MSI X570 Gaming Edge WiFi Motherboard Review
|Budget X570 motherboards have been in a pretty weird place since they launched, with some options like the Gigabyte Gaming X board I reviewed recently just missing the mark, but this Gaming Edge WiFi board from MSI, I think it’s right on the sweet spot.
It currently costs around £200, which would normally put it in the premium end for motherboards, but in this PCIe Gen 4 world we currently live in, it’s cheap. Magic. Despite that, it actually has pretty much everything you’d expect a high end motherboard to have, features wise at least.
It’s got WiFi, lots of USB and a good audio codec, in the ALC 1220, it has a nice black PCB with a funky cut-out on the side next to your 6 SATA ports and plenty of RGB headers dotted around the board too.
VRM wise, it shouldn’t have a problem supporting any Ryzen CPU – 3950X or not. It’s a doubled 4+2 phase design, that kept impressively cool when drawing around 80W with a 3700X, only about 60°c, so lots of thermal headroom there, including for an overclock, should you win the silicon lottery and get a chip that can OC.
Speaking of thermal headroom, the massive fan on the chipset barely spun up, and when it did, was quieter than the GPU fans, so much so I didn’t know it was spinning until I physically looked. The heatsink above it also doubles as the M.2 heatsink too, but is incredibly flat meaning it’s more a heat-soak, than a heatsink.
BIOS wise, I still have to comment MSI on the design. It’s super well laid out, with the boot priority menu you can just drag around, XMP on a big red button, and every overclocking setting on one page making it super easy to set a basic overclock or even dive deeper.
Speaking of XMP, I’m happy to report the board had no problem running the 3600MHz RAM I was testing with, and supports up to 4400MHz RAM at the moment, although future BIOS updates might be able to improve that too.
PCIe wise, you of course have Gen 4 support on here. The top M.2 slot goes straight to the CPU as always, with the lower one routing through the chipset. You’ve also got 2 X16 sized slots, although the lower of the 2 is only 8x electrically, and 3 PCIe x1 slots that also route through the chipset.
Strangely, the one feature missing here is the USB C front panel header, which looks to have been just below the SATA ports, but appears to have been removed before the final version.
Overall then, this is a great board. It’s got strong enough VRMs to handle pretty much anything you throw at it, a quiet chipset fan, and a good set of features that, for the price, make it a pretty great option. Would I put one on my rig? I think I would, yeah. It’s a good board, great bios, nice features, so not too hard to recommend!
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