X370 GAMING PRO CARBON
Exceptional by Design
1 GAMING Device Port
2 Lightning USB 3.1 Gen2
3 VR Boost
4 Intel® GAMING LAN
5 Golden audio jacks with S/PDIF
MSI X370 GAMING Pro Carbon overview
6 Mystic Light RGB IO cover & heatsink
Change up to 16.8 million colors & 17 LED effects
7 Gaming heatsinks with CARBON
Leading heatsink design, for maximum cooling
8 DDR4 Boost with Steel Armor
Optimized traces and isolated memory circuitry
9 PCI-E Steel Armor
Protecting VGA cards against bending and EMI
10 2x M.2
NVMe support, up to 32 Gb/s using PCI-Express Gen3 x4
11 M.2 Shield
Thermal enhancement for M.2 devices for best performance
12 Audio Boost 4 with amplifier
Optimized gaming audio using best components, with Nahimic 2
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!
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Mystic Light App
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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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Fan control Fan Headers
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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Gaming Hotkey Gaming Device port
Multi-GPU 1 second overclocking
Multi GPU Game Boost 1 second overclocking
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.
X-boost performance
M.2 shield delivers best SSD performance
Cooling your NMVe SSD delays throttling which results In higher overall performance. Additionally, M.2 Shield protects your M.2 device and makes it look cool.
M.2 Shield
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Immerse yourself into Virtual Worlds
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.
VR Ready HTC Vive
HTC Vive
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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.
Isolated Audio with RGB LED Line Chemi-Con Audio capacitors Nahimic 2 Sound Tracker
Isolated audio design with Isolated Audio with RGB LED Line Chemi-con Audio Capacitors Nahimic Sound Tracker
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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.
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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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DDR4 Boost performance
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.
Best compatibility chart
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!
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Reversible connector

Double Bandwidth USB 3.1
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Up to 20% faster with XBoost
XBoost performance
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Built on everlasting quality
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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MSI Steel armor

Reinforced, heavy soldered connections

DDR4 Steel Armor
DDR4 Steel Armor
Reinforced Steel PCIe Slot,
Protects Against EMI
Steel Armor slot