Z270 SLI Plus

Stronger than Steel

1	USB 3.1 Type-C
2	Lightning USB 3.1 Gen2
3	VR Boost
4	Intel^® LAN
5	Golden audio jacks, 7.1 surround

6	Professional IO cover Stunning looks, protecting the I/O ports
7	Heavy plated heatsinks Leading heatsink design, for maximum cooling
8	DDR4 Boost with Steel Armor Optimized traces and isolated memory circuitry
9	PCI-E Steel Armor Protecting VGA cards against bending and EMI
10	2x Turbo M.2 with Steel Armor NVMe support, up to 32 Gb/s using PCI-Express Gen3 x4, ready for Intel^® Optane™ Memory
11	Double ESD protection Double grounding layered mounting holes prevent ESD damage
12	Audio Boost 4 with amplifier Optimized audio using the best components, 120 dB SNR 32-bit

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.

	Fan headers

Multi GPU support

Professionals and enthusiasts strive for the best performance to make their systems faster. MSI motherboards fully support multi GPU technologies. Optimal PCI slot placement allows for the best fit and usage conditions to ensure the best thermal conditions.

Extreme storage performance: 2x Turbo M.2

Enjoy a blazing fast system boot up and insanely quick loading of applications and data. 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! You can even mix up devices and set up RAID easily using M.2 Genie, for even better performance.

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.

Amplify and optimize your VR experience

Traditional USB ports can suffer signal drops, significantly impacting performance of connected devices. VR Boost, only on MSI, is a smart chip that ensures a clean and strong signal to a VR optimized USB port, giving you an enjoyable VR experience.

Professional Sound Quality

Like a dedicated sound card Audio Boost 4 offers a HD audio processor, a dedicated amplifier and high quality audio capacitors, all physically isolated from the rest of the motherboard circuitry to ensure the purest HI-FI audio signal.

Isolated Audio with LED Line	Chemi-Con Audio capacitors

Professional networking with bandwidth management

The high quality Gigabit LAN adapter is optimized for professional and multimedia use with outstanding performance to deliver a secure, stable and fast network connection.

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Unmatched Memory Performance

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

Memory Signal Purity

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Others

Best compatibility

Optimized traces, a fully isolated memory circuitry and long list of memory compatibility testing ensures perfect stability and performance, so you never have to worry about your system crashing during heavy workloads.

*Based on Z170 QVL

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!

Reversible connector

	Double Bandwidth USB 3.1

Up to 20% faster with XBoost


Others USB 3.1 Gen2

Built on everlasting quality

Only the finest quality components and latest innovations are used. Rigorous quality testing under the most extreme conditions ensures a super reliable, high performance motherboard.

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No strengthening

MSI Steel armor

Reinforced, heavy soldered connections

M.2 Steel Armor	DDR4 Steel Armor

Reinforced Steel PCIe Slot,
Protects Against EMI