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  • 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
  • VR Ready and VR Boost: Best virtual reality game experience without latency, reduces motion sickness
  • Mystic Light Sync: Synchronize other RGB solutions with your gaming rig and control all LEDs in one click
  • Twin Turbo M.2 with Steel Armor. Intel Optane Memory Ready, Lightning USB 3.1 Gen2
  • Audio Boost 4 with Nahimic 2: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality for the most immersive gaming experience
  • GAMING LAN with LAN Protect, powered by Killer™: The best online gaming experience with lowest latency and bandwidth management
  • Military Class 5, Guard-Pro: Latest evolution in high quality components for best protection and efficiency
  • MULTI-GPU: With Steel Armor PCI-E slot. Supports AMD Crossfire™
  • In-Game Weapons: Game Boost, GAMING Hotkey, X-Boost, Xsplit Gamecaster
  • EZ Debug LED: Easiest way to troubleshoot
  • Click BIOS 5: Award-winning BIOS with high resolution scalable font, favorites and search function
  • GAMING CERTIFIED: 24-hour on- and offline game and motherboard testing by eSports players
  • Z270 GAMING M3

Z270 Gaming M3

FIRST BLOOD

 
1 GAMING Device Port
2 Lightning USB 3.1 Gen2
3 VR Boost
4 Killer® GAMING LAN
5 Golden audio jacks with S/PDIF
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6 Full gaming I/O cover
Stunning looks, protecting the I/O ports
7 Heavy plated gaming heatsinks
Leading heatsink design, for maximum cooling
8 DDR4 Boost
Optimized traces and isolated memory circuitry
9 PCI-E Steel Armor
Protecting VGA cards against bending and EMI
10 2x Turbo M.2 up to 110mm and with Steel Armor
NVMe support, up to 32 Gb/s using PCI-Express Gen3 x4, ready for Intel® Optane™ Memory
11 Mystic Light Extension
Connect external RGB strips or other LED solutions and sync
12 Audio Boost 4 with amplifier
Optimized gaming audio using best components, with Nahimic 2
 

PERSONALIZE YOUR GAMING RIG

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Connect external RGB strips and sync other RGB capable gear to set up your own color scheme using only 1 application: Mystic Light Sync. Select any of the colors from the palette using your smartphone or the MSI Gaming App to match your system style. Feel like using a different color? Completely change the look of your system in 1 second!

 
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Works with certified Mystic Light Sync products:
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FULLY CONTROLLABLE FAN HEADERS

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.

 
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YOUR IN-GAME ADVANTAGE

Outsmart and outperform your opponents in-game using an array of unique MSI GAMING tools. Clever hardware & software tools, created to keep you one step ahead of the competition and boost your skills.

 
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X-BOOST YOUR STORAGE PERFORMANCE

When enabled, X-Boost auto-detects and optimizes your SSDs to keep your system fast and maximize storage performance, making sure you reach the battlefield even quicker or saving you a lot of time when transferring data.

 
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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 gaming system!

 

PROTECT & COOL YOUR M.2 DEVICE WITH M.2 SHIELD

Connect your M.2 device safer & easier while keeping it cooler for the best performance using the unique M.2 Shield. MSI M.2 Shield features cooling pads to lower the temperature of your M.2 device and avoid any possible throttling, causing it to slow down. Be sure your system stays blazing fast with M.2 Shield!

 
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IMMERSE YOURSELF INTO VIRTUAL WORLDS

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Want the best of the best VR experience without any compromise? Through joint efforts with major VR brands, combined with unique MSI features geared to VR, MSI brings gamers and VR professionals a vivid, smooth and realistic experience in which content truly comes alive.

 
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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.

 
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DOMINATE THE GAME WITH THE LOWEST LATENCY

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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.

 
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UNMATCHED MEMORY PERFORMANCE

MSI motherboards are crammed with features to fuel your gaming rig’s memory with more speed, higher overclockability and increased stability.

 
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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.

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MAXIMIZE YOUR USB DEVICE PERFORMANCE

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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!

 
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BUILT ON EVERLASTING QUALITY

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Only the finest quality components and latest innovations are used. Rigorous quality testing under the most extreme conditions ensures a super reliable, high performance motherboard.

 
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Socket 1151
CPU (Max Support) i7
Chipset Intel® Z270 Chipset
DDR4 Memory 3600(OC)/ 3200(OC)/ 3000(OC)/ 2800(OC)/ 2600(OC)/ 2400(OC)/ 2133 MHz
Memory Channel Dual
DIMM Slots 4
Max Memory (GB) 64
PCI-Ex16 4
PCI-E Gen 6
PCI-Ex1 2
SATAIII Gen3
M.2 Slot 4
RAID 6
TPM (header) 2
LAN 0/1/5/10
USB 3.1 ports (Front) 1
USB 3.1 ports (Rear) 1(Gen2, Type A),1 (Gen2, Type C), 4(Gen1, Type A)
USB 2.0 ports (Front) 4
USB 2.0 ports (Rear) 2
Serial ports(Front) 1
Audio ports (Rear) Realtek® ALC1220 Codec
DVI-D 1
HDMI 1
DirectX 12
Form Factor ATX
CrossFire Y

CPU

• Supports 6th/7th Gen Intel® Core™ i3/i5/i7 processors, and Intel® Pentium® and Celeron® processors for Socket LGA1151
* This function will be supported depend on the CPU.
 
