With board partners always keeping their ear to the rails, all major board partners have at least one Mini-ITX offering. Buyers are always looking for a combination of performance, appearance, and feature set to help select the right board for their needs. The MSI Z370I Gaming Pro Cabon AC will support the flagship i7-8700K processor (with overclocking), has a single M.2 slot, Wi-Fi, RGB LEDs, all in a 6-inch square package.
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Under-board features nearly end at that point, as the only other two things of interest are the M.2 connector and the Gigabit Ethernet PHY. Various power regulation components are also scattered about, but we were a little surprised to see that the board only supports a single PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 drive. Legacy SATA M.2 drives are excluded, according to MSI.
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Equipped with support for Turbo M.2, Intel Optane, high-performance DDR4 memory, and with plentiful overclocking options, it should deliver some impressive benchmarks today. Of course, you get plenty of bonus features too, like Lightening USB, RGB lighting, Hotkey, X-Boost, and WTFast to help sweeten the deal.
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The new Z370I Gaming Pro Carbon AC sports a slightly lower price tag than its predecessor and it’s worth pointing out that MSI has told us current pre-order pricing in the UK will be reduced to £160 before stock lands so make sure you pay that price and not the current £180.
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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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