MSI Gaming AMD Ryzen X370 GAMING PRO CARBON Motherboard review

MSI Gaming AMD Ryzen X370 GAMING PRO CARBON Motherboard review

MSI Gaming AMD Ryzen X370 GAMING PRO CARBON Motherboard review

ProsTable-topping gaming speed
Loads of features
Good-looking, with RGB LEDs

ConsHigh power draw
No on-board buttons or displays
Middling CPU and storage performance.

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ModelBrandMSIModelX370 GAMING PRO CARBON
Supported CPUCPU Socket TypeAM4CPU TypeSupports AMD RYZEN Series Processors and 7th Gen A-series/ Athlon processors for Socket AM4
ChipsetsChipsetAMD X370
MemoryNumber of Memory Slots4×288pinMemory StandardDDR4 3200(OC)+/ 2933(OC)/ 2667(OC)/ 2400/ 2133/ 1866
* 7th Gen A-series / Athlon processors support up to 2400 MHz only.Maximum Memory Supported64GBChannel SupportedDual Channel
Expansion SlotsPCI Express 3.0 x162 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (PCIE_2, PCIE_4)
- RYZEN series processors support x16/x0, x8/x8 mode
- 7th Gen A-series / Athlon processors support x8/x0 modePCI Express 2.0 x161 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slot (PCIE_6, supports x4 mode)*
* PCI_E6 slot will be unavailable when installing M.2 PCIe SSD in M2_2 slot.PCI Express x13 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots
Storage DevicesSATA 6Gb/s6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports*
* M.2 and SATA ports combination details please refer user manual.M.22 x M.2 slots (Key M)
- M2_1 slot supports PCIe 3.0 x4 (RYZEN series processors) or PCIe 3.0 x2 (7th Gen A-series/ Athlon processors) and SATA 6Gb/s 2242/2260/2280/22110 storage devices
- M2_2 slot supports PCIe 2.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s 2242/2260/2280 storage devices**
** PCI_E6 slot will be unavailable when installing M.2 PCIe SSD in M2_2 slot. SATA3 port will be unavailable when installing the SATA SSD card in M2_2 slot.SATA RAID0/1/10
Onboard VideoOnboard Video ChipsetSupported only by CPU with integrated graphic
Onboard AudioAudio ChipsetRealtek ALC1220Audio Channels7.1-Channel High Definition Audio
Supports S/PDIF output
Onboard LANLAN ChipsetIntel i211ATMax LAN Speed10/100/1000Mbps
Rear Panel PortsPS/21 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse portVideo Ports1 x DVI-D portHDMI1 x HDMIRJ451 x RJ45USB 3.14 x USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A ports
1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A portUSB 1.1/2.02 x USB 2.0 Type-A portsUSB Type-C1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C portS/PDIF Out1 x OpticalAudio Ports5 x OFC audio jacks
Internal I/O ConnectorsOnboard USB2 x USB 2.0 connectors (support additional 4 USB 2.0 ports)
2 x USB 3.1 Gen1 connectors (support additional 4 USB 3.1 Gen1 ports)Other Connectors1 x 4-pin CPU fan connector
1 x 4-pin water-pump-fan connector
4 x 4-pin system fan connectors
1 x TPM module connector
1 x Front panel audio connector
2 x System panel connectors
1 x Chassis Intrusion connector
1 x Clear CMOS jumper
1 x 4-pin RGB LED strip connector
Physical SpecForm FactorATXLED LightingRGBDimensions (W x L)12.0" x 9.6"Power Pin1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
FeaturesFeaturesSupports AMD RYZEN Series Processors and 7th Gen A-series / Athlon Processors for socket AM4

Supports DDR4-3200+(OC) Memory

DDR4 Boost with Steel Armor: Give your DDR4 memory a performance boost

VR Ready and VR Boost: Best virtual reality game experience without latency, reduces motion sickness

Mystic Light and Mystic Light Sync: 16.8 milliom colors /17 effects controlled in one click with GAMING APP or mobile devices

