MSI X370 SLI PLUS AM4 AMD X370 ATX Motherboard - AMD

The MSI X370 SLI PLUS motherboard combines ultimate performance with unmatched quality and stability MSI is renowned for, creating an unbeatable foundation for your next power house. It supports multi-GPU configuration, features 32Gbps NVMe M.2 slot and 10Gbps USB 3.1 Gen2 ports (one Type-A + one Type-C), and is built with Military Class 4 components for the best protection, efficiency and durability. Based on AMD X370 chipset, the X370 SLI PLUS works flawlessly with AMD RYZEN Series processors and 7th Gen A-series / Athlon Processors in AM4 packaging. It also boasts bold aesthetics, and has the ability to connect and customize various LED lighting solutions, giving you endless options to create a gaming rig of your own.

Mystic Light

Personalize your gaming rig

Customize and set up your own color scheme with RGB Mystic Light sync. Select any of the colors from the palette using your smartphone or the MSI Gaming App to match your system style. Bored of the same colors? Simply change the complete look of your system in 1 second!

Extend Your RGB Experience with Ease

MSI's Mystic Light Extension pinheader provides an intuitive way to control additional RGB strips and other RGB peripherals added to your system, without needing a separate RGB controller. By simply connecting any 12V RGB LED strip to the 4-pin Mystic Light Extension RGB-strip header gamers can sync colors to any style they choose.

Mystic Light Sync: Synchronize Your LED Experience

With the convenience of Mystic Light Sync, you can control RGB LED solutions from other brands, such as CPU coolers, keyboards and mice or RGB system fans.

Cooling

Stay cool

Cooling your PC is essential for reliable performance. Enough fan headers with full control are included to allow you to cool your system to the max.

Looking Cool while Keeping Cool

High quality materials and smart fan optimizations contribute to cooling all essential components, which is key to making sure your system runs stable at the best performance during long gaming sessions.

Fully Controllable Fan Headers

MSI motherboards let you manage speeds and temperatures for all your system and CPU fans, giving you full control to set up a cool & silent system. The fan headers are conveniently placed with the most popular CPU coolers in mind.

DC or PWM Mode with Hysteresis

MSI fan headers automatically detect fans running in DC or PWM mode for optimal tuning of fan speeds and silence. Hysteresis also makes your fans spin up fluently to make sure your system stays silent, no matter what.

* This feature may vary according to your platform and model.

Total Control in BIOS and Software

Total Fan Control allows you to take control of your fans and check your primary system characteristics in a simplified graphical interface. You can also set up to 4 temperature targets for CPU and motherboard, which will adjust the fan speeds automatically.

Optimized for Water Cooling

Designed to support the most popular All-In-One & custom water cooling solutions on the market. A dedicated water pump PIN header supports up to 2 amp, giving you full control of the water pump speed. A clearly marked ‘keep-out-zone’ allows for easy and safe installation and a perfect fit.

Waterpump Header

• Up to 2A supported
• Speed control from BIOS and OS

Display

Enjoy the latest video standards

Supporting the latest display connectors for new technologies (OLED, HDR) and legacy connectors for beamers, MSI motherboards are designed to make life easier for any professional user.

Want More Performance? Try Multi GPU!

Gaming enthusiasts are always looking for more performance to get the ultimate experience. Using multiple graphics cards is a great way to find out just how good it gets. MSI GAMING motherboards fully support multi GPU technologies and have optimal PCI-E slot placement for the best thermal performance.

*works best with MSI graphics cards

Legacy DVI Video Support

To support professional monitors, TVs, beamers and other displays, this MSI motherboard features DVI video output. No matter what screen type you want to connect, using a dedicated graphics card or an onboard connector, MSI motherboards have you covered.

4K UHD

Enjoy awesome 4K UHD (2160p ultra-high definition) video playback with MSI motherboards.

Storage

Be the first to boot up in the morning

This MSI product supports all the latest storage standards. This allows you to connect any ultra-fast storage device, giving you noticeable benefits. Start programs faster, load data faster and increase productivity.

Protect & Optimize Your Devices with Steel Armor

Steel Armor protects your M.2 SSD and slot from damage. But it does much more than that, Steel Armor ensures a clean data signal from the motherboard and M.2 SSD by protecting against electromagnetic interference (EMI) for a smooth experience.

Turbo M.2

Enjoy a blazing fast system boot-up and insanely quick loading of applications and data. Delivering speeds up to 32Gb/s per device using Gen3 x4, Turbo M.2 is over 5 times faster than a regular SATA III connection!

Xboost Your Storage Performance

This great little tool is very simple to use and automatically detects your storage devices connected to the system. When enabled, X-Boost optimizes your SSDs to keep your system fast and maximize storage performance, saving you a lot of time when loading or transferring data.

