Msi X370 Gaming Pro Carbon Test

MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon Review

With the new AMD Ryzen processors in the market place, we are receiving quite a number of AMD X370 chipset motherboards many of which are specifically designed for overclocking or that combine features which both overclockers, enthusiasts and gamers in mind, but today nosotros are reviewing a MSI solution to loftier end oriented enthusiast gamers with Elevation-level features. The MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon motherboard a feature packed total ATX board supporting new Ryzen processors, fastest DDR-four RAMs out there, Audio Heave four sound with Nahimic 2, USB 3.1 Gen2 ,Twin Turbo K.two with steel armor, MSI Mystic Light and more.

At present let's see what this new AMD X370 chipset based MSI gaming board have for us.

Features

Supports AMD^® RYZEN Series Processors and seventh Gen A-serial / Athlon™ Processors for socket AM4
Supports DDR4-3200+(OC) Retention
DDR4 Heave with Steel Armor: Requite your DDR4 memory a performance boost
VR Fix and VR Boost: Best virtual reality game feel without latency, reduces movement sickness
Mystic Low-cal and Mystic Lite Sync: 16.8 meg colors /17 effects controlled in ane click with GAMING APP or mobile devices.
Lightning Fast Game feel: Turbo G.2, M.2 Shield, Lightning USB 3.1 Gen2
Sound Boost iv with Nahimic 2: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality for the well-nigh immersive gaming experience
GAMING LAN with LAN Protect, powered by Intel® : The best online gaming experience with lowest latency and bandwidth management
Military Class four, Baby-sit-Pro: Latest evolution in high quality components for best protection and efficiency
MULTI-GPU: With Steel Armor PCI-Eastward 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 v: Award-winning BIOS with high resolution scalable font, favorites and search part
GAMING CERTIFIED: 24-60 minutes on- and offline game and motherboard testing by eSports players
WHQL certified for Windows x

Specifications

Package

Looking at the front of the box, nosotros meet MSI logo with motherboard model no. in big at heart of the box. At the rear of the box, nosotros find that MSI goes into great detail on the specifications of the motherboard

Inside the box

Looks

Board is a solid build on a black PCB with white line graphics over the PCB and heatsink, giving whole board a keen appearance and wild await. I like the whole theme very bonny..

Layout

Detailed layout of board.

1. AMD AM4 socket, supporting New AMD Ryzen CPU.

2. 4 DIMM Dual channel DDR4 memory slots with total Steel Armor supporting max. 64GB at 2133MHz in normal and upward to 3200MHz when OC.

3. ATX Power connector (24-pin EATXPWR) along with EZ Debug LED

four. ATX CPU Power Connector (viii-pin ATX12V).

5. Back Panel Connectors : PS/ii keyboard/ mouse combo port, 2 x USB 2.0 Blazon-A ports, DVI-D port, HDMIâ„¢ port, four ten USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A ports, LAN (RJ45) port, USB three.1 Gen2 Blazon-A port, USB iii.1 Gen2 Type-C port, five 10 OFC sound jacks, Optical S/PDIF OUT connector

6. 7. 14. CPU fan connector, Water-pump-fan connector and four x system fan connectors

8. Two front end USB iii Port.

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ten. Organisation Front panel Connector

11. 2 ten USB ii.0 Connectors

12. xiii. RGB LED strip extension cable headers

15. Front console Sound connector

16. 17. Dual PCIe Gen3 x4 M.two connector

18. Expansion Slots : ii ten PCIe iii.0 x16 slots (PCIE_2, PCIE_4)- RYZEN series processors support x16/x0, x8/x8 mode, 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slot (PCIE_6, supports x4 mode), 3 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots

Removing Heat-sinks

MSI used dumbo aluminum heatsink in this board. Heatsinks base is having thermal pad installed. VRM heatsink are secured in identify using screws and spacers.

Component Layout

Permit'southward now see what all components MSI take planned for this lath.

1. 2. eight + 2stage CPU voltage regulator excursion uses pair of NIKOS PK616 and PK632 MOSFETS with combined rating of 50A controlled past RT8894A PWM Controller.

3. Single-Stage digital memory ability supply section for DDR4 memories

4. 5. ASMedia ASM2142 is PCIe-to-two-port USB iii.one controllers and Pair of ASMedia ASM1543 unmarried bit solution, bridging the USB3.1 to Series ATA host interface with highly integrated SuperSpeed USB3.0 interface.

6. Intel Gigabit LAN solution.

7. The nuvoTon NCT 6795D bit provides the super I/O functions, such as fan control and system monitoring

viii. MSI equipped this board with Audio heave 4 audio solution with ALC 1220 120dB SNR HD Audio codec at the center.

ALC 1220 120dB SNR HD Audio - The ALC1220 is a loftier-functioning multi-channel High Definition Audio Codec with upwards to 120dB SNR for crystal clear sound along with premium quality CHEMI-CON audio capacitors for a warmer sound and OP1652 op-amp equally buffer.

A semi-transparent line on motherboard separates the whole audio section from the rest of the board in social club to minimize interference. Then listening under Stereo way produces loftier sound quality with excellent dynamic range.

RightMark Audio Analyzer (RMAA) suite is used for testing MSI High Definition audio confronting Asus Xonar U7 External Sound card. Yous tin see clearly the difference between Noise level, dynamic rang and Full harmonic distortion percent produced by MSI High Definition audio.

RMAA Asus Xonar U7

RMAA MSI Sound

9. AMD X370 Chipset.

10. MSI uses MXIC MX 2SL12873F a capacity of 128 Mb for storing UEFI BIOS.

11. Renesas - R5F104ACA (Internet service provider) microcontroller used for RBG LED control function.

Testing

CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 1700
Board	MSI X370 GAMING PRO Carbon
RAM	2 X 8GB ADATA DDR4
SSD	Kingston SV300 120GB
Cooler	CM MasterLiquid 280 Pro
GFX	ASUS STRIX GTX 950
PSU	Cooler Main V1200
Brandish	Acer S220HQL
Bone	Windows 10

BIOS

Arranged Softwares

Benchmarks

Overclocking

Power Consumption

Wattage reading every bit per displayed by APC Pro 1000VA (Model no. BR1000G-IN) UPS.

Pros

Corking Looks
Lot of bundled Software
Loftier Quality Audio
RGB header

Cons

Conclusion

MSI has washed a smashing job in designing this board. At a cost tag of Rs.18500(approx.), this board offers more than than whatsoever other production in this range and segment. The board delivers solid and consistent performance throughout our testing. Lath gives great competition to other high end X370 boards

And with the new BIOS updates, you volition have more faster RAM back up, which makes this board ane of the best suitable for gamer and high-level organisation builders with new AMD Ryzen CPU and arrive worthy of our PC TeK Reviews EXCELLENCE Award.

Manufacturers Info

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