

Beautiful mobo, everything has been thought of to make building east and beautiful at the same time

Bought this MB with a Raptor Lake i5 to replace my old Asus Zxx MB and Kaby Lake i7 that were not capable of upgrading to Windows 11. Reused my old CM PS, CM Heatsink, Nvidia card and even my old 16GB of PC4 RAM. Booted-up and it automatically booted Windows 10 from my old SSD. I was then able to "Upgrade" to Windows 11 (rather than having to buy a new copy) and it has worked perfectly. When I first started doing builds 30 years ago, if you changed the CPU, MB or HD, you had to start all over. Not this time. Don't know why?

No regrets I was looking forward to it!!

Good price for the features compared to other AM5 motherboard alternatives Decent placement of connectors for clean cable management Higher end sound chip Looks good for an all black setup

Great motherboard for my needs. Running fast memory on pci 5.0 and ssd and video cards on 4.0. Default over locking cpu from native 4.6 to 5.0 with no noticeable heat gain. No buggy drivers. IMHO rock solid purchase

This no frills Asus Strix MB installed cleanly and loading Windows 11 was a joy using a "Rufus" bootable flash drive. I was even able to re-use an old Windows 10 license key from my work Microsoft ActionPack. I'm elated I built this pc as early as I did....prices of DDR5 ram have tripled in price....ouch! This is my first AIO enabled pc and the absence of fan noise is amazingly welcome.

All the bells and whistles Looks really stunning Six NVMe slots Prepared to run on custom water loop but runs just fine on air (make sure you have proper airflow) As stable as it gets Lots of type-c ports and 2 thunderbolt (plus 2 type-c headers, 2 regular A headers, and 2 USB 2.0 headers) Got it on sale <3


This review is for the MSI Review Rebate Program -easy set up -good rebate for holiday season -bios menu is nice -nice cooler for m.2 drives

Photos don't do it justice if you are doing a white build it's the one you want. Build went great, m.2 install mechanism is convenient and solid, great heat sinks, and the power delivery is well-reviewed and acknowledged to be top quality. Love the bios. Everything is just where you hope it will be and good help text for options.


1) 10g nice on board 2) optional IPMI which I am planning to get. 3) Asus cpu enhancement all 24 cores fully under-load at 4.8GHz/ single core 5.2 boot stock out of the box 4) 1TB or Rdimm supported 5) lots of pcie slots for expansion

Easy bios for kids No longer eatx Does 8000 stable ddr5 -vsoc 1.1 vddio 1.45 fclk 2000 Easy


5 Gb ethernet port. Large number of high bandwidth port options. Overbuilt VRM section. Very good but not not excellent build quality. Amazing options for a board near the bottom of MSI's product family.

supports 8200 cudimm ram with 9950x. spend all my extra money on this setup. no extra money left to spend anywhere else.

3900x with 32 Gb, 2 MSI Evoke 5700 XTs, Sabrent Nvme drive. I have always chose MSI

Plenty of I/O, 3 M.2 drives, PCIE5, wifi (haven't tested this yet). Quiet fan curve by default but stays cool, my 250K at 100+ watts is barely over 50, while nothing else on the board is out of the 30's. No issues applying XMP timings. The main workload I bought this for a heavily threaded Python app with a lot pillow usage and perceptual hashing limited by memory bandwidth. This is a whole lot faster than my 11700k and has been rock solid. Probably nothing to stress the 8 phase power delivery, which is fine with me!

IPMI alone has to be the biggest feature! Board looks built to last decades