The ‘Gaming Pro Carbon AC’ has become MSI’s defacto top-end motherboard in its main consumer line for the past couple of generations, mirrored with the XPower Gaming for overclockers. The slight change in MSI’s lineup over the last few years, from their trio of Gaming, MPower and XPower lines, to this, has been subtle – most noticeable due to the lack of an MPower if I’m brutally honest.
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The Carbon follows along with all the X299 motherboards we’ve seen so far in that it has a huge selection of connection options and high bandwidth technologies allowing you to extract the very maximum possible from your hardware. There are plentiful USB 3.1 ports, multi GPU support, U.2 and dual M.2 for your speedy storage devices as well as the all-important GigaLAN and AC WiFi to keep you plugged in to the online world.
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MSI’s X299 GAMING PRO CARBON AC is second from the top when it comes to MSI’s X299 motherboard lineup. The motherboard offers a very strong feature set, and a new level of customizability. The motherboard does not only have RGB LEDs built into the top and bottom of the PCB, but it has RGB LED headers and the ability to change the physical color of the heat sinks and shields.
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Joining our X299 motherboard batch is the MSI X299 GAMING PRO CARBON AC. This motherboard continues the legacy of MSI’s CARBON series motherboard which features racing-inspired visual themes including carbon fiber touches as well as the dashing curves common on exotic cars.
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The MSI X299 Gaming Pro Carbon AC is, like our comparison board, slightly too new and . . . evolving. We’ll continue to examine its performance as we visit other X299 products. However, we can say that the X299 Gaming Pro Carbon AC comes in at a more affordable price (so far) for this category, even if it’s lacking some of the higher end features.
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The X299 GAMING PRO CARBON AC is a mid-high end motherboard found within the HEDT platform. MSI has kitted this board out with features which should satisfy both gamers and enthusiasts. For storage needs this board utilises U.2, M.2 and SATA 3 6GB/s.
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We review the X299 Gaming Pro Carbon AC review from MSI. A motherboard with looks and many features on which to embark with that new Core X processor series. This motherboard is intended for Intel’s Skylake-X processors that will be released this summer based on Socket LGA2066, however, the motherboard also supports Kaby Lake-X procs in the form of the quad-core Core i7 7740K and Core i5 7640K.
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