MSI Performance Gaming AMD Ryzen 2ND and 3rd Gen AM4 M.2 USB 3 review

MSI Performance Gaming AMD Ryzen 2ND and 3rd Gen AM4 M.2 USB 3 review

MSI Performance Gaming AMD Ryzen 2ND and 3rd Gen AM4 M.2 USB 3 review

Specification:

Socket
AM4

CPU
RYZEN 9

Memory
DDR4 MEMORY
1866/ 2133/ 2400/ 2667Mhz (by JEDEC)
For AMD Ryzen Gen3 (R5/R7/R9)
2667/ 2800/ 2933/ 3000/ 3066/ 3200/ 3466/ 3733/ 3866/ 4000/ 4133 MHz (by A-XMP OC MODE)
For AMD Other CPU
2667/ 2800/ 2933/ 3000/ 3066/ 3200/ 3466 MHz (by A-XMP OC MODE)

MEMORY CHANNEL
Dual

DIMM SLOTS
4

MAX MEMORY (GB)
64

PCI-E X16
2

PCI-E GEN
Gen3(PCI_E1), Gen2(PCI_E4)

PCI-E X1
4

SATAIII
6

M.2 SLOT
1

RAID
0/1/10

TPM (HEADER)
1

LAN
1x Realtek® 8111H

USB 3.2 PORTS (FRONT)
2(Gen1, Type A)

USB 3.2 PORTS (REAR)
2(Gen2, Type A), 2(Gen1, Type A)

USB 2.0 PORTS (FRONT)
4

USB 2.0 PORTS (REAR)
2

SERIAL PORTS(FRONT)
1

AUDIO PORTS (REAR)
Realtek® ALC892 Codec

DVI-D
1

VGA
1

HDMI
1

DIRECTX
12

FORM FACTOR
ATX

CROSSFIRE
Y

OPERATING SYSTEM
Support for Windows® 10 64-bit
Support for Windows® 7 64-bit
* To support Windows® 7 64-bit, you must install an AMD Pinnacle Ridge & Summit Ridge CPU.

DIY FRIENDLY
MSI motherboards feature tons of convenient and smart design, such as convenient pin-header keep out zone, friendly SATA & USB location and so on, so DIY users can pick and choose any gaming rig they want.

STAY COOL AND SUSTAIN PERFORMANCE
Cooling is essential for a high performance PC to sustain intense workloads.PRESTIGE X570 CREATION features a heavy duty heatsink on the MOSFETs for reliable processor power delivery. Numerous fan headers with full fan speed control lets builders tune their system cooling the way they like it.

TROUBLESHOOTING FRIENDLY DESIGN
MSI motherboards been designed to make the system assembly process as convenient as possible. An array of system tuning features and troubleshooting tools are available to ease installation and setup.

MAXIMUM COMPATIBILITY
Every MSI motherboards are certified by strict mechanic that feature convenient pin-header keep out zone, friendly SATA & USB location for compatibility with the widest range of components and devices, so DIY user can pick and choose the components they want. More than that, we offer a dedicated Qualified Vendor List (QVL) for the most critical part - memory. Combining with MSI DDR4 Boost technology, we provide the maximum compatibility, so you confirm and choose any gaming rig as you want..

APPS TO GREATLY IMPROVE EFFICIENCY
With years of experience in creating performance enhancing tools that are easy to use, only the highest quality applications are at your disposal. Use these tools to get the most out of your motherboard and achieve victory when gaming. Moreover, we made sure our BIOS contains all the latest options and is easy to use for everyone. The extensive features let you fine-tune your system to deliver reliable maximum performance.

ENHANCED PERFORMANCE
MSI motherboards featured all the latest solution for enthusiast gamers and prosumers. CPU and memory enhancement and fast storage and USB transfer speed are ready to be on the battlefield.

CPU
High-quality power supply components and intelligent fans optimize CPU cooling performance, which is a key factor in ensuring stable and high-speed operation of the system.

MEMORY
Optimized layout design and a fully isolated memory circuitry ensures perfect stability and performance. You never have to worry about your system crashing during games with MSI DDR4 BOOST.

