The most obvious omission is an M.2 heatsink, which we were surprised at due to MSI being the first to include them on its motherboards. With mini-ITX systems often being cramped, every bit of extra cooling for hot-running components is quite useful, but at the very least it hides the often unsightly stickers on M.2 SSDs.
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The MSI B450 Tomahawk is the successor to the popular B350 Tomahawk and offers users a slightly better feature set. This starts with including a pair USB 3.1 Gen2 ports, as well as customizable RGB LED lighting integrated into the board.
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If you’ve been following MSI awhile, you’ll know awhile back they broke their motherboard line up into the Enthusiast, Professional and Arsenal series with each serving a distinct segment of the market. Starting with Intel’s latest chipset revamp, the Z390, MSI has reduced this mouthful down to a TLA, or Three Letter Acronym. The new lines are MEG for MSI…
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In this review, we look at the MPG Z390 Gaming Pro. MSI motherboards these days are sorted into four categories: the MEG series, MPG series, MAG series, and PRO series with MEG being short for ‘MSI Enthusiast Gaming’. This MPG board is positioned in a mainstream to a higher-end region of the DiY PC desktop segment…
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MSI’s Z390 GAMING EDGE AC is priced right at the $189 mark, and while there is a lot of competition at that price point, the MSI Z390 Gaming Edge AC holds up. It offers a variety of features, and the VRM, while not the most robust, gets the job done.
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If you didn’t catch the sensual tale happening there, the MSI X470 Gaming Plus is a truly good-looking motherboard. The ATX form factor board offers an AM4 socket, which houses any AMD Ryzen chip (including 1st gen), but was mainly built to house the X-series Ryzen chips, due the overclocking support the board provides.
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While the MAG Z390 Tomahawk might be a great board to support a lesser processor, our high-priced Core i9-9900K presented an unrealistically heavy power load for this low-cost product. A low price paired with our assumption that the board will suit a lower-model processor is the only thing preventing it from receiving a lower-than-middle score.
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The MSI MPG Z390 Gaming EDGE AC is a solid board from a feature set but it is not packing the stuffed to the gills feature set as you get with the more expensive boards. MSI omits the less tangible features for a more simplified feature set to match the needed price point.
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The MEG Z390 ACE is an MSI Enthusiast Gaming model. (That’s where the abbreviation “MEG” comes from.) The board is equipped with an Intel Wireless-AC 9560 adapter that supports theoretical data rates up to 1,733Mbps, as well as Bluetooth 5.0.
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But it also means new motherboards and I’m curious what else might get changed. MSI, for example, has revamped their naming scheme. The board they sent over is the MPG Z390 Gaming Plus. So I wanted to touch on the new MSI naming and then check out the new board and see what it has to offer.
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