SATA Mass Storage

Each MSI motherboard comes with enough SATA ports to connect loads of HDDs for long term storage of large files and system backups.

Audio

Professional sound quality

Get the most immersive sound experience. MSI Audio Boost delivers the highest sound quality through the use of premium quality audio components. This lets you enjoy breathtaking, game-changing sound to create the most dynamic soundscapes.

Amplify Your Game with Audio Boost

Built on years of experience in building motherboards, it is dedicated to giving gamers true Hi-Fi sound. Audio Boost has developed into a high quality audio unit, offering a clear advantage over your opponents when gaming. Locate your enemies with your eyes closed using Audio Boost.

VR

Immerse yourself into virtual worlds

Integrating the very best of cutting edge technologies on MSI hardware provides a smooth VR ride. Through joint efforts with major VR brands, combined with unique MSI features geared to VR, MSI brings gamers and VR professionals a vivid and realistic experience in which content truly comes alive.

Get Ready to Be Overwhelmed by the Realms of VR

From the start of Virtual Reality, MSI has been deeply involved in making VR Ready hardware in each of its product lines. Whether it's a feature-rich motherboard, a framerate boosting graphics card or a blazing fast complete gaming system, a huge set of VR-supporting features awaits you.

Optimized for the Best VR Brands

Want the best VR experience without any compromise? By closely working with the industry’s leading VR vendors, MSI offers everything you need when exploring the possibilities of VR.

Straight into the Action with One Click to VR

Both hard- and software need to be in tune for a smooth VR experience. One Click to VR makes it very fast and easy to get primed for VR. A single click sets all your key components to their highest performance and makes sure other software applications won’t impact your virtual adventure.

Network

Stable, secure & fast networking

Optimized for professional and multimedia use, this generation comes equipped with a high quality network solution ready to serve you with 24/7 reliability when transferring big data.

Stable, Secure Networking

The Gigabit network adapter on MSI Professional motherboards offers fast, reliable and secure networking.

Featuring Network Genie for easy-to-use bandwidth optimizing

• Allows you to change applications' traffic priority
• Perfect for cloud computing and data syncing

LAN Protect to Shield Your System against Power Surges

Featuring 15KV anti-surge protection to shield your network from lightning strikes and static electricity, the LAN Protect connector is designed to give you a reliable networking experience.

Memory

Unmatched memory performance

MSI motherboards are crammed with features to fuel your system's memory with more speed, higher overclockability and increased stability.

Enhanced Stability with Optimized Memory Layout

Optimized traces and a fully isolated memory circuitry ensures perfect stability and performance, so you never have to worry about your system crashing.

Memory Speed Impacts Performance

The technical enhancements of DDR4 Boost allow for more stability at higher memory speeds compared to other brands. Enjoy the additional boost in gaming performance or when working with large video and photography files.

* Benchmarks conducted with The Witcher 3 RYZEN, GTX 1080, 1080P, Max settings, Hairworks off.

Xtreme Stability & Compatibility Testing

MSI conducts thorough memory testing with the most popular memory brands under extreme conditions to ensure your system runs stable no matter what. MSI’s memory partners include brands like Corsair, Crucial, Kingston, G.Skill and many more to optimize memory modules, configurations and even improve overclocking.

Tuning

Designed for limitless tuning

Founded on experience and with a long history of creating the best performing motherboards packed with smart features, you can count on this motherboard to deliver the best performance under the most extreme conditions. Countless system tuning and troubleshooting tools are at your disposal to push your system to new heights and satisfy even the most demanding tweaker.

USB

Maximize your USB device performance

Transfer lots of data, music and movies over USB faster than ever. MSI offers a wide variety of options to connect and boost your USB 3.1 devices, delivering lightning-fast transfer speeds!

Double Bandwidth with Lightning USB 3.1 Gen2

Using multiple USB 3.1 devices has never been faster! Featuring the Lighting ASmedia 2142 USB 3.1 Gen2 controller, MSI motherboards offer never before seen USB speeds when connecting multiple USB devices at the same time.

FASTER PERFORMANCE WHEN USING ONE USB DEVICE OR DOUBLE WHEN TWO

Type-C Reversible Connector for Next-Gen USB

Get all the performance benefits from USB 3.1 combined with the convenience of the USB Type-C connector. This reversible USB connector allows for effortless connecting of USB devices.

X-Boost Your USB Performance

When enabled, X-Boost optimizes your devices for even better transfer speeds and can provide up to 30% increase in USB performance, saving a lot of time when transferring data. This handy tool is very easy to use and automatically detects & optimizes the USB devices connected to your system.

Super Charge Your Phone & Battery-Powered Gear

MSI Super Charger USB ports charge any connected device faster. It delivers more power than regular USB ports to your smartphone, tablet, USB peripherals or other battery-powered gear.

