- Supports 6th Gen Intel® Core™ / Pentium® / Celeron® processors for LGA 1151 socket
- Supports DDR4-2133
- Intel® SBA Support: Improves Productivity, Management and Security
- DDR4 Boost: Give your DDR4 memory a performance boost
- GAMING LAN: The best online gaming experience with lowest latency
- GAMING DNA: LED ambient lights are added to give it an awesome look & feel, ready for battle
- Audio Boost: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality
- Military Class 4: Top Quality & Stability
- Guard-Pro: Improved Protection and Power Efficiency
- MULTI-GPU with VGA Armor: VGA Armor PCI-E slots. Supports AMD Crossfire™
- SATA Express 16Gb/s + SATA 6Gb/s
- Click BIOS5: Secure and Reliable UEFI BIOS solution
- EZ Debug LED: Easiest way to troubleshoot
- Overvoltage Protection:Prevent Unforeseen Damage
- 4K UHD Support: Ultra-high Definition Visual Experience
- GAMING CERTIFIED: 24-hour on- and offline game testing by eSports players for the best gaming experience
- WHQL CERTIFIED.WINDOWS 10 READY.
NON-STOP GAMING
Equip yourself with the MSI Arsenal GAMING Series motherboards to improve your game. MSI Arsenal GAMING Series motherboards are covered in full black camouflage with LED ambient lights and is packed with gaming features, making them the perfect weapon to dominate the battlefield.
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.
Dominate the game with lowest latency
Get ready to crush your enemies on the battlefield with MSI® GAMING LAN, featuring carefully selected components to ensure the best online gaming experience without lag.
Gaming optimized bandwidth 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 bandwidth for each application
Studio grade sound with AUDIO BOOST
With Audio Boost 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 6-channel Audio or high impendence headphones and truly dominate the game.
Isolated Audio PCB
Audio Boost acts like a dedicated soundcard by physically isolating the audio circuitry to give you a more clear audio signal.
Chemi-Con Audio Capacitors
Delivering high fidelity crystal clear sound with exceptional acoustics and realism.
Separated Audio Layers
Equal and perfect sound quality for left & right channel audio through the use of seperated layers in the PCB.
Anti-popcorn Noise
Audio Boost protects your ears against annoying loud popping sounds when you plug devices in or out or turn your PC on/off.
7.1 Channel Audio
With high quality audio connectors you get the best possible signal output with less chance of distortion.
Front Dedicated Headphone Out
Convenient use of the front panel audio output while retaining high quality amplified sound.
GAMING HOTKEY
Gaming Hotkey enables more functionality using your own keyboard. Simply assign functions to any key and launch your favorite games, load profiles with the push of a single button. The possibilities are endless!
- Customize any shortcut on your keyboard
- User friendly, easy to use application
- 1 key load up of your favorite game
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.
*Real GAMING Hotkey settings depend on the configuration
FRONT USB 3.1 Gen1
With a cleverly placed USB 3.1 Gen1 front pin header on MSI motherboards, you can connect up to 4 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.
FAST STORAGEWITH SATA EXPRESS
SATA Express offers a solution in high speed storage through PCI-Express, providing more bandwidth for the latest generation SSDs up to 16 Gb/s.
DATA TRANSFER SPEED
ENHANCED CPU OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION
Onboard overvoltage protection prevents overvoltage and short-circuit damage of the CPU and other components. A red LED near the 24 pin CPU power connector let you know that overvoltage protection is activated for easier troubleshooting.
EASY DIAGNOSTIC
MSI EZ Debug LED is an easy troubleshooting tool using 3 LEDs to indicate CPU / Memory / VGA operation every time you boot up your system. Run into trouble? Use the LEDs to easily identify the source of your problem and get back into operation quickly.
SteelSeries Certified
Get ready to enjoy the best gaming experience with MSI & SteelSeries!
Enthusiast gaming gear brand SteelSeries has officially approved MSI GAMING motherboards as ‘SteelSeries Certified (SSC)’. This certification is based on the performance demands and stability of MSI GAMING motherboards and SteelSeries products. Your SteelSeries headset, mouse and other top quality gaming gear works best on MSI GAMING motherboards.
GAMING CERTIFIED
Our GAMING motherboards are tested in our gaming lab, internet cafes and together with the world’s best eSports players to make sure you get top performance and reliability in the world’s most popular games. Through 24-hour on- and offline game testing, MSI ensures the onboard network configuration, audio reception and FPS performance are tested and tuned to perfection for you to enjoy the best possible gameplay experience.
Only the motherboards that pass this test receive the GAMING CERTIFIED status and are considered true MSI® GAMING motherboards.
MILITARY CLASS 4 COMPONENTS
DARK CHOKE
Dark Choke uses the special core design and allows the Dark Choke to run at a lower temperature with higher capacity and better power efficiency and stability.
SOLID CAP
With their aluminum core design and Japanese made quality, Solid CAPs are made for high-end design motherboard. Not only do Solid CAPs could provide lower Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR), but also work firmly for over-10-year.
HUMIDITY PROTECTION
Reduction in moisture absorption helps prevent "Conductive Anodic Filament". Untreated PCB's can have 10x higher failure rate.
HIGH TEMPERATURE
PROTECTION
All key components used in MSI motherboards have all passed military testing ensuring stable operation in the harshest environments.
CIRCUIT PROTECTION
Carefully selected materials, multiple PCB layers and shielding result in the best circuit protection for our GAMING motherboards.
