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MSI X470 Gaming Pro Carbon AC Review

Today we are reviewing an MSI motherboard made for second generation of AMD Ryzen processors, the MSI X470 Gaming Pro Carbon Air-conditioning motherboard. The motherboard is built on the latest AMD X470 chipset, supporting AMD Ryzen serial and A-Series/Athlon processors with an AM4 socket. Board offers four DDR4 slots that can concord up to 64GB of dual-channel RAM at speeds of up to 3466 MHz when overclocked. This board is featured packed for every gamer or enthusiast build, from 8 SATA III ports and two One thousand.2 slots, to Realtek ALC1220 vii.1-channel Hard disk sound, Intel I211AT Gigabit LAN, 802.1ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.two, MSI Mystic Light RGB lighting and more

Now let's come across what this new AMD X470 chipset based MSI gaming board have for u.s.a..

Features

Supports AMD^® Ryzen™ 1st and second Generation / Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics Processors and AMD^® A-series / Athlon™ Processors for Socket AM4
Supports DDR4-3466+(OC) Retentiveness
DDR4 Boost with Steel Armor: Give your DDR4 retention a performance boost
Mystic Light and Mystic Light Sync: 16.8 1000000 colors / 17 furnishings in one click. Synchronize RGB/RAINBOW strips and other RGB solutions for customization.
Lightning Fast Game experience: TURBO One thousand.2 with M.ii Shield, StoreMI, AMD Turbo USB 3.i GEN2
Audio Boost 4 with Nahimic: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality for the nigh immersive gaming experience
GAMING LAN and Wireless support, powered past Intel^®: The best online gaming feel with everyman latency and bandwidth management.
Core Boost: With premium layout and fully digital power design to support more cores and provide better functioning.
MULTI-GPU: With STEEL ARMOR PCI-E slots. Supports 2-Way NVIDIA SLI™ & 3-Way AMD Crossfire™
VR Ready: Automatically optimizes your organization for VR usage, pushing for maximum functioning.
In-Game Weapons: Game Heave, GAMING Hotkey, 10-Boost
EZ Debug LED: Easiest way to troubleshoot
Click BIOS 5: Award-winning BIOS with high resolution scalable font, favorites and search role
GAMING CERTIFIED: 24-hour on and offline game and motherboard testing by eSports players

Specifications

Packet

Looking at the front of the box, nosotros see MSI logo with motherboard model no. in big at center of the box. At the rear of the box, nosotros find that MSI goes into detail on the specifications of the motherboard

Inside the box

Looks

Board is a solid build on a black PCB with white line graphics over the PCB and heatsink, giving whole lath a great appearance and wild look. I similar the whole theme very attractive.

Layout

Detailed layout of board.

1. AMD AM4 socket, supporting New AMD Ryzen 2nd Gen CPU.

two. 4 DIMM Dual channel DDR4 retentivity slots with full Steel Armor supporting max. 64GB at 2133MHz in normal and upwardly to 3466MHz when OC.

3. ATX Power connector (24-pivot EATXPWR) along with EZ Debug LED

4. ATX CPU Power Connector (8-pin ATX12V).

5. Back Panel Connectors : PS/ii keyboard/ mouse combo port, 2 x USB 2.0 Type-A ports, DVI-D port, HDMIâ„¢ port, 4 x USB 3.ane Gen1 Blazon-A ports, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, LAN (RJ45) port, USB 3.ane Gen2 Type-A port, USB three.1 Gen2 Type-C port, 5 ten OFC audio jacks, Optical Due south/PDIF OUT connector

6. 7. 14. CPU fan connector, Water-pump-fan connector and four 10 organisation fan connectors

8. Ii front USB 3 Port.

10. Organisation Forepart panel Connector

11. two x USB ii.0 Connectors

12. thirteen. RGB LED strip extension cable headers and TPM connector

15. Front panel Audio connector

16. 17. Dual PCIe Gen3 x4 M.ii connector

18. Expansion Slots : 2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (PCIE_2, PCIE_4)- RYZEN serial processors back up x16/x0, x8/x8 mode, one 10 PCIe 2.0 x16 slot (PCIE_6, supports x4 manner), three x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots

Removing Heat-sinks

MSI used dense aluminum heatsink in this lath. VRM heatsink are secured in place using screws and spacers. Heatsinks base is having very small thermal pad installed mostly but roofing 80% of MOSFETs surface area for VRM cooling. Wont result in normal operations only may consequence in system stability under higher overclocks.

Component Layout

Let's now see what all components MSI have planned for this board.

1. 2. 10 + 2stage CPU voltage regulator circuit uses pair of ON Semiconductor NTMFS 4C029 and 4C024 Power MOSFETS with combined rating of 50A controlled by IR35201 PWM Controller.

3. Unmarried-Phase digital memory power supply department for DDR4 memories

four. USB iii.one PCIe lan switch fleck.

5. Intel Gigabit LAN and 802.1ac Wi-Fi solution.

6. The nuvoTon NCT 6795D chip provides the super I/O functions, such as fan control and system monitoring

8. MSI equipped this board with Sound boost 4 audio solution with ALC 1220 120dB SNR HD Audio codec at the center.

ALC 1220 120dB SNR HD Sound - The ALC1220 is a high-performance multi-channel High Definition Audio Codec with up to 120dB SNR for crystal articulate sound along with premium quality CHEMI-CON audio capacitors for a warmer sound and OP1652 op-amp every bit buffer.

A semi-transparent line on motherboard separates the whole sound section from the residue of the board in order to minimize interference. Then licensing under Stereo manner produces high audio quality with excellent dynamic range.

RightMark Audio Analyzer (RMAA) suite is used for testing MSI High Definition sound confronting Asus Xonar U7 External Audio card. You tin see clearly the deviation between Noise level, dynamic rang and Total harmonic distortion pct produced by MSI Loftier Definition audio.

RMAA Asus Xonar U7

RMAA MSI Audio

ix. AMD X470 Chipset.

10. MSI uses MXIC MX 2SL12873F a capacity of 128 Mb for storing UEFI BIOS.

11. Asmedia ASM1480 PCIe lan switch chips.

Testing

CPU	AMD Ryzen 2700X
Lath	MSI X470 Gaming Pro Carbon
RAM	2X 8GB Corsair DDR4 3000Mhz
SSD	Corsair Force GT 240 SSD
Cooler	Libation Master MASTERMAKER 240
GFX	Gigabyte GTX 970
PSU	Cooler Master750

BIOS

Bundled Softwares

Benchmarks

Overclocking

Power Consumption

Wattage reading equally per displayed past APC Pro 1000VA (Model no. BR1000G-IN) UPS.

Pros

Nice Price
Great Looks
On Lath Intel WiFi / Bluetooth
Lot of arranged Software
High Quality Audio
RGB header

Cons

VRM Heatsink have very small thermal pad installed, only embrace 80% of MOSFETs

Determination

At a cost tag of Rs.14500(approx.), the MSI X470 Gaming Pro Carbon Air-conditioning motherboards offers more than whatever other product in the AMD AM4 motherboard segment. This board with on-board intel Wi-Fi/Bluetooth forth with quality components, improved ability phases, offers a bully gaming experience and a very adept overclocking capability. Only downward side is that the VRM Heatsink on this motherboard have very small thermal pad installed which but cover fourscore% of MOSFETs area for VRM Cooling although it don't effects much in normal operations but good to accept proper sized thermal pads for proper cooling and product longevity.

Manufacturers Info

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