The layout of the MSI H370 Gaming Plus has been well thought. This model features five angled SATA connectors, which can be found in the bottom right corner. Since the H370 Gaming 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 one of them is being equipped with metal reinforcement plates. There is a total of two full sized PCI Express slots and four PCIe x1 slots. In addition there is 6-pin PCIe power connector which might be useful if you want use this motherboard for mining PCs. In order to keep the price low, MSI has replaced the ALC1220 audio chip with the more cheap ALC892.

At the moment our test setup includes ten motherboards but during the 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 first.