The MSI board has two heatsinks as compared to three on the Biostar board above. Now this frees up a little space and possibly makes space for one more PCle xl slot. The build of the board seems to be quite satisfactory. MSI is tryin.g to win overclockers' hearts by providing hardware buttons on the board itself. There's one that activates the automatic overclocking feature and a plus/minus button to change the CPU base-clock without any kind of software/ BIOS intervention. MSI also provides a couple of utilities bundled with the package.

Some mentionable ones are a light-weight fast-booting Linux distribution called Winki.
Unlike quick-boot OSes we've seen earlier that are directly embedded onto a separate memory on the motherboard, Winki runs via either a bootable USB drive or DVD. Next is:a nifty bootable HDD backup utility. Another cool feature on this board is the 'Power eSATA' 'port, which means that eSATA devices will not require an additional power cable while connecting to the eSATA port.