MSI B250M Bazooka OPT Boost Motherboard

Overview

• Supports 7th / 6th Gen Intel® Coreâ„¢ / Pentium® / Celeron® processors for LGA 1151 socket
• Supports DDR4-2400 Memory (Max.)
• 16GB Intel® Optaneâ„¢ memory included: Boost your system up to 14X faster
• DDR4 Boost: Give your DDR4 memory a performance boost
• VR Ready: Best virtual reality game experience without latency
• GAMING LEDs: Ambient LED lights for an awesome look & feel
• Lightning Fast Game experience: Twin Turbo M.2, Intel Optane Memory Ready on 2nd M.2
• Audio Boost: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality for the most immersive gaming experience
• GAMING LAN: The best online gaming experience with lowest latency and bandwidth management
• Mystic Light Sync: Synchronize other RGB solutions with your gaming rig and control all LEDs in one click
• In-Game Weapons: GAMING Hotkey, X-Boost
• EZ Debug LED: Easiest way to troubleshoot
• Click BIOS: Secure and Reliable UEFI BIOS solution
• GAMING CERTIFIED: 24-hour on- and offline game and motherboard testing by eSports players

Conquer The Battlefield

Featuring heavy plated heat sinks and fierce looks, MSI ARSENAL GAMING motherboards are packed with gaming features for a refined gaming experience.

We are proud to be a part of the MSI GAMING testing program to help give gamers the best hardware to play games at the highest level.

Geared up for Battle

1. GAMING Device Port
2. HDMI, DVI
3. GAMING LAN
4. USB 3.1 Type-A, Type-C
5. Premium audio jacks
6. Full gaming I/O cover Stunning looks, protecting the I/O ports
7. Heavy plated gaming heatsinks Leading heatsink design, for maximum cooling
8. DDR4 Boost Optimized traces and isolated memory circuitry
9. PCI-E Steel Armor Protecting VGA cards against bending and EMI
10. 2x Turbo M.2 NVMe support, up to 32 Gb/s using PCI-Express Gen3 x4, ready for Intel® Optane™ Memory on 2nd M.2
11. 16GB Intel® Optane™ Boost your system up to 14x faster
12. Audio Boost Optimized gaming audio using best components

Personalize Your Gaming Rig

Customize and set up your own color scheme with RGB Mystic Light sync. 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!

Gaming Ambiance

With multiple colors available, you are the artist to create your own unique gaming rig. Done selecting colors? Choose between several LED effects to really make your system come alive and enjoy your personalized design!

Extend Your Rgb Experience With Ease

MSI's Mystic Light Extension pinheader provides an intuitive way to control additional RGB strips and other RGB peripherals added to a system, without needing a separate RGB controller. By simply connecting any 12V RGB LED strip to the 4-pin Mystic Light Extension RGB-strip header gamers can sync colors to any style they choose.

Mystic Light Sync: Synchronize Your Led Experience

With the convenience of Mystic Light Sync, you can control RGB LED solutions from other brands, such as CPU coolers, keyboards and mice or RGB system fans.

Smartphone & Pc Control

Create your own colorful masterpiece with ease. The easy to use Gaming APP is available on PC, phone and tablet. It offers remote control, simply using your smartphone or tablet. Make your PC look and feel brand new with any color you want with just a few clicks!

Stay Cool While Gaming

Cooling your PC is essential for reliable performance. We've made sure to include enough fan headers with full control to allow you to cool your system any way you want.

Looking Cool While Keeping Cool

High quality materials and smart fan optimizations contribute to cooling all essential components, which is key to making sure your system runs stable at the best performance during long gaming sessions.

Fully Controllable Fan Headers

MSI motherboards let you manage speeds and temperatures for all your system and CPU fans, giving you full control to set up a cool & silent system. The fan headers are conveniently placed with the most popular CPU coolers in mind.

DC or PWM Mode With Hysteresis

MSI fan headers 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.

Total Freedom, Maximum Ease

Easily program your most-used commands and execute them with a single keystroke. Youre free to choose any key you want, so choose wisely.

