MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus Motherboard (AMD AM4, PCIe 4.0, DDR4

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.

Skye · 2020-05-25 · via amazon

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.

Cliff C. Myers · 2021-07-20 · via amazon

These are very good boards. I have 2 holding Ryzen 5 3600x and three carrying Ryzen 5 3600. Running 16 gb of 3200 Ghx memory. Adjusted the timings and have them at 3400 now. Have not OC'd the CPUs b/c these are work computers. Installed cheap 2 Gb graphics cards with Evo 970s (@M.2#1)and 10 Gbase-t cards. Basic Input-Output system is easy to use but you can easily brick the things with bad memory timings. But un-bricking is easy: kill the power, pull the power cable , pop the battery out and and hold the power button down to discharge any capacitors (ten seconds). Put the battery back and start over. Don't be afraid of memory timings. Keep playing with them until everything works well. Ignore CPU power 2 BTW (not needed). M.2 was easy but be SURE you are using the supplied standoffs and screws. Then the heat spreader will lay over the whole thing nicely (at 1st M.2 position). M.2#2 has no heat spreader and is unused on my boards. No surprises with PCIe cards. The 2 Gb hound of a graphics card sits at the first slot and the 10 Gb ethernet at the second PCIe16. Cpu/fan mounting was trivially simple. These things can come together in 10 minutes or less. That's all I have to report.

Mark · 2020-01-23 · via amazon

6 months ago when I bought this board, it was the best x570 Am4 for the money. It still is. It's hard to say overly positive things about a mobo, because well...it's either compatible with your other components or it isn't. So I'm going to do a weird thing for a 5 star review: nitpick. They should've located a couple fan headers at the front, instead of all at the bottom, makes it hard for shorter fan cables. The chipset heatsink and fan seem adequate, but could've been a little beefier (I've seen some temps I would consider high on the chipset while running benchmarks). The audio is just OK, but I guess that's most mobo's these days. Dragon Center is a God-Awful Nightmare. Sweet Jesus, do not install it, if you don't want to melt your CPU. It ran my Ryzen 3600 at 4.2 OC full-time. I was crashing games constantly. Overheating nonstop. Please, I'm telling you, if you love yourself -- DO NOT INSTALL DRAGON CENTER. Use Ryzen Master and Precision Boost Overclock. Why the five star review? Easily sidestep these minor inconveniences, and pay 40% less than you would for an Asus board with the same features. Buy better fans, don't use their awful software, and tweak a few settings. No big deal, you're a PC builder, right?

Mitch · 2020-07-25 · via amazon

This was purchased for a mid performance secondary gaming PC for someone who does not need particularly high-end graphics and performance. Definitely better than most 2019 console's performance with the parts I selected with the board. Upgraded along with the AMD Ryzen 3 3200G from an AMD FX 6350 + GTX 970 Gold Edition, so performance took quite the jump. Especially for Monster Hunter World on medium to high with some tweaks. Based on the average bottleneck calculations, this Ryzen 3 3200G + GTX 970 are a great combination for better-than-console performance. With the Corsair Vengeance 8gb LPX RAM, this setup is quite decent for basic gaming without too much expectation for high fidelity gaming. Expecting to upgrade to 16GB if the need presents itself. Sadly, the first one was DOA. No power whatsoever. To top it off, the second one came and told me that the CPU was bad, too. XD This was a totally traumatizing build, I swear. So, -1 Star on defective parts. At one point the PSU cable extenders I got didn't send power either. This was a very unlucky build! Third PC I've build. First 2 had no issues whatsoever. This was my very first lemon and to top it off 3 parts were totally out for the count. Amazing how Amazon offers immediate replacements, though. Lifesaver.

Sebastian Reid · 2020-02-12 · via amazon

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Socket

AM5

Chipset

B850

Form

ATX

WiFi

WiFi 6E

Socket

AM5

Chipset

B850

Form

ATX

WiFi

WiFi 6E