MSI B250 GAMING PRO CARBON | MSI B250 Gaming Pro Carbon Motherboard

Overview

• Supports 7th / 6th Gen IntelCore / Pentium/ Celeronprocessors for LGA 1151 socket
• Supports DDR4-2400 Memory (Max.)
• DDR4 Boost: Give your DDR4 memory a performance boost
• VR Ready: Best virtual reality game experience without latency
• Mystic Light and Mystic Light Sync: Control all LEDs in system with one click by GAMING APP or mobile devices.
• Lightning Fast Game experience: Twin Turbo M.2 with Steel Armor. Intel Optane Memory Ready, Turbo U.2, Lightning USB 3.1 Gen2
• Audio Boost 4 with Nahimic 2: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality for the most immersive gaming experience
• GAMING LAN with LAN Protect, powered by Intel: The best online gaming experience with lowest latency and bandwidth management
• Military Class 5, Guard-Pro: Latest evolution in high quality components for best protection and efficiency
• MULTI-GPU: With Steel Armor PCI-E slots. Supports AMD Crossfire
• In-Game Weapons: GAMING Hotkey, X-Boost, Xsplit Gamecaster
• EZ Debug LED: Easiest way to troubleshoot
• Click BIOS 5: Award-winning BIOS with high resolution scalable font, favorites and search function
• GAMING CERTIFIED: 24-hour on- and offline game and motherboard testing by eSports players

EXCEPTIONAL BY DESIGN

1. GAMING Device Port
2. Lightning USB 3.1 Gen2
3. VR Ready
4. Intel GAMING LAN
5. Golden audio jacks with S/PDIF
6. Mystic Light RGB IO cover - Change up to 7 colors &LED effects
7. Gaming heatsinks with CARBON - 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 - with NVMe support, up to 32 Gb/s using PCI-Express Gen3 x4
11. M.2 Steel Armor, ready for Intel Optane Memory - Against EMI noise for M.2 devices for best performance
12. Audio Boost 4 with amplifier - Optimized gaming audio using best components, with Nahimic 2

MYSTIC LIGHT | 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!

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.

GET STARTED WITH MYSTIC LIGHT

To use Mystic Light, download the latest version of the MSI Gaming App below. For remote control of Mystic Light, simply download the latest version of the Mystic Light App for your smartphone from the Google Play Store or the App Store.

SMARTPHONE & 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!

COOLING | 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.

• 6x fan headers
• DC/PWM mode
• Full fan control
• Watercooling ready

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 &lent 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.

TOTAL CONTROL IN BIOS AND SOFTWARE

Total Fan Control allows you to take control of your fans and check your primary system characteristics in a simplified graphical interface. You can also set up to 4 temperature targets for CPU and motherboard, which will adjust the fan speeds automatically.

OPTIMIZED FOR WATER COOLING

Designed to support the most popular All-In-One &stom water cooling solutions on the market. A dedicated water pump PIN header supports up to 2 amp, giving you full control of the water pump speed. A clearly marked ‘keep-out-zone’ allows for easy and safe installation and a perfect fit.

WATERPUMP HEADER

• Up to 2A supported
• Speed control from BIOS and OS

GAMING FEATURES | YOUR IN-GAME ADVANTAGE

Outsmart and outperform your opponents in-game using an array of unique MSI GAMING tools. Clever hardware &ftware tools, created to keep you one step ahead of the competition and boost your skills.

• Gaming Hotkey
• Gaming Device Port
• Multi-GPU

STORAGE | 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.

• 2x M.2
• Ultra-fast storage caching

INTEL OPTANE READY

• This new technological marvel brings game-changing performance to memory and storage devices. Allow Optaneâ„¢ caching to boost your storage devices for an even faster system!

PROTECT &TIMIZE YOUR DEVICES WITH STEEL ARMOR

Steel Armor protects your M.2 SSD and slot from damage. But it does much more than that, Steel Armor ensures a clean data signal from the motherboard and M.2 SSD by protecting against electromagnetic interference (EMI) for a smooth experience.

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.

EASY RAID SETUP WITH M.2 GENIE

Looking to go all out in terms of raw data speed and put multiple SSDs in RAID 0? Setting this up can prove to be quite the challenge. That’s why we created M.2 Genie, a brilliant feature to make setting up RAID 0 for M.2 and U.2 much easier and less time consuming.

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 &rformance. Instantly load your favorite games and always be the first on the battlefield with MSI.

VR | 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.

• One click VR

AUDIO | 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.

• Nahimic 2
• Audio Boost 4
• Audio amplifier
• Audio capacitors

GAMING LAN | 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.

• Intel gaming LAN
• Bandwidth management
• LAN protect

MEMORY | UNMATCHED MEMORY PERFORMANCE

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

• Optimal layout
• 100% compatibility
• XMP LED

TUNING | 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.

USB | 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 10Gb/s!

• Double bandwidth USB 3.1
• Reversible Type-C connector
• Front USB 3.1
• Boost your USB

SOFTWARE | 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
• Command Center
• Live Update
• RAMDisk

QUALITY &OTECTION | 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.

• Steel Armor
• Military Class 5
• Gaming Certified

BIOS | A GAMERS' BIOS

We made sure our BIOS contains all the latest options and is easy to use for everyone. The extensive features let you fine-tune your system to deliver reliable maximum performance when gaming.

• Easy/advanced mode
• Convenient search
• Hardware monitor