Gaming Hotkeys

Simply assign functions to any key whether to launch your favorite games, load profiles or do real-time overclocking with the push of a single button. The possibilities are endless!

Dedicated Port For Gaming Peripherals

The GAMING Device Port is optimized to deliver the best connectivity for high-end gaming peripherals to fully utilize their features and responsiveness. Customize your mouse DPI to enhance accuracy or program macro combinations using the easy-to-use Mouse Master software to perform multiple commands with just one click

Gaming Benefits

• 3x more gold than regular connectors for the best signal
• 10x longer lifetime when plugging/un-plugging
• More responsive, more precise movements
• Customizable mouse settings
• No keypress left behind with n-key rollover

A Different View On Gaming

MSI Dragon Eye allows you to watch a YouTube video or Twitch Stream while playing a game simultaneously. Simply add a link or stream to the Dragon Eye application and select the size, position, volume and transparency and start gaming. The hotkeys allow you to start/pause your video or set the volume.

In-Game Feedback, On-Screen Display

Keep track of your system performance with the OSD function in Gaming App. This feature allows you to fully customize which statistics are shown on-screen while you play your games. Keep an eye on your CPU speed, FPS counter, GPU temperature and much more while gaming without having to leave the game.

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WTFAST: Join The Gamers Private Network

This unique and secure gamers solution uses its own optimized private network for gaming. Join the network to get an even lower ping!

Be The First On The Battlefield

This MSI GAMING motherboard supports all the latest 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.

16GB Intel Optane Memory Included

This motherboard comes with a free 16GB IntelOptane Memory pre-installed. Simply boot up your system. Intel Optane memory accelerates your system delivering amazing speed and responsiveness without compromising system storage capacity.

• Up to 14x faster
• Pre-installed
• Easy to configure

Optane: Boost HDD To Perform Like An SSD

Gamers and PC Enthusiasts can now enjoy the performance of an SSD on their HDD by coupling it with the new Intel Optane Memory device. Intel Optane technology provides an unparalleled combination of high throughput, low latency, high quality of service, and high endurance. All MSI 200 Series motherboards are ready for Intel Optane Memory.

2x Turbo M.2

Enjoy a blazing fast system boot up and insanely quick loading of applications and games with MSI motherboards. Delivering speeds up to 32Gb/s per device using Gen3 x4, Turbo M.2 is over 5 times faster than a regular SATA III connection!

Xboost Your Storage Performance

This great little tool is very simple to use and automatically detects your storage devices connected to the system. When enabled, X-Boost 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.

Sata Mass Storage

We made sure each MSI motherboard comes with enough SATA ports to connect loads of HDDs for long term storage of large files and system backups.

Ultra-Fast Performance,Great Gaming Experience 

All of the next gen storage connectors support NVMe, the fastest storage standard in the world. Simply put, MSI GAMING motherboards offer the best of the best in storage options & performance. Instantly load your favorite games and always be the first on the battlefield with MSI.

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.

Get Ready To Be Overwhelmed By The Realms of VR

From the start of Virtual Reality, MSI has been deeply involved in making VR Ready hardware in each of its product lines. Whether it's a feature-rich motherboard, a framerate boosting graphics card or a blazing fast complete gaming system, a huge set of VR-supporting features awaits you

Optimized For The Best VR Brands

Want the best of the best VR experience without any compromise? MSI motherboards offer everything you need when exploring the possibilities of VR. By closely working with the industries leading VR vendors, we make sure you get the best possible gaming experience when choosing Virtual Reality.

Straight Into The Action With One Click To VR

Both hard- and software need to be in tune for a smooth VR experience. One Click to VR makes it very fast and easy to get primed for VR. A single click sets all your key components to their highest performance and makes sure other software applications wont impact your virtual adventure. Click here to learn more about MSI VR

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.

Amplify Your Game With Audio Boost

Built on years of experience in building motherboards dedicated to giving gamers true Hi-Fi sound. Audio Boost has developed into a high quality audio unit, offering a clear advantage over your opponents when gaming. Locate your enemies with your eyes closed using Audio Boost.