ESD PROTECTION
Each and every I/O port is protected against the hazards of Electro Static Discharge.
EMI PROTECTION
All MSI motherboards comply with strict American FCC regulations and reduce the impact of Electromagnetic Interference.
BENEFIT FROM THE NEW
INTEL® SMALL BUSINESS ADVANTAGE
SOLUTION with MSI® MOTHERBOARDS
Intel® SBA is a unique, customizable solution that helps improve small businesses data security, maximizes employee productivity and boosts overall office computers’ performance.
A simple and intuitive interface offering hardware-based security and improves productivity – With software monitoring, health center, data backup and restore, USB blocker, screen sharing, file sharing, and chatting.
CONNECT
Remote file access Remote desktop
HEALTH
Health Center After-hours maintenance
SECURITY
Software Monitor Data Backup & Restore USB Blocker
SHARE
File Sharing Screen Sharing Chat
Click on video above to learn about Intel® SBA
Optimized for multiple graphics cards
CrossFire support
This motherboard supports CrossFire. Optimal PCI-Express slot placement allows for better fitting and airflow.
That way, you can enjoy the best graphics at the highest framerate jumping from your screen when running an AMD CrossFire™ setup.
Prevent damage!
Worried about damaging the PCI-Express slot or your graphics card because of the weight?
MSI® Steel Armor
Steel Armor has more solder points on the PCB for more strength and protects the PCI-Express signals against electromagnetic interference for a stutter-free gaming experience and higher GPU overclocking.
OthersNo strengthening
MSI® Steel ArmorReinforced, heavy soldered connections
THE ALL NEW, AWARD-WINNING CLICK BIOS 5
Explore the greatly improved, award-winning CLICK BIOS 5 and use it to tune your system to maximum performance to get the most out of your games. MSI CLICK BIOS 5 is the next generation UEFI BIOS with optimizations for Windows 10.
Control your system in two modes: EZ mode, for the most used settings and functions. Advanced mode for more detailed settings and fine-tuning options to boost your system’s performance.
- Variety of options to boost your game performance
- Next gen UEFI BIOS with award winning design
- High-resolution multi language scalable font
- Easy to use
OTHERS
Low res, non-scalable
CLICK BIOS 5
Sharp, hi-res, scalable design
OBS STREAMING SOFTWARE
Share your gaming achievements with the world! Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is world’s most popular open source software for video recording and live streaming. Show your friends your gaming progress live.
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Optimized video quality
OBS records videos using small file size,but with perfect image and sound quality, without lag.
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Easy to share
Live streaming to your favorite video sharing websites such as Twitch, YouTube, DailyMotion, Hitbox and many more.
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Webcam supported
OBS supports almost any webcam. DirectShow capture device support (webcams, capture cards, etc).
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Multiple profiles
Add different profiles, each of them with its own settings. Easy to use OBS for anyone, in any situation.
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Plenty of plugins
Allowing developers to create their own unique plugins and complete control of their streaming experience.
GAMING APP
Outperform your competition with the MSI® GAMING APP which allows control of your Graphics Card’s boost.
Simply select your preferred mode with the click of a button:
/ Silent / Gaming / OC /
ON-SCREEN SPEED & TEMPERATURES
Real-time monitor GPU Core, DRAM Frequency, GPU & CPU Temperatures and much more, in game or in other fullscreen applications, customizable to your preference.
CPU-Z MSI GAMING EDITION
MSI has worked closely with CPUID to develop this special edition of CPU-Z featuring the famous MSI GAMING dragon. Use CPU-Z to gather key information on the main devices of your system, such as your CPU speed, Memory speed and timings, motherboard BIOS version and much more.
Download CPU-Z
MSI GAMING Edition HERE
SSD not fast enough? Try MSI RAMDisk!
Get an unlimited RAMDisk for free (worth $35) with MSI GAMING motherboards. RAMDisk allows you to create a virtual drive from your system memory, enabling speeds up to 25x faster than a modern SSD. You can load complete games, speed up your browser or your page file significantly increasing system performance! You even increase your SSD's lifespan by using RAMDisk as it reduces unnecessary read and write operations to your SSD.
- Speed up system performance
- Speed up games, apps and browser
- Increase SSD lifespan
LEGACY DVI / VGA VIDEO SUPPORT
To support professional monitors, TV's, beamers and other displays, this MSI motherboard features DVI and a VGA video output. No matter what screen type you want to connect, using a dedicated graphics card or an onboard connector, MSI motherboards have you covered.
DVI-D
VGA-OUT
PACKAGE CONTENT
What's in the box? Check it out for yourself! Besides an abundance of necessary cables and connectors, a stylish all black GAMING I/O shield.
FRONT SIDE OF I/O PANEL
- I/O Panel Ports Label
- Dark coating
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BACK SIDE OF I/O PANEL -
Force Absorbing Layer (NEW) -
Aluminium Interference Shielding -
Steel Shielding
BACK SIDE OF I/O PANEL
Force Absorbing Layer (NEW)
Aluminium Interference Shielding
Steel ShieldingConnectivity
Be sure to take full advantage of all the GAMING weapons by connecting your devices to the optimized ports.
- Mouse/Keyboard
- VGA port
- USB 3.1 Gen1 ports
- LAN
- Clear CMOS
- Audio Connectors
- USB 2.0 ports
- DVI-D port
- HDMI
- USB 3.1 Gen1 ports
- Optioal S/PDIF-Out
All images and descriptions are for illustrative purposes only. For detailed specifications, please consult the product specifications page.
