If you’re looking for a high-end gaming motherboard to build an unstoppable gaming machine, look no further than the MSI Arsenal GAMING series motherboards. The MSI Arsenal GAMING series is covered in full black camouflage with LED ambient lights for an amazing look and provides a rich set of gaming features to elevate your gaming experience.
- Support for 6th Gen Intel Core / Pentium / Celeron processors for LGA 1151 socket
- Support for DDR4-2133 Memory
- DDR4 Boost: Give your DDR4 memory a performance boost
- GAMING LAN: The best online gaming experience with lowest latency
- GAMING DNA: LED ambient lights are added to give it an awesome look & feel, ready for battle
- Audio Boost: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality
- Military Class 4: Top Quality & Stability
- Guard-Pro: Improved Protection and Power Efficiency
- Turbo M.2 32Gbps + SATA 6Gbps
- Click BIOS: Secure and Reliable UEFI BIOS solution
- EZ Debug LED: Easiest way to troubleshoot
- Overvoltage Protection: Prevent Unforeseen Damage
- 4K UHD Support: Ultra-high Definition Visual Experience
- Intel SBB Support: Improves Productivity, Management and security
- GAMING CERTIFIED: 24-hour on- and offline game testing by eSports players for the best gaming experience
- WHQL CERTIFIED.WINDOWS 10 READY.
With traditional memory design, the memory signals are often distorted by electromagnetic signals from other components, making the system perform slowly or become unstable. MSI introduces DDR4 Boost technology with optimized traces and fully isolated memory circuitry. This design ensures the memory signals stay pure for optimal performance and stability.
Get ready to crush your enemies on the battlefield with MSI GAMING LAN, featuring carefully selected components to ensure the best online gaming experience without lag.
Dedicated to giving you the best online gaming experience with optimized traffic prioritization and low latency, MSI GAMING LAN Manager automatically classifies and prioritizes the latency-sensitive applications for online games.
- Automatically prioritizes games above other applications
- Allows you to change applications' traffic priority
- Allows you to customize bandwidth for each application
The Arsenal GAMING Series motherboards come with LEDs on the back of the motherboard to let you fully enjoy the gaming side of things. Like war paint, turn them on for the full Arsenal GAMING experience and you are ready to dominate any battlefield.
With Audio Boost, the motherboard delivers the highest sound quality through the use of premium quality audio components. That way, you can enjoy breathtaking, crystal clear sound and music through 6-channel Audio or high impendence headphones and truly dominate the game.
Audio Boost acts like a dedicated soundcard by physically isolating the audio circuitry to give you a more clear audio signal.
With Chemi-Con audio capacitors, the motherboard delivers high fidelity crystal clear sound with exceptional acoustics and realism.
Equal and perfect sound quality for left & right channel audio through the use of separated layers in the PCB.
Audio Boost protects your ears against annoying loud popping sounds when you plug devices in or out or turn your PC on/off.
With high quality audio connectors, you get the best possible signal output with less chance of distortion.
The motherboard provides convenient use of the front panel audio output while retaining high quality amplified sound.
Gaming Hotkey enables more functionality using your own keyboard. Simply assign functions to any key and launch your favorite games, load profiles with the push of a single button. The possibilities are endless!
- Customize any shortcut on your keyboard
- User friendly, easy-to-use application
- 1 key load up of your favorite game
Easily program your most used commands to be executed with a single keystroke. You are free to choose any key you want.
- Shortcut Hotkeys: Assign your own keyboard special functions
- Windows keys: Quick launch any application or folder
- MSI Smart keys: Quick launch of mail, browser or more
- Login keys: One press to login (program passwords)
Transfer your favorite games, music and movies over Type-C connector more conveniently than ever. USB 3.1 Gen1 enables lightning-fast transfer speeds up to 5Gbps!
- 10X faster than USB 2.0
- Up to 5Gbps data transfer bandwidth
- Boost transfer rate for your PC and peripherals
Get all the performance benefits from USB 3.1 Gen1 combined with the convenience of the USB Type-C connector. This reversible connector allows for effortless connecting of USB devices.
With a cleverly placed USB 3.1 Gen1 front pin header, available on MSI motherboards, you can connect up to 2 USB 3.1 Gen1 devices directly to the front of your PC Chassis. This way you can easily enjoy fast USB speeds without having to use the hard-to-reach USB ports on the rear.
Delivering speeds up to 32Gbps using Gen3 x4, Turbo M.2 is over 5 times faster than a regular SATA III connection! Enjoy a blazing fast system bootup and insanely fast loading of applications and games with MSI motherboards.
*Supports 2242/2260/2280 storage devices.
With the increased size and weight of modern high end graphics cards, traditional PCI Express slots often show signs of bending or even breaking. Meet STEEL Armor, strengthened PCI Express slots using more solder points to make sure you never have to worry about breaking off any of the slots.
Worried about damaging the PCI-Express slot or your graphics card because of the weight?
No strengthening
Reinforced, heavy soldered connections
Onboard overcurrent protection prevents overcurrent and short-circuit damage of the CPU and other components. It shows a warning message, letting you know that overcurrent protection is activated for easier troubleshooting.
