
MSI MAG X870 TOMAHAWK WIFI AM5 ATX Gaming Motherboard, 4x SATA 6Gb/s, AMD Wi-Fi 7,USB 4.0 - This motherboard has everything I needed for VR, high quality gaming. It allows me to tinker with OC in an easy/understandable way without worrying about doing something stupid that would fry my board. The XMP profile works with my 6000MHz 32gb ram and the thermals have been stable with no blue screens (crosses fingers) in my nearly month of using it. Love the locking mechanism for the GPU and the number of SATA + NVME connectors is great for someone that buys 2-4 TB drives minimum. The best part is that it's plug and play for nearly everything including the I/O that is nicely attached. - Has enough USB ports of all variety including future proof ones that I might use for VR gaming or fast charging devices. - Debug + MFLASH <3 these are staples. - Good enough VRMS for my needs. Not insane, but for the price and feature set good. - Overclockability is solid on this. - Fan headers logically located. -Voltage protection features are great additions.

- PCI-E 5.0 support on the x16 slot for current gen GPU's that use 5.0 - 3 m.2 slots for easy expansion - Lots of IO for fans, rgb, USB, ect, more than 99% of people will ever use - Moveable antena for the wifi/bluetooth is nice (my previous board had just 2 that stuck out and couldn't be moved, so it sometime struggled to pick up my bluetooth keyboard) - I got it for a pretty good deal for a B850 board that won't blow up CPUs - 10$ steam code included with purchase is a nice bonus - I really liked the mounting mechanism for the 4x4 m.2 slot, it's easy to use and removes the need to mess around with tiny screws - WiFi 7 & 5 gig lan at this price point is really nice

Pre attached backplate is a nice feature. The wifi antenna magnetic base is nice and the antenna connector is easy to attach (and remove) on the rear panel. Two M.2 SSD slots is a plus also.. Windows 11 installed with no issues. WiFi 6 capable.

-build quality -layout/design -ease of setup and first time boot -wide compatibility

- Compact - Tons of M.2 - Amazing memory support - Amazing OOTB CPU support - Not running too hot under normal use

Great motherboard has all the new bells and whistles, at a great price what more you want?

- Solid build quality - Lots of expansion options for LED/Fans/storage - Supports upcoming Ryzen processors - Overclocking options for CPU and memory

Lots of SATA ports, features, fan connections, ram support, etc.

Ive built 6 pc on this motherboard and never had a problem. Very easy setup and I like that its so versatile.

Has all the features I needed for building a gaming system, and looks great. Plenty of connection points. Comes with all the pieces I needed and worked well right out of the box.

Its a new board to me but it seems to have all the things I was looking for in a new mother. Will see how easy it is to set later but should be just fine. The WIFI was something I really wanted it has this so I am Happy!!!

Works well, easy to set up. No complaints on the hardware.

-Great price -Works with all of my components -Software is pretty good, provides one location for all drivers and bios updates

Easy to setup Feature packed Great looking board EZ Pcie/M2 latch & EZ wifi plug Works right out of the box. No bios update needed

MSI products have always worked well for me and this motherboard is great just like the others I have used for my builds in the past.

The ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Dark Hero is phenomenal. I want to start by mentioning the attention to detail and the build qualityit's on another level. The board feels very solid, strong, and heavy. The main reason I decided to go with this board is that it allows me to run two Gen 5 SSDs at full speed without losing GPU performance, keeping the graphics card running at x16. I do lose the use of the 40Gb USB-C ports, but honestly I dont use them anyway. Working on the board was super easy thanks to all the EZ-Latch mechanisms, which made installing components quick and hassle-free.

Durable, Great Quality, Quick Delivery, Fairly Priced

I upgraded from a (MSxi) X570which was always very slow to get through the BIOS boot process (it took minutes). This was a defect, probably caused by the mobo searching for uninstalled hardware. This motherboard boots normally after the initial boot, which seemed to take forever. The physical layout is pretty standard. I like this motherboard, used with a Ryzen 9600X CPU. The Gen5 Samsung 990 EVO plus SSD runs off two CPU PCIe lanes (which the 990 Pro and EVO versions cannot do), leaving the full 16 lanes on the motherboard for the PCIe slots. I like the Ez-Latch feature on the NVME slot heatsinks - no tiny screws to lose. There's lots of USB back panel USB ports, and more on the board. It has only three PCIe slots - one 16 lane slot and two one-lane slots - enough for me - but my previous boards have had more. Heat sinks abound. Unlike some other boards I've used, the reset pin is in the lower right corner, where it's easy to reach. The board seems physically heavier than my previous boards. NOTE - while the 6 pin PCIe power connectors fit in an 8 pin supplementary power supply socket (backwards), but the polarity is reversed. And don't use accessory removable cables from other power supplies without first checking pin polarity. Cabling from different PS manufacturers is not necessarily interchangeable. Polarity may be reversed, even though the connectors are the same. I lost three backup hard drives when I over-volted them a few years back. Live and learn. Unlike with my previous boards, the learning curve for the AMI BIOS is fast. I found the BIOS easy to work with. I immediately upgraded the BIOS from within the BIOS, which was easy if you plug the flash drive (containing only the new BIOS file) into the correct USB port (marked BIOS). I put the f3 BIOS flash drive in the wrong USB port, and of course, the update failed. Read the manual first, which had to be downloaded from the Gigabyte website and printed out using my old computer. Avoid a heart attack. After installing a few core software programs, I played with the BIOS. I didn't overclock, but I did examine the BIOS pretty carefully. I like it. Unlike previous mobo's, this BIOS used the advertised CPU and memory speed ratings and settings on the initial boot. No BIOS changes were needed to get up to spec speeds. It also had some text to explain some of the features. The overclocking options are all there, but as with other BIOS's, they are buried pretty deep in the menu structure, so it takes some time to learn how to navigate through the advanced features of the BIOS. Overclocking can be simple with this (AMI) BIOS, or complex. Most of the advanced settings are set to Auto. Overall, I spent considerably less startup time with this BIOS than with previous BIOS's. Once you find out where to look, it's pretty easy to work with. It is adapted to varying levels of experience, so you can easily overclock automatically. If you are serious, you can play with the CPU and memory timings. Then I upgraded to Win 11, which was quick and easy. What a discouragement! Microsoft has done it again, making it more like a cell phone than ever before. It's more automated and for me, harder (almost impossible) to find the settings I work with within Windows. Nomenclature and procedures have changed for the worse - again. Even the Win FIle Manager has been altered for the worse. It's a giant riddle to do what I was used to doing in Win 10 without thinking. Like putting program icons on the desktop. Or changing the desktop background to a solid color. So I recovered Win 10 and installed "Classic Shell", which changes the look and feel to more like that of Win 7. At that point found I had no sound output even though Device Manager showed Sound as working properly. After trying to fix this with the Control Panel, which didn't work, I used the Gigabyte Control Center to install the Gigabyte sound drivers, downloaded from their website. No problemma. Five Stars+

The quality of the build is there, remember that ASRock is a split from ASUS, and both of those companies are solid in MOBO’s. Got this for a rebuild of an older ATX tower, the board for nicely and feels well made. Got a Ryzen 5 3600 when they were on sale, LOVE that we can use the 4th gen on this board when we want to upgrade!

Loved the Color..in-person is more like sliver white but looks 🔥 IT HAS WIFI 6 WHICH IS IDEAL AS I RUN BOTH WIN10 AND W11...WIFI 7 DOESN'T ALLOW W10, SO JUST FYI.