Good option for anyone thinking of building a system. Mystic Light compatible, good reviews all round. Does not have on-board WLAN though so if this is a requirement you'd be better off elsewhere. Sale ends midnight today.
MSI MAG Tomahawk B550 AM4 ATX Motherboard $169 + Delivery ($0 to Metro Areas/ VIC C&C) @ Centre Com
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Only real downside is lack of USB ports on the back
but you get a 1GB and 2.5GB LAN port lol .. for what reason WHO KNOWS!!!!
great deal! how can we find other sale items in the same promotion? like cheaper MATX B550.
The gigabyte board has poor VRM performance and less rear IO compared to the MSI board, so the MSI will be a much better choice
Thanks mate
That.
The other other one.
This or that gets confusing. To be clear the MSI board is much better
legendary vrms
So for wireless mobos are you missing out on any pcie slots or any other pcie 3 or 4 slots or lanes forgive my ignorance
unsure about lanes, but some do have reduced slots, for example b450m ds3h has the wifi as part of the IO so it does reduce the slots or get in the way of anything. also I have the said mobo, don't get it, it's trash.
If I was to do it all over again, I would suggest just getting a wifi usb.
Wireless only needs PCIe x1. Not sure about B550, it depends on the number of PCIe gen 3 lanes the chipset provided.
B450, yes, you lose one PCIe x1 slot.Honestly, if you really care about having all the slots available, get X570. Also, I disagree on getting USB WiFi. It is a stop gap solution because a lot of USB WiFi dongles are junk.
I don't doubt integrated > USB.
In my use case I thought I would run my PC off wireless in my apartment, except the ping is too high for FPS games, therefore I ended up just running a lan cable to the modem. For the premium I purchased the wifi mobo for I could have got something better - all in hindsight
A dongle is sufficient enough for "general web activities".
Thanks!
You get a $40 USD steam gift card as well. I recently jumped on a MSI MAG B550 Wifi Mortar for $180 but that is older than this MOBO.
How to claim this? Thx
I already claimed my $40US Dollar gift card… They got back to me in 1 day for a MSI MAG B550 Mortar
You need to do more then just register the board.. you need to go to the promotions tab after you log in to your MSI account.
Find the MSI ANZ steam bonus promo. ( while your in your account dash board )
Click on that and select the board you have already registered and click submit. It will then request you upload a jpeg of your invoice and a photo (jpeg) of the boards serial number that's on the side of the main power plug of the motherboard.You then need to submit it one more time.
They reply pretty quick with your codes in that same promo link page next to your msi products info. ( they didnt email me)
The promotions page is not the same as the register product page. its all a little bit tricky but you will get it..
Did exactly this and no follow up already been more than 2 weeks. The email I received had "no-reply" on the title so I have no idea how to ask them.
@f38r1: Contact tech support.. "submit a support ticket in your account" someone will get back to you
Are you sure you did the Final submit of the info at the end.. Tick the box .. scroll down through the T&C's and then submit
no GPU no pc
Bloody awesome time to be a non gamer!
What is the best X570 motherboard on the market？
none buy b550
Any x570 deals?
Is there a wifi version?
I bought this one for $99
I rekon it is the worst X570 mobo
cheap for a reason
Thanks mate. I'm total AMD noob
Where'd you get it for$100?
why it is the worst X570 motherboard？
aint building or havnt even finish build due to overpriced gpu market
It not going to stop any time soon. SEC just stopped coinbase from letting people get interest on stable coins from lending to other users as it is seen as a security.
TSMC has announced it will increase chip prices by 10-20% around dec. so its going to go up more.
source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/linleygwennap/2021/08/30/tsmc-c…
worth upgrading from B450 Mortar?
General advice - Don't upgrade. Unless you need that PCIE4 speed on nvmes for content creation.
I upgraded to make the most of my RX6600XT and maybe use a PCI-E nvme at some point in the future..
Still rocking my 3700X CPU and DDR 32gb crucial 3600 CL16 ram
My 6600xt I found running on b450 if SAM and freesync are turned on it hogs all the memory and pc lags as hell so switched them off as well as everything in Radeon software.
I'm thinking maybe with a b550 things will be a bit better
If you can resist not getting another toy, it's best NOT to upgrade to B550. Here are the reasons:
- Even if you decided to get a PCIe x4 gen 4 SSD, you can at most have 1. The other one would be PCIe x3 gen 4. Now, do you REALLY have workload to pump that much data into that gen 4 SSD, or you just want to see 7GB sequential read in some benchmark apps?
- If you can REALLY afford a GPU that "might" somewhat benefit from PCIe x16 gen 4, you wouldn't be asking this question anyway. You would go X570.
- What are you going to do with your B450 Mortar? Sell it?
- Do you have a 2.5Gbits network switch?
- You have time to take everything out, replace the board, put everything back in?
With Windows 11 coming, Intel's Alder Lake, which looks like will be pushing some form of PCIe gen 5 support (at least on CPU level) and potentially DDR5 support, try not to buy any new motherboard for now.
For those asking for X570 instead, you know B550 is basically identical right? Graphics and storage are PCIe 4.0 on both, the only difference that I can see is that the general PCIe lanes on B550 are 3.0 (which shouldn't affect 99% of users). If you still want to buy an X570 board at twice the price with shittier VRM, be my guest.
Is the steel series ASRock x570 worse in terms of vrm? It's around $$260
usually more USB slots at rear on X series, in fact thats the only reason why i wouldnt go with this board, otherwise its a great peice
B550 is attractive due to the BS AMD did on B450 and X470. A lot of B450 and X470 are technically able to support one PCIe gen 4 for x16 GPU slot and 1 m.2 at gen 4. It's just AMD blocked it at microcode level.
