14 DAY TRIAL // MSI's Military Class Components are special electrical circuitry parts that it uses to enhance the stability and endurance of its products. The company has implemented them in its three newest motherboards.
There was a time when Military Class Components were a rarity, a perk that only the company's best products got.
For those who want the list of parts, here it is: Hi-C CAPs, Solid CAPs, Dark CAPs, SFC and Dark Chokes.
Now, though, they seem to have become a hallmark of even the mid-range market. After all, the new platforms are made for both high-end and mainstream AMD APUs.
The newcomers are called MSI A58-G41 PC Mate, MSI A58M-E35 and MSI A58M-E33. As the name suggests, they all are built with the A58 chipset.
They are meant to be equipped with Kaveri A-Series accelerated processing units, but that doesn't mean they can't hold other chips.
While the FM2+ socket is meant for the latest and best AMD chips, the previous generation of FM2 processors are compatible with the motherboards as well.
Of the MSI A58-G41 PC Mate, MSI A58M-E35 and MSI A58M-E33, the A58-G41 is the full-ATX one, while the other two are micro-ATX boards.
Thus, the first of the three is the only one with more than a PCI Express x1 slot and a normal PCI slot. In fact, it has a PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot, two PCIe x1 slots and three legacy PCI.
All three have one PCI Express 3.0 each though, because it would have been weird for no add-in video card support to be present.
It's not like MSI was about to have buyers rely solely on the GPU integrated in the Kaveri APU as the only video renderer.
Besides, the latest APU chips have that nifty technology called dual graphics, which combine the resources of the integrated GPU with those of the add-in card, boosting gaming performance significantly, especially on low to mid-range cards.
Regardless, all the motherboards possess LAN, PCI Express 3.0 support, H.264 hardware decoding, SATA, up to 12 USB ports and a Dothill RAID controller, plus Blu-Ray playback and 8-channel HD Audio through HDMI.
The A58 mainboards also fully support 4K UHD resolution with up to 4096 x 2160 pixels (not that it's so rare anymore).
Unfortunately, while MSI's press release was quite abundant in technical information, it conspicuously lacked any and all mention of pricing. We suppose retailers will have to expose that final piece of info.
