





MSI X399 GAMING PRO CARBON AC
Like the throne to the king, this board powered by AMD X399 chipset offers a solid foundation for the AMD RYZEN THREADRIPPER series processor, the new performance king. It comes with eight DDR4 slots with quad-channel operation support, four PCIe 3.0 x16 slots, three TURBO M.2 slots (PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6 Gb/s), and a wealth of SATA and USB ports including the latest USB Type-C. Onboard RGB lighting gives eye-catching fun. And an Intel dual-band Wi-Fi card offers 802.11ac Wi-Fi speed of up to 867 Mbps, and Bluetooth connectivity for use with your phone, tablet and Bluetooth peripherals.
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Customize your Gaming Rig
Personalize your PC with 16.8 million colors and 17 effects through Mystic Light RGB LED. Controlled in one click with the Mystic Light APP or a mobile device.
Works with certified Mystic Light Sync products:
Personalize your motherboard
Customize the looks of the GAMING PRO CARBON motherboard by changing to different color schemes. Use the included removable covers to change to silver or gold, or simply 3D print your own and mount them!
3d Printing & Modding
Mod it yourself! Completely transform your system. This motherboard is optimized for 3D printing & modding.
This motherboard features X-mounting 3D printing screws which allow you to use your own 3D printed covers, FAN guards or other 3D printed materials to mounted to the board with ease.
Designed for overclocking
Combining the industry's best components with MSI's top-notch R&D design, you can count on this motherboard to deliver world-class performance. By adding plenty of DrMOS premium power phases, Loadline Calibration, DigitALL CPU PWM and a dedicated ClockGen, MSI X399 models ensure a clean, stable and optimized power delivery for the best performance when pushed to the max.
Boost CPU performance
The most extreme enthusiasts demand more CPU & Memory performance. MSI X299 motherboards deliver just that. Turbo socket allows for additional tuning of DDR4 memory and Ring voltages for no limits overclocking, whether you are a casual tuner or extreme overclocker.
Use the MSI Game Boost function for one-second automated overclocking. On selected models you can simply turn the dial, on others use the Gaming App or BIOS and your PC gets another adrenalin shot.
M.2 Shield: maximize SSD performance, prevent slow downs
World's fastest SSDs can start to lower performance when getting hot. The new onboard M.2 Shield is the next generation M.2 Thermal solution avoiding this by offering the best thermal protection to make sure the SSD maintains maximum performance.
Immerse yourself into Virtual Worlds
Integrating the very best of cutting edge technologies on MSI hardware provides a smooth Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality ride. Through joint efforts with major VR brands, combined with unique MSI features to optimize VR, MSI brings gamers and professionals a vivid and realistic experience in which content truly comes alive.
Pull yourself in the game with VR Boost
Traditional USB ports can suffer signal drops, significantly impacting performance of connected devices. VR Boost, only on MSI, is a smart chip that ensures a clean and strong signal to a VR optimized USB port, giving you an enjoyable VR experience.
Amplify your Game with Audio Boost 4
Like a dedicated sound card Audio Boost 4, powered by Nahimic, offers a HD audio processor, dedicated amplifier and high quality audio capacitors, all physically isolated from the rest of the motherboard circuitry to ensure the purest audio signal to locate enemies with pin-point accuracy.
Maximize your USB Device performance
Transfer your favorite games, 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!
Unmatched Memory Performance
MSI motherboards are crammed with features to fuel your gaming rig's memory with more speed, higher overclockability and increased stability.
Best compatibility
Optimized traces and a fully isolated memory circuitry ensures perfect stability and performance, so you never have to worry about your system crashing during games.
Dominate the Game with the Lowest Latency
Get ready to crush your enemies on the battlefield with MSI GAMING LAN. Featuring the highest quality components tuned to deliver the best online gaming experience without lag.
INTEL® WI-FI AC & BLUETOOTH
Use your LAN port for online gaming while using WiFi for other online applications. The Intel® Wi-Fi / Bluetooth solution uses smart MU-MIMO technology, delivering AC speeds up to 867Mbps. Share your Screen while gaming with Intel® Wireless DisPlay (WiDi), which also lets you stream movies, photos, presentations, and more.
Pros: A lot of potential - 3xM.2, 8xSATA, 6xPCIE, 10xUSB3 on the back!
Cons: After a half an year since released, this motherboard still does not work smoothly/stable.
