Cooling
I mentioned the dragon styling in the opening of this room, it didn’t take look after I got the Z87-G45 Gaming out of the box before I started to find even more. It’s almost like thinking your friend is a fan of a TV show but when you go to their house the walls are covered in posters from the show. The chipset cooler over to the right of the PCI slots is the most obvious dragon. I love that they used two different anodized pieces of aluminum to give it the red and black look. This is much better than just going with a badge or a sticker.
It wasn’t until I was looking closely at the rest of the cooling that I spotted it. MSI actually shaped both of the other heatsinks out of dragons. You can’t see it at all from the top but when you look from the side angle it’s very clear. This was an interesting detail that really completed the dragon them. I love that they used two different pieces of aluminum on these as well to give the board the red and black theme. Considering some of the voltage control has moved to the CPU itself, these heatsinks should be more than enough to keep everything cool, if not overkill even.