Money can really do whatever it takes: MSI MSI Mystic RGB glare full synchronization host toss in mind

This year, the PC hardware industry is particularly busy. Once a year, AMD's salted fish turns over and is finally realized by Ryzen. This not only revitalizes the DIY market, but also disrupts Intel's deployment, squeezing the mainstream consumer-grade 6-core toothpaste from CoffeeLake ahead of schedule. Out, it seems that the multi-core is really king. As a computer tossing enthusiast, I saw that when we went back 10 years ago, Intel's overclocking and silent seconds, AMD opened the DIY lively era look like, could not help but ready to move, finally could not help but pick up a new set of CoffeeLake i7-8700K Hosts, not seeking cost-effective, only for the performance of the drudgery.

Overclocking is definitely to play, Intel new Core only i7-8700K and i5-8600K two CPUs do not lock multiplier, there is not much choice, decisive step upgrade to i7-8700K, the motherboard can only choose to support overclocking CPU Z370 motherboard, as for the choice of motherboard and other hardware brands, can be based on personal preferences fancy collocation, I want to mention is that can not bypass the RGB topic, the current hardware products, the more high-end, more RGB backlight, Regardless of whether you like it or not, you must consider the problem of RGB light adaptation. If you have more than one product, it will easily cause light pollution and the setup will be tedious. Therefore, the best way is to use a one-stop RGB solution, like the three major motherboard brands. There are, for example, ASUS Aura, MSI Mystic, and Gigabyte Fusion. Most of them are ASUS Aura. They don't want to duplicate the installed capacity of others, plus they like the MSI's GAMING dragon logo, so they end up with a MSI theme and surround them. Mystic lighting control technology host.

There are many hardware supporting MSI Mystic light lighting effects. I made some detours. I found a support list after linking to the MSI website.

Such as the Corsair (STRAFE RGB mechanical keyboard), Sairui (Qck Prism RGB mouse pad), Razer (BLACKWINDOW CHROMA V2 mechanical keyboard), Zhiqi (RIPJAWS MX780 mouse), Cooler (Master Case H500P chassis), welcome, chasing More than 20 computer brands such as the Winder have corresponding product support, that is, they can be controlled directly in MSI Mystic-light software, and they can be synchronized without changing the driver settings one by one.

The final configuration is as follows:

CPU Intel I7 8700K ¥3099

Motherboard MSI Z370 GODLIKE GAMING ¥4999

Memory GALAXY GAMER III Aurora RGB 2400 8G ¥699×4

Graphics MSI GTX 1080Ti 11G DUKE ¥5999

Power XFX 1000W XTI Titanium ¥1899

Thermal MSI Core Frozr XL Frost Dragon Plus ¥799

Fan Kyushu Fengshen Magic Ring 120 RGB three pack ¥259

Chassis Herd 614LTG ¥799

Key Mouse MSI Vigor GK50 RGB Mechanical Keyboard + MSI GM20 RGB Mouse

Â¥666

Other graphics support brackets, 12V RGB adapter cable

MSI's Z370 GODLIKE motherboard, GTX1080Ti Black Dragon Card, and Core Frozr XL air-cooled, RGB peripherals are all family members. Needless to say, they definitely support Mystic-light RGB synchronization (GK50 and GM20 keyboard and mouse are not on the list, but the actual new version of the software already supports it). , GALAXY third-generation GAMER light bar is relatively rare, it can only control the lights with MSI Mystic, and not their own drive (what ghost?), Kyushu FENGSHEN magic ring 120 fan, although the packaging only write ASUS AURA, the actual seamless compatibility with MSI Mystic The last chased by the 614LTG chassis, comes with the chassis light bar using 12V RGB four-pin interface, and MSI motherboard RGB interface theory compatible, but there are some definition problems, and finally I get it, see the installation section.

Purchase order

Show a few MSI Mystic RGB machine dynamic lighting effect

Intel I7 8700K processor

Jingdong original box, produced in Malaysia.

Packaging is still simple, in addition to CPU horse did not send, AMD Ryzen also sent a RGB radiator, or know that the radiator can not withstand the temperature?

