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Review on πŸ’» MSI MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI Motherboard - AMD AM4, DDR4, PCIe 4.0, SATA 6Gb/s, M.2, USB 3.2 Gen 2, AC Wi-Fi 6, HDMI, ATX by Douglas Jakab

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Good gaming motherboard

Good motherboard that works as expected. Nearly. Wi-Fi 6E is a big reason I chose this board over others and it can't even see the 6GHz SSID of my ASUS AXE11000 router on Windows 10. Apparently the Intel driver that this board comes with is the one that supports what was removed. for a registry hack that allowed people to use their 6GHz band before Windows 10 officially supported it. On the Intel AX210 22.40 driver with my PCIE wireless card I used before. I still saw the 6E band, connected to it and used it daily. This board comes with the Intel Wifi 22.60 driver and you cannot see or connect to it. I turned off the built in Wi-Fi and reinserted the external AX210 card and again I saw the network but couldn't connect. So my PCIE card can see it but can't connect to the new 22.6 driver (it can't roll back now, ahh!). This motherboard doesn't see the 6E series at all. Someone on a forum I read mentioned that Windows 11 supports the 6GHz band. Moment in Windows 10. The 2.5GB ethernet port is working properly as it could exhaust my 1GB internet reallocated to 100+ Mbps. Very happy with it. What else can I say about this board? Well, it comes from the MSI Gaming Plus motherboard and has the same well-known MSI quality. The BIOS is very easy to navigate and works within it to keep your system exactly where you want it. Although I wish there was a place on this board to hook up an external temperature sensor for my water cooling circuit so I can control it along with the pump speed etc which I already maintain via MB. I'm sure this MB will keep getting better as more updates come out and I can't blame MSI for the poor Wifi 6E support in Windows 10. I would highly recommend this motherboard to other gamers and I love that it is a very high quality product. very reasonable price. Designed for the future, it's a great upgrade to the X570 range. Thank you MSI!

Pros
  • Lightning Speed Gaming: PCIe 4.0, Lightning Gen4 x4 M.2 with M.2 Shield Frozr, StoreMI, AMD Turbo USB 3.2 Gen 2
Cons
  • Senior Citizen