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 Larry Simpson

Being old fashioned, all my system disks are partitioned in MBR format for legacy BIOS compatibility. Therefore, UEFI mode cannot be used and CSM must be enabled. Well I was very disappointed to find that IGP cannot be used when CSM is selected. I've never encountered this limitation before, so I checked out other vendors' manuals. It appears to be brand specific for this chipset - this is unacceptable. This might seem like an odd configuration for a gaming motherboard, but I like to use Z-series chipsets in my PCs whenever possible for maximum configurability and throughput. For example, I'm using a Z-series chipset in my backup server to expand hardware RAID with PCIe cards. Embedded video is perfectly fine on a standby server. Also, on my software development PCs where maximum CPU, RAM and I/O are useful, I only need onboard video to run dual monitors. This limitation seems poorly thought out.