AMD STOREMI
All MSI X470 & B450 motherboards are shipped with STOREMI, the new AMD SSD technology to improve storage performance. This tool helps create a virtual SSD by blending capacity storage, treats flash as primary storage and optimizes data access with monitoring continuously. All these functions can enhance read/write speed for active data and provide fast boot times and application startup.

MAXIMIZE YOUR USB DEVICE PERFORMANCE
Read and write your files over USB faster than ever. MSI offers a wide variety of options to connect and boost your USB devices, delivering lightning-fast transfer speeds up to 10Gb/s

IN-STUDIO ADVANTAGE
MSI motherboards provide the most fascinating in-studio advantages, designed to satisfy any professional workflow. Elevate your listening pleasure and network connection with MSI Audio & LAN. Enjoy extreme sound quality and uninterrupted online experience.

SOUND THAT PULLS YOU INTO THE GAME
Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality. MSI Audio Boost delivers the highest sound quality through the use of premium quality audio components. This lets you enjoy breathtaking, studio quality sound to create the most immersive sound experience.

EXHILARATING AND INSPIRING
Each MSI motherboard is built based on the specific topic in order to match different tastes and favors. Furthermore, MSI also adopts the modern style to design the heatsink through huge surface and sleek but simple cuts in order to make the heatsink and appearance looks ripped and powerful. Combined with neutral color, such as black, grey and silver, as the main background, MSI motherboard can perfect fit different RGB LED effects and strongly shows the gamers tunes.

MAKE YOUR PC MORE THAN YOU THINK
PRO Series motherboards combine stable functionality and high quality assembly for clever business solutions. Designed to satisfy any professional workflow, PRO Series motherboards make life easier for businesses and office use.

LOYAL COMRADE
With years of experience, MSI is no stranger to building high-performance motherboards. Our R&D and engineering teams have reviewed countless designs, evaluated a wide selection of high quality components, and developed products for reliability even under extreme conditions.

I just might promote unboxing reviews and how-to and today we're gonna take a look at the msi p450 gaming + max keep reading to find out more okay on today's review we're going to take a look at this board from MSI this is the B 450 gaming plus max now this is the updated version of the gaming plus to support the latest and greatest of the AM for range of CPUs now the max versions across the range of the MSI boards essentially add an extra feature where it

allows you to BIOS flash back and also have a larger file size to contain all those different a.m. for SKUs so let's take a look at the box and then we'll go through the insides and then go through my thoughts on the board itself now first of all before you take a look at the Box let's talk about the price another price of this .

tomahawk version now the tomahawk version and this version the gaming plus are essentially exactly the same motherboards so we all know that the tomahawk boards are rated extremely highly so this board is pretty much identical apart from a few cosmetic tweaks and also the lack of a USB type-c connector so with that away let's take a look at in more detail so first of all on the front of the board as you can see p450 gaming plus Mac's support for rising 3,000 desktop

processors and it's using the AMD B 450 chipset with that got support for PCI Express 3.0 Windows 10 ready all those kinds of things flip around on to the back of the box we've got little bit more details so again plus max again gives you a layer of the board you've got ddr4 boost you've got steel armor on the PCI Express ports AMD turbo USB so we've got a load of USB ports on here USB 3.0 gem 1 engine 2 and also some weaver older and USB 2 ports as well

you've got audio boosters using Japanese capacitors on the audio chipset so really good sound quality there goes into some detail about the BIOS flash back button which we'll take a look at a little bit later and also it highlights the actual USB port that you need to use which is pretty important also you've got support for n dot to drive so nvme or SATA type drives you can use those although as is usual with the B 450 chipset if you do choose to use one of those on this

board you lose access to a couple of your standard Sansa Poor's but again we'll take a look at that a little bit later also a nice feature of this board is the easy debug LEDs so there's four LEDs on there so when you're trying to debug a system should it fail to boot for some reason or other then the LEDs will give you a good pointer of what is a problem whether it's CPU RAM GPU power that kind of thing bugging we'll take a look at that little bit later and also in

