We saw MSI's initial range of AMD Ryzen motherboards earlier this month via a landing page set up by the company. That page revealed five AM4 motherboards in total; two based upon the X370 chipset, and three on the B350. Now MSI has detailed seven new AM4 motherboards for your delectation, making it twelve AM4 motherboards in total from the firm. Furthermore, MSI has revealed a convenient DDR4 memory timing feature, dubbed A-XMP, which will be coming to all its AM4 motherboards in BIOS updates.
The existing and new* motherboards can be checked out but clicking through the links in the bullet point product list below. Hint: if you are interested in Micro-ATX AM4 motherboards you will find they are named with an 'M' suffix behind the model number, otherwise they are full ATX boards. Currently MSI is only making Micro-ATX form factor motherboards with the B350 chipset.
Enthusiast GAMING
- X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM
Performance GAMING - X370 GAMING PRO CARBON
- X370 GAMING PRO*
- X370 KRAIT GAMING*
- B350M GAMING PRO
Arsenal GAMING - B350 TOMAHAWK ARCTIC*
- B350 TOMAHAWK
- B350M MORTAR ARCTIC*
- B350M MORTAR
- B350M BAZOOKA*
PRO Series - X370 SLI PLUS*
- B350 PC MATE*
MSI used the same news bulletin to announce 'A-XMP'. You will likely know about Intel Extreme Memory Profiles (Intel XMP) which simplified RAM overclocking on Intel chipset motherboards. Intel XMP lets you to load optimised tested memory OC profiles via your OS or BIOS. It simply allows your Intel motherboard based memory subsystem to work at the top claimed speeds with RAM kits from memory makers - without any hassle.
MSI's A-XMP basically does the same as Intel XMP but for AMD AM4 motherboard based systems. It is described by the firm as the "world’s first 1-second DDR4 performance and stability feature". Single-click memory timings and speeds are set in the MSI 'Click BIOS utility, as shown above.
The MSI A-XMP feature will be rolled out "soon" and be activated via BIOS updates for the full range of MSI AM4 motherboards.
