MSI Performance Gaming AMD X470 Motherboard (X470 Gaming PRO Carbon) review

MSI Performance Gaming AMD X470 Motherboard (X470 Gaming PRO Carbon) review

MSI Performance Gaming AMD X470 Motherboard (X470 Gaming PRO Carbon) review

PROS
Stable.
Easy to configure.
Plenty of storage potential.
High-end audio solution onboard.

CONSAesthetically, a little plain.
A price cut would be nice.

Features
Supports AMD® RYZENTM Desktop Processors and AMD® A-series / Athlon™ Processors for socket AM4
Supports DDR4-3466+(OC) Memory
DDR4 Boost with Steel Armor: Give your DDR4 memory a performance boost
Mystic Light and Mystic Light Sync: 16.8 million colors / 17 effects in one click. Synchronize RGB/RAINBOW strips and other RGB solutions for customization.
Lightning Fast Game experience: TURBO M.2 with M.2 Shield, StoreMI, AMD Turbo USB 3.1 GEN2
Audio Boost 4 with Nahimic: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality for the most immersive gaming experience
GAMING LAN and Wireless support, powered by Intel®: The best online gaming experience with lowest latency and bandwidth management.
Core Boost: With premium layout and fully digital power design to support more cores and provide better performance.
MULTI-GPU: With STEEL ARMOR PCI-E slots. Supports 2-Way NVIDIA SLI™ & 3-Way AMD Crossfire™
VR Ready: Automatically optimizes your system for VR usage, pushing for maximum performance.
In-Game Weapons: Game Boost, GAMING Hotkey, X-Boost
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

AMD recently launched their new line of Verizon - CPUs along with the x4 70 chipset and I've got the x4 70 gaming per carbon a/c motherboard from MSI here so let's find out what features it's got to offer my first impressions of the board are the lacked many other recent motherboards from MSI it's nice and clean looking the whole thing is a matte black and it's got a carbon fiber texture on the heatsinks thus ammaji be lighting around here too as well as the

chipset cover and on the right hand side of the board it's fairly subtle and not very intrusive there's about 15 effects which can be controlled through MSI as mystic light sync software but you can always turn the lighting off if you prefer it's an ATX board and comes in at thirty point five centimeters by twenty four point four centimeters starting with the i/o on the back there's a ps2 port two USB 2.0 type-a ports HDMI 1.4 and DisplayPort although you'll need a rise in

CPU with Vega graphics to use these Wi-Fi and Bluetooth antenna adapters clear CMOS button for USB 3.1 gen2 on type-a ports gigabit ethernet port USB 3.1 gen2 type a and type C ports and audio connectors with s/pdif there's also red lighting on the Ethernet port and USB port next to it while it's powered on and the i/o shield is MSI as usual black and red at the center of the board is the am 4 socket which supports AMD Rison 1 & 2 CPUs and I'm testing

with the new 2700 X here with its stock cooler the wraith prism next to the socket in the full Ram slots which run in dual channel and can support up to 64 gig of ddr2 up to three thousand four hundred and sixty six megahertz when overclocked in my test system I'm just running to eight gig sticks at two thousand six hundred sixty-six megahertz as for the PCIe slots from the top down there's a PCIe 360 next slot PCIe to one excellent PCI 3/8 X slot PCIe 2 1 X slot and

PCIe 4x lot with support for 3-way crossfire or two-way SLI with a rising CPU but only two we cross fire if you've got a rise in CPU with your graphics as the speed of the slots changes so something to keep in mind if you're buying an APU and plan on upgrading to high-end graphics later there's 2 m2 slots available in between the PCIe slots the one on top has a heat spreader and supports 20 to 40 to 20 to 60 20 to 80 and 20 to 110 drives while the bottom one

supports the same except the biggest they both use 4 PCIe lanes however the top one is PCI 3.0 while the bottom is pcie 2.0 and the bottom PCIe slot will not be usable if you use the bottom m2 slot there's also support for raid 0 raid 1 and rate 10 with both solder or nvme storage along the top of the board there's 2 8 pin power connectors up from the single one on the X 370 version RGB header a CPU fan header and Corsair header along the right hand side there's six SATA 3 connectors internal USB 3.1 gen2 on connector system fan header 24 pin power

connector and system fan and pump headers finally along the bottom there's the front panel audio ii RGB had a TPM connector system fan connector to USB 2 connectors a second USB 3.1 genuine connector two more solder three connectors taking the total to eight front panel connectors and another RGB connector as this is the AC version of the board we've got built-in Wi-Fi support with Intel dual band three one six eight Wireless which supports up to 8 o 2.11