software we've got the X boost software which gives you a little bit more of a boost in certain applications and games within Windows so let's take out the box and see what we actually get so first of all in the box we get the motherboard itself which is how she's in a pretty weighty board we'll put that to one side for now and check out what else we get as accessories so first of all you get a true gaming pamphlet then we get a true gaming badge from MSI so you can stick

that on to your shots if you want to go out just to show your love for the msi also you get the option to actually review your products as well there's a special feature here for the MSI shy type you can take a look at that yeah thank you for your purchase you get your case standoff notification leaflet which again will go into more details when we take a look at the board you get a quick installation guide a DVD with all the drivers and software and all those kinds of

things you get the user manual itself which is a multi-language and goes into again more details on all the individual parts of the motherboard yeah a pair of SATA cables one right angled one straight and also you get your MDOT two screw now the actual mounting pillar is actually pre mated on the boards you don't have to worry about that too much obviously don't lose the screw just in case you need to install a MDOT to drive in your system so starting off as a tour of the board in this top section we've got our usual suspect the eight pin CPU additional power

now gain depending what CPU you're using you may wish to use the eight pin you can actually just use a four pin on certain CPUs such as the lower-end Athlon series that kind of thing okay ideal even be wanting to use an 8 pin connector on there then we've got this rather large heatsink next light at the top we've got our CPU fan connector and next up we've got four RAM slots now this supports up to 128 gigabytes of RAM and RAM is a little bit of a kind of

bone of contention on the B 450 chipset so depending which CPU you're using this is going to tell you type of RAM you can support now if you're using a 2000 series CPU you can use Ram up to three thousand four hundred and sixty-six megahertz in overclock mode if you're using a Verizon three processor 3000 series then you can actually go up to four thousand 133 megahertz again before you buy your Ram check out the CPU you use in obviously you can manually

tweak the settings but as per the qualified vendor list some Ram is not guaranteed to work at the higher frequencies with the older CPUs so do bear that in mind before you make your purchase so moving further around at this top section we've got our first of our 50 50 12 volt RGB headers next that we've got a water pump fan header you can use as a water pump header or a additional fan header if you want to so for those front mounted fans in your chassis you

can hook them up to this connection if you wanted to also underneath that there is another final connector both of those for pin PWM so no problems there moving down we've got our debug LEDs which is just next to your ATX power connector which is a 24 pin version moving on Bank we've got yet another system fan connector so again another four pin PWM so plenty of access for fans even if you've got a case with three or four fans on the front there's no reason where you can't connect those up pretty easily and also control all the fan speed settings both in

the BIOS and in software using the Dragon Center in this center section you've got your mounting area for your am 4 processors which is your usual system with the mounting lever and also you get the pre-installed clip mounts those are all there you can take those out and install your own CPU coolers or different mounting systems if you wish to no problems whatsoever there and the backplate is actually quite nice and sturdy moving slightly down we've got our MDOT 2 section so with this you can use SATA or nvme base drives and they

problems whatsoever and you've got the full width of they're available for larger drives should you need to like I said the pillar is pre-installed and just up from that we've got yet another fan header connector so this is gonna be ideal for your rear case mounted fan 120 is 140 s whatever it may be so you're nice and easy to connector that is one of the things I do like about these gaming Plus boards and also the tomahawk boards ms I do tend to put an awful lot of fan

headers on there so you can add a lot lots of coolin so moving down slightly we've got our first of our PCI Express graphics cards ports we've actually got two this to support crossfire should you wish to use that method we haven't got support in here for SLI because that isn't and video technology it's not licensed so you can't use that unfortunately just a single card for NVIDIA cards so moving across slightly we've got our SATA ports they've got six SATA ports in total

here all at the fastest shutter speeds available if you do choose to use the PCI Express port for your m dot two drives you do actually lose the ability to use ports five and six on the SATA which are these top two you can still use the other four no problems whatsoever so five drives in total or six if you're using SATA again for most users that should be more than sufficient just across from the satyr here we've got our chipset and chipset cooler again nice heavy duty heat sinks on all of these type of components so moving back to this side we've got our additional

