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Wesley Davis
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2025
BIOS is good, but not quite as straightforward as I'd like - in the overclocking I'd rather things were organized in groups with some tab equivalent. I'm running 128GB of Kingston Fury and that requires slower clocking than it's spec'd for (5600 down to 4800) to drive that many memory chips - per MSI QPL notes. It works fine, but finding the setting was a lot of scrolling. It felt like a long Linux config file...The rest of the bios is good. DO NOT TURN ON THE FAST BOOT - you will lose the DEL to ENTER BIOS SETUP if you do. The fast boot takes maybe 2 seconds less, so it is close to irrelevant anyway. I did try it after Windows and Office were installed but before most of my software was installed (Browsers, utils, media stuff, tax SW [I'm in the USA] and developer tools/databases. So it was just easier to rest the BIOS, slow down the memory, set the boot order (I have a 2 TB gen 5 boot but 8TB NVMe data drive), a few defaults on fans, and so fixing it was quick.The other complaint is that, because this is white, the labels for connectors are much harder to read than a black motherboard would be. I actually wanted black and a black case, but could only match up for white from Amazon (or New Egg either). So mine is white.
Thomas
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2025
Msi has not let me down. The board is clean and sleek. It's more light silver then white. But no issues so far. Took my 265k chip and my ddr5 7600 with no issues. Git 4 2tb and all run at correct speed with my gpu still running at x16 not x8. Perfect!If your looking just buy it. Plenty of usbs, m.2s. The board feels nice and thick and good quality and is one of the best value for your money here in 2035. The vrm heat sink is beefy enough for even over clockers. I run about 50c max with custom water cooling loop
Patrick
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2025
This board has a lot going for it. It provides you with a lot of features that some more expensive motherboards offer.It has 12 USB ports , 5G lan, easy quick disconnect SSD, and GPU, latest bluetooth, bios flash back, cmos reset button, error code display. It's BIOS was pretty easy to navigate as well. However, the issue is the bugs it has on the BIOS.I was on 2A22 bios and was unable to get the system stable with XMP ddr5 8000 mhz. All the stress test passed, but when I run a game, it has constant frame drops. Finally, got it "game" stable at 7800 mhz memory speed. I then updated to a next BIOS release 2A23 hoping to get ddr5 8000 to work. However, it wouldnt even POST if I activated XMP. Fast forward, I reverted back to 2A22 to get the system stable.Next comes the latest updates (microcode 0x114) - BIOS 2A4. This time ddr5 8000 was working. However, The voltage readings for SA, VNNAON, VDD2 started reading 0.000V in the BIOS screen. I tried clearing CMOS and flashing other bios variants and the reading remain broken. It temporarily came back when I reflash the older 2A22 BIOS that originally had. Then come the 2A5 bios which I hope would fix the voltages readings. However, it did not. Instead, now the voltage reading remain permanently broken, no matter which bios I use. Reached out to MSI for support but they said they were unable to recreate the issue. Ultimately, I really wanted to like this board, but all the BIOS issues just ruin the experience.Just wanted to note that the PC still works, yes. I was able to tune the PC and HWinfo still reads all the sensors correctly. So, for most people, this board should be fine. However, the bugged voltage reading bios still bothers me, and I had 2 options: get a replacement or get another brand. I chose the latter since I cannot trust that MSI's bios updates would not bugged out another motherboard. Also seems like this 0.000V bug occurred on older MSI boards as well (Z690 and etc) based on a quick google search.
jmdan
Reviewed in Canada on December 9, 2024
Beautiful piece of tech except for ... black RAM slots. Eww!!! Otherwise, if there's anything you want that's not on this board, I don't know what to tell you. Highly speced. High build quality
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