Terrible really

If you're willing to take a gamble on MSI products (I recommend you buy through OCUK or Amazon, that way you'll have no problems if it fails under manufacturer warranty) as well as the free ssd, MSI are also doing a cashback promotion currently on the Gaming M5 and others in the Z270 series. This board is worth £30 cashback. You have to post a review to qualify and you can only buy from Amazon, OCUK, Scan, Novatech, BT or CCL, but only needs to be 100 words minimum. At current prices, factoring in the cost of the SSD and adding it to the cashback, this board is effectively costing you about £75 quid.

Might sweeten the deal for some.

https://uk.msi.com/Promotion/shout-out-for-msi

The remote wasn't broken. You keep it, get the TV replaced. You are where you started. Go figure

l have to upgrade my cpu, so where was l supposed to do with the motherboard?
So l got a faulty TV, replaced but no remote, how does that work, if you happy because you think replacing a three year old motherboard is doing you a favour, can`t fault you thinking l don`t
As mentioned earlier, check EVGA rma and you goes wow.
For example EVGA waranty for my PSU is 10 years and on the website, there is explanation of what happens next in case you need rma, go figure.

​I paid the first return, they collected and swapped for the others. Cost me like 7 quid to send first one recorded. Was dead so wasn't bothered. Yeah they sent 3 duff ones back but considering it was nearly 3 years old and end of life, I was happy getting a free replacement. Why would you expect new accessories? They only have to replace the faulty bit.

MSI support is crap. In fact, it's non-existent. There is no end-user RMA procedure, unlike most of their major competitors. If something fails under warranty and it falls outside the retailer period of responsibility, be very careful who you buy from, as you could have the devil of a time getting it repaired, or replaced otherwise.

Thanks for getting back to me.

A pentium in 2017? Are you for real? That CPU has absolutely no chance of playing AAA titles being released now - Hyper threading or not. Also you probably can't even reach native 1080p with that CPU. So if your idea of a 'gaming foundation' is running The Sims 3 at 23FPS 720p then i'd say you are terribly ill informed about your choice in hardware.

Also I watched the youtube video - noticed that a lot of those games experienced terrible FPS or micro-stuttering or screen tear.
Also it's hardly a valid comparison - that CPU was paired with an overclocked 1050Ti which is Nvidia's latest architecture, so you're asking people to drop less than £100 on a CPU/MOBO and then having a £150 GPU thrown in. It's not worth struggling, pick up this combo and the same GPU and you can run games at max settings for the next 2 years.

so £30 extra just for an adapter? Thanks but ill pass on that.

Complete waste of money
H110 motherboard for £40 with G4560 off Amazon for £59 (£10 off spend over £50) so you've got a cracking gaming foundation for less then £100. Don't believe me see here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQnCRwFpgVs
Enjoy

Ah, never mind. It's only for X170 boards :disappointed:

Where's the cashback promotion? Only website I can find for MSI UK says cashback promotions finished last year in the summer.

have you seen these?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9867/club3d-releases-dp12-to-hdmi-20-adapter

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Adapters/Club3D-Displayport-1-2-HDMI-Active-Adapter-CAC-1070/B017BQ8I54

I bought this motherboard about a week ago. The free SSD drive has been shipped out already. You simply claim from their website. It's a great motherboard.

I paired mine with a 6700k as I was able to buy that CPU second hand for £220 so saw no reason to buy a Kaby lake for considerably more.

MSI have also emailed me a £30 cash back offer for the motherboard. I paid £200 for the board and once you factor in the £30 cash back and £80 SSD it adds up to great value if you can get it.

Second hand on ebay. Tbh looking back I should have just bought a used dell workstation, probably would have been cheaper. Suspect it was being sold cheap because 4 of the 8 DIMM slots do not work.