Lightning Fast Game experience: Turbo M.2, M.2 Shield, Lightning USB 3.1 Gen2

Audio Boost 4 with Nahimic 2: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality for the most immersive gaming experience

GAMING LAN with LAN Protect, powered by Intel: The best online gaming experience with lowest latency and bandwidth management

Military Class 4, Guard-Pro: Latest evolution in high quality components for best protection and efficiency

MULTI-GPU: With Steel Armor PCI-E slots. Supports NVIDIA SLI & AMD Crossfire

In-Game Weapons: Game Boost, GAMING Hotkey, X-Boost, Xsplit Gamecaster

EZ Debug LED: Easiest way to troubleshoot

Click BIOS 5: Award-winning BIOS with high resolution scalable font, favorites and search function

GAMING CERTIFIED: 24-hour on- and offline game and motherboard testing by eSports players

WHQL certified for Windows 10.

a premium ex 370 AMD Rison motherboard you have definitely come to the right place this is the msi ex 370 gaming Pro carbon motherboard it's in the price range and it has a lot of features for the money now I'm reviewed a variety of AMD rising motherboards on mysite in the past some less expensive some more expensive this falls right in the middle but it does have a premium set of features if you're looking for something

for a risin 5 1600 or 1600 X processor or a risin 7 1700 this should be on your shortlist in fact I'm going to be installing my risin 5 1600 X CPU onto this board in an upcoming build review series I looked at all of the available motherboards I had what I might use to build a system with and decided that this was the right match for that level processor currently risin 5 1600 X's are about prices change of course everything discussed in this
review the motherboards

the CPUs will be linked in the video description below to both Amazon and Newegg check current prices sales mail and rebates and other discounts happen from time to time you might find something on sale so do compare the prices and buy it where it makes the most sense for you now MSI makes a variety of boards with the X 370 chipset below this board is the sli plus less but it has some features deleted to reach that price point above this

board is the X 370 X power gaming titanium it is their Monster toppdogg board and I've previously covered it it's more expensive than this board and that is designed for extreme overclockers this will be a very good overclocking board but it's not quite to the extreme limit now either the risin 5 1600 1600 X or risin 7 1700 are the three CPUs I would install on this board I would not go down to the 1500 X or 1400 I think that that's too

little of a CPU for a quality board with all the features this has and I would not really put the 1700 X or 1800 X and if you're thinking of going up to the very top tier processors that's when I would take a look at the gaming X power titanium the the beautiful silver one that's a little bit more expensive but does offer better overclocking features for the top-end processors now as I said before the risin 5 1600 X is what's going in here I think it's a really good match for this

board now before I open this up I want to talk about the chipsets briefly in general not just this motherboard but the X 370 the X 370 is currently the top-level chipset that AMD offers for the horizon processors it has the most features the most expansion capabilities etc but there is also a be 350 chipset and many people may end up deciding that that's a better choice for you I will have unboxings and reviews of be 350 boards coming up in the future the single biggest

difference between the X 370 and the B 350 is the fact that the X 370 supports two Nvidia graphics cards in SLI the be 350 does not now the be 350 does support two AMD cards in crossfire but I don't recommend it and the reason for that is quite simple the X 370 allows the graphics cards to be split eight lanes each both piped directly to the CPU on the be 350 chipset yes it supports two AMD graphics cards but only the top card gets all 16 lanes to the CPU and

the second card gets four PCI Express 2.0 lanes running through the chipset don't do it if you are thinking of doing two graphics cards even two AMD graphics cards I strongly encourage you to get an X 370 board because it will provide two PCI Express 3.0 slots eight X each directly to the CPU not through the chipset for both cards whether it's AMD or Nvidia the B 350 will not now there are other differences I won't detail here the number of USB ports the number of serial ata ports is slightly different between the boards for most people those

differences are pretty minor and are not going to matter however there are other differences between the boards that are vendor specific for example while it is true that the be 350 boards allow you to overclock many of the be 350 boards have a lower-end power delivery system to the CPU then the X 370 they cost less and so they have fewer components on them so while it is true that both the B 350 and X 370 allow you to overclock most of the X 370 boards are going to

