Review on High Performance MSI Z390-A PRO Motherboard for Intel 8th and 9th Gen with M.2 USB 3.1 Gen 2 DDR4 HDMI DP CFX Dual Gigabit LAN ATX Z390 Gaming by Carl Watkins

Excellent motherboard for the price. It has a solid build and good specs/functionality. It's not cheap by any means, but it's available. Let's get the obvious out of the way. I had the same missing M2 bolt issue as everyone else. I ordered a set of M2 screws from Revain for $8.52, which I shouldn't have done, but a few extra M2 screws wouldn't hurt. I think he had maybe 2 SATA cables. As for the motherboard, the installation went very smoothly. During installation, I added an NVMe drive (Crucial P1 500GB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD - CT500P1SSD8) with no problems (except for the missing M2 screw). I flashed the MB for the current firmware. I used a Corsair PSU (Corsair CX Series 650 Watt 80 Plus Bronze Certified Modular Power Supply (CP-9020103-NA)). Adding CPU and memory was a "plug and play" process (except for the time spent finding stable overclocks after the build was complete). An AIO (CORSAIR HYDRO Series H100i PRO) liquid CPU cooler has been installed due to overclocking. Rear panel and cooler fit on the mb without any problems. This mb works really well!