The layout of the MSI Z370 SLI Plus has been well thought. This model features six angled SATA connectors, which can be found in the bottom right corner. Since the Z370 SLI Plus is a mid-range motherboard, it's no surprise that there aren't any power- and/or reset-buttons. Apart from that we like the placement of the full-sized PCI-Express slots and two of them are being equipped with metal reinforcement plates. There is a total of three full sized PCI Express slots and three PCIe x1 slots. This means that there is plenty of space for graphics cards in multi GPU setups to breathe. In addition there are two M.2 slots. Although the design has been improved, we still see cheap plastic covers all over the motherboard.

At the moment our test setup includes eight motherboards but during next weeks we will add more models. Calculating the average of all benchmarks results we ran, we see that this board sits very close to our 100%. On another note, we had at energy efficiency where this board scores second.