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knowriteye

knowriteye

knowriteye

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I am debating whether to purchase my first MSI motherboard any thoughts either posive or negative folks?
 
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Every manufacturer has good and bad boards I would base my purchase based on the individual product rather than the brand in general
 
I used to avoid MSI boards from having a couple of failures myself and fixing other peoples pc's who had a MSI board fail or brick itself from updating the bios. That was back in the socket 775 days. A couple of years back I was upgrading from socket 1151 to 1700 and when it came to choosing a motherboard I liked the look of the MSI Z690 Gaming Edge. My wife has a MSI B450 Tomahawk in her pc and it's been solid so I took a chance and bought one and was glad I did because it was the best board I had ever had at the time. The bios was a decent layout and easy to find what you were looking for unlike my previous Gigabyte Z390 board and the board was rock solid for the time I owned it before selling it in the MM when I switched to AMD. The downside was the software, MSI Centre is just awful but I only needed it for the RGB so uninstalled it and used OpenRGB instead. Would I buy another MSI board? I no longer install any of the motherboard manufacturers software apart from drivers so I wouldn't hesitate about buying another MSI board.
 
I've had 5 since the first Ryzen came out (B350, 2x B450, B550 & X570) and they are all still going strong in various family members PCs. My current board is an X570 Tomahawk, easy to tune and looks good. I only use the MSI software for driver updates so not really got any positive/negative comments above that.
I'd buy another without hesitation.
 
Been using my X570 Tomahawk for over 5 years and has been rock solid, even the chipset fan has only spun up once. (that i have heard)

Good luck with your build and i hope you have the same trouble free experience.
 
knowriteye said:
Hi there
Many thanks for your replies I have decided thanks to your replies to purchase a 670e Tomahawk.
Again many thanks
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What processor are you planning on using with it?

Depending on when the board was manufactured you may have to update the bios before it works with the 9x00 processors.
 
I 1st bought a MSI board about 20 years ago (Socket 939 or AM2, can't remember exactly what socket it was, I ran my 1st Dual core CPU in it) I made the mistake of setting up Raid 0 to try to make it faster. The Board failed after 6 months & took the array with it despite the RMA replacement, I wasnt happy. That put me off buying MSI boards until 2019, B450 Tomahawk. Great board & its now in my dad's rig. Been buying MSI boards ever since. I did have an issue with a B650 board last year, the rig refused to boot despite a few Bios updates for a 9600x.
I eventually got said rig to work, its now my daily drive which I typing this post on. I've also got a B850 board sitting idle which I bought in case the B650 was duff, since this DDR5 shortage/Price gouging is on, I refuse to build with it unless absolutely necessary.
 
The x570 board in my rig is 5 years old and fine.

My previous MSI board is still in my kids PC which is 15 years old, other than swapping the bios battery is fine.

The motherboard I had before that was MSI, and was fine.

The two before that were both ASUS and were ****.
 
I had a sapphire board as well, and that was awful, it failed after not long, and I replaced it like for like which also failed.

I did look it up after and apparently they were pretty infamous for being ****.

But that was circa 2006-2007, and despite that I rate sapphire GPUs.

I've had a Gigabyte board which was fine, and they generally get good praise.

I'd just avoid ASUS, yes of course they make boards which are fine, but they've also made plenty that are not.
 
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