Review on 🔥 MSI X470 GAMING PLUS Max Motherboard for AMD Ryzen 2ND and 3rd Gen Processors with DDR4, DVI, HDMI, Onboard Graphics, and Crossfire Support - Ideal for Gaming Performance by Janis Cerins ᠌

Name: 🔥 MSI X470 GAMING PLUS Max Motherboard for AMD Ryzen 2ND and 3rd Gen Processors with DDR4, DVI, HDMI, Onboard Graphics, and Crossfire Support - Ideal for Gaming Performance
Item: 🔥 MSI X470 GAMING PLUS Max Motherboard for AMD Ryzen 2ND and 3rd Gen Processors with DDR4, DVI, HDMI, Onboard Graphics, and Crossfire Support - Ideal for Gaming Performance
Rating: 5

May 03, 2023

Beyond praise! The product definitely deserves your attention.

Initially, I sat on a Ryzen 1600 and a Giga DS3H with 4x8GB of budget RAM. All this goodness went almost "for nothing", and was collected at the beginning of the year for fun from the very same and sticks, so that sometimes I could drive not the most recent games that passed me by (The Witcher, Metroshechka, Forzochka, Lariska, RDR2, Mafia). Plus, I bought a smartbay for 256 gigs for the system and Radik 480 from under mining for the top five and did not know grief. Another pair of sata-ssd was in the household. Only the body took a new and beautiful CM Silencio S600.
But the appetite comes with eating, and here it was also required to put a server under AD, share and DHCP (standard history) in the office with a margin. Well, I installed the existing one, and bought myself a 2700x (3700x is still not as fast as it is more expensive), Samsung 970 and began to choose a motherboard. First I bought a Gigabyte x570 Aurus Elite, but that one 1) did not drive the RAM (but it turned out to be the norm, google topologies) 2) periodically did not start the video card. Passed, chose a week and took this one (more precisely, Gaming Pro with CU, an analogue of 1 in 1 with a different design). And I changed the memory, since 4 bars without XMP on Zen / Zen + are not really chasing (DS3H was an exception, there 4 bars plowed at 3200 due to the T-topology). I took 2x16 Ballistics, put 3200C14 and I don’t know grief (the old bars scattered over other assemblies). It remains to wait for the new Nvidia and Radics to appear on sale at adequate prices, give up the already outdated RX480 and sit on the priest for exactly another 5 years, as it was in 2022-2022 with the i7-2600k and HD5870 (replaced in the course of the play by the R280X).
If you are looking for an adequate inexpensive motherboard with an X-chipset without a fan and a good set of functions and peripherals (ports, slots, BIOS reset button), then take it boldly, MSI is great. New Ryzens will stand up without problems, and then AM5 and DDR5, so there is no point in chasing 5xx chipsets, the boards on which, in my opinion, are overpriced. For the same 10 you will most likely get a similar power supply, a reduced amount of SATA, no LLC, and a stupid slot layout. Good luck with your choice!
I honestly don't regret it :)
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Pros

- Appearance. Strictly, not vulgar, without unnecessary illumination and useless plastic body kits - Status indicators. When turned on, the status of the initialization procedure for all components is very clearly displayed, which is very useful for overclocking and diagnostics. - Power circuit. Nothing special against the background of more expensive actual motherboards on x570, 4x2 on doublers + 2 on SoC, but my Ryzen 2700x boosts 1 in 1 like the Giga X570 Aurus (we didn’t work out with it, there is a review from a corporate account nearby). With an average load, the frequency stays around 4150-4200 for all cores and up to 4300 for one or two, with a full load - 3950-4200 for all cores, rests on the capabilities of AMD Wraith Prism (percentage is fried up to 80С+). I put the same stone in Gigabyte Elite on the B450 and in the old budget DS3H on the B350: the operating mode of the stone was the same on both, 3900-4050 for all cores at medium load, 3.8-3.9 at full load and up to 4.2 at low flow. In general, the difference is not critical, of course, but it is there and it's nice. Thanks to x470 and more advanced power management algorithms. - Ports, connectors, slots. 8 USB on the back, two internal USB 3.0 case headers, four case fan headers, one for the CPU cooler and one for the water cooling pump. I am sure that the fifth case cooler or the second processor cooler can be plugged into the latter without any problems, but I did not check it. In addition to connectors, I will note expansion slots. Their layout is extremely convenient and adequate. The video card does not cover M.2, and does not block access to anything useful at all. Two PCI-E x16 can work in x8 + x8 mode, unlike x16 + x4 on most other boards, incl. on x570 (if we consider the price category up to 16-17k). SATA connectors (there are six of them) look sideways, also a plus for me, I don’t like it when cables stick out forward. - It's just a good pay! Without unnecessary show off, marketing and at the most adequate price. Installed, launched, configured the cooler operation mode, RAM frequency, enabled virtualization in BIOS and everything is fine.

Cons

- There is no way to turn off the indicators next to the memory and video card slots in the BIOS, only in a proprietary utility that ruins the backlight of the video card for me and generally breaks everything, but this is a completely different story of a subjective plan. Let me explain that this is not about the indication of the start of the system, about which I wrote in the pros, there are no questions about it. - Unpretentious sound and network cards. ALC892 and RTL8111 respectively. I did not see any problems with the network at all. Gigabit is like gigabit. The same as ten years ago. I don’t use the sound one, there is the good old Murka Creative X-Fi Titanium, which I wouldn’t trade for anything :) Still, keep in mind that both solutions are quite old and apparently do not provide something that the newer ones provide. The zvukovuhu is partially rehabilitated by the sPDIF output, which is rarely found on cheaper boards with the B450. Plug into the receiver and don't worry :) - When connected to the lower M.2 slot of a disk with a SATA interface, one SATA port falls off. With NVME, there is no such trick. A trifle, but unpleasant. X470, as far as I understand, allowed to implement wiring without such a nuance.