Question 1

Somebody mentioned it needed to be bios flashed. Does that mean that this motherboard will not come with the proper bios out of box?

Accepted Answer

It comes with a completely competent BIOS for booting with any AMD CPU including the latest 3000 series. There is an available BIOS update that is supposed to improve performance.

Question 2

Will this MB boot from an M.2 SSD?

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Yes, Have mine being booted from a HP M.2 SSD (the model number escapes me right now). Boot time is between 3-5 seconds after first seeing MSI logo.

Question 3

Does it have bluetooth?

Accepted Answer

No. You have to buy up to the Gaming Edge Wifi to get Bluetooth.

Question 4

Would this board be able to use a 1700 AMD Ryzen cpu?

Accepted Answer

Yes this board will work with a Ryzen 1700 cpu just fine.

Question 5

dos this mobo support this ram G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Intel Z170 / Z270 / Z370 / X299 Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C17D-16GTZR ?

Accepted Answer

Yes, this Memory Model F4-3600C17D-16GTZR is specifically listed on the MSI QVL (Qualified Vendor List) as supported and tested to work on the MSI X570 Gaming Plus. 
Note: Most of the past problems with memory support were due to 1st gen Ryzen CPUs ability to support certain memory modules. With the 2nd Gen Ryzens 3600 and up series of processors AMD has increased memory support way beyond what the older CPUs could support.

Question 6

i see there are 3 power connectors (24, 8, 4 pin). Which are required if NOT overclocking? I assume only 24-pin & 8-pin are required?

Accepted Answer

The 24 pin is required for the motherboard but the 8 plus 4 pin is for the CPU. However you get 384 watts out of a 8 pin molex connector. That should be plenty of power for any CPU you put in this motherboard if you don't get crazy about overclocking. All I did for my  CPU is 1 eight pin and left off the four pin. If you tried to push 500 watts to the CPU you're going to end up burning up the board anyway.

Question 7

does this support the ryzen 7 3700x?

Accepted Answer

Yes, i have this board with ryzen 7 3700x.  Works great.  Only issue i ran into, idk if its msi software or the bios, but if you open msi dragon center monitoring application, the cpu will constantly try and boost which makes the fan spin up and down. If i close the app, this behavior stops. Not a big deal and may have been corrected since release.

Question 8

Will this motherboard support M/B keyed M.2 SSDs or only M keyed ones?

Accepted Answer

The board supports the M key but is also backwardly compatible to the B+M. The original B key was designed to support PCIe x2 (uses 2 PCIe lanes). The M key now supports the PCIe x4 (uses 4 lanes). So if you have a B+M, then it is a PCIe x2 chip set that is allowed access the legacy system through the PCIe M key slot, however, you will only be able to get read/write speeds of PCIe x2. If you have a B+M legacy chip, it will work. But if you are looking for top speeds, you will want a M.2 M key. Also, if you look at the spec sheet for the board, slot one also supports the new PCIe 4.0 standard and will be able to advantage of a wider bandwidth than slot number two that supports current PCIe 3.0 standard, however, there is not wide availability of PCIe 4.0 yet, and what is out there is high dollar. So if you do not have any M.2 M key chips, you may want to wait until the 4.0 standard gets more affordable.

Question 9

Do double-wide full-length GPUs clear the chipset fan and heat sink? This is the only affordable (sub $200 or close to $150) 570 board I've found that doesn't place the fan right under where a GPU would go? I don't know why they all choose to position the fan where it will be blocked and blow hot air onto the GPU.

Accepted Answer

Yes the chipset fans sits slightly lower than the PCIE slots.  
The fan is near silent under stock fan curve, and for me it doesn't even spin most of the time. It shouldn't have any issue even if you stick thick GPU in it. Most people are not going to have PCIE 4.0 Nvme drive blazing full speed while running dual GPU at max load imo.  
There's not many other places to put the heat sink

Question 10

Does it have a USB-C 3.2 Gen2 header for a front panel USB-C port?

Accepted Answer

Not Gen2, no. This unit has support for 4 USB-C 3.2 Gen1 front panel ports from two separate headers.

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