As for X570, the main selling point is that you get 2 PCIe 4.0 m.2 SSDs OR potentially more, since the chipset lanes are all gen 4, so technically more can be added.
For most people, this B550 would tick a lot of boxes, but if you really look at it carefully, some areas do have a bit of cost cutting done to it.
Great board. Was a bargain paired with 5600x for $467 back a few months ago.
This B550 motherboard tier list is pretty on point.
Thanks for the tier doc, is "Asrock B550m Pro4" a good MB for $119 (row 10 in the doc) ?
https://www.umart.com.au/Asrock-B550M-PRO4-AM4-mATX-Motherbo…
That tier list makes so sense. Why would you make a tier list based on value instead of tiering them based on how how good/bad they are overall then have price besides each board. That lets good price-performance be identified at each tier. B550 Steel Legend or B550 Tachi, which one is better? Dunno, they sort it by value and not performance. If they are on sale for the same price (which they have been) someone could very easily get tricked into buying the straght inferior Steel Legend instead because it's a higher tier.
If don't know anything about motherboards, you see the Tomahawk and the B550M pro both for $160 you'd look at that tier list and think 'oh I should buy the B550M pro, it's better -and then get ripped off
Dammit I need that sweet sweet wifi :(
What's the cheapest comparative board with wifi? Or a cheap path with a dongle if not ?
I went with the PCIE addon route. Chose that particularly for having 802.11AX, bluetooth, good price (about a year ago tho)
Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO AX when it was around $180 was an outstanding board for the price. This board had pretty much all you could want. Unfortunately, prices for this board are now $50-60 more, which is about the same as the MSI MAG Tomahawk B550 + $50 wifi 6 pcie card.
Keep in mind that the B550 motherboard tier list has only reviewed the B550 AORUS PRO (not the PRO AX). The PRO AX has all the features which are said to missing from the PRO in the tier notes.
Source: I have recently built two systems, one with MSI MAG Tomahawk B550 and the other with Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO AX.
great board, about a year ago paid $259. So $169 seems like a good deal.
Pretty good on the B550 mobo tier list too. I wouldn't stress about not going x570 with a B550 like this one.
I got a PCI-E wifi/BT board from Amazon to go with it.
It's this compatible with a 5600x without having to upgrade the bios?
Yes, if it comes with an older BIOS you can flash it without CPU as well.
Thanks mate that's awesome that it can be done without the CPU
ughh this is tempting but I'm still waiting for a sale on the MSI gaming edge wi-fi :(
Ah, I see…
This or the ROG Strix B550 Gaming Wi-Fi? Really tempted by the ALC1220 audio codec on it and the Aura Sync. Building my first PC soon. Cheers guys!
isn't the ROG $100 more…?
Yea but this one's RRP was 199 with no WiFi. That one came with wifi so it's about the same price as getting a wifi adaptor with this one. Plus, has an ALC1220 audio codec and my RAM has ASUS aura sync too so it works. Tossing up between this one and the ROG. What's the better price to performance? This will be with a ryzen 5600X if it matters
It sounds like you're after the rog
Bummer! I just bought a r5 2600 for a mining rig but this MB doesn’t support it
yes it does
R5 2600is gen 2. Scorptec website says does not work with B550 chipset. The motherboard also says gen 3. Whereas if you look at 450 it says gen 2 etc. Am I overlooking something?
You are correct, officially. B550 supports Ryzen 3xxx series CPUs onwards.
Unofficially, there have been reports that people have success using some MSI B550 boards with a Ryzen 2xxx series CPU.
There is no real benefit getting B550 for Ryzen 2xxx series because you DO NOT get PCI gen 4 support with that combination.B550's PCI gen 4 support is purely done by the CPU. Technically B450 and X470 can do that, it's just AMD locked it with their microcode (base code included in the BIOS).
@netsurfer: Ah ok I see. Reliability is a must for me so I’ll prob skip this one. Shame.
I got a MSI X470 GAMING PLUS for my first mining rig. Was a bit of a mess but got it working. I learned that CPU affects how many lanes you can utilise for pcie - never even a thought a CPU could do this and since it was an athlon CPU it we lie 6 lanes with 2 being used for onboard. All good now I guess. Maybe I should just get the x470 again with Ryzen. Thanks for the info. Cheers
Which is supposed to be the better board this or a Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro V2
They're comparable. The Tomahawk has two Ethernet ports which you'd never use. IIRC the Aorus has one more USB 3.2 port on the back.
People who tell you to buy one or the other because VRM's or performance or whatever should be ignored. You'll never be able to put enough stress through the VRMs for any difference to matter. They're both good. Get whatever one is cheaper
Just looking at hardware unboxed and if you were to go with a 5950x the MSI B550 gives you way lower temps all around
An interesting feature on Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro V2 is that Thunderbolt 3 header. More USB ports, albeit at the back.
If you can afford a 5950X, honestly, I reckon go for X570. I would whack 8 SATA devices into a 5950X, chuck in at least 2 PCIe gen 4 NVMe SSDs.
Temps are irrelevant. They both handle an overclocked 5950X fine. 60 vs 70 or 80 degrees makes no difference
@[Deactivated]: It's relevant to a lot of people. People get affected by all those reviews on youTube, making it hard to resist these incremental upgrades. VRM quality makes a big difference to people watching those youTube videos.
Though, I still feel if you get 5950X, you would most likely get a X570. With a 5950X setup, you would at least want to blow PS5 away, that mean 2 PCIe gen 4 NVMe SSDs (maybe even 3 if money is not an issue).
Bit the bullet and grabbed one. Now I need a good 5600x deal! Thanks OP
Bought this board on Friday from center com @ 200
Saturday morning they put it on sale ….
This board has very good VRM performance