I7 8700K processor

Its significance is that Intel's mainstream platform has been upgraded to 6 cores and 12 threads for the first time. Its basic frequency is 3.7GHz, its core frequency is 4.3GHz, its single core is 4.7GHz, its core is high, its frequency is not low, and its overall performance is considerable. The same appearance and LGA1151 pin, just listed at that time also reversed the price up to 4000 or so, this is the price of toothpaste in advance, it is now stable to 3000.

However, Intel’s sincerity is still insufficient:

Still grease U, overclocking, then open the lid is inevitable, but fortunately Taobao has a full set of open lid equipment, simple operation

The second forced incompatibility, the same is LGA1151 pin, simply do not give the old motherboard an upgrade opportunity, the online has tried to change magic on the 6th and 7th generation motherboard BIOS, and I found Z370 inf motherboard driver can use Z270 when installing the system That's why it's self-evident.

MSI Z370 GODLIKE GAMING motherboard

GODLIKE is MSI's Z370 flagship product. As I mentioned earlier, I built the host around RGB light. MSI Z370 GODLIKE has more than 30 LED lights, including 25 RGB custom lights, and 12V RGB, 5V RGB two external synchronization. Interface, so much you can believe? Of course, I don't have any time. I saw so many areas in Mystic light's motherboard RGB options. It can be said that this set of RGB host, half of the light contributed by the MSI Z370 GODLIKE motherboard, is indeed strong enough for various dynamic effects.

The packaging is very large, except that the motherboard provides a box of accessories, is to install the facade, or really need to be so big, look below.

Exaggerated number of accessories, in addition to manual and driver CD, IO bezel and 3 color tiles, USB adapter, SLI HB bridge, M.2 PCIE expansion card, WiFi antenna × 2, SATA braid, RGB Light bar, RGB conversion cable, temperature control cable, metal logo, special 6.35mm audio plug.

MSI Z370 GODLIKE motherboard, from the CPU power supply, IO interface, audio has been extended to the chipset and power button, covering a large number of decorative armor, plus M.2 heat sink and memory, graphics slot silver metal fixed, the overall appearance of the flagship Imposing, disadvantage is to expand too many functional interfaces, leading to motherboard size to EATX level, about 3CM wider than conventional ATX, to find the chassis took me a while.

Z370 GODLIKE's motherboard light efficiency tried it

Power supply and IO armor.

The RGB lights of the chipset and audio have the double Symphony effect of the stage. Now the light effect is carved into this way? This is not the full RGB of MSI GODLIKE. In fact, graphics cards, M.2, fans and other devices all have corresponding RGB LED lights and support Mystic synchronization.

Motherboard IO interface, in addition to PS/2, 8 USB (including Type-A, Type-C) and audio, as well as network functions, 3 Killer E2500 corresponding Gigabit network interface and 1 Killer 1535 wireless interface, in addition After the main board is powered on, the USB3.0 and Killer network interfaces can also emit light.

The IO baffles can exchange 3 color patterns by magnetic attraction.

3 buttons, Power, Reset, and Game Boost overclock knobs.

Provides 3 M.2 SSD slots, pre-adhesive thermal paste on metal heatsink, working mode supports PCIE 3.0 and SATA 6G dual mode, installation size is also very generous, 2242/2260/2280/22110, if M.2 The SSD itself comes with a heat sink, and removing the heat from the motherboard M.2 is no problem.

The M.2 expansion card in the accessory can have two more M.2 SSD slots through the PCIE graphics card slot. Note that there are 4 LEDs on the PCB. Since this is useless, I don't know what color the LED is. Does it also support? RGB.

The storage interface provides 6 SATA 6G and U.2. Compared with M.2, the SATA interface is relatively declining. The SATA EXPRESS earlier except for the media evaluation, I didn’t see any equipment. U.2. The same is not good, because the corresponding product is still too little.

Remove the heatsink and see what else the motherboard can play.

16+2 18-phase digital power supply, with the black star's signature blackening capacitors, titanium inductors and other materials, really tired, to meet 6 nuclear even if 8 nuclear (if any) overclocking is certainly enough, the only The problem was said earlier, overclocking please open the cover first.