overclock a little bit better than the B 350 s depends upon your city overclocking is always an individual situation there's never any guarantees but if you want to buy a risin 5 1600 which has a normal out-of-the-box overclocking speed a boost speed of 3.6 gigahertz and you want to run it at 4 gigahertz you might get that on a cheap be 350 board but you're more likely to get it on a board such as this which has a better power delivery system then the be 350 board does

and that's not the chipset that's what the motherboard manufacturer chooses to put on it a motherboard has more of a budget for a better power delivery system than a motherboard does on the other hand if you're going to buy the Rison v 1600 and you're only going to overclock it to say 3.7 or 3.8 then either should be absolutely fine the be 350 would be great for that note issues but if you do want to put say a 240 millimeter liquid cooler on it and

you really want to crank that clock speed to the max get an X 370 and get a premium one you can find X 370 boards for less than this but there's more to it than the chipset that X 370 on the box that is just one chip on the board the motherboard manufacturer has the option to change how many phases how many watts are provided to the socket how much overclocking potential the trace design of the board there's a lot of things that go into a motherboard design besides

just what chipset they buy from AMD and stick on here so my recommendation is if you want to overclock definitely get an X 370 board if you want to do more than just mild overclocking well I think that's enough talking about it why don't we open this up and take a look at the motherboard and what we get inside the box as I said before this is a very nice mid-range X 370 motherboard it really is and it comes in a very nice box not that that matters but it does now this particular board comes in an anti-static bag but it's a nice one it's one of the plastic ones

rather than the gold foil one so it's not too noisy I will move this over here aside and they do provide a piece of felt here which is very handy to protect your desk there's a lot of sharp edges coming off the bottom of this so you don't want to lay it on your desk or you'll scratch up your work surface and we will take it out of the plastic bag and set that on the ground don't throw the bag away you will need it if you ever want to ship the board off do anything with it for

warranty service or simply store the board now if you take a look at the board itself you will notice it's a very nice dark color yes it has RGB lighting yes there are RGB light strips that come off this you can certainly turn your computer into a Christmas tree with this if you want or you can turn them all off and just simply have a very dark basic black board now as far as what's on the board itself you'll see here that we have our old am-3 hooks here to connect the

old-style clip on coolers if you have an older style cooler or you undo the four screws and then you've got the mount holes for the new AM for style coolers we've got our four Ram slots right here there are two main graphics card slots here if you want to running crossfire or SLI if you only have one card however be sure to install it in the top because you'll get all 16 PCI Express lines direct to the CPU with one graphics card right up there on the top this board has two

MDOT two slots for solid-state drives and that's an example of a difference between this and the sli plus from msi which is a little less expensive but it only has one and this has thermal protection for your a solid-state drive which the sli plus does not this is not just a decorative piece of metal there's a thermal pad if you're going to install a MDOT two solid-state drive here you need to undo this screw lift it up and actually peel off a protective film on the thermal pad

and then place that down on your solid-state drive that because your graphics cards on top of it that will help dissipate heat improve performance of your SSD when you've got your graphics card running for example in a game now graphics cards are not hot normally only when you're gaming so when you're just using windows and such you're not going to have any temperature problems that's for while you're gaming this does support to nvme solid-state drives what

would i install here you have a couple of choices for drives I would need to choose a data's SX 8000 or I would choose the samsung 960 Evo probably for a board like this in the 250 gig size you could do the 500 gig size if you wanted to but for about you can get yourself a very nice super-fast nvme SSD in there great boot drive and then you either hook up a hard drive or maybe a larger serial ata solid-state drive on the bottom m dot 2 port if you are

interested now we do have six serial ata ports two of them are right down here and four of them are here points off to the side please note that if you install nvm II solid-state drives here you still get all your SATA ports but if you install say an 850 Evo or a crucial MX 300 or other m dot two serial ata solid-state drive these they will install here but they will use up your serial ata port so you'll go from six to four now for a lot of people that wouldn't be a big deal but if you

