MSI has released a new motherboard for the AMD Ryzen platform, a nice one alright. it is the Gaming M7 ACK, with the ACK short for AC wifi and KillerNIC.
The LED lit X370 Gaming M7 ACK offers quite a bit of stuff including bundled 802.11ac Wi-Fi, three PCIe x16 slots and two PCIe x1 slots. It shows shows six SATA3 6G ports as well as a U2 one and two M.2 slots supporting NVMe PCIe x4 SSDs, the MS2 slots are chielded for heat by the heatsink. We spot USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports, one Type-A the other Type-C and a multitide of USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports.
- Socket: Socket AM 4
- Chipset: AMD X 370
- Form factor: ATX
- Memory slot: DDR 4 - 3200 x 4 (64 GB maximum / dual channel supported)
- Expansion slots: PCI - Express 3.0 (x16) x 2, PCI - Express 2.0 (x16 shape) x 1, PCI - Express 2.0 (x 1) x 3
- Storage: SATA 3.0 (6 Gbps) × 6, M 2 × 2
- LAN: Gigabit LAN × 1 (Killer E 2500), IEEE 802.11ac wireless LAN + Bluetooth 4.1 (Killer Wireless-AC 1535)
- Sound: 7.1 ch HD audio (Realtek ALC 1220)
- Interface: Gigabit LAN × 1, USB 3.1 Gen.2 × 2 (Type-A / Type-C), USB 3.1 Gen.1 × 6, USB 2.0 × 3, Audio Terminal × 5, Optical Audio Terminal × 1 , PS / 2 × 1
- External dimensions: W 304 × H 243 mm
The board has a 13-phase power circuit and comes with Audio Boost 4 and a high quality audio codec supporting a SNR ratio of 120 dB / 32 bit. The network is equipped with Killer E 2500 gigabit LAN and IEEE 802.11ac wireless LAN + Bluetooth 4.1 by Killer Wireless-AC 1535. Pricing should sit at the 229 Euros / USD. Check out some photos below.