Front Side USB Faster than Ever with USB 3.1

Ready for next generation cases and perfect to use with the latest smartphones, the onboard front side USB connector now offers ultra-high speed through USB 3.1 with Type-A.

Double ESD Protection

Never worry about damage caused by defective USB devices. The USB ports on MSI motherboards are shielded by a set of protective ICs to prevent damage caused by Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) from plugging/unplugging USB devices.

Software

Apps to greatly improve efficiency

With years of experience in creating performance enhancing tools that are easy to use, only the highest quality applications are at your disposal. Use these tools to get the most out of your motherboard and time spent.

X-Boost Your Storage

This unique and exclusive software allows you to boost the performance of any storage or USB device connected to your system. Simply use X-BOOST’s Easy or Advanced mode to tune your system for up to 20% increased speeds, higher system responsiveness and faster loading of in-game levels.

Take Command of Your System

MSI’s Command Center software is the perfect tool to get the most out of your motherboard. With an intuitive interface, Command Center allows you to tune settings to increase system stability, maximize performance and optimize your system’s cooling features.

Always Up-to-Date

Never miss out on important updates. MSI Live Update automatically downloads and installs the latest drivers, BIOS and software so you can focus on your game.

"...the best update package available on any motherboard." - Anandtech

SSD Not Fast Enough? Try MSI RAMDISK

MSI motherboards include RAMDisk, allowing you to create a virtual drive from your system RAM memory. Instantly load your software, speed up your browser or your page file to significantly speed up your system!

• Speed up system performance, over 25x faster than a SATA SSD
• Speed up games, apps and browser
• Increase SSD lifespan

Quality & Protection

Built on everlasting quality

Using only the finest quality components and integrating the latest technological innovations delivers the best possible professional experience. Rigorous quality testing under the most extreme conditions ensures a super reliable, long-lasting and high performance motherboard.

Fortify Your System with PEI-E Steel Armor

MSI PCI Express Steel Armor slots are armed with more solder points on the motherboard for a stronger hold, preventing any damage due to heavy-weight graphics cards. Steel Armor also protects PCI Express signals against electromagnetic interference to provide a pure and reliable signal for the best performance, even when turning it up a notch.

Shield Your SSD with Steel Armor

MSI Steel Armor protects your M.2 SSD and slot from physical harm. It also ensures a clean data signal between the motherboard and M.2 SSD by shielding against electromagnetic interference (EMI). Steel Armor helps to deliver a smooth gaming experience.

Ultimate Motherboard Protection

Enjoy your system endlessly. MSI motherboards feature Double ESD protection with double layer grounding around the motherboard mounting holes, preventing Electrostatic discharge (ESD) surges from damaging the motherboard.

Windows 10 Certified

With MSI you benefit from great compatibility and a worry-free user experience when using Microsoft Windows 10. With a true dedication to performance, MSI’s R&D team has made sure everything works as intended when using the latest version of Microsoft Windows on any MSI product.

BIOS

A user-friendly BIOS

The BIOS contains all the latest options and is easy to use for everyone. The extensive features found in CLICK BIOS 5 let you fine-tune your system to deliver reliable maximum performance.

Easy To Read, Hi-Res BIOS Font

An award-winning, high-resolution, scalable font is used to make CLICK BIOS 5 easy to read, no matter what type of screen you use. The clean design layout, together with this great font, makes CLICK BIOS 5 a true next gen UEFI BIOS.

Easy Mode for Quick Tweaks

When you just want to get back to work, EZ-mode presents you with basic BIOS settings and functions for some quick adjustments. If you feel like spending more time fine-tuning options to boost your system’s performance, the Advanced mode is the way to go.

Easy Search & Favorites

Can’t find a specific BIOS setting? Don’t worry, a permanent search option in the top right corner can be used to find what you need. Want quick access to important settings? My Favorites gives easy access to selected Favorite settings, supporting up to 5 groups of Favorites.

Hardware Monitor with Fan Control

Hardware monitor lets you take control of your system and check your primary system vitals in a simplified graphical interface. You can also set up to 4 temperature targets for CPU and motherboard, which will adjust the fan speeds automatically.

Make Your SSD as Fast as New with Secure Erase+

When using an SSD, its performance will slowly decrease over time as more and more data is written onto it. This will slow down Read/Write speeds and increase access times of your SSD, making your system feel sluggish. Using an optimized formatting algorithm, Secure Erase+ lets you enjoy your SSD at maximum speed, making your system feel brand new!

Instantly Optimize and Boost Your Performance

CLICK BIOS 5 provides easy access to XMP memory profiles to optimize your system's memory timings and speeds for maximum stability and performance. Safely overclock your CPU with a single button for more performance using MSI OC Genie.

* Features may vary according to your platform and model