Isolated Audio Design With LED Border

Audio Boost operates like a dedicated soundcard by being physically isolated from the rest of the motherboard circuitry to ensure the purest audio signal possible. A bright border illuminated by LEDs showcases and protects the Hi-Fi audio unit.

Separated Audio Layers For Clean Left & Right Channel

Using separated layers in the PCB ensures equally pristine sound quality for both left and right audio channels.

De-Pop Protection

Audio Boost protects your ears by eliminating those annoying loud popping sounds when you plug/unplug devices or turn your PC on/off.

Dedicated High Defination Audio Processor

Audio Boost is powered by an EMI-shielded high quality HD audio processor, making sure you enjoy the purest sound quality in both stereo and surround sound.

Chemi-Con Audio Capacitors For a Warmer Sound

By dedicating golden audio capacitors to the front output, a high fidelity sound experience with exceptional acoustics and realism for studio level headphones is ensured. The Chemi-Con audio capacitors are widely considered to be one of the great choices for the best sound output.

Golden Connectors For Optimal 7.1 Sound Quality

With golden audio connectors you get the best possible signal output with the least chance of distortion. Using gold also prevents any corrosion or oxidation in the long run, which could impact signal quality.

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.

Optimize Online Gaming Traffic For Lower Latency!

MSI GAMING LAN Manager automatically classifies and prioritizes the latency-sensitive applications for online games, giving you the best online gaming experience with low latency.

MSI Gaming Lan Manager

• Automatically prioritizes games above other applications
• Allows you to change applications' traffic priority
• Allows you to customize bandwidth for each application

Unmatched Memory Performance

MSI motherboards are crammed with features to fuel your gaming rig's memory with more speed, higher overclockability and increased stability.

Enchanced stability with optimized memory layout

Optimized traces and a fully isolated memory circuitry ensures perfect stability and performance, so you never have to worry about your system crashing during games.

Memory Speed Impacts Performance

The technical enhancements of DDR4 Boost allow for more stability at higher memory speeds compared to other brands. Enjoy the additional boost in gaming performance or when working with large video and photography files.

Extreme Stability & Compatibility Testing

MSI conducts thorough memory testing with the most popular memory brands under extreme conditions to ensure your system runs stable no matter what. Our memory partners include brands like Corsair, Crucial, Kingston, G.Skill and many more to optimize memory modules, configurations and even improve overclocking.

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.

Overvoltage Protection

Prevents potential short-circuit damage to the CPU and other critical components.

EZ Debug LED

Run into trouble? Onboard LEDs for key components will indicate the source of the problem so you know exactly where to look to get up and running again.

Maximize Your USB Device Performance

Transfer your favorite games, music and movies over USB faster than ever. MSI offers a wide variety of options to connect and boost your USB 3.1 devices, delivering lightning-fast transfer speeds up to 5Gb/s!

TYPE-C Reversible Connector For Next-Gen USB

Get all the performance benefits from USB 3.1 combined with the convenience of the USB Type-C connector. This reversible USB connector allows for effortless connecting of USB devices.

X-Boost Your USB Performance

When enabled, X-Boost optimizes your devices for even better transfer speeds and can provide up to 20% increase in USB performance, saving a lot of time when transferring data. This handy tool is very easy to use and automatically detects & optimizes the USB devices connected to your system.

Super Charge Your Phone & Gaming Gear

MSI Super Charger USB ports charge any connected device faster. It delivers more power than regular USB ports to your smartphone, tablet, USB game controller or portable console.

Front Side USB Faster Than Ever With USB 3.1

Ready for next generation cases and perfect to use with the latest smartphones, the onboard front side USB connector now offers ultra-high speed through USB 3.1 with Type-A.

Double ESD Protection

Never worry about damage caused by defective USB devices. The USB ports on MSI motherboards are shielded by a set of protective ICs to prevent damage caused by Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) from plugging/unplugging USB devices.

