MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON Intel Z170 S1151 DDR4 M.2 USB3.1 (Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON)

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Description

Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON

• Supports 6th Gen Intel® Core™ / Pentium® / Celeron® processors for LGA 1151 socket
• Supports DDR4-3600+(OC) Memory
• DDR4 Boost: Give your DDR4 memory a performance boost
• USB 3.1 Gen2 2X FASTER: USB 3.1 Gen2 offers performance twice as fast as a regular USB 3.0 connection
• Turbo M.2 32Gb/s + Turbo U.2 ready + USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C + Type-A combo + SATA Express 10 Gb/s
• Mystic Light: Customize and set up your own color scheme with GAMING APP to make your PC look & feel brand new!
• GAMING LAN with LAN Protect, powered by Intel® : The best online gaming experience with lowest latency
• Audio Boost 3: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality
• Nahimic Audio Enhancer: Immersive sound quality that pushes the limits of reality
• Military Class 5: The latest evolution in high quality components featuring the brand new Titanium Chokes
• Guard-Pro: Improved Protection and Power Efficiency
• MULTI-GPU with Steel Armor: Steel Armor PCI-E slots. Supports NVIDIA SLI™ & AMD Crossfire™
• OBS Streaming software: Share your gaming achievements with the world!
• Game Boost: Generate more FPS in games with 1 push of a button
• EZ Debug LED: Easiest way to troubleshoot
• Overvoltage Protection:Prevent Unforeseen Damage
• GAMING Hotkey: Launch your favorite games with a single button
• Click BIOS 5: Award-winning brand new Click BIOS 5 with high resolution scalable font
• SteelSeries Certified: Optimized for SteelSeries gaming gear
• GAMING CERTIFIED: 24-hour on- and offline game testing by eSports players for the best gaming experience

BLACK WITH CARBON SKIN
Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer is used extensively the world of car racing, where each second counts. Besides its strength and futuristic look, carbon-fiber is also very light for ultimate performance to pursue track records. MSI GAMING motherboards are dedicated to ultimate performance and the best gaming experience. The CARBON motherboards black scheme combines flashiness with sophistication that is sure to make your pc stand out in looks and performance.

GAME IN STYLE
Each game demands different skills, each gamer selects, customizes and levels their own gaming character. Why stop there? MSI Performance GAMING motherboards allow you to fully customize & personalize your gaming PC to any color you want while delivering top performance for a great gaming experience.

Unmatched memory performance and stability
With traditional memory design the memory signals are often distorted by electromagnetic signals from other components, making the system perform slower or become unstable. MSI introduces DDR4 Boost technology with optimized traces and fully isolated memory circuitry. This design ensures the memory signals stay pure for optimal performance and stability.
An added XMP LED highlights an active Extreme Memory Profile for the best memory speed and stability setting.

DEDICATED GAMING LAN WITH INTEL®
Experience a more fluid game with Intel® i219 LAN. Intel® i219 LAN is designed to deliver high performance when gaming, delivering more throughput than other solutions.
Intel® i219 LAN is optimized for championship level online and LAN eSports by reducing CPU overhead and offering exceptionally high TCP and UDP throughput. This way, your CPU can be used more effectively and you can enjoy more FPS when gaming.

Gaming optimized bandwith management
Dedicated to giving you the best online gaming experience with optimized traffic prioritization and low latency, MSI GAMING LAN Manager automatically classifies and prioritizes the latency-sensitive applications for online games.

MSI GAMING LAN Manager
Automatically prioritizes games above other applications
Allows you to change applications' traffic priority
Allows you to customize you to customize bandwidth for each application

LAN Protect
Featuring 15KV anti-surge protection to shield your network from lightning strikes and static electricity, LAN Protect is a LAN connector designed to give you the best networking experience. It's highlighted with a red LED inside the RJ45 connector to show its functionality.

Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality
With Audio Boost 3, powered by Nahimic Sound Technology, we're delivering the highest sound quality through the use of premium quality audio components. That way, you can enjoy breathtaking, crystal clear sound and music through 8-channel HD Audio or high impendence headphones and truly dominate the game.

GAME BOOST
Overclock your system instantly and generate more FPS in games with 1 push of a button using Game Boost! You can also easily enable XMP using the XMP button in Click BIOS.

GAMING HOTKEY
Gaming Hotkey enables more functionality using your own keyboard. Simply assign functions or macros to any key and launch your favorite games, load overclocking profiles or do real-time overclocking with the push of a single button. The possibilities are endless!

