MSI Z170A MPOWER Gaming Titanium Review: Heavy Metal Magnificence

1. Support for Intel^® Core™ i7 processors/Intel^® Core™ i5 processors/Intel^® Core™ i3 processors/Intel^® Pentium^® processors/Intel^® Celeron^® processors in the LGA1151 package
2. L3 cache varies with CPU

(Please refer “CPU Support List” for more information.)

1. Intel^® Z170 Express Chipset

1. 4 x DDR4 DIMM sockets supporting up to 64 GB of system memory
   * Due to a Windows 32-bit operating system limitation, when more than 4 GB of physical memory is installed, the actual memory size displayed will be less than the size of the physical memory installed.
2. Dual channel memory architecture
3. Support for DDR4 3600(O.C.) / 3466(O.C.) / 3400(O.C.) / 3333(O.C.) / 3300(O.C.) / 3200(O.C.) / 3000(O.C.) / 2800(O.C.) / 2666(O.C.) / 2400(O.C.) / 2133 MHz memory modules
4. Support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode)
5. Support for non-ECC Un-buffered 1Rx8/2Rx8/1Rx16 memory modules
6. Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules

(Please refer “Memory Support List” for more information.)

1. 1 x HDMI port
2. 1 x DVI-D

1. Realtek^® ALC1150 codec
2. High Definition Audio
3. 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
4. Support for S/PDIF Out

1. 1 x Intel^® i219 Gigabit LAN

1. 3 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots*
2. 3 x PCIe 3.0 x1 slots*

* PCI_E6 slot and PCIe x1 slots share the same bandwidth. Please refer to page 30 for PCIe slots bandwidth table.

1. Support for NVIDIA^® 2-Way NVIDIA^® SLI™ technologies
2. Support for AMD 3-way CrossFireX™ and 2-Way AMD CrossFire™ technologies

6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports*

1. Support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10

2 x M.2 slots (Key M)*

1. Supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s
2. Supports 2242/ 2260/ 2280/ 22110 storage devices**
3. Supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 for M.2 PCIe Storage devices***

1 x U.2 port*

1. Supports PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe storage
2. Supports Intel® Smart Response Technology****

* M.2 SATAs and SATA1, 2, 5 and 6 share the same bandwidth. M2_2 slot and U.2 port share the same bandwidth. Please refer to page 36 for M.2/ U.2 & SATA combination table.
** Only M2_1 slot supports type 22110 storage device.
*** M.2 PCIe RAID volume can be created with UEFI BIOS.
****This function will be supported depend on the CPU.

1. 1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 (SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps) port on the back panel
2. 1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 (Super Speed USB 10Gbps) Type-C port on the back panel

Intel® Z170 Chipset

1. 6 x USB 3.1 Gen1 (SuperSpeed USB) ports (2 ports on the back panel, 4 ports available through the internal USB connectors)
2. 1 x USB 3.1 Gen1 (SuperSpeed USB) Type-C port on the board
3. 6 x USB 2.0 (High-speed USB) ports (4 ports on the back panel, 2 ports available through the internal USB connector)

1. 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
2. 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
3. 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
4. 2 x M.2 Socket 3 connector
5. 1 x U.2 connector
6. 2 x 4-pin CPU fan connectors
7. 3 x 4-pin system fan connectors
8. 1 x USB 2.0 connector (supports additional 2 USB 2.0 ports)
9. 2 x USB 3.1 Gen1 connectors (supports additional 4 USB 3.1 Gen1 ports)
10. 1 x USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-C port
11. 1 x front panel audio header
12. 2 x front panel connectors
13. 1 x RGB LED Connector
14. 1 x Slow mode booting jumper
15. 1 x Clear CMOS jumper
16. 1 x Trusted Platform Module (TPM) header

1. 1 x PS/2 keyboard/ mouse combo port
2. 4 x USB 2.0 ports
3. 1 x DVI-D port
4. 1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 port
5. 1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C port
6. 1 x HDMI port
7. 1 x LAN (RJ45) port
8. 2 x USB 3.1 Gen1 ports
9. 1 x Optical S/PDIF OUT connector
10. 5 x OFC audio jacks

1. 2 x 128 Mbit flash
2. Use of licensed AMI UEFI BIOS
3. Support for DualBIOS™
4. PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.7, WfM 2.0, SM BIOS 2.7, ACPI 5.0

1. ATX Form Factor; 30.5cm x 24.4cm