MSI Prestige X570 Creation Motherboard (AMD AM4, DDR4, PCIe 4.0, SATA 6Gb/s, M.2, USB 3.2, AX Wi-Fi 6, 10G Super LAN, Extended-ATX)

I needed to build a new PC when my old rig died at the end of 2020. I Decided i was going to jump into AMD again and build an AMD build. I bought an 5950X and started looking for motherboards. I like to build computers that last at least 5 years or so. After careful consideration, I came across the X570 Creation by MSI. The board ticks all of the checkboxes I was looking for. It offers 2 M.2 Slots with an M.2 PCI-E add on Card. 10 networking, WiFi, Support for AMD 5950 processor and has a built in Post Code Reader.The board is rock solid. No issues with the stability of the motherboard. It is a beast with the 64 gigs of Ram That is installed and Paired with an RTX3070, it is a good gaming computer, streaming computer, and computer for content creation. I had to upgrade the BIOS to enable Resizeable bar and this comuter cant be beat.Pros.* Tons of IO. Including 10G networking, USB C, USB A, M.2, PCI-E, Sata, dual channel memory, ** AM 4 Support*Raid Support* SLI SUPPORT* Built in WIFI* M.2 to PCIE expansion card.*Side angeld Power conector.Cons*Need a large case as this is an EATX motherboard*No bios flash button,* no clear cmos buttonOverall this motherboard is a great product and 10 out of 10 will buy MSI for future computer building needs.

I've put this mainboard to good use for a little over a year, and it worked so great that i had my boss build an almost exact replica of my PC at work for our VFX pipeline. The mainboard at my workplace keeps working flawlessly, but the one at home developed issues a few months ago, that i could not quite identify.For one thing, the PC began restarting spontaneously, and then freezing right before POST, which is never good. The error code would swing between 15 (issues with DDR communication), and 0D, which is a reserved MSI code for "future messages".My first thought was the CPU failed, so i reseated it, bought a Thermaltake radiator, and the restarts were happening less frequently after that. Then i noticed as the weather got warmer, and the room temperature raised, the PC would absolutely refuse to POST, until a considerable cooldown.Finally, it got so bad that i decided to order a new mainboard, a cheaper one this time, since i am in no position to replace a grand worth of bad mobo. Suddenly, all issues are gone, and i can only assume one of the capacitors on the mainboard must have gone bad, and caused the chipset or some other component to overheat, or "think" that it's overheating.Another odd sign, and this happened very early on, was that the mainboard would refuse any BIOS update. Updating the BIOS would brick it completely, so I would have to flash back it, and this whole time I have operated with the original BIOS from stock.This is a very expensive piece of equipment, and it really sucks that such serious issue manifested right after the standard warranty expired, so i STRONGLY recommend to stress test it before the return window closes on Amazon. Dealing with MSI support isn't the most stress-free experience, so if you see something is off, be smarter than i was, and return it for a replacement.Aside from this stroke of bad luck, i have nothing but good things to say about this mobo, and it continues to serve my work pipeline really well. even in hot weather, for extended periods, without liquid cooling.UPDATE:As it turns out, i have been testing my system with a new mainboard, and a milder variation of the same issue has been manifesting, which leads to me to think that my PSU is what's causing the issue, as it might have a bad capacitor and supplying the wrong voltage, which would, under load, ultimately trigger the mainboard to shut down. This would explain why the system refuses to reboot manually until i physically switch the PSU off and back on, to with, the system will slowly but surely boot again, in a somewhat unstable state until voltages stabilize.Sometimes they don't stabilize at all until several forced shutdowns and restarts, which is indicative that something is definitely going on with the supply of electricity to the mainboard. Also, the fact that the issue occurs while gaming, could lead to a bad supply of power to the GPU, but at this point that would be just speculation.At any rate, mobo works, all is well. For now. I hope.ADDITIONAL UPDATE:I finally got to the bottom of it, and it appears that a serious issue with one of the SATA leads from the PSU is supplying the wrong voltage. This has caused one of Mt SSDs to burn out, as well as two separate RGB LEDs from two different radiators, one was tge Thermaltake, and the other a CoolerMaster. Case closed.

I'm an amateur videographer so I need a MB that supports editing. This motherboard has a ton of USB ports and supports up to 4 MV2 SSD drives with the included expansion card. This allows me to dedicate separate drive space for Adobe Premier Pro's program, project files and scratch files. Installation was a breeze and the printed labels on the ports are clear, along with a through user manual. The performance of my new build is awesome. It booted the first time I powered it on (the case is a Corsair 680x).

I love how this board has a M.2 NVMe PCIe Card that supports two NVMe SSD's into RAID and that it's M Key both and not B Key like others. Needed the extra USB ports along with the WiFi built in is very good. Can game and use to store data as primary server and work on Visio files. Only down side was having to spend 2 weeks working on the RAM timings and setting up RAID. When setting my RAM timings to the manufacture of G.Skill of rated speed - the unit would not POST/no BIOS. Thought I had bad ram and gave the ram a negative review since kept having to reset the CMOS to clear out this issue only to then default the speed back to 2400 and not 3600. Last option resort was updating the BIOS the bios and thinking that the board is still very new that there should not be any newer BIOS verison yet and to my supprise on MSI site, found 3 newer BIOS updated versions not counting the original BIOS on the site. Grabbed the lastest one released on 11/2019 and flashed the BIOS and finally was now able to get to set the ram timings to 3600 as rated by G.Skill and RAID my two NVMe SSD's successfully. This process was soo painful for the past two weeks. I'm a CompTIA A+ Certified Tech and for new boards these issues should not be occurring. This has also been happening with Aurous which is why I switched. MSI - you need to send motherboards out with working BIOS from the get go and not having to have customers pull their hair out upon from getting a new board. Painful experience. Now that I'm past that the board working superbly and boot time is less than 15seconds and performance very good. But that BIOS.....