B350 TOMAHAWK ARCTIC
Ice-cold domination
1 GAMING Device Port
2 USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A, Type-C
3 HDMI
4 GAMING LAN
5 Golden audio jacks
MSI B350 TOMAHAWK ARCTIC overview
6 Heavy plated gaming heatsinks
Leading heatsink design, for maximum cooling
7 DDR4 Boost with Steel Armor
Optimized traces and isolated memory circuitry
8 PCI-E Steel Armor
Protecting VGA cards against bending and EMI
9 Turbo M.2
NVMe support, up to 32 Gb/s using PCI-Express Gen3 x4
10 Audio Boost
Optimized gaming audio using best components, with Nahimic 2
11 Click BIOS 5
A gamers BIOS
Personalize your Gaming Rig
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!
Mystic Light Sync logo
Customize colors Customize effects
Mystic Light App Mystic Light Extension
Works with certified Mystic Light Sync products:
Mystic Light vendors
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.
Fan control
Fan Headers
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.
Gaming Hotkey Gaming Device port
Gaming Hotkey Gaming Device port
Multi-GPU
Multi GPU
1 second overclocking
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
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
Amplify your Game with Audio Boost
Like a dedicated sound card Audio Boost 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 LED Line Chemi-Con Audio capacitors Nahimic 2 Sound Tracker
Isolated audio design with Isolated Audio with LED Line Chemi-con Audio Capacitors Nahimic Sound Tracker
Audio Boost logo
Audio Boost Ohm chart
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.
Optimize Killer Gaming LAN
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!
No strengthening others
Reversible connector

Up to 20% faster with XBoost
XBoost performance
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.
No strengthening others
Others

No strengthening

Strengthening-steel-armor Steel Armor
MSI Steel armor

Reinforced, heavy soldered connections

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