MSI Z370 SLI PLUS Motherboard
Based on the Intel Z370 chipset, this motherboard works flawlessly with up to 9th/8th gen Intel Core processor of up to eight cores. A solid foundation for your new powerhouse for gaming/content creation, the board is built using Military Class 5 components ensuring unbeatable reliability and durability in various demanding situations. A wealth of slots and ports on its ATX form factor, including four DIMMs, two PCIe slots ready for NVIDIA SLI & AMD CrossFire, dual M.2 and USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A + Type-C, offers you the ability to design your build and expand it how you want. Plus, its integrated RGB LED creates mesmerizing lighting effects out of the box, and you can expand it further via the onboard LED pin header.
- Supports 9th/8th gen Intel Core / Pentium Gold / Celeron processors for LGA 1151 socket
- Supports DDR4 memory, up to 4000+(OC) MHz
- DDR4 Boost: Advanced technology provided by MSI OC lab to ensure maximum compatibility for overclocking performance
- Audio Boost 4: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality for the most immersive audio experience
- Mystic Light and Mystic Light Sync: Personalize your PC with 16.8 million colors / 17 effects controlled in one click with the Mystic Light APP or a mobile device
- Multi-GPU: Steel-armor PCI-E slots; supports NVIDIA 2-Way SLI & AMD 3-Way Crossfire
- Professional I/O cover & heat sink: Stunning looks and protection for the I/O ports
- EZ Debug LED: Easiest way to troubleshoot
- Twin Turbo M.2: Delivering speeds up to 32Gb/s; Intel Optane Memory Ready
- Lightning USB: Double bandwidth, supports USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A + Type-C
- PCI-E Steel Armor: Protecting VGA cards against bending and EMI
- X-Boost: Great tool to boost your USB & storage performance
- Double ESD Protection: Double-layer grounding motherboard mounting holes
- Military Class 5, Guard-Pro: Latest evolution in high-quality components for best protection and efficiency
- Click BIOS 5: Award-winning BIOS with high-resolution scalable font, favorites and search function
- VR Ready: Best virtual-reality game experience without latency; reduces motion sickness
Millions of Marvelous Colors, Great Selection of Effects
With multiple colors available, you are the artist to create your own unique gaming rig. Done selecting colors? Choose between several LED effects to really make your system come alive and enjoy your personalized design!
Extend Your RGB Experience with Ease
MSI's Mystic Light Extension pin header provides an intuitive way to control additional RGB strips and other RGB peripherals added to a system, without needing a separate RGB controller. By simply connecting any 12V RGB LED strip to the 4-pin Mystic Light Extension RGB-strip header gamers can sync colors to any style they choose.
Mystic Light Sync: Synchronize Your LED Experience
With the convenience of Mystic Light Sync, you can control RGB LED solutions from other brands, such as CPU coolers, keyboards and mice or RGB system fans.
Smartphone & PC Control
Create your own colorful masterpiece with ease. The easy-to-use MYSTIC LIGHT APP is available on PC, phone and tablet. It offers remote control, simply using your smartphone or tablet. Make your PC look and feel brand new with any color you want with just a few clicks!
Fully Controllable Fan Headers
MSI motherboards let you manage speeds and temperatures for all your system and CPU fans, giving you full control to set up a cool & silent system. The fan headers are conveniently placed with the most popular CPU coolers in mind.
Optimized for Water Cooling
Designed to support the most popular All-In-One & custom water cooling solutions on the market. A dedicated water pump PIN header supports up to 2 amp, giving you full control of the water pump speed. A clearly marked ‘keep-out-zone’ allows for easy and safe installation and a perfect fit.
Waterpump header: Up to 2A supported; speed control from BIOS and OS.
Want More Performance? Try Multi-GPU!
Gaming enthusiasts are always looking for more performance to get the ultimate experience. Using multiple graphics cards is a great way to find out just how good it gets. MSI motherboards fully support multi-GPU technologies and have optimal PCI-E slot placement for the best thermal performance.
Works best with MSI graphics cards.
2x Turbo M.2
Enjoy a blazing-fast system boot up and insanely quick loading of applications and games with MSI motherboards. Delivering speeds up to 32Gb/s per device using Gen3 x4, Turbo M.2 is over 5 times faster than a regular SATA III connection!
Easy Raid Setup with M.2 Genie
Looking to go all out in terms of raw data speed and put multiple SSDs in RAID 0? Setting this up can prove to be quite the challenge. That’s why we created M.2 Genie, a brilliant feature to make setting up RAID 0 for M.2 and U.2 much easier and less time consuming.
Raise Your Sound Quality with Audio Boost 4
Built on years of experience in building motherboards dedicated to providing true Hi-Fi sound. Audio Boost has developed into a high quality audio unit, offering a clear improvement in sound quality.