PCI Express x one ports you actually got four on this particular board which is a slight upgrade from the tomahawk version which only has three so maybe if you're a streamer and you've got your PCI Express capture card then this may be useful to have those additional ports on there especially if you've got a larger pci express graphics card but gain the differences between the tomahawk and the gaming plus are pretty much negligible so moving further down we've got

our front panel io connector they've got a four pin one for your speaker and you've got your normal set up for a power switch hard drive LED all those kinds of things moving thing we've got our USB three header now that supports USB 3.2 gem 1 so for your front panel connectors that kind of thing I actually quite like to have it in this bottom section rather than being on the side section for me it just seems to be easier to manage and easier to use and leaves the kind of bulky cable work here purely for your power and have all your i/o you to thank to the bottom

so next to the USB 3 we've got a pair of USB 2 headers so you can connect up to 4 USB headers on to there moving across we've got another system fan so again crazy amounts of cooling potentially available here again depending where you put your fans in your case lots and lots of options for connecting without having wires absolutely everywhere next up we've got our TPM port which pretty much no one's ever going to use and actually going back to here we've got the

BIOS battery and also right next to the bass battery is actually where you short out the bar so if you put a setting in incorrectly and you want to reset the BIOS you can quickly put a jumper or just bridge that with a screw driver or something and you can completely clear your CMOS moving on we've got another RGB header so again 5050 12 or RGB depending if you want to connect up your RGB at the top of the case or the bottom of case or in fact if you want to do both and also that is controllable within the dragon sense or software so lots of flexibility and

lots of control which is really nice to see next to this we've got to pretty much useless ports we've got our comm port and also the LPT printer port should you wish to add either those for legacy i/o and in this bottom corner we've got our audio connection so HD audio connection and all of this is isolated track wise to keep the audio nice and crisp and clean other items of note on areas the gaming plus logo which is at the bottom which actually is rear lit there are

LEDs on the back of the board so this section is pretty much clear so you can show that off in your build if you want to although for me it's in a slightly odd place because I think probably you can have a graphics card there and some of the kind of less attractive cabling is going to be at the bottom so maybe you don't want that particularly to show off down there but again it's there if you want to use it you can disable it again in the software if you really wanted to so let's

move on to the i/o on the rear now starting in the top corner we've got our flash back button so if you want to install a new BIOS and you don't have a CPU all you need to do is connect the power to the board you need a USB stick with the BIOS on there in the roof of the drive and also the drive has to be formatted fat32 and you can put the drive into this bottom USB port and then when it's powered you can press the button and you can go through the BIOS

flashback process also you get a notification LEDs on the debug so you can go through and watch that again we will be doing some details or some more videos actually on that whole process so if you want to find out how that all goes then click on the subscribe button click on the time icon and you'll be notified a future video so go more into the i/o so we've got the two USB 2.0 ports here again that's the BIOS flash back one in normal windows operation you can

use it as just a normal gaming port for keyboard mouse whatever it may be you also got your legacy keyboard connector ps2 type connector which actually supports either keyboard or mouse should you wish to use it next that we've got our DVID connection so if you're using a APU which supports either HDMI or DVI outputs then you can connect into their maximum resolution on that one is 1920 by 1200 60 Hertz next night you've got your HDMI connector

again for AP you use then you've got your USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports and next night we've got another 2 USB 3.0 Gen 2 ports so for your faster devices may be streaming cards capture cards that kind of thing or if data transfer these are the ones you're going to want to try and use if you can support up to 10 gigabits per second coming up to that we've got our LAN port so it's Gigabit LAN using the realtek 81 11h chipset so no problems there pretty much industry

standard then we've got our audio jacks so you've got the full complement of jacks here built in straight away so 6 ports the highlighted red one is the one most of us are probably gonna end up using which is your general line 8 which is amplified used for speakers headphones all those kinds of things if you want to go to 10 and have a complete Dolby 7.1 setup there's no reason why you can't you've got all the jacks they're available for your surround sound speakers and

