WHEN CARBON MEETS GAMING

Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer is used extensively the

world of car racing and aerospace technology, where lightweight & strength is most important. The CARBON motherboards black scheme combines great looks with sophistication that is sure to make your pc stand out in

looks and performance.

What’s new..

MYSTIC LIGHT

Improved Mystic Light: X99A GODLIKE GAMING CARBON

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• Controlled via mobile App or MSI Gaming App

• More than 2000 colors and many patterns

• 8 cool LED effects

X99A GAMING PRO CARBON: Mystic Light smartphone

*NEW: Also has RGB LEDs under PCI-e hinges

*Mystic Light mobile application only in next version of mobile GAMING APP,

available by the end of May.

X99A GAMING PRO CARBON features

extension connector for case decoration

Controlled via mobile App or MSI Gaming App

16.8Million colors / 17 LED effects

Mystic Light Extension

Improved Mystic Light: Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON

Customize your systems’ look & feel with RGB

LEDs. Use the GAMING APP to change colors.

16.5M Colors 16 LED Effects incl. music sync

SPEED

X99A GAMING PRO CARBON: Turbo U.2 onboard

Specs

Onboard Turbo U.2:

• Ready for latest storage solutions.

• More vendors are releasing U.2 SSDs.

X99A GAMING PRO CARBON: Direct USB Type-C

Specs

• Ready for next generation PC chassis’.

• Perfect for Type-C mobile phones.

• Great for next generation mobile storage devices.

• Supports USB 3.1 Gen 1(5 Gb/s)

GAMING Optimized Bandwidth Management

The GAMING Network Manager;

• Automatically prioritizes games above other appplications

• Allows you to change applications’ traffic priority

• Allows you to customize each applications’ bandwidth

Others

Killer™ wireless AC 1535 on GODLIKE • Cutting edge 11AC performance

• Lag and Latency Reduction™

• Advanced Stream Detect™

• Visual Bandwidth control™

• ExtremeRange™ Technology

• External Amplifiers

• Mu-MIMO

• Beamforming

ExtremeRange™ Technology

USB 3.1 Type-A & -C

• 2x Faster USB 3.1 Gen2

• Unique combo connector

Type-A for compatibility

Type-C with reversible design

and 15W (5V/3A) support

Storage ready NVMe

SATA EXPRESS

16 Gb/s

PCI-E Gen 3 x2

TURBO M.2

Up to 32 Gb/s

PCI-E Gen3 x4

Turbo U.2 (optional)

32Gb/s

PCI-E Gen3 x4

with Re-driver chip

U.2 host adapter

• U.2 host adapter works is included in X99A GODLIKE GAMING and

optional for all Z170/H170/AMD boards.

• Needs a M.2 Gen3 x4 slot for best performance

• SFF8369 SSD from Intel, Samsung, OCZ

Intel SSD 750 400G

Via U.2 host adapter

NVMe

Samsung SM951 256G

M.2 Gen3 x4

Kingston 2280 480G

M.2 Gen2 x4

Premium Streaming Experience XSplit Gamecaster V2.5 and XSplit Broadcaster

V2.5 lets you easily record, stream and share

your gaming sessions with fellow gamers. It’s

simple, can be activated quickly and kickstarts

your career as game streamer.

TriDev Smartcam Share your broadcast Real-time notes Record & Upload

1 Year Premium License!

Version 2.5

Gaming Device Port & Mouse Master

Optimized to deliver the best connectivity for a high-end gaming

mouse to get faster response times during gameplay. You can fully

customize your mouse using the Mouse Master.

X99A GAMING PRO CARBON: GAME BOOST

Game Boost offers 8 gears of overclocking

up to 5GHz!

Simply turn the dial to turn up the fun.

OC Engine

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More flexible BCLK adjustments due to dedicated OC Engine chip

SOUND

Isolated

Audio PCB

Nippon

Chemi-Con

Audio

Capacitors

6.35mm Golden

Dedicated

Headphone Out

High Quality

EMI-Shielded

HD Audio

Processor

Golden Audio

Jacks

Triple Headphone

Amplifiers Rear & Front Dedicated

AMP switch

ESS

ES9018K2M

DAC

Nahimic

Sound

Technology

Audio Boost 3 The ultimate audio solution for gamers, powered by

Nahimic Audio Enhancer. Found on various MSI Z170

GAMING motherboards.

• Isolated Audio PCB

• Nahimic Audio Enhancer

• Left & right channel in separated PCB layers

• Metal EMI Shielding

• Dual OPA1652 AMPs

• Anti-Popcorn circuitry design

• Nippon Chemi-Con Audio Capacitors

• Golden Audio Connectors

Gaming comes to life

Sound is a major part of your gaming experience. Live, feel and become

invincible, thanks to a unique sound. boosts your PC’s audio with

the most advanced sound enhancement effects and unique features for

gamers.

