Pros: The BIOS is incredibly simple and easy to work with. That is a huge plus, take a second to appreciate it please. For a first time builder, the slots being reinforced is also a wonderful because I have two heavy left hands and didn't break anything. GPUs are really heavy now and the M7 didn't have any trouble taking a MSI 1070 Armor. Aesthetics are wonderful because its not a gaudy red and black scheme unless you decide to pump the RGB leds to be red the entire time. M.2 slots for days, SLI capable, and simplistic design keep it relatively understated.

Cons: The power, reset, and the led next to the overclocking dial are red, the LED up top above the RAM slots is green; so if you're trying to go for a clean, white or solid color aesthetic feel for your build it may not be for you. Initially wanted to go for a black and white build and the LEDs at 'white' have a blue hue to them, the green LED up top stays lit if your shroud LEDs are on, the power LEDs stay red; if you're getting LED memory that isn't RGB, go red or stay without LEDs on the idea that you may end up with red, white, and green LEDs lit the entire time as if its Christmas inside your case all year long. When in doubt, get everything RGB.

Overall Review: I would definitely recommend this product to other people. I would purchase this product again or maybe the M5, considering that I'd probably not take advantage of the added capabilities from the M5 to the M7- but I do like blowing money so this M7 is great. If I could change anything, its that all the LEDs would be RGB, but thats just purely aesthetic so it doesn't weigh too heavily on your decision if you're about to buy this. Fully enclosed cases without glass panels would probably make you not care at all about that.

Pros: The board has been great out the box, lot of room for ram and video cards, onboard network has done pretty good for me and it has a great amount of USB & Sata ports. Great for the gaming I do..

Cons: Wish the LEDs could change colors

Overall Review: First time buying MSI and I’m glad I picked this board

Pros: -User Friendly UEFI with a ton of customization and options. -Awesome and very stable overclocking potential. -Great layout (fan header locations, M.2 slots, etc.) -Aesthetically pleasing color scheme. -MSI Utility Software works wonders. -RGB Lighting Layout.

Cons: -"RGB" Lighting is very limited. Only a set number of colors are available. -Fan control within the UEFI is spotty. -Certain portions of the included manual are very vague.

Overall Review: I built my new Kaby Lake gaming PC using this motherboard just recently. Retired my Ivy Bridge i5 3570K and Z77 platform. So far, in gaming and synthetic benchmarks, it's a significant upgrade. I have this board paired with an Intel i7 7700K, 32gb Corsair Dominator Platinum SE 3200mhz Memory, EVGA GTX 1080 FTW Hybrid, Corsair H115i, Intel 600p 512gb NVMe Drive. Packaging of the motherboard was superb and included everything needed for the build. Everything plugged in and booted into the UEFI flawless the first time. The nice layout with all the fan headers, M.2 slots, SATA ports, etc. made the build that much easier and pleasant. Driver and software installs were seamless and so far everything plays nice together. I've got the 7700K clocked currently at 4.7ghz, with voltage set to 1.30. I've noticed though that the voltage does not exceed 1.276 at this clock speed under heavy load so there's definitely some room there to overclock even more. A lot of people are getting 5.0ghz out of these i7's with ease. Aesthetically, this board looks amazing with the carbon/greyish theme. It definitely fits my other hardware choices beautifully. My only gripes are the following, but certain not deal breakers: -The "RGB" lighting options, while they look amazing with the layout MSI chose, you're very limited in your colors. There's only a set number of choices available. If you're trying to fine tune a certain color in, you won't be able to do it. You can get close though. -Fan control inside the UEFI. I'll admit, I need to mess with it some more, but some of the options I've fiddled with, resulted in some erratic fan speeds. And yes, I am running all 4pin PWM fans in my build. The other downfall is you can only adjust fan speeds based off CPU temps. No option for GPU. I know this is probably asking a lot, but would be awesome if it was available. I know most BIOS options don't have any control over GPU temps unfortunately. -Manual that ships with the motherboard was vague at times. This might not be a huge deal for some people. Other people on their first time builds might take issue. All in all, I highly recommend going with this board if you're in the market for a new Kaby Lake build. I've used Gigabyte for years, and I've recently switched over and used MSI for my last couple PC builds now. Everything has been flawless.

Pros: superfast shipping. easy to setup. great upgrade to my cpu

Cons: none at the moment

Overall Review: recommended

Pros: MSI tech support is awesome - I called was on hold just a couple minutes and a real person that spoke english answered the phone! He and I ran through several tests - could not figure out what was wrong. It would power up then instantly shut down and kept this cycle up forever. Got a new board and it is working great - Newegg refund process however is not so great

Cons: Newegg used to have great customer service - not so much lately Two months and still waiting on them properly handling my refund/store credit Next time I will shop elsewhere! But I will still buy MSI

Pros: start simple - very sleek and amazing designed board -easy to use software to customize leds, fans, and oc profiles. now technical -the motherboard itself is very durable feel to it -everything was easy to set up -the bios was fun to navigate and very simple(also like the feature of the easy mode for those not used to BIOS) -THE BEST PART AND SOMEONE FINALLY DID IT!!!!!! FRONT PANEL I/O COUPLER!!!!!!! which made hooking those things up so much easier for someone who has large hands!!!! THANK YOU MSI!!!!! im sure they are out there to buy but never seen a motherboard actually send one. -love the fact that it has 3 m.2 drives that will help down the road for me to get rid of sata hard drives all together.

Cons: no cons yet! so far this has been the best motherboard i have ever owned i will update when i get my m.2 drives and test them when there are three connected at once.

Pros: Pros for this thing are definitely the RGB spots on it. They don't feel overdone and the software to change them doesn't have the whole 16.8million color combos. Its short and easy to use. This board is also pretty darn sturdy and it looks amazing. Bios is still on the first version but so far its held up excellently and this board has to my knowledge like 3-4 4 pin PWM headers, which is super nice, as well as a pump header too if youre into watercooling.

Cons: Only cons I can think of for this board (and its not MSI's fault bc it looks like all boards do this) is the USB3 header connectors are at odd spacing on the boards so if you have stiff usb3 connectors for your case its gonna be rough getting them in there. Another con is that the power led on the bottom right along with the Ethernet led light are red and non-changeable. They're also on 24-7. not too bright but for some that might be an issue

Overall Review: So far i Love this board and the color neutral aesthetic they went for. MSI is known for their either extreme red/black common gamer colors so something like this that's relatively neutral and so well put together is great. Its a great new Board all around and im happy with it for now.

Pros: love this motherboard works great with my msi 1080 and my intel 7700k. love the rgb is very bright and has alot of extra features.

Cons: the rgb is limited and would like more customization but is great non the less. also cant seem to sync my msi logo on my graphics card with the motherboard hope they find a way to do so