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Specifications
Specifications
CPU
Supports 8th Generation Intel
®
 Core™ Processors, and Intel
®
 
Pentium
®
 and Celeron
®
 Processors for Socket LGA1151
Chipset Intel
® 
Z370 Chipset
Memory
 y 4x DDR4 memory slots, support up to 64GB
 y Supports DDR4 4133+(OC)/ 4000(OC)/ 3866(OC)/ 3733(OC)/ 
3600(OC)/ 3466(OC)/ 3400(OC)/ 3333(OC)/ 3300(OC)/ 
3200(OC)/ 3000(OC) /2800(OC)/ 2667/ 2400/ 2133 MHz*
 y Dual channel memory architecture
 y Supports Intel
®
 Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)
* For the latest information about memory, please visit http://www.msi.com
Expansion Slots
 y 4x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots*
 y 1x PCIe 3.0 x1 slot
*  Please refer to page 33 for details.
Multi-GPU
 y Supports 2-Way NVIDIA
®
 SLI
™
 Technology
 y Supports 4-Way AMD
®
 CrossFire
™
 Technology
Storage
Intel
®
 Z370 Chipset
 y 6x SATA 6Gb/s ports*
 y 3x M.2 slots (Key M)*
  Supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s
  M2_1, M2_3 slots support 2242/ 2260 /2280/ 22110 
storage devices
  M2_2 slot supports 2242/ 2260 /2280 storage devices
  Intel
®
 Optane™ Memory Ready**
 y 1x U.2 port
  Supports PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe storage
*  M.2 slots, U.2 port and SATA ports share the bandwidth. Please refer to page 
39 for details.
** Please refer to page 132 for Intel
®
 Optane™ Memory Configuration.
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