Overall Review: My server configuration: - MSI X399 Gaming Pro Carbon, BIOS 1.68 Beta (to support M.2 RAID0) - AMD Ryzen ThreadRipper 1950X 16-core - G.Skill TridentZ 3200 4 x 16GB First, after 3 months of the M.2 RAID0 released by AMD, the latest BIOS 1.60 still does not support it. I found leaked BIOS 1.63b, 1.66b and 1.68b somehow supporting the M.2 RAID0 though it is flaky. To make the M.2 RAID0 working you need to switch the SATA controller to the RAID mode, too. But this is not enough - you need to switch the OS mode to Windows-10 thus forcing the UEFI boot mode so no legacy boot from CD/DVD/USB and legacy OS'es after that. And then every other reboot be prepared to get stuck with the status code A0 - I believe the motherboard cannot initialize the M.2 RAID0. I found a way to pass the A0 by switching the SATA back to the AHCI and then to the RAID, and switch the OS mode to ALL and then back to Windows-10 - then it will possibly init the M.2 RAID. And this is just in case you are lucky to get to the BIOS configuration which is not always possible. If it is possible to get to the BIOS configuration then I just load my previously saved overclock profile thus re-init the BIOS settings. If it is not possible (very often) then the only quick way is to either remove 3 RAM sticks out of 4 (which does not always help) or restore the BIOS from the USB flash formatted as FAT32 (not FAT/FAT16/FAT12!) using the FlashBack feature and then load your previously saved overclock profile. In general, be prepared to restore the BIOS and its settings every reboot because it will most possibly get stuck with the status code 94 - usually there is no way to to pass this code using RESET button or switching off the power supply. Sometimes you can get to the BIOS after the status code 94 by pressing the motherboard switch off for 4 seconds but sometimes only the FlashBack helps. My everyday stuck status codes are 54, 55, 62, 64, 94, A0, C3 - only 1 time out of 10 I get a success with the reboot. Overclocking is way more complicated than making the M.2 RAID working! Be prepared to get stuck with various status codes - the "lovely" ones are 54 and 55 after any insignificant change in the BIOS settings! After that there is no way to get back to the BIOS configuration! You either remove all the memory but one, on hope it will boot to the BIOS configuration (assuming you have configured BIOS to go to the configuration on the memory amount changed), or use the FlashBack which will reset the settings, and then restore your settings from the overclock profile. The CMOS reset does not work at all once you stuck with a status code - you cannot clear it neither by shorting the predefined pins on the motherboard for 10 seconds, nor by pressing the CLEAR button on the back for 10 seconds (sure, after switching the power supply and waiting for all the lights went down). So usually only the FlashBack feature works to load the same BIOS again and again (thus wearing the BIOS PROM), or sometimes by removing all the memory but one (thus wearing the memory slots). So until there will be a stable BIOS released, please prepare a FAT32 flash drive with your BIOS version, and save your BIOS configuration to the overclock profile after each change - there will be no way to get to the BIOS configuration in case of any error status code. Well, you may probably have a success with this motherboard if you just put a less cores CPU, slow RAM, 1 HDD and planning no overclocking - then the default BIOS would probably work for you. But this is overclockers motherboard! Sad. Also please note, the Corsair H100i v2 does not work with my hardware configuration (see the config above) - the Corsairlink.Service consumes 30-50 new handles every second and does not release them thus making the computer responding very slow in just few hours followed by the Windows-10 crash after the CorsairLink.Service allocated 1,000,000 handles. As a solution, the Corsair's technical support requires to run CCleaner Registry Clean even on a fresh Windows-10 installation. Well, running CCleaner Registry Cleanup twice on a fresh Windows-10 installation before the CorsairLink installation and then twice after the CorsairLink installation does not help - every developer knows the root cause of this issue but the Corsair technical support keeps requesting to run CCleaner again and again for 10 days since December 19 as "the only way to get the CorsairLink working". So please do not use the CorsairLink on similar configuration (at least with the CorsairLink versions 4.9.3.24, 4.9.3.25, 4.9.3.28 I've tried) to avoid your Windows-10 crash and slowness. I would give Enermax TR4 a try - it does not require any software at all to work, and its pump and fan speed is configurable directly from the BIOS not by an application, and also it fully covers the AMD Ryzen ThreadRipper surface not just 50% or so thus giving a better overclocking potential - I will probably go this way and dump the Corsair H100i.