spare PC fan with its own fan speed switch and that solved that issue. When I run the spare fan in motherboard control mode, the motherboard spins it at a slightly slower speed around 1800rpm, still very audible. It could just be the fans fault. Now with all the problems solved, the board runs flawlessly and is a big upgrade PC specs Intel Core i5 4570 @ 3.2Ghz 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz NVIDIA Geforce GTX 950 128GB SSD 600GB HDD 430 Watt PSU Upgraded from Stock HP motherboard, a Micro-ATX form factor AMD A6 3620 @ 2.2Ghz 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz NVIDIA Geforce GTX 950 600GB HDD 430 Watt PSU

The motherboard is quite small, but it does its job. This motherboard does not come with an integrated wi-fi card, so if you do not have an ethernet cable, you may want to invest in a wi-fi card (if you don't already have one). The installation was easy, but because I was upgrading with a new BIOS, I needed to restore my pc.I recommend the Intel Pentium Processor G3258 4 BX80646G3258 for this MB.

Had an MSI Z87-G45 board go bad on me so ordered this--one of the few remaining on Amazon with one-day shipping--and hoped for the best. I've got a giant Noctua CPU cooler but it's the newer designed one so my GTX 1060 3GB still fits no problems. It's only day one but I'm pretty thrilled with this cheap board, I overclocked my i5-4690k to 4.5GHz just by going into bios and changing only the CPU Ratio to 45, which gives you 4.5GHz. You can use the plus and minus keys to change value if you can't enter to select. Didn't see any voltage options even on 6.7 version of the bios, which was already on the board so I didn't have to update. I downloaded the HD Audio and Ethernet LAN drivers from MSI's support page for this card but nothing else cause I don't like to get unnecessary stuff if things are working fine. I play on 75% resolution of 2560x1440 @ 165hz and keep fps at 300 limit, no gsync trash, mostly low with medium texture filtering/anti-aliasing and the system runs above 165fps healthily and in menus up to 300fps. Pleasantly surprised with this budget OC solution. Honestly there hasn't been much progress in computer hardware in the last few years, don't get suckered in by all the marketing.

Good product using since 3 months and working fine. Price is slightly high compared to outside shops. But with 10% CashBack it's is OK.

Works beautifully with no issues at all.

Easy to install and I love the Bios screen for the Bios setup.

First motherboard I received wasn't working but Amazon provided replacement which is working fine. I am running i5 4590 , 16 gb of DDR3 ram and a RX 570. All are working great. If you have a 4th gen processor and are nit planning to upgrade then this is the best you can get at this price now. With bank offer total cost was Rs .4900. Don't invest in this board if you are planning to upgrade your processor soon as this is pretty outdated nowadays.

My Gigabyte motherboard died so I was looking for an economical replacement. This MSI board fit the bill. I had absolutely zero issues getting it up and running. The BIOS is very modern and intuitive - a step forward from the 2 year old motherboard it replaced. Thus far no issues with stability. I would buy again.