With the Gaming M5, MSI has a well equipped motherboard in its portfolio, which comes with lots of features. There are for example two M.2 x4 Gen 3 slots and apart from that MSI further refined the Design of their Gaming series motherbards.


Already at launch MSI has a complete portfolio of Z170 motherboards. On the following pages we're going to have a close look at the Z170A Gaming M5, which is a high-end Z170 motherboard. Already at a first glance you can see that there is a great looking design in place and the PCB is definitely not short on features.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 4 - Layout
Page 2 - Specs and Delivery	Page 5 - Connectors and I/O
Page 3 - Features	Page 6 - Conclusion