
-The motherboard has plenty of slots for me to plug things in. -Nice user friendly bios.

- After seeing many reviews for various motherboards, I found that this X870 board performed really well against the competition. It is feature rich. Having wi-fi 7 and 40 gig USB 4.0 is impressive. It is a thicker board with 8 layers instead of 6 which speaks to MSI's build quality. The BIOS is redesigned to appropriately match 2024 standards. The VRM's allow for proper overclocking. Having it be compatible with AMD 9000 series out of the box is great. The quick release button for the reinforced primary PCI-E lane is a great design!


This build was for my cousin. He wanted white/gray build and wanted AMD with a budget of $1500. Paired with AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D and 4070 super. For case we went with Lian Li Lancool 216 White and MSI MAG Coreliquid A13 240 White for the cooler. So far he loves it. It was super easy to install and all the other components matched perfectly. The board has 1x GEN5 plus 2x GEN4 slot along with EZ PCIe release is so convenient. At the back of the board you have WiFi7, 5G LAN, USB4 Type-C and so many other connection options. It is future proof and build quality is very sturdy.



Easy peasy setup, was surprised how great its is, shipped very quickly (in less than a week).

Pros: Efficient lane distribution, enabling the use of four M.2 drives without compromising GPU bandwidth. Furthermore, a 4K Pro Elgato video capture card can be utilized in the PCIE_3 slot without lane concerns, though this configuration would reduce the available M.2 slots to four.

Very good quality and shipped with support for Ryzen 5000.