do want to use all your SATA ports keep that in mind now we do have two USB 3.0 front panel headers one down here one here so if you have a computer case with four 3.0 connectors on the front you'd plug one in here one in here that's an example of a difference you can see behind me the X power gaming titanium board from MSI that board has both of these and a third USB 3.1 gen2 10 gigabit per second these are five gigabit front panel connectors so if you

have a new case with 10 gigabit USB 3.1 gen2 that's got the headers this doesn't it's an example of the kind of features you get as you step up in motherboards this does not have a YouTube port like that does but that's not a big deal of virtually nobody buying a board like this is going to care about that it does have the same audio solution however this has the realtek ALC 12:20 very good signal-to-noise ratio for integrated audio that is if you are a premium high-end sound

user you probably have an external digital breakout box because that's going to get rid of all the noise from from within the computer but it does have a trace line protector on the board and as far as integrated audio goes this is basically the best there is right now in 2017 now this board does not have an LED indicator showing the two digit numbers like the higher-end boards do for extreme overclocking for figuring out why your systems not booting it also does

not have a BIOS flashback option nor a clear CMOS button here but then again almost none of the board's at this price point do one of the questions is what do you get when you spend more money what do you get when you go for a motherboard you get features like that for extreme overclocking which is why I said earlier that if you're gonna buy a 1700 X or an 1800 X and a big liquid cooler and you're going for the max you might want to spend more money and

buy that board back there but for a risin 5 1600 X even with a good cooler even at 4 gigahertz I still wouldn't buy that board I would buy this one because the argument would then be if you're going to spend more money put it in your processor put it in your graphics card spending more than this on your motherboard is for when you've already bought the best of

everything else when you've already got the best graphics card you've already got the top-end CPU then spend more on your board this does have slightly fewer features than the boards but not a lot yes it's nice having a clear CMOS button you can still clear the CMOS here you just have to short the jumper or take the battery out that works as well so it's not quite as convenient but it still does the job and while the startup LED would be nice yeah

you know how many people really use it for the average person I don't think it's a big loss this does have a good power delivery system we've got almost the same power delivery system as the top end board not quite the same we have a single 8 pin CPU power connector up here instead of the eight plus four of the top end boards but this is still enough to run a risin 5 1600 X at 4 gigahertz without a problem and we don't have the PCI Express power connector down here

I'm assuming you're watching this after having watched that I'll link it in the description below which is why I'm mentioning it I film them both on the same day even though you're not watching them on the same day otherwise it's a very nice board looking here on the side panel we have got our gold-plated on IO output panel here for full HD surround sound including an optical out if you're interested there is a whole skew of USB 3.0 and 3.1 ports here now there

are integrated graphics ports here I've seen a question pop up multiple times what can you use these ports with a Rison 5 or Rison 7 CPU in not by a graphics card no these are for AP use now the older gen AP use will work in this board although I wouldn't recommend it and there will be upcoming ap use with integrated graphics that have rise in cores they're not out yet so if you buy a rising 5 or rising 7 CPU and put it in here these video ports don't do anything so keep that point in mind you have to add a graphics card to a Rison 5 or Rison 7 build otherwise it

has the various ports that you would expect including Intel Gigabit Ethernet which is nice not all of the less expensive boards have that some of them have the realtek do you play online games Intel's Gigabit Ethernet is known for having lower CPU usage than real text Gigabit Ethernet it is so that's a nice thing to have otherwise as you can see it's largely a blackboard with just a few silver accents RGB of course can be turned on or off as you want and there's

headers to do lots of stuff with that if you want now that's the motherboard itself that's the basic features of it it's a very very nice board let's take a look at what you get in the box well besides the fact that you get a cardboard insert which is what the motherboard was in of course in the anti-static bag I'll set that down on the ground you get a QuickStart installation guide

basically if you've never installed a motherboard or you haven't done it in a long time this is the short version at least take a look at this especially if you have not installed here's the diagram on the Rison processor installation if you've only installed Intel processors recently on Intel chips the pins are on the motherboard and the bottom of the CPU is flat on Rison the the socket is flat and the pins are on the cpu so it's a zero insertion force and socket it's a little bit different so do keep that in mind if you haven't done one recently thank you for purchasing or choosing

