MSI has just announced its second “Gaming Titanium” LGA1151 motherboard, the Z170A MPower Gaming Titanium. This board follows the Z170A XPower Gaming Titanium and has a slightly lighter feature-set. The board still has that awesome Titanium look with with the silvery-white PCB and silver / chrome heatsinks and heatspreaders. It even has a white back-plate on the reverse side.
The board features an 11-phase CPU VRM and has reinforced DDR4 DIMM slots and PCI-Express slots, which is starting to become standard on high-end boards. Expansion slots include three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots (x16/NC/x4 or x8/x8/x4) and three PCI-Express 3.0 x1 slots.
For storage you have two 32 Gb/s M.2 slots, one 32 Gb/s U.2 port, and six SATA 6 Gb/s ports. There are two USB 3.1 ports (one type-A, one type-C), seven USB 3.0 ports, AudioBoost 3 onboard 8-channel audio, and a Gigabit Ethernet (Intel powered) connection. No word yet on pricing.
