Review on MSI Gaming Motherboard Intel Socket by Adam Koodziejek ᠌

Name: MSI Gaming Motherboard Intel Socket
Item: MSI Gaming Motherboard Intel Socket
Rating: 5

May 13, 2023

The quality exceeds all expectations, I recommend to buy.

*ATTENTION TO MSI MOTHERBOARD CUSTOMERS*
After the purchase, before installing the motherboard into the case, be sure to stretch the bolts of the VRM and chipset heatsinks - they can be said not to be tightened, they are easily unscrewed with your finger without effort, the main thing is to tighten without fanaticism, otherwise you will break the thread.
There was a problem with the radiators pulling on MSI Z390 motherboards, on MSI Z390 Ace, after pulling the radiator screws, the VRM temperature dropped by 11 degrees.

Pros

Excellent quality, the VRM zone is made to last, 16 real phases for CPU power with Renesas mosfets rated at 75A, 1 power phase for SA and 1 phase for iGPU power, no doublers, at a load of 270 watts, MOS sensor shows values 45-46 degrees C. A huge heatsink on the VRM, no plastic casings, only harsh aluminum heatsinks connected by a copper heat pipe. Convenient UEFI, yes, this is not ASUS Strix, which has parameters for all occasions for the finest settings for each phase of the moon, but even here it’s not a motherboard for overclocking under nitrogen, all the parameters present in UEFI are more than enough for overclocking and tuning. Good overclocking of RAM, 4 SR DDR4 strips, from Patriot on Samsung B-Die, took 4000 MHz with half a kick with voltages SA 1.28 and VDDQ 1.28

Cons

iGPU on current UEFI does not work well, at the declared Turbo frequency for Intel UHD 770, the built-in works only at 940 MHz, during overclocking, the frequency does not rise above 1300 MHz, and only if Adaptive voltage is set, i. E. when the frequency multiplier is set above 1300 MHz, it is simply ignored, while the iGPU consumption is limited to 3W, this limitation is not removed in any way, there is no PowerLimit setting parameter for iGPU in UEFI.