an MSI product please register actually if you want warranty support you do need to register and it's easier to do it now while you've got the box out because they will want the serial number off the box you can then sign up at MSI and if you ever need service all your information is there and you don't have to worry about it oh this is a nice feature they include cable management labels what these are is simply fold-over labels to wrap around cables you

could like write s 1 as 2 s 3 if you have multiple serial ata cables coming off the board and maybe you have a case with cable management where they run through a small rubber grommet and they're in the back and you can't easily figure out which cable goes from which port to which drive you can use these to label them just do two and then wrap them around both ends of the cables not a major feature but it's a nice inclusion and it's handy to have if you

need that sort of thing driver CD they always include a driver CD don't they if you have an internet connection please go to MSS website and download their software or drivers as needed rather than using outdated versions on the CD now if you have no internet connection fair enough I mean this will certainly get you what you need but otherwise windows 10 will have most of what you need it'll auto install most of it and then you can download for example

updated real tech audio drivers or other things if you need to off of MSI's website manual Excel do the manual last memory modules this is a simple diagram that simply shows you what order to install the memory modules in it does matter for memory slots if you're installing one you shouldn't be you should be installing too but if you are installing one it has to go into that slot and then if you're installing to which two slots should you use and then of course if you're using all four but basically it's just letting you know it does matter where you put the RAM this is a

nice manual MSI has really stepped up their game when it comes to motherboard manuals a few years ago I was less impressed today I'm quite impressed this is all in English this is not 27 languages with just three pages each this contains information on every page in the BIOS and what everything does on the board in fact it even has pinup diagrams for all of like the USB headers the jumpers where you clear the seamos the fan headers which ones to use for liquid cooling which ones to use for the CPU now some of this may be self-evident to some of you but

for example when you do the front panel headers power switch reset switch etc it's hard to read what's on the board this of course will have a diagram for you a very nice thing to have good quality manual nice picture on the front - what else do we have in here off nvidia sli connector unfortunately it is not a high bandwidth bridge okay - 1.2 m/s I really why is there not a high bandwidth bridge in here um what is a high bandwidth bridge hi this is this is

flexible and it's only one connection a high bandwidth bridge is rigid and has two connections it's double wide the thing is if you want to run 4k monitors or if you want to run three monitors in Nvidia surround with 210 series graphics cards such as 1080 T eyes and SLI you will need a high bandwidth bridge now in fairness the 20 or 30 dollars that a high bandwidth bridge will

cost you retail if you're buying to 1080 T eyes should not be a major impediment to you but it'd be nice if it was included this will work fine for 9 series cards and 10 series cards at up to 1440p without a problem but not 4k 4k you want you want to bandwidth pretty straightforward this is serial ata cables two of them I wish you had four but - oh they're not very expensive so we get 2 black serial ata Campbell's what else do we have in here this which I have already opened by

the way um I'm actually refilling this portion of the video full disclosure my audio was messed up so that's why this has already been opened otherwise I would have opened it on I did open it on camera but there was no audio this is the i/o shield for the back of your computer and it's nice it's silkscreen I also like the fact that it's black not only does it match the motherboard but it's going to match most cases cheap motherboards tend to come with very cheap silver i/o

shields and they stick out like a sore thumb on the back of your machine maybe you care maybe you don't but I'll hold that up hopefully you can see it I'll tilt it up a bit so the light catches it very nice it's got the MSI gaming dragon logo it's got the USB ports the keyboard mouse ps2 ports each of the audio ports is labeled which can be very handy so that's nice it's got nice thick padding on the back for everything to press against nice shielding very good and then the last

item again open because this is my take - this is the RGB extension header now there is one RGB port on the board now you can directly connect a RGB lighting cable for your case to that but you may not want the RGB lights to start at that point on the board and you may want to separate cables at different points in the case maybe one running around the top one running around the bottom for example plug this end to the board and this has two connectors for two