Chipset

• Intel® Z270 Chipset
 
Main Memory

• 4 x DDR4 memory slots, support up to 64GB
- 7th Gen processors support DDR4 3800(OC)/ 3600(OC)/ 3200(OC)/ 3000(OC)/ 2800(OC)/ 2600(OC)/ 2400/ 2133 MHz*
- 6th Gen processors support DDR4 3600(OC)/ 3200(OC)/ 3000(OC)/ 2800(OC)/ 2600(OC)/ 2400(OC)/ 2133 MHz*
• Dual channel memory architecture
• Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)
* Please refer www.msi.com for more information on compatible memory.
 
Slots

• 2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (supports x16/x4 mode)*
• 4 x PCIe 3.0 x1 slots
* The PCI_E4 slot will be unavailable when an M.2 SSD module has been installed in the M.2_2 slot.
** The PCI_E2 slot will be unavailable when an expansion card has been installed in the PCI_E5 slot.
** The PCI_E3 slot will be unavailable when an expansion card has been installed in the PCI_E6 slot.
 
Multi-GPU

• Supports 2-Way AMD® CrossFire™ Technology
 
Onboard Graphics

• 1 x HDMI™ port, supports a maximum resolution of 4096x2160@30Hz(7th CPU), 4096x2160@24Hz(6th CPU), 2560x1600@60Hz
• 1 x DVI-D port, supports a maximum resolution of 1920x1200@60Hz
 
Storage

• Intel® Z270 Chipset
• 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports*
• 2x M.2 slots (Key M)
- Support up to PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s
- Support PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe U.2 SSD with Turbo U.2 Host
Card** - M2_1 slot supports 2242/ 2260 /2280/ 22110 storage devices
- M2_2 slot supports 2242/ 2260 /2280 storage devices
- Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready for all M.2 slots
• Supports Intel® Smart Response Technology for Intel Core™ processors (optional)

* M.2 and SATA ports maximum support 2x M.2 PCIe SSDs + 6x SATA HDDs. Please refer to page 33 for M.2 slots with examples of various combination possibilities.
** The Turbo U.2 Host Card is not included, please purchase separately.
RAID (optional) 

• Supports RAID 0, RAID1, RAID 5 and RAID 10 for SATA storage devices
• Supports RAID 0 and RAID1 for M.2 PCIe storage devices*
* M.2 PCIe RAID volume can be created with M.2 GENIE. Please refer to page 42 for details about M.2 GENIE.
USB

• ASMedia® ASM2142 Chipset
- 1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 (SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps) Type-C port on the back panel
- 1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 (SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps) Type-A port on the back panel

• Intel® Z270 Chipset
- 8 x USB 3.1 Gen1 (SuperSpeed USB) ports (4 Type-A ports on the back panel, 4 ports available through the internal USB connector)
- 6 x USB 2.0 (High-speed USB) ports (2 ports on the back panel, 4 ports available through the internal USB connector)
Audio

• Realtek® ALC1220 Codec
- 7.1-Channel High Definition Audio
- Supports S/PDIF output
LAN 
• 1 x Killer™ E2500 Gigabit LAN controller
Internal I/O Connectors

- 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
- 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
- 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
- 2 x USB 3.1 Gen1 connectors (supports additional 4 USB 3.1 Gen1 ports)
- 2 x USB 2.0 connectors (supports additional 4 USB 2.0 ports)
- 1 x 4-pin CPU fan connector
- 1 x 4-pin water pump fan connector
- 4 x 4-pin system fan connectors
- 1 x Front panel audio connector
- 2 x Front panel connectors
- 1 x LED connector
- 1 x TPM module connector
- 1 x Chassis Intrusion connector
- 1 x Serial connector
- 1 x Clear CMOS jumper
Back Panel I/O Ports

- 1 x PS/2 keyboard/ mouse combo port
- 2 x USB 2.0 Type-A ports
- 1 x DVI-D port
- 1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A port
- 1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C port
- 4 x USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A ports (optional)
- 1 x HDMI™ port
- 1 x LAN (RJ45) port
- 5 x OFC audio jacks
- 1 x Optical S/PDIF OUT connector
Dimension

• 12 in. x 9.6 in. (30.4 cm x 24.3 cm)
• ATX Form Factor
Mounting

• 9 mounting holes

  1. PS/2 GAMING Device Port
  2. USB 3.1 Gen1 Ports
  3. Killer™ E2500 Gigabit LAN Port
  4. HD Audio Connectors
  5. USB 2.0 Ports
  6. DVI-D Port
  7. LIGHTNING USB 31. Gen2 Type A+C
  8. HDMI
  9. VR Ready USB 3.1 Gen1 Ports
  10. Optical S/PDIF-Out
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