2 Realtek ALC1220 chips and dedicated audio capacitors.

Killer Wireless-AC 1535 wireless card.

MSI Z370 GODLIKE onboard many interfaces, such as BIOS switch, PCIE device switch, temperature measurement interface and other functions, not introduced one by one, RGB interface will be installed in the machine again.

GALAXY GAMER III Aurora RGB Memory

Memory, the best financial product of the year, was bought well (but you didn't buy it). Now what can't you buy?

In the RGB host, RGB memory is absolutely an indispensable component. If you look at the major MOD installed photos, you will know how much effect the memory lighting effects have. RGB memory is now quite a bit, including Mysterious Trident Z RGB, Viking Vessel RGB, and GALAXY GAMER III. The reason for choosing Ying Chi is that, besides the early adopters, there is a large area of its translucent light bars. The effect may be very good.

The design of GALAXY GAMER III is rather bold. Instead of the black or gray color common to common RGB products, it uses a red anode, with a gray metal brush. Note that the pattern of the surface of the GAMER III metal is made by directly forming an intaglio, not pasted later.

Due to the need of RGB translucent strips and radiator concave shapes, the memory height reaches about 45mm, which has a compatible impact on the installation of large air-cooled, this time I met, the solution is a dual-fan air-cooled single fan, it is recommended to use one Water-cooled radiator.

Nameplate label, this time bought two pairs of a total of four 2400MHz strips, CL-16-16-16-32, the frequency is indeed not enough to force, but it does not matter, through the 8700K excellent IMC constitution and MSI Z370 GODLIKE pre-provisioned memory is small Senate, easily ran into 3000MHz.

The top is a long strip of light, and it extends to the side of the M-word position, a larger total light-transmitting area than other RGB memory.

The same bare metal to preview the RGB lighting effect of GALAXY GAMER III Aurora memory, it seems a bit messy, because each memory runs its own magic light, wait for the back to open MSI Mystic light synchronization will naturally be uniform.

MSI GTX 1080Ti DUKE Graphics

MSI DUKE commonly known as Black Dragon, and GAMING Red Dragon is a good friend, carbon fiber texture style.

The flagship graphics card features a long, high and heavy body, including a heatsink that exceeds the length of the PCB, 31cm, a shoulder-high design that exceeds the height of the PCI, a measured 13cm, and a total weight of the PCB that is 100% thick ( Radiator + full cover heatsink + back metal back), so I installed a video support frame behind it.

The video output is respectively DVI-D, HDMI×2, DP×2, and supports VR virtual reality gaming technology.

Two optimized PCIE 8pin power supply interfaces.

Black Dragon is a 3 9cm fan, which supports intelligent start and stop. It will automatically stop at 60°C. For example, playing CSGO will not move the fan.

The dismantling of the clothes is still done. I can't resist this hand.

4 8mm thick heat pipes, all nickel-plated, all-welded plus copper bottom heat sink, exquisite workmanship, heat dissipation doubt, the disadvantage is that the exposed light efficiency is not enough to force, have the opportunity to change the lightning card.

XFX XTI Series 1000 Watt Titanium Gold Power Supply

Now that you have a six-core I7 8700K, Z370, and GTX1080Ti high-end platform, the power supply must not be lost, so I used the new XFX XTI 1000-watt power supply, Haiyun surgeon, a fully modular design, and is even better than the Platinum. The first grade 80PLUS titanium medal certification.

Accessories include storage bags, magic straps, screws, and a large package of wire rods. The module line uses flat wire technology that is easy to trace, but it lacks 24pin, but it is still thick and hard snake skins. I'm not too tangled. This is because of the direct exchange of XFX silver plated module lines.

There is nothing to say about the appearance, square brick face, but XTI 1000 more than a little red element, and GALAXY GAMER III memory, Core Frozr XL red fan's GAMING style is accidentally matched, when buying really did not consider then Thoughtful, because you have to install the complete machine to know if it is well-matched.

