Review on 🔧 MSI B450-A Pro Max ATX Motherboard for AMD Ryzen 2nd and 3rd Gen with M.2, USB 3.0, DDR4, D-Sub, DVI, HDMI, and Crossfire support by Jeffrey Gallagher

I argued between B450-A and B450 Tomahawk, but the price of Tomahawk has increased, so I bought a cheaper B450-A motherboard, and I must say that it's all mine meets or exceeds expectations. It was easy to install and works great. I'm using an Adata XPG SX8200 NVMe SSD as C drive and a Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 RAM. Everything booted right away and I went into the bios to enable the XMP profile for the RAM and spin the CPU to 3.8GHz with auto Settings in the bios. I'm not an "overclocker" and value absolute system stability over sheer speed, but I achieved that with automatic settings. All in all a great motherboard at a very reasonable price. EDIT: After months of use, I've noticed a crash that occurs when I try to copy large blocks of files to or from an external drive, either HD or SSD, via USB. -3, it tends to halt the transfer after a few gigabytes with an error message that the target disk cannot be found. This happens regardless of whether I'm copying inside-out or vice-versa. It's not about drives or USB cables as I have another desktop computer and can use the same external drive with my other desktop computer and transfer the same files without error. It appears to be USB 3 drivers as I can transfer files over a (much slower) USB 2 port with no errors. I'm trying to update my drivers to see if that fixes it, but it's going to be a big bug if it doesn't fix it. to fix the large file transfer problem I described. Now I am very happy with this motherboard.