The platform is an ATX model with a price of under $100 / €100, probably

Aug 23, 2013 12:51 GMT  ·  By

It was just a matter of time before MSI released another motherboard. This time, though, it's not some super-strong model, but one made for entry-level PCs.

Called H81-P33, the ATX platform is, obviously, based on the H81 chipset, which lacks overclocking support.

The motherboard has a PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot, two PCIe 2.0 x1 slots, a 6-phase VRM, two DDR3-1600 memory slots, and two SATA 6 Gb/s, plus a pair of SATA 3 Gb/s ports.

For those confused, H81 doesn't support PCI Express 3.0. Alas.

Anyway, the H81-P33 also gets four USB 3.0 ports (two via headers), 6-channel HD audio, Gigabit Ethernet, legacy PS/2 mouse/keyboard ports, 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS power connectors, and two video outputs: dual-link DVI and D-Sub (VGA).

AMI UEFI BIOS runs everything, complete with Windows 8 fast boot. The price will be of under $100 / €100 whenever sales begin.