separate RGB lighting cables that you can put very far apart inside your case so that should provide all the distance in the world that you need if you want to do Christmas tree inside of your computer case so this has been my unboxing and overview of the X 370 MSI gaming Pro carbon motherboard a Rison v 1600 Rison v 1600 X or a risin 7 1700 I think this makes an excellent choice if it's the features that you want if you're

looking for an X 370 board with excellent expansion capabilities good MDOT two capabilities good overclocking capabilities and frankly a very sharp look to it at least in my personal opinion linked in the description below please remember links to Amazon and Newegg for this board as well as the cheaper SLI plus and the X power titanium behind me as well as links to all of my motherboard reviews if you're interested in checking out those other motherboards
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MSI Gaming AMD Ryzen X370 GAMING PRO CARBON Motherboard review

the MSI X 370 gaming Pro carbon so let's jump right into it with the key features so of course the supports all your am 4 rise in CPUs and overclocking like all X 370 and be 350 motherboards now memory wise you're gonna be able to run Jill channel ddr4 memory up to 64 gigabytes of it and up to three thousand two hundred megahertz that's really solid being an X 370 you're also going to be able to run SLI or crossfire GPUs that does go down 2 by 8 so far

that's fine yeah there's still plenty of bandwidth there as I showed in my be 350 verse X 370 video now as far as audio goes is coming with the realtek ALC 1220 codec with a built-in DAC chemi-con audio capacitors and seperated audio layers that's going to be really solid they're nice and clean and good audio now let's move over to the layout then and we'll work from top

to bottom and take a tour of the motherboard so up the top lip there we see the 8 pin a CPU power connector moving over a bit we have the 8 plus 2 power phase design of VR ends with a really nice heat sinks there then we have the CPU fan connector beside the RAM slots then we get a pump connector assistant fan connector and an easy debug led now I would have liked the codes but you know it's better than nothing I suppose then you have your just standard

multiple power connector and another system fan connected there moving more to the middle of the motherboard now you see another fan cranked above the PCI slots so PCI slot wise you're going with three pcie 2.0 x once lost those are the little ones you see there you get of course the two big guys the two pcie 3.0 x 16 slots though the big ones there with the steel reinforcements those are the ones you're going to want to use with your graphics cards or card

then you just get a single pcie 2.0 x 16 slot down the bottom there as far as m2s go you have the single MDOT two-piece a e 3.0 x 4 slot and you also get the lower one there the pcie 2.0 x 4m dot two slots so that's quite interesting now moving back over to the right we see a USB 3.1 Jin won port and four SATA 6 ports down the bottom we have two more SATA six ports alongside another USB 3.1 gin one point then we just have two standard USB 2.0 connectors the front

panel connections then just some LED connections another fan connector there hand your front panel audio connector now let's go around to the back then and check out the rear i/o and we'll work from left to right so on the left there we see the ps2 port above two USB 2.0 ports a DVID port that's going to be for all two guys running ap use then you get two USB 3.1 June 1 type 8

ports above an HDMI port an rj45 LAN port above two more USB 3.1 gin one type-a ports then you get your USB 3.1 gen2 type a and C port so that's good to see and then all your standard audio connections there which are gold-plated so that's really nice with that being said let's talk about the BIOS updating the BIOS can be done through in flash it's very straightforward and very easy the boss itself to me is easy to use however I think newer users might find it a little bit

difficult at times but personally for me and I guess enthusiasts as well will probably find it very straightforward now I have been reading that some people have been having issues with MSI's biases they are a little bit funny I think they're really getting on top of it now so from here on out I think it will only get better and better but I would definitely recommend updating the BIOS straight away as soon as you get this motherboard nevertheless as far as overclocking

goes it was just fine with the rising sim in 1700 I managed four gigahertz easily you know no worries at all with RAM sitting at 29 33 megahertz and that was just fine and that's typical for any rising CPU with a good motherboard that is which leads us nicely into the conclusion and we need to bring price into the equation so right now you can pick up this MSI X 370 gaming Pro carbon for over at play tech coach NZ which i think is a pretty

