MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium review - Product Showcase

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The motherboard follows a standard ATX form factor (30.5 x 24.4cm). The motherboard is located in the Aorus high-end range of the Ryzen desktop processor product stack. 

Size	ATX
Chipset	AMD X370
Memory	4 x DDR4 up to 3200 (OC)
Multi-GPU	CrossFireX, 2 x SLI
Expansion	PCIe 3.0 x16 (CPU): 2 (x16/x0, x8/x8) PCIe 2.0 x16 (Chipset): 1 (up to x4) PCIe 2.0 x1 (Chipset): 3
Storage	2 x M.2 (NVMe x4 or SATA 6Gbps) 6 x SATA 6Gbps 1x U.2 connector
Networking	Intel I211AT Gigabit Ethernet
Audio	Realtek ALC1220 codecs
USB	2.0 / 3.1: multiple
Onboard Graphics	1 x HDMI port, 1x Displayport

With the X370 board MSI releases a high-end class product, I am not calling it enthusiast as it still lacks certain features. But it has plenty enough features to keep you busy for a while.

The Ryzen processor has its own 16 PCIe Gen 3 lanes available for your graphics solution. Ryzen has 24 PCIe 3.0 lanes of them yet 4 are being used to interface with the chipset. Then depending on the chipset used it adds gen 2.0 PCIe lanes through the chipset. The Gaming 5 has been fitted with LED Mystic light, all was kept subtle and can be configured on/off/animated and single (white) colored. The primary graphics slots as well as the DIMM slots have metal shielding.

The board has 3 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots which can be arranged in these slot configurations with graphics cards:

• 1-way mode - x16 / x0 / x0 
• 2-way mode - x8 / x8 / x0
• 3-way mode - x8 / x8 / x4

As you can see, the primary two x16 slots are PCI Express Gen 3.0 configurations, that's plenty for regular graphics card setups up-to 2-way SLI/Crossfire. The motherboard comes with an 8-pin power connector. You'll get four DIMM slots that can be used for up-to 64GB of dual-channel memory. Up-to 3200 MHz supported in OC mode. Please do check compatible Memory and thus the QVL (Qualified Vendors Lists).