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Word scramble game on MSI motherboard
Carl Poirier - Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 | 11:21AM (PT) 0 Like


Normally we would see such things in magazines, but MSI made quite an innovation: a word scramble printed on a motherboard!

This morning I was tinkering with computer hardware when I grabbed the MSI 790FX-GD70 I had reviewed a while ago. All of a sudden, something I had never noticed in two months just popped out on me:

Can you guess the answer? If you inverse the two letters in the center, you get... "dial"!

But I'm joking. This is more likely a typo than a word scramble game. I am just amazed that nobody else had caught this typo. Sure it happens to everyone. We often see some typos in user manuals and more rarely in BIOS screens, but right on a motherboard!? This is a premiere.

This motherboard is version 1.0. Maybe it has been fixed on later versions? Also, I wonder if such a thing is covered under warranty...

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    dvrocc since Dec 2002 | Jun 2, 09
    That is a really neat idea with the buttons and that OC dial is a killer idea to bad its in a bad spot if one likes to OC more then play, but still I like the buttons and dials idea.

    I don't think it will be to long before some one finds a way to move that whole area to a front panel for easy tweaking.
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    The Smith since Feb 2009 | Jun 2, 09
    quote dvrocc
    That is a really neat idea with the buttons and that OC dial is a killer idea to bad its in a bad spot if one likes to OC more then play, but still I like the buttons and dials idea.

    I don't think it will be to long before some one finds a way to move that whole area to a front panel for easy tweaking.
    Umm that's not the point of the news... but if you want more information about these buttons, just read the review!
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    | Jun 2, 09
    Well i would hardly call this newsworthy... How about we all go digging up typos and defects from older hardware and make news posts about it?

    And dvrocc, buttons on the motherboard arent anything new at all lol
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    The Smith since Feb 2009 | Jun 2, 09
    I just thought I would put some humor in people's day
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    Bill Gates03 since Dec 2004 | Jun 3, 09
    Every news item doesn't have to be SUPER SERIOUS you know. Geez Jon.

    Yes, it was funny...and it is a reminder to me that I should always double check my spelling before I send board designs in for production!
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    Bill Gates03 since Dec 2004 | Jun 3, 09
    BTW, dvrocc, my avatar is better than yours!!
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