Home / Tech News / Featured Tech News / MSI Z77IA-E53 Mini-ITX Motherboard Review

MSI Z77IA-E53 Mini-ITX Motherboard Review

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City is a standalone compilation of the DLC episodes forGrand Theft Auto IV, containing both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony on one disc. It was released alongside the DLC release of The Ballad of Gay Tony on 29 October 2009 for the Xbox 360 and released on 13 April 2010 for Microsoft Windows and Playstation 3. It does not require a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV to play, nor is an Xbox Live or PSN account necessary (except for multiplayer).

The engine is still extremely demanding for this game – even now for the newest hardware. The latest version changes some of the rendering calls and is used partially within the latest Max Payne engine. The settings we used to test this game are displayed in the screenshot below.

These results are exactly what we would expect from our test system.

Become a Patron!

Check Also

Rockstar avoids mentioning GTA Online in new GTA 6 pre‑order details

Rockstar has begun taking pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto 6, but the studio is being unusually quiet about the future of GTA Online. While GTA V became one of the best-selling games of all time thanks in part to GTA Online’s explosive success, Rockstar is currently positioning GTA 6 very differently.

4 comments

  1. Ideal for a new build in the prodigy case.

  2. Good product, I like their video cards more than their motherboards lately 🙂

  3. I was quite interested in the on-board audio – they advertise the THX TruStudio, but it’s stil just a RealTek chip. I was planning on a Home-Theater/mini gaming rig, but the power seems to be very limited on ITX boards, which could be a problem if I want to upgrade.

  4. Very in-depth review but would have been a lot more informative if the benchmarks were also directly compared against other mitx’s of the same chipset.