MSI Also Shows Off Flagship X370 XPower Gaming Titanium AM4 Motherboard

[btarunr]

A sight for sore eyes at the MSI CES booth was its top-grade socket AM4 motherboard, the X370 XPower Gaming Titanium. This board is positioned in the company's Gaming Enthusiast series, and comes with all the bells and whistles you'd expect from a high-end desktop platform. It is based on AMD's top-dog X370 chipset, and supports AMD Ryzen processors out of the box. Designed for both high-end gaming builds and CPU overclockers, the board draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX, 8-pin EPS, and 4-pin ATX connectors, and uses a 10-phase VRM to condition it for the AM4 socket. The board also takes in power from an optional 6-pin PCIe power connector, which can be plugged in to stabilize multi-GPU VGA overclocks.

The star-attraction, however, is the silvery-white PCB, with matching connectors. The AM4 socket is wired to four DDR4 DIMM slots, and two PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots (x8/x8 when both are populated). The board supports NVIDIA SLI-HB and CrossFireX. The third x16 slot is electrical x4, and wired to the X370 chipset. Storage connectivity includes two 32 Gb/s M.2 slots, one 32 Gb/s U.2 port, and six SATA 6 Gb/s ports (from which two are directly wired to the processor). The board also serves up four USB 3.1 ports (including a type-C port), eight USB 3.0 ports, MSI's highest-tier onboard audio solution, and gigabit Ethernet that's sourced from either Intel or Qualcomm Killer.



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[cdawall]

That's ugly, like ugly ugly

 

[Xzibit]

Here is the video for both MSI AM4 boards

 

[TheLostSwede]

Qualcomm sold killer to Rivet some time ago...

Decent feature set, fugly board.

 

[darkangel0504]

Z170

 

[Gibbo]

Anyone know if you can RAID0 the M.2? That would be awesome if you can.

 

[eidairaman1]

That's ugly, like ugly ugly

Sapphire anyone?

Call this one SnowBlind

 

[TheLostSwede]

Anyone know if you can RAID0 the M.2? That would be awesome if you can.

Most likely only soft RAID-0 on an OS level.

 

[Xzibit]

Here are more boards from MSI, Biostar, Gigabyte and AsRock

Meet AMD's new chipset, the X300 and X370

 

[ShurikN]

^ The red/black ASrock one looks nice

 

[Blueberries]

Anyone know if you can RAID0 the M.2? That would be awesome if you can.

Yes

 

[TheLostSwede]

^ The red/black ASrock one looks nice

Note that it has 5Gbps Ethernet as well.

Some more board details here http://www.anandtech.com/show/10990...oards-for-am4-laying-the-groundwork-for-ryzen

 

[ixi]

Nice looking MOBO's. Want to see faster benchmarks with ryzen cpu... And want to see benchmarks how fast will be ssd while connected to sata which goes to cpu.

 

[Ruru]

That's ugly, like ugly ugly

And I was like "whoa!" when I saw the Sapphire S939 white PCB motherboard back in the day, well, opinions are opinions.

 

[Gibbo]

Yes

OMG I can't wait... Oh yeah, I won't be

 

[kanecvr]

Qualcomm sold killer to Rivet some time ago...

Decent feature set, fugly board.

That's ugly, like ugly ugly

That's your opinion entirely. I think the thing is freaking gorgeous. I love the metallic silver finish. It reminds me of 2003-2004 soltek mainboards. I'm f***ing sick and tired of flat black, off-brown or the "classic" red-black mainboards. Don't like it, don't buy it.

I'd be pairing it with something like the Galaxy HOF 1080 (white PCB, white cooler) inside a black / white case.

And I was like "whoa!" when I saw the Sapphire S939 white PCB motherboard back in the day, well, opinions are opinions.

That's what I was thinking. But soltek did white / silver PCB's first.

^ The red/black ASrock one looks nice

eh - aren't you tired of red / black? It's been done to death. BOOOOOOORING!

 

[cdawall]

That's your opinion entirely. I think the thing is freaking gorgeous. I love the metallic silver finish. It reminds me of 2003-2004 soltek mainboards. I'm f***ing sick and tired of flat black, off-brown or the "classic" red-black mainboards. Don't like it, don't buy it.

I'd be pairing it with something like the Galaxy HOF 1080 (white PCB, white cooler) inside a black / white case.

I have zero issues with the white board design. This specific board with the stupid silver mixed in leaks cheap and cheesy.

 

[kanecvr]

I have zero issues with the white board design. This specific board with the stupid silver mixed in leaks cheap and cheesy.

Again, that's your opinion.I have in my collection a Soltek SL-85DR3-C and a Galaxy HOF GTX 780 that have the exact same finish and they look much better up close then they do in photos.

 

[cdawall]

Again, that's your opinion.I have in my collection a Soltek SL-85DR3-C and a Galaxy HOF GTX 780 that have the exact same finish and they look much better up close then they do in photos.

Ok and what is awesome about opinions is I am entitled to mine and have the ability to voice it. I find this board to be ugly ugly.

 

[kanecvr]

Ok and what is awesome about opinions is I am entitled to mine and have the ability to voice it.

That you are my friend. Opinion noted.