Full module interface, there is a red marker guide insert where, a motherboard 24pin (note that consists of two M / B), 8 CPU / PCIE and 5 SATA interface, suitable for the formation of dual, three-way multi-graphics system, which The module interface is theoretically adapted to the linear module line.

Power supply 220V AC interface and switch.

Another button called Hybrid Fan Mode fan mode, smart start-stop mode + normal mode, like the graphics card's smart fan, XFX XTI power set 50% of the low load or below 35 °C, the fan will stop and remain silent , I tried the normal mode is also very quiet, the fan is only running at low speed, so can not open Hybrid has little effect on ordinary users.

Power output, single 12V 996 watts, okay, I have to admit that I7 8700K and GTX1080Ti are more than enough. Measured to less than 500 watts, the multi-channel graphics card is the home of the XTI 1000 titanium, ready to be on the SLI car next year. .

XFX official custom silver plated module line, the management line than the original flat line.

Why use the official? Safety first, safety first, safety first, and the small workshop's module line are beautiful and beautiful. It is completely guaranteed by the character and stability cannot afford to lose.

In the second cold air of MSI, if you look at the name, you know that XL is a large-scale upgraded version of Core Frozr L. It is added to 8 heat pipes, and more importantly, it is supported by RGB lighting and Mystic light.

The classic tower air-cooled, black windshield and decorative top cover, with two red fans, thick GAMING red and black.

The Core Frozr XL has two designs with improved compatibility. One is eccentric, avoids hitting the graphics card, and the other fan position can be moved upwards to avoid bumping into the comb waistband. If there is no such detail, the installation process can be seen later. Installation is really a problem.

With the top material allocation, 8 6mm heat pipes, pure copper base and perforated reflow soldering, I bet it is Limin foundry, owl work is not so rough, mining melt like welding heat sink.

The top cover GAMING dragon with RGB lighting effect, powered and driven by the 4-pin USB2.0 interface, the motherboard BIOS to start ErP energy-saving options, otherwise it may be off after the light (including mouse and keyboard peripherals). Radiator installation behind the demo, in fact, can also refer to Limin high-end air-cooled installation tutorial.

Kyushu Fengshen Magic Ring 120 RGB Fan

Kyushu's RGB fans, triple bundles correspond to the top and back of the chassis 3 out of the fan, the more special is the use of bad lights in the street, but the middle of the light.

4pin adjustable speed and RGB interface, although the packaging only marked with ASUS Aura's RGB logo, in fact, MSI Mystic RGB is also supported, are 12V specifications.

Family portrait.

The configuration can be tedious, and installing a handsome host depends on oneself. JS helps to assemble and ensure that it is lighted. The intention is impossible. I have seen more than one case and installed the chassis screws. I don't know why each DIY installation will happen. This time I encountered the problem of incompatibility between the number of motherboard RGB interfaces and the definition. Although it took a whole night but it didn't cost me a penny, it was quite satisfying. Sense.

The installation order is recommended to install the CPU and heatsink on the motherboard first, and bare-metal lighting, if there is a problem to facilitate debugging, MSI Z370 GODLIKE happens to also have onboard power button, this set of clips in fact copied the high-end air-cooled Limin, backplane, The front elevation screws and base fixing plates are exactly the same, supporting 90° rotation, and the overall installation is not too difficult.

The fan on the right side of the MSI Core Frozr XL will block the first two GAMER III memories. The standard solution is to move the fan up and increase the memory by 2~3cm. However, all I want is to look at the RGB lighting effect. The space is compatible. However, vision still has an impact.

So I eventually changed to a single fan, the performance of the radiator slightly lost, taking into account the chassis has 2 forward wind, after the wind out of 3 fans little effect, one popular popularity of water cooling is also estimated that this reason, tower cooling is Look more imposing.

The whole set makeup photos

Generally the main RGB host is black and gray tone, and I host this, where the fan a touch of red, where the memory, power also has red elements, with graphics support, the final red and black GAMING effect unexpectedly good oh.

The top line, the wind is messy, and the conscience is really trying to sort out, XFX silver plated module line does not take up space, Hercules 614LTG own cable management buckle is easy to use, but lost to a variety of RGB lines.