Description
Personalize Your Gaming Rig
Connect external RGB strips and sync other RGB capable gear to set up your own colour scheme using only 1 application: Mystic Light Sync. Select any of the colours from the palette using your smartphone or the MSI Gaming App to match your system style. Feel like using a different colour? Completely change the look of your system in 1 second!
Fully Controllable Fan Headers
MSI FAN headers automatically detect fans running in DC or PWM mode for optimal tuning of fan speeds and silence. Hysteresis also makes your fans spin up fluently to make sure your system stays silent, no matter what.
Your In-Game Advantage
Outsmart and outperform your opponents in-game using an array of unique MSI GAMING tools. Clever hardware & software tools, created to keep you one step ahead of the competition and boost your skills.
X-Boost Your Storage Performance
When enabled, X-Boost auto-detects and optimizes your SSDs to keep your system fast and maximize storage performance, making sure you reach the battlefield even quicker or saving you a lot of time when transferring data.
Intel Optane™ Ready
This new technological marvel brings game-changing performance to memory and storage devices. Allow Optane™ caching to boost your storage devices for an even faster gaming system!
Immerse Yourself into Virtual Worlds
Want the best of the best VR experience without any compromise? Through joint efforts with major VR brands, combined with unique MSI features geared to VR, MSI brings gamers and VR professionals a vivid, smooth and realistic experience in which content truly comes alive.
Raise Your Sound Quality with Audio Boost
Built on years of experience in building motherboards dedicated to providing true Hi-Fi sound. Audio Boost has developed into a high quality audio unit, offering a clear improvement in sound quality.
- Isolated Audio with LED Line.
- Chemi-Con Audio capacitors.
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Personalize your gaming rig
Customize and set up your own color scheme with RGB mystic light. Select any of the colors from the palette using your smartphone or the MSI gaming App to match your system style. Bored of the same colors? Simply change the complete look of your system in 1 second! -
Stay cool while gaming
Cooling your PC is essential for reliable performance. It includes enough fan headers with full control to allow you to cool your system any way you want. -
Your in-game advantage
Outsmart and outperform your opponents in-game using an array of unique MSI gaming tools. Clever hardware & software tools, created to keep you one step ahead of the competition and boost your skills. -
Be the first on the battlefield
This MSI gaming motherboard supports all the storage standards. This allows you to connect any ultra-fast storage device, giving you in-game benefits. Start games faster, load levels faster and have a real advantage over your enemies. -
Immerse yourself into virtual worlds
Integrating the very best of cutting edge technologies on MSI hardware provides a smooth VR ride. Through joint efforts with major VR brands, combined with unique MSI features geared to VR, MSI brings gamers and VR professionals a vivid and realistic experience in which content truly comes alive. -
Sound that pulls you into the game
Get the most immersive sound experience when gaming. MSI Audio Boost delivers the highest sound quality through the use of premium quality audio components. This lets you enjoy breathtaking, game-changing sound to create the most exciting gameplay. -
Dominate the game with the lowest latency
Get ready to crush your enemies on the battlefield with MSI gaming LAN. Featuring the highest quality components tuned to deliver the best online gaming experience without lag. -
Unmatched memory performance
MSI motherboards are crammed with features to fuel your gaming rig's memory with more speed, higher overclockability and increased stability. -
Designed for limitless tuning
Founded on experience and with a long history of creating the best performing motherboards packed with smart features, you can count on this motherboard to deliver the best performance under the most extreme conditions. Countless system tuning and troubleshooting tools are at your disposal to push your system to new heights and satisfy even the most demanding tweaker. -
Maximize your USB device performance
Transfer your favorite games, music and movies over USB faster than ever. MSI boosts your USB 3.1 devices, delivering lightning-fast transfer speeds! -
Built on everlasting quality
Using only the finest quality components and integrating the technological innovations delivers the best possible gaming and professional experience. Rigorous quality testing under the most extreme conditions ensures a super reliable, high performance motherboard. -
A gamer' BIOS
The extensive features let you fine-tune your system to deliver reliable maximum performance when gaming.
Specifications
Summary
- Product Description
- MSI H270 TOMAHAWK ARCTIC - motherboard - ATX - LGA1151 Socket - H270
- Product Type
- Motherboard - ATX
- Chipset Type
- Intel H270
- Processor Socket
- 1 x LGA1151 Socket
- Compatible Processors
- Pentium, Celeron, Core i5, Core i3, Core i7 (supports 6th and 7th Generation Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 / Pentium / Celeron)
- Max RAM Size
- 64 GB
- RAM Supported
- 4 DIMM slots - DDR4
- Storage Ports
- 6 x SATA-600 (RAID), 2 x M.2
- USB / FireWire Ports
- 1 x USB-C Gen 2 + 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 + 4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 + 2 x USB 2.0 + (4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 + 4 x USB 2.0 via headers)
- Audio
- HD Audio (8-channel)
- LAN
- Gigabit Ethernet
Detailed Specification
General
- Product Type
- Motherboard - ATX
- Chipset Type
- Intel H270
- Processor Socket
- LGA1151 Socket
- Max Processors Qty
- 1
- Compatible Processors
- Pentium, Celeron, Core i5, Core i3, Core i7 (supports 6th and 7th Generation Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 / Pentium / Celeron)
Supported RAM
- Max Size
- 64 GB
- Technology
- DDR4
- Bus Clock
- 2400 MHz, 2133 MHz
- Features
- Dual channel memory architecture, Intel Extreme Memory Profiles (XMP)
Audio
- Type
- HD Audio (8-channel)
- Audio Codec
- Realtek ALC892
- Compliant Standards
- High Definition Audio
LAN
- Network Controller
- Intel I219V
- Network Interfaces
- Gigabit Ethernet
Expansion / Connectivity
- Expansion Slots
- 1 x CPU , 4 x DIMM 288-pin , 3 x PCIe 3.0 x16 (x16/x4/x1 modes) , 3 x PCIe 3.0 x1
- Storage Interfaces
- SATA-600 -connectors: 6 x 7pin Serial ATA - RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 10 / RAID 5 , SATA-600 / PCIe 3.0 -connectors: 2 x M.2 - RAID 0 / RAID 1
- RAID Features
- Intel Smart Response Technology
- Interfaces
- 1 x HDMI , 1 x LAN (Gigabit Ethernet) , 1 x TOSLINK , 4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 , 2 x USB 2.0 , 1 x PS/2 keyboard / mouse , 1 x DVI-D , 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 , 1 x USB-C Gen2 , 1 x audio line-out - mini-jack , 1 x microphone - mini-jack , 1 x audio line-out (center/subwoofer) - mini-jack , 1 x audio line-out (rear) - mini-jack , 1 x audio line-in - mini-jack
- Internal Interfaces
- 4 x USB 2.0 - header , 4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 - header , 1 x serial - header , 1 x parallel - header , 1 x audio - header
- Power Connectors
- 24-pin main power connector, 8-pin ATX12V connector
Features
- BIOS Features
- MSI ClickBIOS 5
- Hardware Features
- Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) support, AMD CrossFireX technology support, MSI Audio Boost, MSI Gaming Device Port, MSI Guard-Pro, Debug LED, MSI Mystic Light, MSI Steel Armor, MSI Military Class V, LAN Protect, Double ESD Protection, Intel Optane Memory Ready
Miscellaneous
- Software Included
- MSI Gaming Hotkey, MSI Gaming LAN Manager
- Width
- 30.4 cm
- Depth
- 24.3 cm