MSI Z170I Gaming Pro AC, Intel Z170 Mainboard - Socket 1151 [7980-001R]

It is important that, inter alia, for equipping with M.2 slots that now - depending on the motherboard - can contain up to three slots, each with four PCIe 3.0-lines, where it previously was only one slot, which in most cases was connected only with two data lines. This allows having a bandwidth of approximately 4 GB / s per slot, the use of several extremely fast M.2 SSDs and enables bypassing the slower SATA 6G standards, there are still up to six times. Even with USB 3.0 lot has changed, from a maximum of 14 USB ports now support up to 10 fast 3.0 standard and is no longer only a maximum of 6. Overall, a Skylake CPU together with a series-100 chipset is a very modern and well-equipped platform.

When MSI Z170I Gaming Pro AC is a nicely appointed Z170 Mainboard in Mini-ITX form factor, which represents particularly for fast quad-core processors of the Core i7 or Core i5 series an ideal base - as Z170- Board supports of course also overclocking of CPUs of the K-series, which are equipped with a freely selectable multiplier. The black-red Gamer Board with large, also black heatsinks and red accents has two DIMM slots for DDR4 memory in fast dual-channel mode. For graphics cards provides the board a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot ready.

If no graphics card is present, can be thanks to the integrated graphics processor a Skylake CPU monitors connected directly to the back of the motherboard - this stand with HDMI and two DisplayPort connectors. The MSI motherboard convinced bargain among others with 7.1 sound with Realtek ALC1150 chipset, a turbo M.2 slot, six USB 3.0 ports, a SATA-Express port, four SATA 6G connections, two fan connectors , a LAN controller with Intel 219-V-chip, an integrated Wi-Fi or Bluetooth module Intel Wireless AC8260, which even supports the particularly fast ac-Fi standard, XMP support and several overclocking features.

Technical details:

    Format: Mini-ITX
    Color: Black, Red
    Chipset: Intel Z170 (Sunrise Point)
    Socket 1151 (for Intel CPUs the 6th generation Core Skylake)
    RAM: 2 × DDR4 (regularly DDR4-2.133, max 3,600 MHz by OC.)
    Dual-Channel
    Slots (physically):
    1 × PCIe 3.0 x16
    1 × WiFi / Bluetooth module (Intel AC8260, incl. 802.11ac)
    Internal connections:
    4 × SATA 6G (including 2 as SATA Express)
    1 × SATA Express
    1 × Turbo-M.2 (max. 32 Gb / s)
    2 x USB 3.0 (a header)
    2 x USB 2.0 (a header)
    1 × TPM header
    2 x fan (4-pin)
    Power / reset / LED / front-Audio
    External connections:
    1 × PS / 2 keyboard / mouse
    4 × USB 3.0
    3 x USB 2.0
    1 × Gigabit LAN (Intel I219-V)
    2x WiFi antenna (supplied)
    1 × HDMI
    1 × DisplayPort 1.2
    1 × S / PDIF (optical)
    5 × audio (7.1, Realtek ALC1150)
    Power supply:
    1 × 24-pin EATX 12V
    1 x 8-pin ATX 12V