MSI B460 Tomahawk Review

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If you are planning on buying one of Intel’s mid range 10th gen chips, like the 10400F I reviewed recently, you probably want to get a B460 motherboard like this one. But, that comes with its drawbacks, so let me walk you through it, and see how this Tomahawk board from MSI holds up. But first, if you haven’t already, consider subscribing for more videos every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

B460, as a chipset, is a lot more limited than its ‘Z’ series counterpart. They don’t usually allow for overclocking of any kind, and, possibly more importantly, have a hard limit on your memory speeds, at either 2666MHz for the mid to low end chips, or 2933MHz for the higher end ones. You can’t bypass this with XMP, nor setting it manually, it’s a hard limit. Strangely, this MSI board does seem to let you overclock your CPU though, assuming you are using a K series chip like the 10900K – that’s not something I was expecting on this board. 

You also get a little more limited PCIe and general I/O support, but for the average user I can’t imagine it’s a massive problem. You actually still get 2.5G ethernet even on this budget board, along with the usual USBs, display outputs and 7.1 audio powered by the all-too-common Realtek ALC1220. 

Power delivery might be of concern to you, especially with the monstrous power draw from the 10900K, but fear not, this board can handle it. Now I can’t make heads or tales of this setup. It’s got what looks like 2 different MOSFET drivers, per channel, and 12 channels worth, with 12 inductors, but only 8 capacitors – and MSI themselves claim this is an 8 + 1 + 1 setup. Maybe buildzoid can help us out on this one.. But, under load with the 10400F, the VRMs didn’t break 55°c, and with the 10900K, they got to more like 70°c or so, but that’s nothing for a VRM so no big deal. Neither chip saw a performance loss from lack of power delivery.

	Cinebench nT	Cinebench 1T	Blender	Premiere
10400F 3600MHz	3115	418	253	1249
10400F 2666MHz	2948	393	255	1313
% Lost	5.361155698	5.980861244	0.790513834	5.124099279

They did, however, lose performance on this board, thanks to the lower RAM speed availability, with the 10400F and it’s lowly 2666MHz limit meaning an average of 5% performance loss compared to using 3600MHz on a Z490 board. That’s a reasonable amount of performance you’d be losing, especially since 3000 or 3200MHz RAM is often very, very similarly priced to lower 2400, 2666 or 2800MHz kits. 

BIOS wise, it’s similar to most MSI boards, with a grey colour instead of red, but otherwise pretty similar. You’ve got an XMP toggle in the top left that, well, doesn’t work, along with a greyed out CPU overclocking button, which doesn’t work on locked, nor unlocked CPUs, and feels a lot like a blank switch on your new car… You’ve got the nice and easy to use boot priority list, and in advanced mode, while you do have overclocking settings, they only really work when you have an unlocked CPU installed, but it does seem like you can set the multiplier, voltage and a lot else on an unlocked chip.

Pricing wise, this is a refreshing return to actually budget motherboards, after looking at B550 and Z490 boards. This Tomahawk board costs £130, exactly the same as the B450 Tomahawk Max, and right where it should be really. No, you don’t get PCIe Gen 4, no you can’t run fast RAM, but it doesn’t cost and arm and a leg.

So, should you buy a B460 board, or go with the more premium Z490? Well, if you are buying a K series CPU, especially the 10600K or above, don’t bother with this. Sure you might be able to overclock on it, but the performance hit you’ll take from the lower RAM speed is big enough that it’s likely worth the jump, but for everyday folks who are set on Intel, and say a 10400, you should probably save your money and get this. With that said, I’d still generally recommend a Ryzen 3600 or 3600X and a B450 board over the 10400 and a B460 board.