The issue isn't the motherboard for the 4K over HDMI, it's also the integrated GPU on the 7600K; it only supports HDMI 1.4, which won't do full 4K60. You can do it with an adaptor to go from DP to HDMI 2.0, the adaptors are about £30 on Amazon.

Nah just a normal SSD.
Thanks for the link on my other comment, Ive already read that and seen some others too. Seems to be mixed reviews on it.

I'm cancelling this anyway. Full 4K is more important to me than the intel ssd. I never thought to check this and assumed it would all be upto date with current standards as its a very new board etc.

Oh well, the hunt continues.

thanks was looking at link on my phone and couldn't see it.

Sorry but where do they say this
"This bundle includes an I5 CPU and a 256 Intel SSD (while stocks last, they say)".?

guys which ssd is better to use, crucial mx300 or intel 600p?

​http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-600p-series-ssd-review,review-33662.html

Ahh great! Thanks for letting us know.
I'm thinking of cancelling it now

HDMI™ port, supports a maximum resolution of [email protected] I would look at a board that supports HDMI V2.0 Full [email protected] Unless you want to spend another minimum £100 plus on a 10 series NVidia card.

Look pretty lights!

Out of interest, where did you buy it from? Can't seem to source that board anywhere near that price?

Here I still rocking my 3570k. I'm tempted but I just can't do it yet.

£193.99 for mobo on overclockers.co.uk
£213.99 for cpu oem on overclockers.co.uk
Total: £407.98
You save £7.99 if bought separately.
NVMe SSD Value: £79.99 on overclockers.co.uk
Read 1570MB/s, Write 540MB/s

Overall, a £88.98 saving if you desire all 3 items.
An 18.2% discount.

Not bad, but just so you know, every retailer has this M5 mobo promotion which gives out an SSD. It's not exclusive to Box.
Overclockers.co.uk, Novatech.co.uk also have this promotion, where if you buy the mobo, MSI will send you a free SSD.

Box are the ones who seem to be bundling them together, and make it sound like it's them who are giving out a free SSD for this bundle purchase.

Intel ssd = **** speed

ordered, cheers op!

Any good cooler to recommend for the i5 7600k? I could use my old hyper 212+, it is huge. But would look to buy something new if there is something better in terms of being more quieter with better cooling.
Any good suggestions?

its pretty much the same as what I have. Also checked some comments about it on another forum and folk are saying there is no point getting it, differences are very slight.

​Google says here, it's an i5 though. On my keyboard t is next to 5! z270 and i5

I didnt mention RAM? I made a typo , it was an i5 bundle.

The other deals I looked at was just the motherboard+cpu bundle, no ram or ssd. However I have noticed that the free SSD offer is from MSI, so for those that dont need a new cpu then they could go to novatech, amazon or any other site and buy the motherboard and claim the ssd from MSI.

I also looked again at buying seperate but still working out to cost more. Box.co.uk seems to be the best price for both the cpu and motherboard together.

This seems like a good deal, I think I might go for this.
Ive waited too long lol I had a look online and can see that if you were to buy this motherboard and cpu seperate from elsewhere then its working out at £429. I looked elsewhere for a similar bundle and found a Gigabyte z270 +intel i5 7600k one thats overclocked and ready to go for £389.99, but that is just motherboard and cpu, no ram or ssd.

Hmm Im thinking its better to go with this one and claim a free SSD.

MSI Boards good?

Seems to be an MSI deal - you can buy an M5 or M7 board and it comes with the SSD (while stocks last) because Novatech have the same offer without the I5 but with the SSD

Probably not so much to save on here - It's about the right price for the Z270/7600k Bundle. I'd say the real deal is in the free SSD, but if it really is whilst stocks last then this could be pretty average by the time stocks expire.

I paid £250 for my last motherboard, but in fairness it was a workstation model with dual socket 2011s, 8 DIMMs, like 7 x PCI-E 16x, 14 SATA ports etc: Asus Z9PE-D8 WS

Not sure why a regular desktop board's worth that much.

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