Power Consumption and Conclusion
Power Consumption
The Z77A-GD65 Gaming board's power consumption performance was within expectations.
Note that the power consumption numbers are consistent with what you would see using a medium to high-end video card with the board, since the AMD Radeon 5870 series cards are notoriously power hungry.
Performance
The Z77A-GD65 Gaming board's performance was what we've come to expect from a well-designed Intel Z77-based motherboard. Its stock performance matched that of the other top boards. Its overclocking was within expectations as well with the OC-Genie mode able to push the memory to its rated 2133MHz speeds.
Pricing
As of May 12, the MSI Z77A-GD65 Gaming motherboard was available at Newegg.com for $179.99. The board was also available from other retailers such as Amazon.com for $179.99 with Prime shipping and TigerDirect.com for $187.99 with free shipping.
Conclusion
Before continuing with our final thoughts on this board, we would like to take this opportunity to give our friends at MSI a hearty “Thank You” for giving us the pleasure of reviewing the Z77A-GD65 Gaming motherboard. After getting such stellar performance out of there Z77 MPOWER board, I had high expectations for the Z77A-GD65 Gaming board going into this review. I was not disappointed. From the initial unpacking, it is obvious that MSI squarely targeted this board at gamers and enthusiasts. Its appealing black and red color scheme and dragon branding is just the tip of the iceberg. MSI took their time with the Z77A-GD65 Gaming board layout and design, using top of the line components throughout and spacing everything perfectly. Even the massive Noctua NH-D14 cooler did not make the board sweat. Its performance was consistent with the other top Intel Z77 boards in both stock and overclocked modes. Additionally, MSI kept with their uniquely pleasant and easy to use UEFI BIOS design.
One of the board's advertised features appears to be the one Achilles heel of the board – the Killer NIC. Don't get me wrong, the NIC performs as good as an Intel-based NIC speed-wise. However, it does require a bit more CPU horsepower than some of the controllers I've tested – 15 to 20% average CPU utilization is higher than I'd like to see. The only other quirk was the placement of the CMOS battery. The battery would be hard to get to with a video card seated in the primary PCI-Express x16 slot.
Strengths
- Performance, both stock and overclocked
- Black and Red color scheme and Dragon branding
- Killer NIC
- Accessible PCI-Express x1 slot with all PCI-Express x16 slots filled
- Price
- UEFI BIOS design and usability
- Motherboard manual information
Weaknesses
- Killer NIC high CPU utilization
- CMOS battery and CMOS reset jumper placement
Nice job indeed.
Should be
Nice job indeed.
Should be “red” rather than “read” when describing color scheme early on in the review.
Thanks for the kind words and
Thanks for the kind words and pointing out the wording issue. It has been corrected…
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How can you release something
How can you release something under NDA?
A product that’s been for
A product that's been for sale for weeks?
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This is NDA!!!
This is NDA!!!
This is a Z77 board, not a
This is a Z77 board, not a Z87 board.
Very nice review of the MSI
Very nice review of the MSI Z77A-GD65 gaming motherboard. I am thinking of buying one of these when I do my next build and i really appreciate the thorough article. Keep up the great work Morry!
Thank you. Glad to help.
Thank you. Glad to help. Make sure to check out reviews on other sites – others may have run into things that we didn't see in our review sample…
I am curious… This is a
I am curious… This is a gaming motherboard. So, I have to assume one would install a gaming video card. Is there a specific reason for the DVI and VGA ports on the back? Does the gamer actually use those ports?
I suppose one can connect other monitors up to those ports in a pinch, but does anybody use VGA any more?
Personally, I would rather see extra USB ports than a VGA port.
Thanks for the review,
I just
Thanks for the review,
I just bought the GD65 standard board from Newegg yesterday (it was a bit cheaper than the gaming board and gave me 8 gigs or ram free). Aside from the better network chip and cooler paint job, is there any other difference?
Also MSI: support the PC Perspective Podcast! I exclusively bought from MSI as a thank you for their support(…and also I could not get Alex’s voice out of my head).
We didn’t review the plain
We didn't review the plain GD65, but from what I can tell from the GD65 specs, the differences are the paint job and coloration, heatsinks, Killer NIC, and inclusion of Sound Blaster software pack.
