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here's a motherboard that is not only going to overclock your cpu but in an alternate reality it could cook your breakfast do your ironing and clean your dishes this is the Z 270 X power gaming titanium motherboard from MSI that has so much to offer not just for people who want 24/7 stay below Glocks but also for extreme overclockers that want to take their cpu to the brink or even higher welcome back to tech city this is brand coming to you guys today with a review of one of MSI's most premium motherboards out there the X power gaming titanium now as the name suggests MSI have gone with a silver and black thing with this board that honestly isn't just looks like I mean sporting what looks like a 17 phase VRM with Infineon IR 355 power stages that are rated at 60 amps some of the best out there MSI zone s FC 60 amp chokes and complete solid state titanium capacitors this is sure to even impress the most nitpicky of overclockers the cpu power connectors can be charged by an additional 4 pin after the 8 pin to make it at 12 pins in total this ultimately enabled me to take my 7700 k to 4.9 gigahertz at 1.3 2 volt I did get the 7700 K to 5 gigahertz though the temperatures were nearing 100 degrees the 7600 K however was able to get all the way up to a whopping 5.1 gigahertz on this motherboard at one point four zero 5 volts though it did crash Midway during a Cinebench test however it was able to complete a run at 5 gigahertz at one point 3 9 volt also when testing this board for 3 hours plus of 4.6 gigahertz the temperatures of the vrm only went slightly above 40 degrees in a 30 degree ambient environment and when looking at the UEFI boss has two modes simple and advanced and after sifting through their bias it was very impressive and easy to use with custom fan settings overclocking profiles and also the ability to automatically overclock your cpu with the knob on the motherboard or in the boss itself I found that the level 8 setting was just right with the CPU and this time around when using the level 8 setting it surprisingly found the 7,700 case sweet spot overclock of 4.9 gigahertz at 1.32 volt this was shocking into really surprised me this was right where I had found the 4.9 gigahertz stable overclock myself it goes to show how far automatic overclocking has actually damn impressive job and if this keeps up and guys like me no longer going to be useful anymore moving on with the board there are four ddr4 memory slots to support over clocks up to 4000 megahertz in total and just above that is a BIOS flash button the memory slots feature is steel armor plating the strength and supports and also helps reduce electromagnetic interference not that you should be holding mobile phones close to your ear and stuff like that though this armor is also featured on PCIe slots where there are four sixteen speed and also two one speed slots though I found the top slot was not able to be used if you have a big cooler like an actual u 40s that I have here which was vertically mounted so I had to mount it horizontally in order to fit a card in the first slot there is also a 6 pin pound connected there to provide extra juice to the PCIe lanes should you decide to four-way crossfire or two-way SLI these cards on this motherboard near that there are three MDOT two slots where the mid point has a dedicated shield eight side of three ports two of which face vertically and are powered by an as-needed chipset and another six which are powered by z2 70 chipset also powered by this is a dedicated u dot 2 port and on that note all the storage devices connected by the z2 70 chipset are able to be mixed and matched with native support from Intel's new obtain raid driver looking further around the board there are six four pin headers with one of those ports having dedicated support for a water pump below that there is a horizontally mounted USB 3 front out my favorite and then moving along you have an RGB out for external control of RGB lights from this motherboard a two-pin slowmode connector to pin overclocked retrack connector power reset and manual gain boost knobs for test benches and on that note there is an overclock panel included which can be attached to the top of the board for more on the flight changes even in Windows this is usually designed for liquid-nitrogen overclockers and there is a port there for the manual external voltage point readouts and checking they're moving back to the bottom of the board you can get an extendable USB card which can take two USB front outs and convert them into four with the option of being powered by a molex connector there is also four USB to front outs from two headers an additional USB 3 vertically mounted header one TPM and Thunderbolt adding connections one clear CMOS jumper and located around there is three PCI cease fire switches which can quickly cut off PCIe ports and also a bar selection switch which supports dual bars another feature down the bottom is a digital readout which can help diagnose boot problems and also when a normal use helps readout you CPU package temperature moving on to the onboard audio which is called the audio boost for it features the realtek LC 1220 codec which has excellent levels of low crosstalk and the volume has plenty enough for headphone users the audio files may want to get a dedicated amp for some hard to drive higher impedance headphones as for the microphone here is a test of what it should sound like here's a quick volume test on the msi Zi 270 X power gaming titanium mic input with a V motor boom Pro this is at a volume level of 60 with a 10 decibel gain there looking at the rear input and output you get a hdmi and displayport out one ps2 3 USB 2 ports 2 of which have a thousand Hertz needed polling and the other which can be used to hot flash of bars below that there is a clear CMOS button a USB 3.1 and 3.1 C inputs and an additional 4 USB 3 ports testing out the USB 3 speeds also showed no problems at all the audio has support for 5.1 analog out optical out for 7.1 and then just above that there is an Intel I - one 9v and Intel - one 180 and I sees with land teaming technology which can utilize both the port's that combine their processing power into one to help reduce taxing the CPU and online CPU bound games how to actually really test this for a significant difference I don't know though also included is a one-year license of xsplit gamecaster which is what I currently use to stream the weekly tech show great piece of software and also what the fastener hemic audio panel MSI gaming lantern dragon eye apps are included - with dedicated support for VR devices with MSI's VR readyboost which actually dedicates a USB port for stabilization and extra power there also a heap of other handy apps and drivers included on this DVD and you also get accessories and a lot of them we're talking clear side of three cables labels all the accessories that you've seen in this b-roll as well is included with this motherboard to match that of the theme - so here we are with the verdict this board is just packed to the max I really couldn't think of any more I'd want from a motherboard other than it just overclocking everything for me on its own well it practically almost did that with the 7700 K I have here which was extremely impressive and everything on this board from the vrm to the features to the audio to the massive amount of expandability to the 1000 Hertz polling rates and to the included software to the dual NoCs just impress me I mean this is a top-tier board and one that is designed for people who either want the best out of their gear or want to go crazy with extreme overclocks and at 370 USD or around 550 AUD it is certainly priced high but again it is a premium product that certainly delivers for its intended market and I know I could probably build an awesome used PC for less than this whole motherboard itself but again different strokes for different folks anyways that's about it from the Z 270x power gaming titanium from MSI if you like this video then be sure to hit that like button let me know in the comment section below what do you think of a motherboard as huge as this would love to hear your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you in the next tag video very soon peace out for now bye