MSI USB 3.1 GEN2
Transfer your favorite games, music and movies over USB faster than ever. USB 3.1 Gen2 enables lightning-fast transfer speeds up to 10Gb/s!
Benefits:
2X faster than USB 3.1 Gen1
20X faster than USB 2.0
Up to 10Gbps data transfer bandwidth
Boost transfer rate for your PC and peripherals

Features

Game in style
Each game demands different skills, each gamer selects, customizes and levels their own gaming character. Why stop there? MSI GAMING motherboards allow you to fully customize and personalize your gaming PC while delivering top performance for a great gaming experience.
Optimal memory performance and stability
With traditional memory design the memory signals are often distorted by electromagnetic signals from other components, making the system perform slower or become unstable. MSI introduces DDR4 Boost technology with optimized traces and fully isolated memory circuitry. This design ensures the memory signals stay pure for optimal performance and stability.
LAN Protect
Featuring an anti-surge protection to shield your network from lightning strikes and static electricity, LAN Protect is a LAN connector designed to give you the incredible networking experience.
Studio-grade sound quality
With Audio Boost 3 you will get the high sound quality through the use of premium-quality audio components. That way, you can enjoy breathtaking, crystal-clear sound and truly dominate the game.
Game Boost
Overclock your system instantly and generate more FPS in games with one push of a button using Game Boost!
Total freedom, maximum ease
Easily program your most used commands to be executed with a single keystroke. You are free to choose any key you want.
Type-C with reversible design
Get all the performance benefits from USB 3.1 Gen2 combined with the convenience of the USB Type-C connector. This reversible connector allows for effortless connecting of USB devices.
Front USB 3.1 Gen1
With a cleverly-placed USB 3.1 Gen1 front pin header on MSI motherboards, you can connect several USB 3.1 Gen1 devices directly to the front of your PC chassis. This way you can easily enjoy fast USB speeds without having to use the hard-to-reach USB ports at the rear.
Enhanced CPU overvoltage protection
Onboard overvoltage protection prevents overvoltage and short-circuit damage of the CPU and other components. An LED near the CPU power connector will let you know that overvoltage protection is activated for easier troubleshooting.
Gaming Device Port
MSI Gaming Device Port is optimized to deliver the perfect connectivity for gaming mice to fully utilize its speed.
Enhanced connectivity
Be sure to take full advantage of all the GAMING weapons by connecting your devices to the optimized ports.

Specifications

Summary

Product Description: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON - motherboard - ATX - LGA1151 Socket - Z170

Product Type: Motherboard - ATX

Chipset Type: Intel Z170

Processor Socket: 1 x LGA1151 Socket

Compatible Processors: Pentium, Celeron, Core i5, Core i3, Core i7

Max RAM Size: 64 GB

RAM Supported: 4 DIMM slots - DDR4 unbuffered

Storage Ports: 6 x SATA-600 (RAID), 1 x SATA Express port, 1 x M.2

USB / FireWire Ports: 1 x USB-C Gen 2 + 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 + 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 + 4 x USB 2.0 + (4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 + 4 x USB 2.0 via headers)

Audio: HD Audio (8-channel)

LAN: Gigabit Ethernet

Detailed Specification

General

Product Type: Motherboard - ATX

Chipset Type: Intel Z170

Processor Socket: LGA1151 Socket

Max Processors Qty: 1

Compatible Processors: Pentium, Celeron, Core i5, Core i3, Core i7

Supported RAM

Max Size: 64 GB

Technology: DDR4

Bus Clock: 2400 MHz, 2133 MHz, 2800 MHz (O.C.), 2600 MHz (O.C.), 3000 MHz (O.C.), 3200 MHz (O.C.), 3600 MHz (O.C.)

Registered or Buffered: Unbuffered

Features: Dual channel memory architecture, Intel Extreme Memory Profiles (XMP)

Audio

Type: HD Audio (8-channel)

Audio Codec: Realtek ALC1150

Compliant Standards: High Definition Audio

LAN

Network Controller: Intel I219V

Network Interfaces: Gigabit Ethernet

Expansion / Connectivity

Expansion Slots: 1 x CPU , 4 x DIMM 288-pin , 3 x PCIe 3.0 x16 (x16, x0, x4 or x8, x8, x4 modes) , 4 x PCIe 3.0 x1

Storage Interfaces: SATA-600 / PCIe 3.0 -connectors: 6 x 7pin SATA, 1 x M.2, 1 x SATA Express port - RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 10 / RAID 5

RAID Features: Intel Smart Response Technology

Interfaces: 1 x LAN (Gigabit Ethernet) , 4 x USB 2.0 , 1 x DVI-D , 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 , 1 x HDMI , 1 x audio line-out - mini-jack , 1 x audio line-in - mini-jack , 1 x microphone - mini-jack , 1 x audio line-out (rear) - mini-jack , 1 x audio line-out (center/subwoofer) - mini-jack , 1 x PS/2 keyboard / mouse , 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 , 1 x TOSLINK , 1 x USB-C Gen2

Internal Interfaces: 4 x USB 2.0 - header , 4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 - header , 1 x audio - header

Power Connectors: 24-pin main power connector, 8-pin ATX12V connector

Features

BIOS Type: AMI

BIOS Features: Multilingual BIOS, UEFI BIOS, ACPI 5.0 support, SMBIOS 2.8 support, MSI ClickBIOS 5

Hardware Features: Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) support, NVIDIA 2-way SLI Technology Support, AMD 3-way CrossFireX technology support, MSI Gaming Device Port, MSI Guard-Pro, Debug LED, MSI Mystic Light, Nahimic Audio Enhacer, MSI Steel Armor, MSI Audio Boost 3, Game Boost, MSI Military Class V, LAN Protect, Double ESD Protection, SteelSeries Certified (SSC), overvoltage protection