MSI Z270 GAMING M7 ATX Motherboard - S1151 7Gen 4xDDR4 3xPCI-E DP/ HDMI 2xM.2 TypeC SLI/ CF MSI

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Z270 GAMING M7
  • Supports 7th / 6th Gen Intel® Core™ / Pentium® / Celeron®processors for LGA 1151 socket
  • Supports DDR4-4133+(OC) Memory
  • DDR4 Boost with Steel Armor: Give your DDR4 memory a performance boost
  • VR Ready and VR Boost: Best virtual reality game experience without latency, reduces motion sickness
  • Mystic Light RGB and Mystic Light Sync: 7 colors / 5 effects controlled in one click with GAMING APP or a mobile device
  • Triple Turbo M.2, Steel Armor, M.2 Shield. Intel Optane Memory Ready, Turbo U.2, Lightning USB 3.1 Gen2
  • Audio Boost 4 PRO with Nahimic 2: 2x dedicated audio processors 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
  • BIOS Flashback+: Easy BIOS recovery without the need of a CPU, memory and VGA card
  • Military Class 5, Guard-Pro: Latest evolution in high quality components for best protection and efficiency
  • MULTI-GPU: With Steel Armor PCI-E slots. Supports NVIDIA SLI™ & 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
MASTER THE GAME
With a unique look and feel, packed with exclusive gaming features, MSI ENTHUSIAST GAMING motherboards offer the best possible gaming experience.

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We are proud to be a part of the MSI GAMING testing program to help give gamers the best hardware to play games at the highest level.
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer, Fnatic CS:GO Team
MSI GAMING Certified

Z270 GAMING M7

FLAWLESS SUPREMACY


GAMING Device Port
Lightning USB 3.1 Gen2
VR Boost
Killer® GAMING LAN
Golden audio jacks with S/PDIF
Matching gaming IO & Audio cover with RGB LEDs
Change colors & LED effects to your liking
Gaming heatsinks with RGB LEDs
Leading heatsink design, fully customizable through RGB
DDR4 Boost with Steel Armor
Optimized traces and isolated memory circuitry
PCI-E Steel Armor
Protecting VGA cards against bending and EMI
Turbo M.2 with Steel Armor
NVMe support, up to 32 Gb/s using PCI-Express Gen3 x4
M.2 Shield, ready for Intel® Optane memory
Thermal enhancement for M.2 devices for best performance
Audio Boost 4 PRO with amplifiers
Optimized gaming audio using best components, with Nahimic 2


MYSTIC LIGHT

PERSONALIZE YOUR GAMING RIG
Customize and set up your own color scheme with RGB Mystic Light. Select any of the colors from the palette using your smartphone or the MSI Gaming App to match your system style. Bored of the same colors? Simply change the complete look of your system in 1 second!

Mystic Light

OFF

BREATHING

FLASHING

DOUBLE FLASHING

RANDOM

Extendable
Remote control
Mystic Light sync
LEARN MORE ABOUT MYSTICLIGHT
COOLING

STAY COOL WHILE GAMING
Cooling your PC is essential for reliable performance. We've made sure to include enough fan headers with full control to allow you to cool your system any way you want.


6x fan headers
DC/PWM mode
Full fan control
Watercooling ready
LEARN MORE ABOUT COOLING

GAMING FEATURES

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.

Gaming Hotkey
Gaming Device Port
Game Boost
Multi-GPU
LEARN MORE ABOUT GAMING

STORAGE

BE THE FIRST ON THE BATTLEFIELD
This MSI GAMING motherboard supports all the latest storage standards. This allows you to connect any ultra-fast storage device, giving you in-game benefits. Start games faster, load levels faster and have a real advantage over your enemies.

M.2 Shield
3x M.2
Intel® Optane™ memory ready
U.2 ready
LEARN MORE ABOUT STORAGE

VR

IMMERSE YOURSELF INTO VIRTUAL WORLDS
Integrating the very best of cutting edge technologies on MSI hardware provides a smooth VR ride. Through joint efforts with major VR brands, combined with unique MSI features geared to VR, MSI brings gamers and VR professionals a vivid and realistic experience in which content truly comes alive.

VR accelerator chip
One click VR
LEARN MORE ABOUT VR READY

AUDIO

SOUND THAT PULLS YOU INTO THE GAME
Get the most immersive sound experience when gaming. 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 exciting gameplay.

Nahimic 2
Audio Boost 4 PRO
Audio amplifier
Audio capacitors
LEARN MORE ABOUT AUDIO

GAMING LAN

DOMINATE THE GAME WITH THE LOWEST LATENCY
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.

Killer™ E2500
Bandwidth management
LAN protect
LEARN MORE ABOUT GAMING LAN
MEMORY

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


Optimal layout
Steel Armor
100% compatibility
XMP LED
LEARN MORE ABOUT MEMORY


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.

For power users
For overclocking
LEARN MORE ABOUT TUNING

USB

MAXIMIZE YOUR USB DEVICE PERFORMANCE
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 up to 10Gb/s!

Double bandwidth USB 3.1
Reversible Type-C connector
Front USB 3.1
Boost your USB
LEARN MORE ABOUT USB
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
Command Center
Live Update
RAMDisk
LEARN MORE ABOUT SOFTWARE
QUALITY & PROTECTION

BUILT ON EVERLASTING QUALITY
Using only the finest quality components and integrating the latest technological innovations delivers the best possible gaming and professional experience. Rigorous quality testing under the most extreme conditions ensures a super reliable, high performance motherboard.


