MSI MPG X570 GAMING PLUS Motherboard (AMD AM4, PCIe 4.0, DDR4, SATA 6Gb/s, M.2, USB 3.2 Gen 2, HDMI, ATX)

I have used MSI motherboards for nearly every PC I've built for myself and have always been impressed with them overall. I have this motherboard paired with an AMD Ryzen 9 3950x CPU, Thermaltake Floe Ring 360 liquid cooler, MSI Gaming X Trio GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPU, Corsair Dominator 64 GB 3200 DDR4 RAM, two Western Digital Black 1TB SN750 M.2 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD's and a Western Digital Black Performance 6 TB HDD. Motherboard was easy to install into my case, no trouble plugging cables and components in, memory and SSD interface are excellent, all three of my hard drives work well together, data transfer rates are impressive even when going from my SSD's to the HDD. The chipset temperature stays pretty constant, don't be alarmed by its high idle temp of 60 °C even if the fan is off, its normal. Under load the fan kicks on and the chipset temp rarely gets above 65 °C. My only complaint and suggestion are regarding the included Frozer M.2 heatsink, the screw holes on the heatsink DO NOT line up with the screw hole on the motherboard for the right side of the heatsink, its hole is over an inch past where the hole on the motherboard is so make sure you get an M.2 drive with a built-in heatsink.

After my previous motherboard failed after years 5 years of usage, the time had come to pick a new motherboard.I have done my research for many weeks and finally decided to settle with this motherboard. There are several reasons on why I decided to go with this motherboard.1) Lightning Gen 4 - This motherboard supports the next gen PCIe. When its out and you want to upgrade, you dont have to buy a new motherboard!2) Price - Its hard to beat this price for a x570 motherboard for all the features you are getting.3) M.2 - Supports M.2 for taking your OS speed to a next level and boot up within seconds.4) DDR4 - Lets be honest. The time of DDR3 is almost over. Time to move on to DDR4 which this board supports.5) Customization - This board has something for everyone. Whether you want show it off and add a ton of LEDs to your system, or just settle with the basic needs, this board will suit you. It has all the ports you need to customize your system any way you want.6) BIOS - Comes with built-in profiles for beginners so that they dont have to spend hours trying to research what settings to go with. One tap on a profile (Game Mode, XMP and other profiles) and you are ready to go! Offers overclocking for advanced users that know what they are doing.7) Audio Boost 4 - You gotta hear the quality of sound coming from this chip set. Its amazing!8) Support - Once you open the box, there are directions and guides showing you how to install the board with details. However, there are also so many resources available online for this motherboard if you are ever stuck with something or have questions.In conclusion, so far, I am extremely happy with the results and the performance.My system is:CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 (I bought with the motherboard)RAM: 16GB - Ripjaw 3200 DDR4(I bought with the motherboard)GPU: GTX 980 TIPSU: Corsair 750 MCase: Thor Rosewill v2 (bigger the better)

I purchased this board for my most recent PC build: Ryzen 3600, 32Gb CL16 Ram @3600mhz, 1tb NVME Drive, Radeon 5600XT.This motherboard looks and feels like a high end board, with a sleek visually appealing design, practical layout and all of the features I want in a board at this price point. I had no quirks or issues after carefully assembling my build and it POSTed without fault on the first attempt. Flashed the BIOS, set my RAM XMP and enabled PBO, then it was off to the races.After seeing some warnings from a couple YouTube reviewers about poor VRM thermals on the lower end of the X570 lineup from MSI I am happy to report that after running an hour of small FFTs on Prime95; VRM temperatures never exceeded 53c, and mostly hovered around 51c under load (idle temps around 40c). For reference, I'm using a Thermaltake V250 argb case with stock fan arrangement, which has modest airflow at best (no mesh front panel) and a Hyper 212 Black Edition CPU cooler.I honestly couldn't be much happier with my purchase. I am not a huge fan of the layout of MSI's UEFI BIOS or their Dragon Center utility software but functionally it's actually pretty good.

I had an i7 6700k and I felt it was time for an upgrade. I was about to buy a 2600x but then found out the 3000 series were coming out soon so I waited. I purchased the 3900x since it rivals the 9900k and along with the CPU I also purchased this board. I like how this board gives me even more overclocking features than my Z170 did. I also downloaded Ryzen Master to adjust on the fly. The way the VRM and the heatsinks are designed helps quite a bit with heat spreading/dissipation. I also mainly bought it because throwing a 12 core in there should still be fine at 145 amps of current or so. And my 3900x has not reached 70 C (With a NZXT Kraken x62) while playing games like Anthem (for testing purposes) Destiny 2, Overwatch, however Cinebench R20 is the only one that heats it up to 76 C clocked at 4.4 GHz. It idles at around 40 C though so I might need to tweak something and do a bit more research. I'm not much of an electronics person so I don't really understand why the 2nd 4 pin power was put next to the 8 pin. Shouldn't the board be able to handle just fine with the 8 pin? Nevertheless, I like this board and has everything I need to get me through my games and workloads. I feel that price to performance is good given that this sits on the lower end of the boards section. I might upgrade the board in the future and keep this one for another lower end Ryzen CPU and use it as a backup or living room PC.