MSI B250 PC MATE LGA 1151 Intel B250 HDMI USB 3.1 ATX Intel Motherboard

MSI Pro Series B250 PC MATE Motherboard

Top Performance and Clever Business Solutions

Powered by the latest Intel B250 chipset, the MSI Pro Series B250 PC MATE motherboard offers a powerful yet affordable foundation for your new Intel 6th/7th generation processor-based system. It's built with Military Class 5 components for unbeatable reliability and durability. Two M.2 slots delivering up to 32Gbps speed are Intel Optane ready, and two USB 3.1 Gen2 ports (Type A + Type C) allow you to take full advantage of the latest external storage devices. In addition to colossal performance boost, this model adopts premium audio components and isolated audio circuitry, producing pure, Hi-Fi class sound that allows you to enjoy your favorite movies, music and games like never before.

MSI Pro Series is optimized for crypto currency mining like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum and more. Optimized Power Design and special BIOS options ensure a rock solid system for long mining sessions to maximize efficiency and coin generation.

• Supports 7th / 6th Gen Intel Core / Pentium / Celeron processors for LGA 1151 socket
• Supports DDR4-2400 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
• 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: Secure and Reliable UEFI BIOS solution

Cooling

Stay Cool

Cooling your PC is essential for reliable performance. This motherboard includes enough fan headers with full control to allow you to cool your system to the max.

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 by 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

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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.

Legacy DVI / VGA Video Support

To support professional monitors, TV's, beamers and other displays, this MSI motherboard features 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.

4K UHD

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

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

The motherboard was built on years of experience in building motherboards 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.

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.

Intel Optane Ready

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!

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

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

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.

Low Latency LAN Powered by Intel

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.

Stable, Secure Networking

The Gigabit network adapter on MSI 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 ensure 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 operational performance or when working with large video and photography files.

* Benchmarks conducted with The Witcher 3

Extreme 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.

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.

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 PCI-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.

Ultimate Motherboard Protection

MSI has made sure 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.

Super Stable with the Highest Quality Components

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.

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 achieve victory when gaming.

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 30% increased speeds, higher system responsiveness and faster loading of data.

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 remain focused on your work. Never worry about missing any updates.

"...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

Instant System Startup with Msi Fast Boot & Go2bios

BIOS

Tune Your System with Click Bios

The extensive features in MSI CLICK BIOS let you fine-tune your system to deliver reliable and maximum performance. From M-Flash for easy BIOS flashing to advanced data protection & system security, CLICK BIOS provides the tools to fully protect and optimize your system. MSI CLICK BIOS is faster than ever. By reducing the use of graphics in the UEFI shell, it boots faster, reacts instantly and feels smoother. Smart sorting makes this the easiest BIOS you’ll ever use.

• Easy to use
• Windows 10 optimized
• Packed with security features