M.2 Shield
Steel Armor
Military Class 5
Gaming Certified
LEARN MORE ABOUT QUALITY
BIOS

A GAMERS' BIOS
We made sure our BIOS contains all the latest options and is easy to use for everyone. The extensive features let you fine-tune your system to deliver reliable maximum performance when gaming.

 

Model

Brand
MSI
Model
Z270 GAMING M7

Supported CPU

CPU Socket Type
LGA 1151
CPU Type
Core i7 / i5 / i3 / Pentium / Celeron (LGA1151)

Chipsets

Chipset
Intel Z270

Onboard Video

Onboard Video Chipset
Supported only by CPU with integrated graphic

Memory

Number of Memory Slots
4×288pin
Memory Standard
7th Gen processors support DDR4 4000(OC)/ 3800(OC)/ 3600(OC)/ 3200(OC)/ 3000(OC)/ 2800(OC)/ 2600(OC)/ 2400/ 2133
6th Gen processors support DDR4 3600(OC)/ 3200(OC)/ 3000(OC)/ 2800(OC)/ 2600(OC)/ 2400(OC)/ 2133
Maximum Memory Supported
64GB

Expansion Slots

PCI Express 3.0 x16
3 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (support x16/x0/x0, x8/x8/x0, x8/x4/x4 modes)
PCI Express x1
3 x PCIe 3.0 x1 slots

Storage Devices

SATA 6Gb/s
6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports*/ **
* M.2 and SATA ports maximum support 2 x M.2 PCIe SSDs + 6 x SATA HDDs. 
** The M2_3, U2_1 and SATA5~6 share the same bandwidth.
M.2
1 x U.2 port **
- Supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe U.2 SSD
3 x M.2 slots (Key M)*
- M2_1 slot supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s standards, 2242/ 2260 /2280/ 22110 storage devices
- M2_2 slot supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4 standard, 2242/ 2260 /2280 storage devices
- M2_3 slot supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s ** standards, 2242/ 2260 /2280 storage devices
- Intel Optane Memory Ready for all M.2 slots***

*** Intel Optane Technology is only supported when using 7th Gen processors. Before using Intel Optane memory modules, please ensure that you have updated the drivers and BIOS to the latest version from MSI website.
SATA RAID
0/1/5/10

Onboard Audio

Audio Chipset
Dual Realtek ALC1220
Audio Channels
7.1 Channels

Onboard LAN

LAN Chipset
Killer E2500
Max LAN Speed
10/100/1000Mbps

Rear Panel Ports

PS/2
1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port
HDMI
1 x HDMI
RJ45
1 x RJ45
DisplayPort
1 x DisplayPort
USB 3.1
2 x USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A ports
1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A port
1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C port
USB 1.1/2.0
3 x USB 2.0
S/PDIF Out
1 x Optical
Audio Ports
5 x OFC audio jacks

Internal I/O Connectors

Onboard USB
1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C connector
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)
Other Connectors
1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
1 x 4-pin ATX 12V power connector
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 RGB LED connector
1 x Chassis Intrusion connector
1 x Clear CMOS jumper
1 x Low Temperature Booting Jumper
1 x 2-pin Slow mode jumper
1 x 2-pin OC retry jumper
1 x 2-pin OC Force enter BIOS jumper
1 x 2-pin Discharge jumper
1 x 2-Digit Debug Code LED

Physical Spec

Form Factor
ATX
Dimensions (W x L)
12.0" x 9.6"

Features

Features
Supports 7th / 6th Gen Intel Core / Pentium / Celeron processors for LGA 1151 socket

Supports DDR4-4133+(OC) Memory

DDR4 Boost with Steel Armor: Give your DDR4 memory a performance boost

VR Ready and VR Boost: Best virtual reality game experience without latency, reduces motion sickness

Mystic Light RGB and Mystic Light Sync: 7 colors / 5 effects controlled in one click with GAMING APP or a mobile device

Triple Turbo M.2, Steel Armor, M.2 Shield. Intel Optane Memory Ready, Turbo U.2, Lightning USB 3.1 Gen2

Audio Boost 4 PRO with Nahimic 2: 2x dedicated audio processors 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

BIOS Flashback+: Easy BIOS recovery without the need of a CPU, memory and VGA card

Military Class 5, Guard-Pro: Latest evolution in high quality components for best protection and efficiency

MULTI-GPU: With Steel Armor PCI-E slots. Supports NVIDIA SLI & 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
Supports 7th / 6th Gen Intel® Core™ / Pentium® / Celeron® processors for LGA 1151 socket
Supports DDR4-4133+(OC) Memory
DDR4 Boost with Steel Armor: Give your DDR4 memory a performance boost
VR Ready and VR Boost: Best virtual reality game experience without latency, reduces motion sickness
Mystic Light RGB and Mystic Light Sync: 7 colors / 5 effects controlled in one click with GAMING APP or a mobile device
Triple Turbo M.2, Steel Armor, M.2 Shield. Intel Optane Memory Ready, Turbo U.2, Lightning USB 3.1 Gen2
Audio Boost 4 PRO with Nahimic 2: 2x dedicated audio processors 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
BIOS Flashback+: Easy BIOS recovery without the need of a CPU, memory and VGA card
Military Class 5, Guard-Pro: Latest evolution in high quality components for best protection and efficiency
MULTI-GPU: With Steel Armor PCI-E slots. Supports NVIDIA SLI™ & 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

Detailed spec: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Z270-GAMING-M7.html#productFeature-section