NAHIMIC IMMERSIVE AUDIO CREATES

AN AMAZING IN-GAME SOUND

More info: http://gaming.msi.com/features/nahimic

Recorder Audio Voice

Nahimic Features

VOICE CLARITY

FREQUENCY LEVELER VIRTUAL SURROUND

BASS BOOST

VOICE LEVELER

NOISE REDUCTION

More info: http://gaming.msi.com/features/nahimic

STABILITY

Impregnable Steel Armor

To protect against damage from

heavy VGA cards during transport.

Additionally Steel Armor also has

more solder points on the PCB for

more strength.

Others MSI Steel Armor MSI VGA Armor

4-Way SLI Hard Bridge Compatible

MSI exclusive 4-Way SLI Hard Bridge comes with a

VGA Fan which improves the airflow significantly

and decreases the VGA temperature and noise

levels efficiently.

GPU NO FAN Fan Speed: 2000RPM

GPU 4 94° 85°

GPU 3 95° 81°

GPU 2 90° 85°

GPU 1 70° 77°

Test Platform

CPU

MB

VGA

GAME

Intel Core i7-5960X

X99A GODLIKE GAMING CARBON

NV GTX 980Ti 4-Way SLI

4K Res. in Star Wars Battlefront

DDR4 Boost & DDR4 Steel Armor

Ensuring the purest memory signal

for maximum performance and

stability.

Steel Armor technology is now also available

for DDR4 Boost, offering better EMI-shielding,

for optimal memory performance. *DDR4 Steel Armor is only available on X99A GODLIKE GAMING CARBON

DDR4 Boost: Vendors cheer for it

The Award Winning Click BIOS 5

Explore the greatly improved, award-winning

CLICK BIOS 5 and use it to tune your system to

maximum performance to get the most out

of your games. MSI CLICK BIOS 5 is the next

gen UEFI BIOS.

• Next gen UEFI BIOS with award

winning design

• High-resolution multi language

scalable font

• Easy to use

• Advanced overclocking

Others Click BIOS 5

Gaming APP: Overclocking made easy

Software for gamers to boost the FPS with 3 pre-

sets (OC/Game/Silent).

The new FPS counters shows you the increase in

frame rates.

MSI skinned CPU-Z

MSI has worked closely with CPUID to

develop this special edition of CPU-Z

featuring the famous MSI GAMING dragon.

Use CPU-Z to gather information on some

of the main devices of your system, such as

your CPU speed, Memory speed and

timings, motherboard BIOS version and

much more.

Gaming Certified

Through 24-hour game testing in an

internet cafe with on- and off line

games, to make sure you enjoy the

best possible gameplay experience.

GODLIKE: Designed for Overclocking

Extreme Socket

Design

OC Thermal

Design Power Phases Overcurrent

protection OC PCB DIGITALL

POWER

With a rich history from our

legendary Overclocking

motherboards, the X99A GODLIKE

GAMING has OC running through

its veins.

OC Essentials

EASY BUTTON 3

Hold Power button 4 sec to go to BIOS DEBUG LED

V-CHECK POINTS 2

CLEAR CMOS BUTTON

MULTIBIOS II SLOW MODE

Patented Turbo Socket on GODLIKE CARBON

• Provides extra pins (up to 2036) from PCB to connect to CPU

• Higher DDR4 memory frequencies, lower latencies and enhanced stability

while overclocking

• X99A GODLIKE GAMING (CARBON) / X99A GAMING 9 ACK / X99A XPOWER AC

Regular Socket

(LGA2011)

Turbo Socket

(LGA2036)

GODLIKE CARBON: Headset bundle

FREE DS502 headset with X99A GODLIKE GAMING CARBON

Starts: April 15th 2016

Ends: TBA

Region: Worldwide

CARBON SPEC

X99A GODLIKE GAMING Z170A GAMING PRO

Chipset / Socket X99 / LGA 2011-3 Z170 / LGA 1151

Mystic Light Mobile Control + Gaming APP Control Gaming APP Control

Multi GPU 4-way SLI/4-way CF + Steel Armor 2way-SLI/3-way CF + Steel Armor

OC Engine √ √

DDR4 Boost √ + Steel Armor + XMP LED √ + XMP LED

Gaming LAN Killer™ DoubleShot-X3 PRO (2x E2400 + Wi-Fi AC) Intel i219

M.2 / U.2 Turbo M.2 / Turbo U.2 Host Card Turbo M.2

SATA / SATA-E 8 / 1 (Compatible with SATA) 4 / 1 (Compatible with SATA)

USB3.1 Gen2 Type-A & Type-C Type-A & Type-C

USB 3.0 / USB 2.0 8 / 6 6 / 8

Audio Audio Boost 3 PRO with 6.3mm Audio Jack Audio Boost 3

Nahimic √ √

Streaming 1 yr Premium XSplit License Lifetime OBS

X99A GAMING PRO CARBON: New specs & features

- Complete new heatsink & cover design

- Mystic Light with smartphone support & new RGB PCI-e slots

- Mystic Light RGB pin header (with extender cable bundled)

- Turbo U.2 onboard

- DDR4 & M.2 Steel Armor

- Front USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-C

- Game Boost up to 5Ghz

- Enhanced EZ Debug LED

- Nahimic 2.0

GAME WITH