This overview of a Dell
This overview of a Dell server PowerEdge R720 makes an interesting comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxkjrQ4UbJk
This is a really nice board,
This is a really nice board, and a nice price! I have been behind on gaming machines for a while and wonder what video cards go well with it in SLI?
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A dozen Los Angeles-area residents—including the state’s second-largest biller for chiropractic services—were taken into custody Tuesday in connection with seven criminal cases alleging they cumulatively submitted more than $22 million in false billings to Medicare.
Those arrested also include a physician’s assistant and owners of durable medical equipment and ambulance companies, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
In one of the cases, three defendants affiliated with Gardena-based ProMed Medical Transportation, an ambulance company, were charged with submitting more than $5.9 million in false claims to Medicare between 2008 and 2011.
ProMed’s owner, Yaroslav Proshak, 45, of Valley Village, general manager Sharetta Wallace, 35, of Inglewood, and office manager and biller Sergey Mumjian, 40, of West Hollywood submitted claims for medically unnecessary transportation services and then created fake documentation purporting to support those claims, the government alleges.
The charges filed in Los Angeles federal court are part of a nationwide crackdown by Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in eight cities that led to charges against 89 people for their alleged participation in schemes to collectively submit about $223 million in phony claims to Medicare, federal prosecutors said.
The 12 Southland arrestees are among 13 defendants charged in Los Angeles in cases that allege health care fraud. The dozen either were arrested or surrendered to authorities after learning that they had been charged. The 13th defendant is a fugitive.
The defendants include Dr. Houshang Pavehzadeh, of the Sylmar Physician Medical Group, who allegedly billed Medicare more than $1.7 million for chiropractic treatments he never performed.
During the scheme, which ran from 2005 through 2012, Pavehzadeh, 40, of Agoura Hills, became the second-largest Medicare biller in California for chiropractic services—even though he was not in the United States when some of the services were performed, prosecutors allege.
In addition to being charged with health care fraud, Pavehzadeh is charged with aggravated identity theft related to Medicare beneficiaries whose information he used to bill Medicare as a part of the alleged scheme.
When investigators tried to conduct an audit of Pavehzadeh’s claims, he falsely reported to the Los Angeles Police Department that he had been carjacked and that patient files requested by the auditors had been stolen from his car, according to federal prosecutors.
Nine defendants affiliated with durable medical equipment companies were also charged in five separate indictments.
Olufunke Fadojutimi, 41, of Carson, a registered nurse; Ayodeji Temitayo Fatunmbi, 41, formerly of Carson, and now believed to be living in Nigeria; and Maritza Velazquez, 40, of Las Vegas, were charged with health care fraud.
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Kotey allegedly prescribed medically unnecessary equipment, including power wheelchairs, for Medicare beneficiaries. Many of those power wheelchair prescriptions were then used by Artsruni’s company, Mid-Valley Medical Supply, to support fraudulent claims to Medicare, prosecutors allege.
In only four months, the clinic and Mid-Valley billed Medicare more than $525,000 for the bogus claims, prosecutors allege.
Artsruni was previously convicted of health care fraud and was on pretrial supervision at the time she allegedly laundered some of the proceeds of the latest fraud.
Three other medical equipment cases were also brought, alleging fraudulent Medicare billing for medically unnecessary power wheelchairs that were sometimes never even delivered.
In one case, Akinola Afolabi, 53, of Long Beach, owner of Emmanuel Medical Supply, allegedly submitted more than $2.6 million in in false and fraudulent billing to Medicare.
In another case, Queen Anieze-Smith, 52, of Encino, and Abdul King- Garba, 47, of Westwood, owner-operators of ITC Medical Supply, allegedly submitted more than $1.8 million in false and fraudulent billing to Medicare, according to court documents.
In the third case, Clement Etim Aghedo, 53, of Fontana, owner of Ace Medical Supply Co., allegedly submitted more than $1.8 in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare.
The charge of health care fraud carries a potential maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison; money laundering carries a potential 20 years in prison; and aggravated identity theft carries a mandatory two-year prison term.
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