MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon
AM4, AMD X370, ATX
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23 reviews
Currently for me the top board for the AM4 socket, since there are not many working ones on the market yet.
Great board, good equipment, enough connections. The bios is clear, as usual from MSI.
The lighting (RGB) is not yet fully developed, but you can do without it.
Unfortunately, there are still many bugs on the part of AMD.
Nevertheless, the board does its job and runs wonderfully with my AMD RYZEN 7 1800X.Pro
- Functionality
- 4 fan connections which can be controlled individually and well
- Visually beautifully finished
Contra
- The only thing to criticise is the software support for RGB lighting...and on the part of AMD...
Recommendable!
I bought the motherboard in combination with the Ryzen 7, 1700 and G.Skill FlareX. After a somewhat complex BIOS update, the components run stably at 3200Mhz. The best fan control I've had so far can be comfortably set in the bios as performance curves.
Pro
- Fan control
- Price/Performance
Contra
- few accessories (cables)
Recommended despite RAM compatibility problems
The motherboard is solidly made and has the usual MSI UEFI, which leaves a lot of room for OC and customisation.
I have installed an R7 1800X @4.1GHz. CPU OC worked without any problems.
The only negative point is the RAM compatibility. BIOS Ver. 1.4 solves some of these, but my G.Skill Trident Z 3200s only run at 1866. You can try and experiment to set the timings etc. so that 2933 (e.g.) is possible, but XMP still doesn't work. This will certainly be solved by a future update, but at the moment it is still annoying.
I would still recommend the board as this is sure to be fixed in the next few weeks.
MSI/ASUS are known to provide BIOS/UEFI updates more regularly than other manufacturers.Pro
- Quality
- Value
- UEFI/BIOS
- Easy to flash
- RBG LED
Contra
- RAM compatibility....
Despite all the time spent, I really like the board. It looks good and MSI Mystic Light works better than I thought it would.
My first Ryzen build. I chose MSI because of the equipment (RGB 2xM.2) and the sound chip.
The board was definitely used, how do I know?
When I put my Ryzen 5 1600 in and tried to boot the system for the first time, nothing happened. I had heard on many forums that the first boot and POST process is long with Ryzen. After 10 minutes I restarted -> without success. All fans turned and no LED was lit except for the detection LEDs (which indicate that e.g. 2 RAM bars are installed). Then I cleared the CMOS (Bios reset) and all of a sudden all the LEDs lit up, so some settings had been made. Since the board fortunately has DEBUG LEDs, I could quickly determine that the processor was in trouble. Clearly not the board's fault.
New Prozi, installed, works. >> Bios update to the latest version (version 17)
Overclocking: I had my problems with the board. R5 1600 went over 3.9Ghz but the RAM only ran at 2133 (Corsair Vengeance RGB 3000CL15).
If a clock didn't work or the RAM timings didn't work for the system, the board simply hung up on booting. I couldn't even get into the bios! This means that every time I wanted to change something after a setting didn't work (voltage, timings, multiplier etc...), I had to reset the bios.
Quite annoying.
After ages of trying, I finally got to the sweet spot.
3.75Ghz on all cores and 2933Mhz CL15 on the RAM.
That's completely sufficient for me.
Otherwise, I can only criticise the LED of the mainboard IO cover. The colours are anything but accurate and red appears bluish.Pro
- Equipment
- Soundchip
- Many USB ports
- Overclockability
Contra
- Bios does not reset itself, despite the setting being switched on!
- POST times are not exactly the best
Geiles Mobo
Pro
- RGB
- 2x m.2 Slots
Contra
- Kein RGB Header 3pin
Top Board
Very good board, which has now done the service with me, since I upgraded to X570.
6 out of 23 reviews
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