Customer Ratings & Reviews

great budget motherboard to pair with my i5 10400, i was looking into two other MB at a higher price but decided to go with this one because of the price and performance. yes, i would love some rgb on it but spending the extra money for it wasn’t worth it. so this z490 pro is the perfect choice for 10400, 10500, 10600 and 10700 anything above those please stay away because you wasn’t your money and will be lacking the performance those cpu have to offer. the bios for this motherboard was easy to use, i had to do a quick bios update tho so be aware of that. only con i have is, i wish it had one more usb header but other than that, this motherboard gets the job done at a low price.

Works perfectly paired with an i5-10600k, rtx 3060 ti, and 3200 MHz DDR4 ram!

Super nice board has tons of features, just wish it had wifi and a couple more usbs

Very good motherboard, good temperatures, lots of connectivity extras, but my Thermaltake UX200 heatsink was not supported due to the size of the VRMs :c

This mother board is working great for my first mining rig and I bought it again to use it on my second mining rig.

Purchased new 10900k and this motherboard from Best Buy. DOA out of the box (Dead CPU socket / CPU not detected LED). Ended up returning it to Best Buy and picked up another brand motherboard from best buy worked as intended. Missing retention C clamp on M.2 cover. Minimal pack ins including which is fine for a budget board but no manual (must be downloaded/viewed online) is a major problem.

Great and solid motherboard for those who own 10th gen intel, and or want to upgrade to 11th gen intel cpus.

Great motherboard if you don't mind horrible sound quality and a horrible manual. The mobo comes with a quick installation guide which is junk. It has pictures and one to two words to describe an installation step. I was able to download a manual from msi's website that was a lot better. The mobo has audio jacks that are junk. I took my good speakers from my old computer and connected them to this mobo. The audio jack is loose allowing the connector to easily pull out and it wobbles. There is also a loud humming noise. The audio jack on the case doesn't wobble but still has the loud humming. I can plug the speakers into something else and there is no humming noise. Updated drivers and it still hums. Might have to buy a soundcard. Just a heads up, I installed a NVMe M.2 and it's drive 1 not drive 0. Still trying to figure out how to change that.

this a good board for the money I have my 10850k ocd on this to 5.1 stable literally one setting and people could say whatever that want but I have no issues with oc. only thing I would say is watch you pcie lanes. one gpu is all it's good for something to keep in mind.

Needed a reliable motherboard an this was it. No issues with MSI and the RGB works great with my graphics card.

Pros: - Good build quality - Fairly large heatsinks on VRMs - Two PCIe 3.0x4 M.2 slots - Included heatspreader for top M.2 drive - No RGB (although this may be a con for others) - BIOS is easy to use; lots of overclocking options - Front-side USB-C Cons: - Lacking in rear USB (5 standard + 1 USB-C) - Limited options for S3/S4/S5 sleep states in BIOS; As far as I can tell, there's no way to enable "Resume by USB Device" for just the S3 state and not the S5 state. So if you want your mouse or keyboard to be able to wake your PC from sleep mode, you also have to give them the power to turn on your PC from shut down (the USB ports retain limited power in S5). You can't have one without the other. This can be annoying if you don't want your PC accidentally turning on in the middle of the night after shutting it down. All in all a solid motherboard. Started up first try and have had zero stability issues thus far.

I was looking to upgrade my 8 year old MSI motherboard to a 10th gen board. That board was solid for me, so I decided to stick with MSI, rather than Gigabyte. (Plus, the Gigabyte 10th gen boards were more expensive.) While I'm not a hard-core gamer, I do plan on playing games with this PC. As I don't really care about RGB on the board, I opt'd out of the Gaming Plus board for this cheaper Pro model. From what I can tell RGB is the only notable difference in the two. Edit - 8/8/20: The ALC1220 audio codec on the Gaming Plus board is supposedly better than the ALC892 on this Pro board. The Gaming Plus board also has an S/PDIF audio connector. As the MSI web site says, this is a well-constructed board. I could tell just by taking it out of the box.

Great motherboard! Used this for well pver a year without any issues.

Not gonna lie wasn't expecting much from this budget board. In the past I have compared MSI to a Wally world budget board. However this board has kind of changed my mind about MSI to be honest. This board booted without any issues has run stable with a mild overclock and I have had ZERO issues with any of it no firmware issues no software issues it just works. It had all the features I expected to find on a motherboard and the placement was out of the park for cable management and let me tell you the one thing that just took the cake for me. This boards usb 3.0 header had one for both side mount and straight into the board. I spent twice as much on my asus board and hate how the usb 3.0 cable is managed because its up in the air while all my other cords are flat and tucked. MSI really knocked it out of the park on the board if you ask me. Solid board for a good price couldn't say enough good things.

Cheapest z490 i could find on bestbuy. i paid around $120 for it to pair with my i5-10400. the cpu doesn’t overclock like this board is intended for but i bundled this motherboard with my cpu and got $15 off from doing so. also allows me to upgrade to an overclockable cpu down the road.

Great motherboard especially for the price, I have it in an NZXT case and if slid right in no problems and I accidently installed the ram in the wrong slots and it told me that they were before it booted. Overall I would recommend this especially if you're on a budget.

No issues whatsoever. Kind of impressed with the overclocking capabilities of this board considering it is on the lower end of the Z490s. Paired with the Intel - Core i7-10700 10th generation 8-core - 16 - Thread 2.9 GHz.

It was good. I liked ti for what I needed it for and would recommend

Bios issues bricked almost immediately. Don’t recommend for first time builders.

Nice looking motherboard. No Wi-Fi but that’s not much of an issue.