Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is a great motherboard with plenty of features at this price. You will have a slight lack of USB ports, but a USB hub can fix that. This motherboard will also be compatible with 11th gen Intel when it releases.

I have used this motherboard to build a mining PC (I know it is over-kill but I figured I can repurpose it if things don't work out well). It has been running for over 2 months with an occasional reboot or power down -- it has been running well with no hiccups. The reason I took one star off is that I don't like the BIOS setup; I have used ASUS MBs in the past and very much like their BIOS. Also Asus provides windows software to view the BIOS settings and provide other info regarding the operation of the MB -- I have not been able to find any such MSI software.

Great mid-range gamer motherboard. Easy to install and set up. Running an I5, 16gb mem., and a 4gb video card. Handles my games flawlessly but I'm not hard core.

Very easy to use mobo. Everything is set up nicely. Built very tough. BIOS when setting up for the first time is top notch, gives you all the specs you need to see.

MSI's Z490-A PRO offers great performance, options and overall craftsmanship in a great price range. Z490 is the upper tier Intel motherboard option, and while MSI's A PRO is considered an entry-level Z490 motherboard, it does not mean it lacks in features. With two M.2 slots (one having a built-in heatsink), USB-C, and solid on-board heat dissipation, it does the job well at the price. It's very simple to make use of all of the features on board with it's straight forward offerings. It's a great board for the future, as it will also support Intel's next generation of processors, Rocket Lake.

This is a great product. I would recommend it. It was just what I wanted. So far compatible to all of my upgrades. It’s running very well in my computer.

It had worked amazing for me. no problems!! I haven't had a single problem.

This thing is good. My only negative is that it doesn't have wifi. Now I'm dreading the fact that it doesn't. I wish I had bought the one with wifi to save an extra step.

Great motherboard for the price. Has all of the ports you need and supports wide range of parts. Just wish it had wifi.

Does exactly what it is intended to do. I did extensive research before buying this board. Looks mean nothing to me when it comes to motherboards. For those who understand, this motherboard has a better VRM than almost all other boards in its budget class. So in simple terms, it supports decent overclocking on Intel K series CPUs. This is the best bang for your buck board for average users. Great easy to use BIOS as well.

I love MSI boards! Great features and I have found them to be more reliable than other popular brands.

Fantastic chip. It was used for a crypto mining rig and ran hot for over a year straight with out turning off. Still going too!

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

Bought this for a family member who wanted a PC upgrade. Easy to work with and no issues booting into BIOS and enabling XMP. Keep in mind that this is a Z series motherboard meaning if you're slotting anything from 10th gen Intel that's below a 10600K, you're wasting your money and are better off getting a B460 motherboard.

The motherboard performs excellent so far, plus best buy gave me $10 dollars off. Best buy is slowly becoming my go to store for pc parts. Now if you could please get some 6gb graphics cards at no more than 350.00 you'll be the best!

Great new motherboard. Installed easily and runs great.

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

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

Easy to install, worked great, fast an reliable so far. Runs an advanced video card easily

So far So good. Easy BIOS, user friendly. Does not come with Legacy Boot option. If you run an older hard drive and are looking to install on this motherboard. You better look at you HD programing in you BIOS. If its written in Legacy you will have to redownload windows or find some way to rewrite the HD into Uefi boot mood. I had to download window 10 from a USB and reinstall it onto my SSD