all that kind of thing moving right onto the back of the motherboard so pretty much usual deal you see all the tracks are done quite nicely the heatsinks actually if you do wish to remove them the top ones are actually held in place with screws so if you want to replace them and add extra thermal paste or pads or whatever you want to do screws to remove those no problems at all the one for the i/o is a the kind of push pin connector so you can squeeze those and pop those right but what is quite a nice feature on MSI boards which they've started doing quite a few now is

these sections here where it says it's a case stand off key piperazine so if you've got any case standoffs motherboard standoffs that kind of thing in these areas you want to take a mate so although having those on the back when you're putting the board in you can't actually see them so kind of it's a good aid to sort of let you know that you shouldn't put them there but getting once you've got them in it's a bit late and you can't really see it but it's a nice a nice addition

anyway so that is pretty much it of the tour of the motherboard essentially fantastic board personally I would rate this towards the higher end of the B 450 chipsets less like B 450 chipsets or probably amongst the best on the market easiest ones being very good as well but the the VRMs cooling solutions and the ability to actually use really high-end CPUs on these slightly order boards so if you don't want to go down the route of the x5 17 motherboards which do

carry quite a price premium still you can pick up one of these high-end B 450 boards stick on the latest and greatest AMD processor which at the time is the 39 50 X which is certified to work with this although to be honest with you extra cooling would be required for those VRMs if you want to check out more information about the V RMS and cooling and what is suitable for boards then you can click on the link up over here and you can take a look at a review I did

previously but essentially this board has been rated and reviewed and it's come out very very well again very very similar technology and set up to the Tom Hawke board and in fact the only real difference like I see is on the back here there's a USB type-c connector on the tomahawk board and you lose one of your PCI Express connectors other than that a little bit of aesthetics with the the red on the board other than that the two boards are pretty much identical although

they're not in price that's on hot board there's generally command a bit of a price premium so if you want to save yourself a few pounds and maybe put those extra funds towards another part of your system maybe a ram upgrade or whatever it may be then this is definitely worth checking out so dobri a this has been the MSI gaming plus max motherboard .

AMD recently launched the p450 chipset for the new Rison 2 CPUs which gives us a nice option under the x4 70 motherboards for my first be 450 board we'll be taking a look at the msi tomahawk and seeing what features it's got to offer the ATX board has a nice clean black and grey metallic color scheme nothing flashy going on here there is some RGB lighting toward the top right hand side and this can be controlled using MSI slicing software in total there are

about 10 different built-in effects but you can always turn it off if you don't like it starting with the i/o from left to right there's a BIOS flash back button your classic ps2 port two USB 2.0 type-a ports DVID and HDMI 1.4 outputs which are only usable if you're using an APU with Vega graphics 2 USB 3.1 gen2 on type a ports Gigabit Ethernet port USB 3.1 gen2 type a and type C ports followed by the audio ports using Realtek a LC 8 9 2 there's also this black and

white ir shield included at the center of the board is the m4 socket which supports both AMD's new rise and 2 CPUs but is also compatible with the first generation 2 and for my testing I'm using the Verizon 7 2700 CPU with the stock cooler next to the socket of the 4 memory slots which run in dual channel and can support up to 64 gig of memory at ddr4 2666 speeds in my system I'm just running to the 8 gig sticks as it's what I've got available and with overclocking

you can run up to ddr4 3466 I've heard that with the second generation of raisin memory support has been improved so compared to say be 350 you should have better luck with memory overclocking but as mentioned I don't have any exciting memories so it wasn't able to test that out as for the PCIe slots from the top down there's a pcie 3.0 slot with x16 speed although if you're using Vega graphics from an APU then you're looking at x8 speed and this top slot is also reinforced with metal the rest of the slots are all pcie 2.0 and we've got 3x once

