
-Great price -PCIe 5.0 -11 USB ports (including two directly connected to CPU) -Only lane sharing is between PCIe slot 2 and M.2 slot 4

-Budget Friendly -Has enough features for most basic builds -Worked with Ryzen 5600x out of the box

MSI X870 Tomahawk has No GPU Lane sharing with gen 5 m.2 slots. I choose the Tomahawk because I want gen 5 m.2 for Windows and one for games for fast loading times. It has plenty of usb ports and a 5gb nic. I like the MSI software that helps keep the board updated without having to search myself.

No thrill, no frill. Nice motherboard with all necessities to build a good system. Combo with 9070xt and pairing it with a 9800X3D chip for my wifes pc. The wife love it, so I love it.

Ultra Power Phase with 2 M.2 and 2 LAN. MSi has this OC Engine that boot up the gaming performance up to 20%. come with the ONE click OC jumper make is more smoothly. Love the board! waiting for the 9850X3D launch !

Working fine, does what you want!


BIOS updates, Easy Install

It was very easy to setup, the BIOS comes with an easy mode to toggle, has a nice color and sleek design to it.

I love the ease with which the NVME drives are able to be installed. Cable management was a breeze thanks to the placement of the headers. Bios were easily accessible and customizable.

This was a major headache because I was trying to use the OnBoard graphics with a integrated AMD processor and I couldn't get video no matter what I tried so i took an old GPU from an old PC and didn't realize the old GPU's force the Bios into CSM mode vs UEFI but on top of that I think I had a HDMI cable that worked find on my BluRay player but not on the Onboard HDMI for this board. So I ended up spending $500 on a new GPU i was trying to avoid spending money on. That's what I get for trying to go cheap i guess.

I'm building my first PC in 20 years (for my 13yo son, who is getting into PC gaming) and yeah... Things have REALLY changed in the last 20 years. But this MSI motherboard made it an absolute breeze. Everything is clearly labeled and well placed, getting everything plugged in and connected was super straightforward. Build quality really feels outstanding. Plenty of connectors for all your fan/RGB needs, and while this isn't super important, it really looks great too!

I recently wanted to replace my B650E and decided to go x870E, It is an access motherboard the Bios is simple and has straight forward information on what each segment does currently running with a 7800x3d and 5600mhz of Ram impressed with the stability.


- Holds parts in its slots

- No lane sharing with the primary GPU slot Lots of VRM - 8 Layer PCB - 5 M.2 expansion slots - Includes backplate - PCIe EZ Release - 5Gbps LAN - Bios Flashback Button -Extra USB 4s - Future proofed PCIE 5.0 slot - Wifi 7

The list of the pros is way too long!!!!


For the price, I got most of the features I was looking for. Plenty of usb ports which is helpful for me without needing to use an adapter. Placed in the 9800x3d without needing to flash bios because it natively supports 9000 series. Gen 5 front M2 and PCIE slots allows room for upgradability to Gen 5 SSDs and RTX 5000 series.

- Plenty of rear I/O for a mATX board - Love having both the internal 20 pin USB3 connector and the type C front panel connector on this mobo, which means all my front I/O will be usable on my A3-mATX - Ryzen 7 5700G worked out of the box - having three display outputs is clutch (currently using DP and HDMI only) - being a PRO series board, has an amazing mostly black PCB design - MediaTek RZ616 Wi-Fi 6E + BT combo work surprisingly well. I get the full speed of 6E thanks to my Xfinity gateway. Bluetooth connections are strong and stable with no drops - MSI's BIOS is amazing, both the EZ mode and advanced mode are easy to use. Was able to enable XMP easily for my 3600 MHz, C18 RAM kit. I opted for a 2x16GB kit which worked out of the box. I want to experiment with overclocking the RAM and iGPU a bit.