The black and silver cooling plate that covers the southbridge extends over the two M.2 slots, providing cooling and protection for your SSDs. The first of these uses the CPU’s PCIe 3.0 x4 connection, while the second is routed through the motherboard chipset, and is actually a PCIe 2.0 x4 connection.
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The MSI X370 Gaming M7 ACK is clearly ahead of the game and the X470 Gaming M7 AC takes that learning to polish a product fit for Gaming. The overall product experience nudges it past the competition and it’s hard to complain that this board provides value in the high-end space. You’re move.
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The X470 Gaming M7 AC carves a meaty $229 out of your PC build or upgrade budget, but many gamers will consider its bling potential and tweaking tools well worth the price. Those aiming for a simpler build and who won’t be overclocking their Ryzen can opt for a more budget-friendly B350-based board.
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We have looked at X470 motherboards from all vendors, except for MSI and today we take a look at one of MSI’s high-end motherboards, the X470 Gaming M7 AC, which is well equipped to fight it out in the high-end X470 arena. The motherboard is loaded with MSI’s latest features, and as such is well positioned to take full advantage of the new 2000-series AMD processors. Let’s take a look at this motherboard.
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While not the highest offering among the Enthusiast Gaming family of boards. The Gaming M7 position is arguably one of the most popular in the Lineup. It stands to Reason it would be one of the first to get the updates for AMD’s 2nd generation Ryzen processors, and today we get to look at MSI’s X470 Gaming M7 AC motherboard.…
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MSI goes in heavy on the overclocking front, evidenced by the dual 8-pin EPS on the right-hand side. The board works just fine with one, but if you’re overclocking to the limit and have a compatible PSU, there’s no harm in adding a second, and OC potential ought to be helped on by the beefy, 14-phase supply.
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One of the big improvements over X370 boards that X470 models have introduced is improved power circuitry to better deal with AMD’s Ryzen CPUs and to cater for the higher TDPs of certain new 2nd Gen Ryzen models such as the Ryzen 7 2700X. Nowhere is this more evident than the MSI X470 Gaming M7 AC, which in power circuitry terms appears to be an entirely different beast to its predecessor.
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MSI released its lineup of five socket AM4 X470-based gaming motherboards in time with the new second generation Ryzen processors from AMD earlier this week, covering a range of performance across the gaming market. Today we examine the top dog of this new X470 lineup from MSI in the form of the X470 GAMING M7 AC motherboard.
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The GAMING M7 AC features two RGB LED lit zones, one above the IO shield at the back and then a bank of 8 LEDs mounted on the reverse side, on the top-right section; illuminating the rear of the DIMM slots against the motherboard back plate. The RGB implementation is arranged by MSIs Mystic Light.
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But I’m excited to see what everyone is going to do different this generation, I’m not used to seeing new AMD boards on the regular like this, I could get used to it! So to start things off I’m going to check out the X470 Gaming M7 AC from MSI that MSI and AMD provided.
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