Lloyd's and another x16 slot although it's only wired for x4 speed giving us support for two-way crossfire no mention of SL either just above the PCIe slots is the single m2 slot which is another change from the be 350 version which had it covered by a graphics card in the top PCIe slot it uses four lanes of PCI III and supports drives of these lengths it's important to note that if you use this m2 slot then the to solder connections on the right will not be usable along the top there's an 8 pin power connector CPU fan and RGB header along the right-hand side

there's four solder three connectors fan header 24 pin power connector followed by another fan and pump header finally along the bottom there's the front panel audio ii RGB header another fan header TPM connector to USB 2.0 connectors followed by a single USB 3 connector the be 350 model did have two of these so not sure why I've needed to step down to one and then to more solder three connectors for a total of 6 using the SATA ports their support for raid 0 1 or 10 and you can also use AMD's store mi with the board which basically uses an SSD to case

frequently accessed items from a hard drive resulting in faster overall performance finally for the last of the i/o there's a sixth fan header just above the inductor slot to boot into the BIOS simply press the Delete key during boot I found it fairly easy to navigate through and make changes and I had no issues while updating to the latest version noted here which is what I was testing with and that basically sums up my experience with the board everything just worked for me as expected with no issues the BIOS can be upgraded easily by copying the update files

onto a USB stick plugging it in and then pressing the BIOS flush back button on the back of the board it just takes a few minutes to complete this feature wasn't present in the be 350 model and gives us the ability to easily upgrade the board which is really useful given the a.m. for socket will be supported until 2020 so when you CPUs come out you won't have any issues if you buy the board with say third-generation Rison in the future with B 450 you've got the

option of overclocking too in my testing I was easily able to 2700 to 4 gigahertz on all cause I didn't do in-depth overclocked testing there we've got four plus two VRMs here and I wasn't able to measure the temperatures with Hardware and fur because they didn't seem to be a temperature sensor for the vrm here's what the heatsink arias look like at idle using a thermal camera around the mid 20s then with you have a clock applied under stress test this area went up by 20 degrees after an hour Steve at Hardware unboxed did some pretty in-depth vrm

testing of this board and a number of other be 450 boards if you want more information but he noted there that it performed well compared to the competition as for the pricing the MSI be 450 tomahawk motherboard is in the description there are berths cheaper and more expensive be for 50

boards but overall I think this one is offering pretty good value for the features and you should be fine running any rise into CPU even while overcooked here it's got decent features for the price and I think it's got a nice clean look without being too flashy let me know what you guys thought down in the comments .

MSI Performance Gaming AMD Ryzen 2ND and 3rd Gen AM4 M.2 USB 3 review

the MSI be 450 tomahawk max and taking you through some of the features of this recently launched sword so if you cash your mind back to the end of July I've loaded a video on a PC I'm flying to build based on the new rise in 3000 CPU at the time lots people have an issues flashing the BIOS on the original Tom Horn boards to accept the new rods and CPUs well I did mention in that video is a MSI clearly acknowledged there was a problem and announced a new

Macs version of their mother book to fix some of the issues and also said if you plan to build a PC based around eyes and you should probably wait until those Maps more boards are out and available to buy if you get a chance check out the review as it details the PC that I'm planning to build for this what I have

msi introduced with the new Macs boards firstly the new motherboards have increased BIOS memory from 16 megabyte to 32 megabytes so the snazzy click BIOS 5 interface is back along with raid functionality there's also faster memory support out of the box up to 4,000 133 megahertz so you can configure your memory kit to run its Avatar speed with the a XMP function and of course Rison 3000 support straight out the box without having to flash the

BIOS with an existing CPU I also want to point out that we have a current issue with rising cpus not getting intended these clocks beans which md have announced that they will issue a new bios to fixes at the end of september for now this motherboard does not contain that fix so on to the unboxing so in the front of the box we can see the MSI logo the tomahawk Brandon and Arsenal gaming branding up in the top right hand corner in the bottom left-hand corner

we have AMD risin 3000 desktop ready batch so you know that it's gonna work straight out of the box and in the bottom right hand corner we have B 450 and some details there PCI Express 3.0 Windows 10 ready and overclocking support on the left hand side of the box again we've just continuing with that branding and we have a table which basically tells you what wise and CPUs are compatible with this motherboard and on the other side we just have some key

