MSI MAG X870 TOMAHAWK WIFI, AMD, Sockel AM5, AMD Ryzen 7, Sockel AM5, 256 GB, DDR5-SDRAM

I love this motherboard for its performance over aesthetics. It allows for quick troubleshooting with his code display and debug lights. There is no RGB to raise the cost.

While the chipset and performance are good on this board, it has what are in my opinion some serious layout design flaws. It has 3 PCI-E slots, but in many cases tall but one will be unusable. A modern PCI-E graphics card that takes up 3 spaces, making the 2nd slot butt up against the Graphics card. The 1st slot is offset from most cases by 1 slot by a m.2 slot - if the 1st PCI-E and M.2 were switched it would have left the 2nd PCI-E slot more useable. The third slot has a a Motherboard power connecter right next to it, which means it is going to block just about any card from being inserted. Due to some other unrelated issues I passed the return Window by the time I got to the physical setup

This mother board did not disappoint. Great product would 100% recommend this to a friend or someone in search of a new mother board

I bought this for a new 9800x3d and 5090 build. Has been working amazing. 64GB DDR5 6000 cl30 enabled with EXPO. Took seconds

I bought this to use with the 9800X3D and have been using for two months now. When going into BIOS, it may change between PBO Auto and PBO Enable. You should check your PBO and Curve Optimizer settings are applied properly. Also double check if the M.2 heatsink thermal pads make contact with the SSDs. Otherwise it has been a solid board so far going through four different BIOS version flashes without problems. The CMOS reset button on the back has been very convenient when trying to tune DRAM timings. The lane splitting and allocation with the USB4 and M.2 slots can be a little tricky but that is expected with non-E boards.