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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Beautiful/highly functional MOBO
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
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This MOBO has everything you will ever need. The debug reader is a true time/life saver for diagnosing any issues and has already helped me multiple times. It’s also beautiful in person.
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Solid motherboard if you want the extra bells and whistles. IMPORTANT: the wifi will not work if you're on Windows 10. Make sure you have a wifi-6 card if you're on Windows 10. Luckily I did, because I didn't even think to check if that was going to be an issue.
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One of the best motherboards you can get for its price and it doesn't have gpu lane sharing when you use multiple ssd slots. Everything works out of the box.
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This motherboard is fantastic! The price might be on the higher end but I’d say it’s worth it 100%! This motherboard comes with everything you need and pretty much ready to go after you plug it in. No need for a laptop to reach WiFi and to install drivers. They provide you with all the things you need in the box!
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This product is super nice, you can really feel the quality of the motherboard. The ease release pcie gpu slot is very helpful when you have big graphics cards. No issues at all and it looks really cool with the green accents. Loving it so far!
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Okay, let's begin. This is a solid MSI board and if you have enjoyed the MAG series boards, then this one will not disappoint. Installation of CPU presented a bit of a challenge since the socket was not clearly marked where the "corner" was. However, if you call up the manual on your phone, the diagram will show you. If it is your intention to keep the board, make sure you get the CHK code before you mount it, because when you do product registration with MSI, you will need it and the serial number. Installation of M.2 SSDs is pretty user friendly, and if you are populating all 4 M.2 slots, then be warned that the M.2_2 slot shares a lane with PCI-e x4 and that goes to the 40Gbps usb slots in the back. If you use the M.2_2 slot, you need to be aware that your bandwidth will be reduced to x2. Another thing to note is that the M.2_2 slot will not operate with an AMD 8000 series processor. M.2_1, 2_3 and 2_4 will still operate though, but if you want to populate all four slots, then a 7000 or 9000 series Ryzen CPU would be the way to go. It has 2 USB 2 headers on the board, pretty standard, and 2 USB 3 headers as well, which is a change from the TUF board I had which only had one USB 3 header on the board. The number of USB ports on the I\O panel are good, but the color coding makes it easy to plug the right peripheral into the right slot. There is a 5G ethernet port I am itching to try out. once faster service becomes widely available and the WiFi adapter does a good job maintaining connectivity with my gateway. The first boot up took some time because the board had to get used to the DDR5 sticks and bios has to determine the boot drive and all of this takes a few minutes. Once the board learns what it has installed, then my boot times dropped to about 18-30 seconds, and that's with a Ryzen 9 7800 and G.Skill Trident Z Neo sticks set to 7200 MT/s. The PCI-e5x16 slot is ready for the next generation of video cards, but if you have the money for one of those, then you can splurge and get a Carbon WiFi board, or a MEG Godlike, just keep in mind how many SSDs you intend to install and research if those boards have the M.2 slots to accommodate your needs. All in all, it's a solid board for casual gamers, and MSI tends to stand behind their products, which makes the RMA process a whole lot easier. One negative, if we can call it that is it is a bit pricey now due to supply chain concerns. I purchased it at $299, but now it's about $100 more.
Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
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Really good motherboard so far. Performs well with my 9800X3D and it worked out of the box, no need to update the MOBO. Use M2 slots 1 and 4 if you got M2 drives and leave the rest alone or you might run into some performance problems especially slot 3 because it shares bandwidth with the fastest Type C port in the back, if you're not gonna use the type c port though you can turn off the Type C port in mobo and have full speed dedicated to the #3 M2 slot. Also a heads up, the Wifi on the board will not work unless you're on windows 11, if you plan on sticking with windows 10 make sure you are hardwired or get your own wireless card. It's not MSI fault honestly, windows 10 simply doesn't support WIFI 7. Overall I'm pretty happy.
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Excellent Motherboard from MSI, Easy to install SSD and peripherals. Handles a 9800x3d and 5090 easily. Excellent product. No problems so far, lots of customization for overclocking. i just run the CPU at stock and only use the EXPO overclock for RAM, extremely stable , no crashes
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Works perfectly as intended. I’ve built a lot of PC’s and building in this motherboard was the easiest I’ve ever done. Bios is a breeze, whether that’s updating it, activating AMD Expo or 3d cache. Boots up fast, Wifi is great I mean I could go on and on. Great board!
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Great board, tons of both internal and external connectors. Setup was simple and went easily along with installing all components into both the motherboard and the case. Wifi is probably acceptable, although I do not currently use it.
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Works out of the box, dropped a 9800x3d and 64gb of 6400mhz ram. It defaulted the ram to 4800, but a quick change of that in the bios solved that and it's up and operational. The wifi seems to download at 1gig speeds, which is plenty if I want to use it, but I hardwire. My internet is 2gig speeds and it handles that fine also.
I only wish boards were cheaper. I remember top tier boards might have been just over $100. But now here we are, not even "top tier" and $250. Oh well, it does what I want it to do :).
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The MSI MAG X870E TOMAHAWK WiFi impressed me with its excellent connectivity—especially the dual USB4 ports and Wi-Fi 7—which made my setup more efficient and future-proof. I chose it over others for its feature set at a great price point, and it absolutely meets my needs. Performance with DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 has been rock solid. Strengths include build quality and versatility, though the shared M.2 bandwidth and limited full-speed PCIe slots are minor drawbacks. Overall, a great value for a high-end AM5 board.