AC dual band with proof 2.4 gigahertz and five gigahertz and up to bluetooth version 4.2 is supported there's also a non AC version of this board which appears to be the same except it's lacking the Wi-Fi support to use it just screwing the two included antenna into the rear and you should be good to go my wireless access point is unfortunately a few years old and doesn't support the newest standards so I haven't been able to benchmark this properly I've just

quickly used the thermal camera to take a look at the board at idle and while under a full CPU and GPU load it's hard to really make out much with the CPU cooler and graphics card in the way so not sure how useful this is but I'll take any excuse to use the thermal camera to boot into the BIOS you simply press the Delete key during boot like other msi boards I found it fairly

easy to navigate through and make changes and I had no issues at all using the current latest version noted here overclocking worked well - granted I don't have any other X 470 boards to compare the over clocks with however I had no issues quickly getting the 2700 X running at 4.25 gigahertz on all callers at one point 3 volts as for the pricing I haven't yet been able to find it for sale here in Australia I'll update the video description once I'm able to find out however

as the non AC version I can't imagine that it would cost much more to get the version with the Wi-Fi which is the key difference compared to other X 470 boards this one seems to be in the upper mid-range area there are both cheaper options like the gaming + motherboard and more expensive options like the gaming m7 this one seems to be somewhere in the middle as far as x4 70 pricing goes overall I thought the x4 70

gaming / Carbon AC was a nice board I've previously tested the B 360 gaming Pro carbon and the conclusion is fairly similar to that the board has some pretty good features available and in my opinion looks pretty nice .

MSI Performance Gaming AMD X470 Motherboard (X470 Gaming PRO Carbon) review

the msi x4 7e gaming Pro carbon a/c motherboard and let's jump right into it with the key features so of course this is gonna support all your aiming for rising CPUs including the new rising 2 CPUs it supports dual channel ddr3 memory up to 64 gigabytes of it and up to and exceeding 30 466 megahertz which is absolutely crazy it has SLI and crossfire support although it goes down two by eight but that's still plenty of bandwidth there RGB lighting on three parts

of the motherboard one part being the back interestingly enough but you know I don't really care much for RGB but hey you might like it and the ALC 12:20 codec with separated audio layers and chemi-con audio capacitors which give you really good onboard audio so let's look at the layout then and work from top to bottom so on the top left there you have the twin 8 pin CPU power connectors which is super duper overkill for a mainstream motherboard seriously

unless you're going for an overclocking record you can get away with just one just fine now it's also coming with a 13 phase power design with big heat sinks on top so this was really good to see your standard CPU fan connector but no CPU optional connector which is an interesting choice to take that away steel reinforced Ram slots which I've become a big fan of in recent times a system management bus connector beside a corsair LED connector your standard

pump fan header and system fan header as well as an easy debug readout not the full one but their more basic you know old-school like type 1 motherboard power connector beside another fan header and then if we head towards the middle of the motherboard we see an SPI connector if you managed to somehow kill your BIOS beside another fan header then we get three full length PCIe slots the two steel-reinforced ones are by 16 and by 8 the bottom one is by 4 then

just two PCIe x 1 slots and 2 PCIe x for MDOT two slots a top one has a heatsink now on the bottom right we have a USB 3.1 gin one-hitter beside six SATA six ports and then on the bottom there we have an RGB hitter it's like a case beeper and your front panel hitters two more SATA ports beside them with another USB 3.1 Jin won hitter two USB 2.0 hitters beside a chassis intrusion hitter and another LED hitter and then you get your final fan connector TPM connect

