Review on MSI MEG AMD X570 Unify AM4 ATX DDR4 Motherboard: Unleashing Next-Gen Performance by Chris Chincuanco

I LOVE this board. It was easy to install and run. I swapped out the brick plank for this one. This one cost me over $100 more BUT it has 3 M.2 slots instead of another board. I wasn't crazy that this board only had 4 SATA slots compared to the board before that had 6 SATA slots, but as I said earlier this board has 3 M.2 slots instead of 2. Another benefit is as follows. has FAST WiFi, my previous one didn't. I like the fact that this board has a red reset button and a 2 digit error code reader next to it. This is a big plus for troubleshooting. The original seller listed it as a mini-ATX layout and that bothered me because I wanted an ATX sized motherboard, but I was pleasantly surprised when I opened the box and saw that it WAS an ATX board. Entering the BIOS was easy. The board I returned for it had a slow BIOS, but this one was simple and informative. I've read some other reviewers saying "I need to install both 8-pin connectors" that this board has for the CPU, but I've also read that I really only needed the 1 8-pin CPU connector , unless I seriously intended to block it, which I wasn't. I love the X570 chipset that this board comes with and have paired it with the RYZEN 5 3Rd Gen 3600 series. I also added an ADATA 1TB M.2 NVME drive for my OS and some programs. I also installed a 3TB hard drive for storage. I had to format the 1TB M.2 drive to GUID instead of NTFS for better performance because my OS didn't recognize it as a boot drive and so I was able to use UEFI speed instead of Legacy. After that I went into my BIOS, made my M.2 drive my first boot drive, saved my settings and restarted my computer. My system booted and ran for about 4 minutes. This bad boy now loads and runs in less than 20 seconds. Big difference. I was able to download all my software from a previously created backup onto my 3TB internal hard drive, now GUID partitioned. WiFi is FAST but I don't use it because the ethernet cable connects directly to the motherboard. I like the all black look and I don't really like RGB but this board has connectors for it and even comes with 2 cables for the RGB lighting. I'm not a gamer but I downloaded 2 games because I bought a graphics card. I can't dissuade my 5 year old son from my new build because he loves the graphics of the games. I played the game and it was a good experience. The game turned out to be clear and very realistic. Computers have come a long way from my Atari days and even the days when you played games on your computer from a floppy disk. The board has 1 16 pin PCIE slot and the other I think is 8 pin PCIE. The board also features 4 memory slots for up to 128GB of RAM. I have a total of 2 Dual 8GB X 16GB and this setup works FAST. I'll be adding 32GB shortly and I think that's all I need for this board with the X570 chipset and my M.2 drive.