Build your PC fleet with the MSI Pro Series Z270 PC MATE motherboard to give your business a significant boost. The motherboard features military class 5 components and high airflow/liquid cooling capacity, and is equipped to support Intel processors with LGA 1151 packaging, up to DDR43800+(OC) memory, and twin Turbo M.2 SSDs. Now reliability and performance go hand in hand. That is only part of the story. The motherboard also comes with DDR4 Boost, Audio Boost, and X-Boost technology to bump up your computing experience.
- Supports 7th / 6th Gen Intel Core / Pentium / Celeron processors for LGA 1151 socket
- Supports DDR4-3800+(OC) Memory
- DDR4 Boost: Give your DDR4 memory a performance boost
- Audio Boost: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality for a HI-FI experience
- EZ Debug LED: Easiest way to troubleshoot
- Twin Turbo M.2: Delivering Speeds Up to 32Gb/s, Intel Optane Memory Ready
- M.2 Genie: Setting up RAID for M.2 much easier and faster
- Lightning USB: Double bandwidth, supports USB 3.1 Gen2 Type A + Type C
- X-Boost: Great tool to boost your USB & Storage performance
- Double ESD Protection: Double layer grounding motherboard mounting holes
- Military Class 5, Guard-Pro: Latest evolution in high quality components for best protection and efficiency
- Click BIOS 5: Award-winning BIOS with high resolution scalable font, favorites and search function
Cooling your PC is essential for reliable performance. Enough fan headers have been included with full control to allow you to cool your system to the maximum.
6x fan headers
DC/PWM mode
Full fan control
Water cooling ready
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.
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 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.
The motherboard is 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.
- Up to 2A supported
- Speed control from BIOS and OS
Supporting the latest display connectors for new technologies (OLED and HDR) and legacy connectors for beamers, MSI motherboards are designed to make life easier for any professional user.
4K HDMI
VGA / DVI
To support professional monitors, TVs, beamers and other displays, this MSI motherboard features a DVI and a VGA 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.
DVI-D
VGA-OUT
To support professional monitors, TVs, beamers and other displays, this MSI motherboard features a DVI and a VGA 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.
DVI-D
VGA-OUT
Enjoy awesome 4K UHD (2160p ultra-high definition) video playback with MSI motherboards.
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.
Audio Boost
Audio capacitors
Audio Boost is built on years of experience in building motherboards dedicated to giving gamers true Hi-Fi sound. It 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.
Audio Boost operates like a dedicated soundcard by being physically isolated from the rest of the motherboard circuitry to ensure the purest audio signal possible. A bright border illuminated by LEDs showcases and protects the Hi-Fi audio unit.
Using separated layers in the PCB ensures equally pristine sound quality for both left and right audio channels.
Audio Boost protects your ears by eliminating those annoying loud popping sounds when you plug/unplug devices or turn your PC on/off.
Audio Boost is powered by an EMI-shielded high quality HD audio processor, making sure you enjoy the purest sound quality in both stereo and surround sound.
By dedicating golden audio capacitors to the front output, a high fidelity sound experience with exceptional acoustics and realism for studio level headphones is ensured. The Chemi-Con audio capacitors are widely considered to be one of the great choices for the best sound output.
With high quality audio connectors, you get the best possible signal output with less chance of distortion.
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.
2x M.2
Ultra-fast storage caching
This new technological marvel brings game-changing performance to memory and storage devices. Allow Optane caching to boost your storage devices for an even faster system.
Enjoy a blazing fast system boot up and insanely quick loading of applications and games with MSI motherboards. 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.
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.
Each MSI motherboard comes with enough SATA ports to connect loads of HDDs for long term storage of large files and system backups.
All of the fast SSD connectors support NVMe, the fastest storage standard in the world. Simply put, MSI motherboards offer the best of the best in storage options & performance. Instantly load your most used software and reduce waiting times with MSI.
Optimized for professional and multimedia use, this motherboard comes equipped with a high quality network solution ready to serve you with 24/7 reliability when transferring big data.