another RGB connector and your front panel audio hitter so let's go around to the back and check out the i/o and we'll work from left to right so we see a ps/2 connector above two USB 2.0 ports full-size DisplayPort and HDMI port so that'll be good if you're planning on using this model board with an APU the antenna connectors if you want to use the onboard Wi-Fi note

that the non AC model will not have this but that's about the only difference between the two models as far as I know a clear CMOS button beside for USB 3.1 gin1 ports and rj45 Ethernet jack above a USB 3.1 gen2 type a and type C ports and then all your standard audio connections which are gold-plated which is another good thing to see now let's talk about the bias so the bias itself is very easy to use and I really like it although more newer users might

find it a little bit difficult to use although enthusiasts like me really enjoy ms I had quite a few bias issues with X 370 but so far with x4 simony it's been just fine there's only the launch bias available right now as of making this video but it's stable and I haven't had any issues at all and overclocking the Rison 5 2600 with it has been an absolute joy so I do really like their bias

which brings us now to the conclusion and what do I make of the MSI x4 70 gaming Pro carbon a/c so currently right now on price vocoder NZD way also has an app that I have on my phone which is really good for when I go out it's very useful and it's really easy to use so I'd

encourage you guys to check it out if you haven't already so I really like the msi x4 70 gaming Pro carbon it's a great all-rounder motherboard although I think you need to be a bit more of an enthusiast to really take advantage of a lot of the features because there are a lot with this motherboard it has a really good layout and I will be making it my main motherboard for my second system which is an AMD based system so I really enjoyed using it and it'll be my main

motherboard I use going forward but let me know in the comment section down below what do you think of it and is this a motherboard you're interested in getting and what are your reasons for looking into it I'd really like to know.

Meet the X470 GAMING PRO CARBON It's designed for AMD's 2nd-generation RYZEN processors, supporting 8 cores and 16 threads and up of raw CPU power. The X470 GAMING PRO CARBON is built by using high quality military class components. It features Core Boost, which is the best CPU power design with more power phases, specifically for RYZEN 2nd

generation and dual 8-pin CPU power connectors to make sure you can enjoy the full power of the new RYZEN processors. Even though this platform is built for Gaming, you can unlock even more performance by overclocking. We've also worked tirelessly with all major memory suppliers to ensure maximum compatibility and speed using MSI DDR4 Boost This unique

AM4-based motherboard features a full black PCB design with enhanced heatsinks and RGB LEDs infused into the heatsinks. Making sure it stays just as cool as it looks. The RGB LEDs can be controlled using the MSI Mystic Light software So you can personalize the system completely by choosing from millions of colors and multiple predefined LED effects. You can even synchronize other RGB components from third-party vendors. Audio Boost 4 uses high

quality components on a completely isolated PCB for the purest Hi-Fi sound. Combined with Nahimic 3 software this enhances the surround sound experience for the most immersive gameplay. You won't be suffering from any lag with the MSI Gaming LAN, which is powered by Intel. It's optimized to provide the lowest latency while gaming online. With smart bandwidth management through the MSI Gaming LAN Manager, you can prioritize your

gaming traffic over any other traffic. The GAMING PRO CARBON AC has a built-in AC wireless antenna which allows you to connect to wireless networks if you don't have a cable available. This board supports fast NVMe based SSDs through Turbo M.2 One of them comes with an M.2 Shield, which is a dedicated M.2 heatsink which minimizes throttling and

maximizes your SSD performance. With 8 SATA ports and 6 of the latest USB 3.1 Gen2, this board offers plenty of fast connections for storage devices and peripherals. The X470 GAMING PRO CARBON series has strengthened Steel Armor PCI slots for the most powerful graphics cards and supports both SLI and Crossfire configurations. So if you're looking into upgrading to a RYZEN based Gaming rig with a personal touch, be sure to check out the X470 GAMING PRO CARBON motherboard. Happy Gaming!