Our first look at MSI X299 offerings arrived in the form of a mid-range board from the Arsenal Gaming series, the Tomahawk Arctic. The Tomahawk line of motherboards, MSI says, have heavy plated heatsinks and “combative looks ready for anything”.
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The MSI Carbon range has long hit the sweet spot between price and feature set and we have the latest model in Z370 guise here for review today. If you’ve not read our MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon AC Preview yet, for shame, then you can bring yourself up to speed by clicking those words, but for everyone else let’s find out if the MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon AC performs as well as its forebears.
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MSI is using the transition to Z370 as an opportunity to freshen its mainstream boards’ styling cues. The Pro Carbon still takes after automotive themes, but I daresay it’s grown up a bit since our experience with its Z270 cousin. No, we’re not looking at real carbon fiber on this board’s I/O shroud, but the subtle patterning on these accents is pleasant-looking enough.
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MSI have included some very welcome additions on this X370 motherboard, including an additional M.2 slot, along with a custom designed heatsink ‘M.2 SHIELD FROZR’, to reduce the chance of your M.2 drive throttling. However, the party piece of the X370 GAMING M7 ACK is revealed in its name, ‘AC’ ‘Killer’.
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Ten SATA III ports and 3 M.2 sockets ensure that even the most drive-rich setup is catered for. If you’ve ever found yourself having to condense smaller drivers into one larger one for port reasons, fear not, the XPOWER has you covered. Equally plentiful are USB 3.1 sockets.
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The MSI Z370 Krait Gaming falls under the Performance Gaming category from the manufacturer, and is deemed second only to the Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon variants in the same category. The “Krait” portion of the product name appears to be referring to a snake species from India, thus the scales on the box art and arcing pattern on the motherboard itself.
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For this review I will be looking at the MSI X299 Gaming Pro Carbon motherboard. This is a gaming ready motherboard built on the new Intel X299 chipset supporting Core X Series processors on the LGA 2066 socket platform.
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MSI’s X399 Gaming Pro Carbon AC ($369.99 MSRP), as its name implies, tilts heavily toward gaming use. There aren’t a lot of X399 motherboards on the market at all, and all are pricey, in the $300-plus range; we saw just six models at the time of the Ryzen Threadripper launch, and we still see less than 10 for sale on Newegg.com at this writing.
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As the image above might suggest, you get RGB lighting, but it’s fairly subtle with just a few strips here and there along with a row of LEDs on the rear of the PCB. It’s similar to Asus’ effort, but if your retinas demand more then you’ll probably be needing a Gigabyte board, although there are two RGB headers on the PCB to add your own LED strips.
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While I did have my reservations about these motherboards, pretty much all was forgiven when we saw the incredible performance from the Z370 chipsets and the Coffee Lake processors such as the i7 8700k; the CPUs decimated everything else on the market regarding gaming performance.
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