The MSI® Z170A GAMING M7 motherboard is designed to provide gamers the best gaming experience through genuine GAMING design, best-in-class gaming features and the latest technology. The Z170A GAMING M7 motherboard is an engineering masterpiece tailored to gaming perfection. DDR4 BOOST & XMP LED By fully isolating the memory circuitry from other components, DDR4 Boost ensures the memory signal to stay pure for maximum performance and stability. GAME BOOST Generate more FPS in games! Use the Game Boost dial with automated overclocking settings that goes up to eleven and reach for 5GHz. AUDIO BOOST 3 & NAHIMIC The ultimate audio solution for gamers, powered by Nahimic Audio Enhancer. With dual OPA1652 AMPs and metal EMI Shielding you get breathtaking sound quality. MSI GAMING LAN POWERED BY KILLER™ MSI GAMING LAN is powered by the KillerTM LAN E2400 Network Controller featuring intelligent AES 2.0 to automatically prioritize games above other applications. GAMING LAN uses LAN Protect with 15KV anti-surge protection for safety, highlighted with a red LED in the LAN port. CPU support Supports 6th Gen Intel® Core™ / Pentium® / Celeron® Processors CPU socket LGA 1151 Chipset Intel® Z170 Chipset Graphics interface3 * PCI-E 3.0 x16, Steel Armor PCI-E slots, 2-Way NVIDIA® SLI®, 3-Way AMD CrossFire™ support Display Interface 1 * DisplayPort, 2 * HDMI –Requires Processor Graphics Memory support 4 DIMMs, Dual Channel DDR4-3600+(OC) Expansion slots4 * PCI-E x1 slots M.2 / SATA 2 * M.2 32 Gb/s, 6 * SATA 6 Gb/s (4 ports reserved for SATA Express) SATA RAID RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 –Available on SATA1 to SATA6 USB1 * USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C, 1 * USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A, 6* USB 3.1 Gen1, 7 * USB 2.0 LAN1 * Killer™ E2400 Gigabit LAN Audio8-channel Audio Boost 3 with Nahimic