Feature Overview
Military Class 4
MSI’s Z87-G43 motherboard uses MSI’s Military Class 4 components which includes their Super Ferrite Chokes (SFCs) and Solid Capacitors both of which are more efficient and have longer life-spans than more basic components used on cheaper rival solutions.
Military Class Essentials
The Military Class Essentials aspect of the Z87-G43 includes additional things like MSI’s humidity protection, ESD protection, EMI protection and high temperature protection. All these things are designed to improve the overall durability and reliability of MSI’s previous generation motherboards.
Command Center
MSI’s Command Center software provides a central control point for all your system monitoring and tuning. It even gives you the ability to run a RAM Disk. MSI have also made a control App availabile for iOS and Android phones.
Click BIOS 4
Finally MSI have implemented the rather high-end Click BIOS 4 on their rather low-end Z87-G43 motherboard. This UEFI interface BIOS allows you to use your mouse, see visual representations and just generally do advanced things older BIOS systems cannot do.
Everybody (well almost everybody) would rather have top of the range mobo’s, smartphones, GFX cards etc. but products like these are the volume sellers. Without products like this, companies wouldn’t exist. If I had to pay for my computer stuff, this would be the kind of board I’d buy. There’s nothing wrong with it.
So true, I’m actually seriously considering this. The run-of-the-mill boards are what makes a manufacturer’s success. Sure we’d all love to get all the shenanigans, but money is not growing on trees yet, so we make do.
“Built around MSI’s tried-and-tested Military Class 4 components” What a joke this is, there is no ML STD anymore and there sure isn’t any “class 4” The electronics manufacturing world follows IPC standards. Military falls under class 3 requirements. “Whereas Class 3 products demand continued high performance or performance-on-demand is critical and equipment downtime cannot be tolerated, the end use environment may be uncommonly harsh, and the equipment must function when required, such as life support or other critical systems” I am a certified IPC specialist, and can tell you that it does likely meet the class 3 military spec, BUT so does almost every other manufacturer. I wish guys doing reviews would start to take note of this “class 4” BS. It’s false and should be noted.
I appreciate your feedback. I’d be interested to read more and question our MSI representatives on it. Could you provide the relative links to the IPC standard descriptions?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPC_(electronics) best I can do, I cant find any free link that details the standards. basically class 1 is it just has to work, class 2 is where continued performance and extended life are required and for which uninterrupted service is desired, but not critical. I already posted class 3. Here you can see the IPC cert on MSI’s web page. http://www.msi.com/html/product/ipc/DMS/index.html Click manufacture tab and bottom of page.
you don’t know what you’re taking about
expert, can you provide us with the criteria and source for a military class 4 designation ? It seems made up 🙂