features on the board in various different languages if we're going to the back of the box we can see a graphic of the motherboard down the center and then a number of features down each side on the left-hand side we have the extended heatsink design we have the flash bios button so that you can actually flash the BIOS without actually installing CPU memory or graphics card onto the motherboard AMD turbo USB 3.0 gen 2 port next we have the audio boosts

highlighted gain on the motherboard on the top right hand side we have the debug LEDs so that's going to help for troubleshooting with any issues that you might have next part down is a turbo end up to slot delivering speeds of up to 13 gigabytes per second per device using that gen 3 connection and there's a graphic comparing that to SATA 3 speeds as well this board also has RGB or 16.8 million colors and have LED effects and we have steel armor so that's the bracket around the PCI Express 3.0 slot where your graphics cards gonna be so it's nice to see that

they've added a steel element around that so that you know that you GPUs gonna be nasty secure the bottom is also a list of specifications which I won't go through in huge detail but you can also pause it and look through them at your inlay here and in the bottom right hand corner we have that IO overview which I'll show you in a minute so let's get into that box first thing we have is the motherboard so I'm going to just move out of the way for a moment and then

underneath the Volvo we have a number of things included in the box you've got our i/o bracket actually really light is designed it's got some branding on here that's quite nice actually next we've got two SATA cables them have true gaming and a side badge there's also an MDOT two screw that looks like it'd be easy to lose so keep hold of that we've got a DVD with all the movable drivers on there but you probably want to download from the website anyway so here

we have some of MSI's other products graphics cards headsets keyboard etc there is a product registration card quick installation guide a promotion where you can enter competition is to give a shout out to msi and then finally you've got a motherboard manual which is going to come in very handy so let's take a look at that motherboard it's worth pointing out actually that when you are building a pc it's best thrashing putting your board on something stable something like the box that the moldboard actually came in just make sure you don't put it on

the carpet or anything like that that's gonna create static and here we have the motherboard first impressions are looks absolutely fantastic I love the color design it's a matte black finish with contrasting white elements in it and it will go nicely with a case that I'm actually looking to get for this I'm looking at the NZXT 510 or 5 times I and the white so that contrast would look great so starting at the top of the motherboard and going left to right we have a pin CPU power

connector the large he sync and VR ends and surround the CPU socket it's an m4 CPU socket and the BIOS should be ready for the new rising CPUs right out of the box in the top right hand corner we have a CPU fan connector be an RGB connector with another pump and connector for liquid cooling and next to it system fan 3 ATX power connector and then you've got your 4 memory slots down the middle so this board can take up to 64 gigabytes of ddr4 ram

continuing down the side of the board we have a newer system fan connector followed by four SATA connectors there are six in total and four on this side two at the back end of the board which I'll show you in a moment then across the middle and below the CPU socket we have the MDOT - connection if you want to install an MDOT - SSD on the board you need to be aware that actually it will disable the - it's at the ports and the bottom right hand corner the moveable

we've got the first of the PCI Express connectors this is where your GPU will be housed to slot below our pcie 2.0 x one we then have another pcie 2.0 x 16 and then the final pcie 2.0 aren't one just so why the PCIe slots we have that final heatsink there is a plastic film on there so before you boot the system we'll make sure you do peel that off got that so satisfied on the bottom right hand side of them of borer if we go from right to left we have those additional two SATA connections USB 3.1 connection to USB 2 connectors the various pins for the front panel

connectors so your power LED power switch hard drive LEDs and reset switch etc we didn't have TPM connector another system fan connector another RGB connection and the audio connection at the end so the back higher play from left to right we have the flash bios button two USB 2.0 ports the ps2 port for the old-style mouse or keyboard next we have a DVI port along with HDMI of course any way to use eases with a CPU an integrated GPU also known as an APU above that we have two USB 3.0 gen one ports 1 Gigabit LAN ports one type a USB 3.0

port and one type-c USB 3.0 port and finally the audio ports for that 7.1 channel surround sound so how much does this max goodness cost well currently on Amazon .