Apps To Greatly Improve Efficiency

With years of experience in creating performance enhancing tools that are easy to use, only the highest quality applications are at your disposal. Use these tools to get the most out of your motherboard and achieve victory when gaming.

X-Boost Your Storage

This unique and exclusive software allows you to boost the performance of any storage or USB device connected to your system. Simply use X-BOOSTs Easy or Advanced mode to tune your system for up to 20% increased speeds, higher system responsiveness and faster loading of in-game levels.

Take Command of Your System

MSIs Command Center software is the perfect tool to get the most out of your motherboard. With an intuitive interface, Command Center allows you to tune settings to increase system stability, maximize performance and optimize your systems cooling features.

Always Up-To-Date

Never miss out on important updates. MSI Live Update automatically downloads and installs the latest drivers, BIOS and software so you can focus on your game. "...the best update package available on any motherboard." - Anandtech

SSD Not Fast Enough? Try MSI Ramdisk

MSI motherboards include RAMDisk, allowing you to create a virtual drive from your system RAM memory. Instantly load your favorite game, speed up your browser or your page file to significantly speed up your system!

• Speed up system performance, over 25x faster than a SATA SSD
• Speed up games, apps and browser
• Increase SSD lifespan

Instant System Startup With MSI Fast Boot & GO2Bios

With the latest operating systems supporting UEFI fast booting methods, we have added a Fast Boot option to take full advantage of this. Simply enable Fast Boot either in the BIOS or with the convenient application for faster boot times.

GO2Bios

Avoid having to mash your DEL/F2 button to get into the BIOS with the Go2BIOS button in the MSI Fast Boot application. Your PC will automatically go to the BIOS on the next reboot for quick. Some models even have an onboard Go2BIOS button.

CPU-Z MSI Gaming Edition

MSI has worked closely with the CPUID team to develop a special edition of CPU-Z featuring the famous MSI GAMING dragon. Use CPU-Z to gather key information of your systems key components, like CPU speed, Memory speed and timings, motherboard BIOS version and much more.

Built on Everlasting Quality

Using only the finest quality components and integrating the latest 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.

Fortify Your System With PCI-E Steel Armor

MSI PCI Express Steel Armor slots are armed with more solder points on the motherboard for a stronger hold, preventing any damage due to heavy-weight graphics cards. Steel Armor also protects PCI Express signals against electromagnetic interference for a pure gaming experience and even higher overclocking.

Ultimate Motherboard Protection

Weve made sure you can enjoy your system endlessly. MSI motherboards feature Double ESD protection with double layer grounding around the motherboard mounting holes, preventing Electrostatic discharge (ESD) surges from damaging the motherboard.

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Super Stable Gaming With The Highest  Quality Components

MSI uses Military Class 5 components, which is the latest evolution of the industries highest quality standard. These high quality components are shielded by the best protection to make sure your system runs smoothly under the most extreme gaming conditions.

Titanium Choke

Ti chokes run much cooler and deliver a 30% improvement in power efficiency, allowing for better overclocking and stability.

Dark Cap

A key ingredient in high-end motherboard designs, Dark Caps have lower Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR) and an increased lifespan of over 10 years.

Dark Choke

A special core design allows the Dark Choke to run at a lower temperature offering better power efficiency and stability.

Certified For Gaming

Each model is tweaked to deliver the best FPS for a stutter-free gaming experience. Tested in 24-hour on- and offline gaming sessions with the most popular gaming gear by the worlds best eSports players, so you can enjoy top performance and reliability in the worlds most popular games.

Tune Your System With Click Bios

The extensive features in MSI CLICK BIOS let you fine-tune your system to deliver reliable and maximum performance. From M-Flash for easy BIOS flashing to advanced data protection & system security, CLICK BIOS provides the tools to fully protect and optimize your system. MSI CLICK BIOS is faster than ever. By reducing the use of graphics in the UEFI shell, it boots faster, reacts instantl Easy to use Windows 10 optimized Packed with security features

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