Optimized for professional and multimedia use, this motherboard comes equipped with a high quality network solution ready to serve you with 24/7 reliability when transferring big data.
Intel LAN
Bandwidth management
LAN protect
This model comes equipped with a premium network solution from Intel. The high quality Gigabit LAN networking component is optimized for professional and multimedia use with outstanding performance to deliver a secure, stable and fast network connection.
The Gigabit network adapter on the MSI Professional motherboards offers fast, reliable and secure networking.
Featuring Network Manager for easy-to-use bandwidth optimizing
- Allows you to change applications' traffic priority
- Perfect for cloud computing and data syncing
The Gigabit network adapter on the MSI Professional motherboards offers fast, reliable and secure networking.
Featuring Network Manager for easy-to-use bandwidth optimizing
- Allows you to change applications' traffic priority
- Perfect for cloud computing and data syncing
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.
MSI motherboards are crammed with features to fuel your system's memory with more speed, higher overclockability and increased stability.
Optimal layout
100% compatibility
Optimized traces and a fully isolated memory circuitry ensures perfect stability and performance, so you never have to worry about your system crashing.
The technical enhancements of DDR4 Boost allow for more stability at higher memory speeds compared to other brands. Enjoy the additional boost in operational performance or when working with large video and photography files.
* Benchmarks below conducted with The Witcher 3
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.
* The DDR4 Memory Validation below is based on Z170 platform.
Founded on experience and with a long history of creating the best performing motherboards packed with smart features, this motherboard makes sure 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 tweakers.
For power users
Prevents potential short-circuit damage to the CPU and other critical components.
Run into trouble? Onboard LEDs for key components will indicate the source of the problem so you know exactly where to look to get up and running again.
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 USB 3.1
Reversible Type-C connector
Front USB 3.1
Boost your USB
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ready for next generation cases and perfect for use with the latest smartphones, the onboard front side USB connector now offers ultra-high speed through USB 3.1 with Type-A.
Never worry about damage caused by defective USB devices. The USB ports on the MSI motherboards are shielded by a set of protective ICs to prevent damage caused by Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) from plugging/unplugging USB devices.
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 achieve victory when gaming.
X-Boost
Command Center
Live Update
RAMDisk
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 30% increased speeds, higher system responsiveness and faster loading of data.
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.
Never miss out on important updates. MSI Live Update automatically downloads and installs the latest drivers, BIOS and software so you can remain focused on your work. Never worry about missing any updates.
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
With the latest operating systems supporting UEFI fast booting methods, a “Fast Boot” option has been added to take full advantage of it. Simply enable “Fast Boot” either in the BIOS or with the convenient application for faster boot times.
Avoid having to mash your DEL/F2 button to get into the BIOS with the Go2BIOS button in the MSI Fast Boot application. Your PC will automatically go to the BIOS on the next reboot. Some models even have an onboard Go2BIOS button.
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 makes it a super reliable, long-lasting and high performance motherboard.
Steel Armor
Military Class 5
Windows 10 certified
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.
You can 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.
DOUBLE ESD PROTECTION - BEST
SINGLE ESD PROTECTION - AVERAGE
SEMI ESD PROTECTION - POOR
MSI uses Military Class 5 components, which is the latest evolution of the industries’ highest quality standard. These high quality components are shielded by the best protection to make sure your system runs smoothly under the most extreme conditions.
Ti chokes run much cooler and deliver a 30% improvement in power efficiency, allowing for better overclocking and stability.
With their aluminum core design and Japanese made quality, Solid CAPs are made for high-end design motherboard. Not only do Solid CAPs could provide lower Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR), but also work stably for over 10 years.
A special core design allows the Dark Choke to run at a lower temperature, offering better power efficiency and stability.
HUMIDITY PROTECTION
TEMPERATURE PROTECTION
CIRCUIT PROTECTION
ESD PROTECTION
EMI PROTECTION
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.
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/advanced mode
Convenient search
Hardware monitor
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.
Low res, non-scalable
Sharp, hi-res, scalable design
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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