Next-Gen High-Definition Audio Processor
Audio Boost 4 is powered by an EMI-shielded, high-definition audio processor with built-in DAC, making sure you enjoy the purest sound quality in both stereo and surround sound.
- 120dB SNR / 32-bit
- Supports DSD Super Audio CD playback recording (64x better than regular CD quality)
Dedicated Headphone Amplifier That Auto-Detects Impedance
The built-in dedicated headphone amplifier rewards audiophiles with headphones up to 600O impedance by delivering studio-grade sound quality from your gaming PC. Audio Boost 4 automatically detects the optimal impedance for your headphones and adjusts the output for the best sound quality.
Chemi-Con Audio Capacitors for a Warmer Sound
By dedicating golden audio capacitors to the front output, a high-fidelity sound experience with exceptional acoustics and realism for studio-level headphones is ensured. The Chemi-Con audio capacitors are widely considered to be one of the great choices for the best sound output.
Low-Latency LAN Powered by Intel
This model comes equipped with a premium network solution from Intel. The high-quality Gigabit LAN networking component is optimized for professional and multimedia use with outstanding performance to deliver a secure, stable and fast network connection.
LAN Protect to Shield Your System Against Power Surges
Featuring anti-surge protection to shield your network from lightning strikes and static electricity, the LAN Protect connector is designed to give you a reliable networking experience.
Enhanced Stability with Optimized Memory Layout
Optimized traces and a fully isolated memory circuitry ensures perfect stability and performance, so you never have to worry about your system crashing.
Extreme Stability & Compatibility Testing
MSI conducts thorough memory testing with the most popular memory brands under extreme conditions to ensure your system runs stable no matter what. Our memory partners include brands like Corsair, Crucial, Kingston, G.Skill and many more to optimize memory modules, configurations and even improve overclocking.
Easy XMP LED
The XMP LED highlights if your Extreme Memory Profile is active for the best memory speed and stability.
Designed for Limitless Tuning
Founded on experience and with a long history of creating the best performing motherboards packed with smart features, you can count on this motherboard to deliver the best performance under the most extreme conditions. Countless system tuning and troubleshooting tools are at your disposal to push your system to new heights and satisfy even the most demanding tweaker.
Premium Power Phases
High-quality components used in MSI motherboards ensure a stable and optimized power delivery for the best performance.
Load-Line Calibration (LLC)
What you set, is what you get. LLC makes sure your CPU voltage remains 100% stable under any load. This greatly improves stability when demanding more CPU performance.
Digital Power Design
A fully digital power design allows for faster and undistorted current delivery to the CPU at pin-point precision. Creating the perfect conditions for CPU overclocking.
EZ Debug LED
Run into trouble? Onboard LEDs for key components will indicate the source of the problem so you know exactly where to look to get up and running again.
Overvoltage Protection
Prevents potential short-circuit damage to the CPU and other critical components.
Double Bandwidth with Lightning USB 3.1 Gen2
Using multiple USB 3.1 devices has never been faster! Featuring the Lighting ASmedia 3142 USB 3.1 Gen2 controller, MSI motherboards offer never before seen USB speeds when connecting multiple USB devices at the same time. The Lightning USB connectors are covered with gold to ensure a better signal and performance.
Type-C Reversible Connector for Next-Gen USB
Get all the performance benefits from USB 3.1 combined with the convenience of the USB Type-C connector. This reversible USB connector allows for effortless connecting of USB devices.
The Best USB Signal When Using Long Cables
Get rid of input lag when gaming with racing wheels or other devices using long USB cables. The special USB 3.1 re-driver chips strengthen the USB signal, enabling you to use longer USB cables without impacting performance.
Fortify Your System with PCI-E Steel Armor
MSI PCI Express Steel Armor slots are armed with more solder points on the motherboard for a stronger hold, preventing any damage due to heavy-weight graphics cards. Steel Armor also protects PCI Express signals against electromagnetic interference to provide a pure and reliable signal for the best performance, even when turning it up a notch.
Ultimate Motherboard Protection
We’ve made sure you can enjoy your system endlessly. MSI motherboards feature Double ESD protection with double-layer grounding around the motherboard mounting holes, preventing Electrostatic discharge (ESD) surges from damaging the motherboard.
DOUBLE ESD PROTECTION—BEST
SINGLE ESD PROTECTION—AVERAGE
SEMI ESD PROTECTION—POOR
Super Stable with the Highest Quality Components
MSI uses Military Class 5 components, which is the latest evolution of the industries’ highest quality standard. These high-quality components are shielded by the best protection to make sure your system runs smoothly under the most extreme conditions.
Titanium Choke
Titanium chokes run much cooler and deliver a 30% improvement in power efficiency, allowing for better overclocking 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 years.
Dark Choke
A special core design allows the dark choke to run at a lower temperature offering better power efficiency and stability.
