🖥️ MSI PRO Z690-P DDR4 ProSeries Motherboard: ATX, 12th Gen Intel Core, LGA 1700 Socket, PCIe 4, CFX, M.2 Slots, Wi-Fi 6E Review

Pros: Multifunctional and allows you to make almost any variation out of your PC With its cons: The description is not enough to evaluate the capabilities, for example, 2 M.2 slots have different requirements: the first slot is strictly for NVE drives, the second is universal.

Whoever has a pcie 3.0 generation ssd from the old system, it is not necessary to buy a new pcie 4.0 ssd to increase performance. For example, I bought the same one for my samsung 970 evo plus 1 tb, and turned on Raid 0 on this board. Bottom line - speeds are no worse than many ssd generation pcie 4.0 See photo).

With its pros: Not too ugly in appearance. Little clown "gamer" decor. 2x M.2, both full. All important connectors are located at the edges, which is convenient for cable management. UEFI has all sorts of things for overclocking memory and processor. They work. Its cons: Filthy plug in the housing on the connectors. Made of thin steel with sharp stamped edges, it mates crookedly with connectors. As if from an ultra-budget board. I could not figure out how to remove the MSI logo, which replaces

Its pros: The form factor I need, the presence of the necessary ports in sufficient quantity Cons: Bios is buggy. Starts once. You have to turn off the power and throw off the bios with the power button. But maybe that's what I got.

It’s suitable only for those who will definitely use 1 video card, definitely won’t switch to DDR5, definitely won’t buy more than 3200 MHz memory. Such is the budget option, which will have to be changed after 2 years. But there is Z690-A, though it is on DDR5, it costs 2k more, but the margin for the future is very good and all the disadvantages from my description have been eliminated.