MSI EZ DEBUG LED is an easy troubleshooting tool built with 4 LEDs to indicate to CPU / Memory / VGA / Boot operation every time you boot up your system.
Run into trouble? Use the LEDs to easily identify the item causing problems.
Get ready to enjoy the best gaming experience with MSI & SteelSeries!
Enthusiast gaming gear brand SteelSeries has officially approved MSI GAMING motherboards as ‘SteelSeries Certified (SSC)’. This certification is based on the performance demands and stability of MSI GAMING motherboards and SteelSeries products. Your SteelSeries headset, mouse and other top quality gaming gear work best on MSI GAMING motherboards.
MSI GAMING motherboards are tested in its gaming lab, internet cafes and together with the world’s best eSports players to make sure you get top performance and reliability in the world’s most popular games. Through 24-hour on- and offline game testing, MSI ensures the onboard network configuration, audio reception and FPS performance are tested and tuned to perfection for you to enjoy the best possible gameplay experience.
Only the motherboards that pass this test receive the GAMING CERTIFIED status and are considered true MSI GAMING motherboards.
Dark Choke uses the special core design and allows the Dark Choke to run at a lower temperature with higher capacity and better power efficiency 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 firmly for over-10-year.
Reduction in moisture absorption helps prevent "Conductive Anodic Filament". Untreated PCBs can have 10x higher failure rate.
All key components used in MSI motherboards have all passed military testing ensuring stable operation in the harshest environments.
Carefully selected materials, multiple PCB layers and shielding result in the best circuit protection for MSI GAMING motherboards.
Each and every I/O port is protected against the hazards of Electro Static Discharge.
All MSI motherboards comply with strict American FCC regulations and reduce the impact of Electromagnetic Interference.
This next generation UEFI BIOS is completely rebuilt and features a plethora of system builders’ favorite options. From M-Flash for easy BIOS flashing to advanced data protection & system security, CLICK BIOS hands you the tools to fully protect and optimize the system.
Through smart design and optimizations for Windows 10, CLICK BIOS is faster than ever. By reducing the use of graphics in the UEFI shell, it boots faster, reacts faster and adds a smooth experience when changing settings. Smart categorizing of functions and settings makes this the easiest BIOS you’ll ever see.
MSI Gaming Device Port is optimized to deliver the best connectivity for high end gaming mice to fully utilize its speed. You can customize your mouse’s DPI to change accuracy and program macro combinations using the easy-to-use Mouse Master software to perform multiple commands with just one click.
- More responsive, faster reactions
- Customizable mouse settings
- Customizable mouse accuracy (DPI)
- Program macros for multiple actions in 1 click
- Smoother gameplay
- 3x more gold than regular connectors
- 10x longer lifetime when plugging/un-plugging
- Prevents oxidation
WTFast is the Gamers Private Network; like a global automated army of IT specialists all working together to optimize your game connection from end to end. WTFast reports rich connection stats for your online game, so you can see exactly what is happening with your game connection.
- Built just for MMO gamers
- Reduce average ping
- Greatly reduce connection flux, spikes and packet loss
- MSI Exclusive 2-month premium license
XSplit Gamecaster & Broadcaster V2 lets you easily record your gaming moments and broadcast your live gameplay sessions to Twitch, YouTube, UStream and more.
It's simple, easy to use and ideal for sharing your gameplay with friends, family or the world - or for capturing those perfect gaming moments, just for the heck of it.
Use XSplit Gamecaster to stream all of your gaming activities
Edit your recordings and conquer the world
Draw attention whilst casting with in-game annotations
Fully automatic chroma key that can work on any background
Automatically adjusts your bitrate according to your network conditions
Game Capture Auto Detect allows for automatic streaming when starting a game.
Share your gaming achievements with the world! Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is world’s most popular open source software for video recording and live streaming. Show your friends your gaming progress live.
Outperform your competition with the MSI GAMING APP which allows control of your Graphics Card’s boost.
Simply select your preferred mode with the click of a button: / Silent / Gaming / OC /
Real-time monitor GPU Core, DRAM Frequency, GPU & CPU Temperatures and much more, in game or in other fullscreen applications, customizable to your preference.
MSI Dragon Eye allows you to watch a YouTube video or Twitch Stream while playing a game simultaneously. Simply add a link or stream to the Dragon Eye application and select the size, position, volume and transparency and start gaming. With a few hotkeys you can start/pause your video or set the volume.
MSI has worked closely with CPUID to develop this special edition of CPU-Z featuring the famous MSI GAMING dragon. Use CPU-Z to gather key information on the main devices of your system, such as your CPU speed, Memory speed and timings, motherboard BIOS version and much more.
Get an unlimited RAMDisk for free (worth $35) with MSI GAMING motherboards. RAMDisk allows you to create a virtual drive from your system memory, enabling speeds up to 25x faster than a modern SSD. You can load complete games, speed up your browser or your page file significantly increasing system performance! You even increase your SSD's lifespan by using RAMDisk as it reduces unnecessary read and write operations to your SSD.
- Speed up system performance
- Speed up games, apps and browser
- Increase SSD lifespan
Be sure to take full advantage of all the GAMING weapons by connecting your devices to the optimized ports.
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