Review on 🎮 Optimized for Gaming: MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK Motherboard - AMD AM4, DDR4, PCIe 4.0, SATA 6Gb/s, M.2, USB 3.2 Gen 2, HDMI/DP, ATX - Supports AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Processors by Bam Reeder

I bought a Ryzen 5600x and you need to update the BIOS to run these chips on every mobile device currently available, as far as I know none of them won . don't get their next-gen Ryzen chips out of the box. This mobo has a feature that allows you to update the BIOS without having a processor installed. This is VERY important if, like me, you don't already have a compatible AMD chip. The 1st mobo I bought didn't have BIOS flashing capability. And I wouldn't publish it. Nada. I've learned the hard way that if the mobile device doesn't have non-CPU BIOS flash capability, the only way to update the BIOS is to a) already have a compatible Ryzen chip on hand, or b) I think AMD will send the chip on credit to complete the bios install. Those are the only solutions, seriously? It seems it would take weeks to get a credit chip in the mail and what a colossal PITA. None of this was mentioned anywhere in the description of this mobo. He simply said that the BIOS could be updated without specifying how painful it would be or how many prerequisites and hurdles to overcome. Big. I call it false advertising. So I sent the mobo back and got this one. Fetched the correct bios setup file on a USB stick, plugged it into the appropriate USB slot on the mobile phone, pressed the button, waited with bated breath. And it really worked. You can google the instructions. It is not that hard. So now I'm rocking a new Ryzen 5000 chip, this phone was pretty easy to use, looks well built, good connectivity, no wifi but I don't need it. You don't have to fiddle with the backplate, which I think is a long overdue mobo improvement. I actually had to go into the BIOS and change a setting from I think UEFI to CSM to make it boot from the BIOS to the Windows boot disk. I would have liked a few more USB ports. But the fact that updating this mobo's bios was relatively painless, and the fact that the process of doing it *actually works* is priceless. I also got significantly faster PCI transfer rates between disks than I was used to with the old setup. I work and am happy with this mobo.