good deal considering the features this is coming with it's a solid all-rounder motherboard I mean it's missing a few things you don't have the code readout which would be nice it's missing onboard buns which I know a lot of reviewers like to have on the average users probably don't care that much about them maybe some people do I think overall it's still good because it has those solid features there I would definitely recommend it as a good all-rounder but another

thing to note is that you really need a check compatibility these msi boards tend to be a bit fussy so make sure your RAM and whatever whatever else are you going to run with it is compatible because you definitely don't want to have an issue of buying one of these and then have in competiting compatibility issues with your RAM or anything like that but aside from those issues yeah I would recommend the smaller board I think it's a really solid all-rounder as far as the X 3 semanas go now.

you'll know I did a little unboxing of this guy AMD rise in 1700 I did definitely call it the I 700 which was completely inaccurate but the 1700 AMD Rison processor I'm super super ecstatic about building this

computer we've now received one more piece of the puzzle we've got the cryo rig h7 cryo reg h7 cooler that's what we're going to be using the tower is actually going to be the defender ultra 2 we reviewed it a couple years ago it's no longer necessary my mom's moved out of the country so we actually have that free I'm cleaning it up polishing it and make sure everything looks good for the video but that's going to be the next step but today today folks we're going to talk

about the MSI X 370 gain Pro carbon motherboard , and let's now we don't normally do on boxing's but I like to get into what's really in here and what you're getting for your dollars all our stuff is underneath so we've got that's our board we've got these are people that I'm going to have to do some research I'm not really sure what that's about of course we have our profs fire adapter you have a couple black right-angle SSD cables of course our back panel

which looks very very similar to the 970 and our paperwork instruction warranty information and of course the installation district normally use MSI's also real nice by including these cable labelers I don't use them in any of the system builds but I do give them to my mother-in-law who has memory problems and forgets what cables go to what thanks a mess I won't need the paperwork won't mean the installation disk I lied we will need the book for that no idea the

stables for now they this is pro level MSI this is a 1 to 2 led why extension cable yes RGB lives men RGB in my opinion has been the greatest thing that integrated everything in a long long time let's look at some basics right off the bat right on the back panel we've got couple standard USB ports and a ps2 good on you MSI if you like your old-school mouse and keyboard we have straight DVI which is nice onboard onboard video HDMI to would appear to be yep

SuperSpeed so three point one and three point one this bottle one says VR ready so I don't know if that's additional power or what we'll have to look into that and then we have another I take it back those so the first couple are actually three points oh it looks like because the the bottom one here with the gold base is labeled as access okay let me the ten gigabits per second which would be three point 1 which is also lies on the same as USB type-c which thank you can

we get into the future already types II think about when every board has type C instead of a clubs how much space or unity just thing about that just how much space is anything let's move on River audio panel pretty standard we do have a line out as well as the line in and of course the optical which is real nice now we've got these gorgeous carbon heat sinks everywhere not

going to lie I actually think these might be carbon fiber plates but honest they just had a feel about it I love the DIMM slots they are strapped down with what appears to be aluminum I love it we've got one two three four five on board fan headers looks like we had a we got a header right in the middle and have to look that one up as well we've got our aluminum plated PCI Express slots which are gorgeous love them they really fit in with the carbon aesthetic they

bring out some metal up against the black but let's talk about what's between the PCI Express slot not one but two MDOT Tuesday to flood are you serious just think about this you toss on a 256 for your boot systems you toss on another 512 let's say for data you don't have to use a single SATA cable and honestly who uses optical these days you could literally almost go cable free besides fans and power ah this this is going to look good this is going to look good we've got

our standard bottom port for our audio our USBs but now in addition since this is an RGB enabled system we also have LED slots we also have power for LED and we even have a demo button for LED when you have it all hooked up you'll notice what the heatsinks there are tiny cables that come out and attach to the motherboard that's for the LED functionality we've got as we should - USB 3.0 headers thank you I'm tired of having to mess around with converters

and of course the star of the show we have the rise in CPU slot alright folks since we're not going to be building this right now this is going to be it for this one we'll definitely make sure to link down below .