| Brand | MSI |
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| Product Dimensions | 30.5 x 24 x 3 cm; 1.2 Kilograms |
| Item model number | B450 TOMAHAWK MAX |
| Manufacturer | MSI COMPUTER |
| Series | B450 TOMAHAWK MAX |
| Form Factor | ATX |
| Processor Socket | Socket AM4 |
| Memory Technology | DDR4 |
| Computer Memory Type | DDR4 SDRAM |
| Graphics Card Interface | PCI-E |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
| Are Batteries Included | No |
| Item Weight | 1.2 kg |
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MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX Motherboard ATX, AM4, DDR4, LAN, USB 3.2 Gen2, TYPE-C, M.2, RGB Mystic Light Sync, HDMI, DVI-D, AMD RYZEN 1st, 2nd and 3rd Gen Ready
| Brand | MSI |
| CPU socket | Socket AM4 |
| RAM memory technology | DDR4 |
| Compatible processors | AMD 1st Gerenration Ryzen |
| Chipset type | AMD B450 |
| Platform | Windows 10 |
| Series | B450 TOMAHAWK MAX |
| Graphics card interface | PCI-E |
| Memory slots available | 4 |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
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- Supports DDR4 Memory, up to 4133(OC) MHz
- Extended Heatsink Design : MSI extended PWM heatsink and enhanced circuit design ensures even high-end processors to run in full speed
- Lightning Fast Game experience : 1x TURBO M.2, AMD Turbo USB 3.2 GEN2, Store MI technology
- Core Boost : with premium layout and fully digital power design to support more cores and provide better performance
- DDR4 Boost : advanced technology to deliver pure data signals for the best gaming performance and stability
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| ASIN | B07VB2BG3X |
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| Customer Reviews |
4.7 out of 5 stars |
| Best Sellers Rank |
5,603 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
11 in Motherboards |
| Date First Available | 6 July 2019 |
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About MSI
MSI is a trusted name in gaming and esports. We’ve dedicated countless hours and committed numerous resources to support the world’s most aspiring and best gamers and use their knowledge and expertise in our products in return. MSI integrated all gamer’s aspirational functions in its gaming rigs and pushing the performance beyond limits.
MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX
AMD B450 MOTHERBOARD
Military style with extended heatsink design for better thermal solution, plus DDR4 Boost, Core Boost, Turbo M.2 and USB 3.2 Gen2 connector.
- Supports 1st, 2nd and 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen / Ryzen with Radeon Vega Graphics and 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen with Radeon Graphics / Athlon with Radeon Vega Graphics Desktop Processors for Socket AM4
- Supports DDR4 Memory, up to 4133(OC) MHz
- Extended Heatsink Design: MSI extended PWM heatsink and enhanced circuit design ensures even high-end processors to run in full speed
- Lightning Fast Game experience: 1x TURBO M.2, AMD Turbo USB 3.2 GEN2, Store MI technology
- Core Boost: With premium layout and fully digital power design to support more cores and provide better performance
- DDR4 Boost:Advanced technology to deliver pure data signals for the best gaming performance and stability
- MULTI-GPU: With STEEL ARMOR PCI-E slots. Supports 2-Way AMD Crossfire
- Audio Boost: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality for the most immersive audio experience
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DIY FRIENDLYMSI motherboards feature tons of convenient and smart design, such as convenient pin-header keep out zone, friendly SATA & USB location and so on, so DIY users can pick and choose any gaming rig they want. |
COOLINGCooling is essential for a high performance PC to sustain intense workloads. MSI motherboards feature a heavy duty heatsink on the MOSFETs for reliable processor power delivery. Numerous fan headers with full fan speed control lets builders tune their system cooling the way they like it. |
HARDWAREMSI motherboards been designed to make the system assembly process as convenient as possible. An array of system tuning features and troubleshooting tools are available to ease installation and setup. |
COMPATIBILITYMSI motherboards are designed with both physical and device compatibility in mind. Pin-headers, SATA, and USB connectors are positioned away from other components and devices. A comprehensive DDR memory Qualified Vendor List (QVL), the result of extensive memory testing and tuning, makes it easier to pick from compatible products. |
BIOS AND SOFTWARE
Complete your high performance experience with an array of performance enhancing software from MSI. From a loaded yet easy to use BIOS to potent live system tools, get the most out of your motherboard at any moment.
ENHANCED PERFORMANCE
MSI motherboards feature all the latest solution for enthusiast gamers and prosumers. CPU and memory enhancement and fast storage and USB transfer speed are ready to be on the battlefield.
CPU
High-quality power supply components and intelligent fans optimize CPU cooling performance, which is a key factor in ensuring stable and high-speed operation of the system.
MEMORY
Optimized layout design and a fully isolated memory circuitry ensures perfect stability and performance. You never have to worry about your system crashing during games with MSI DDR4 BOOST.
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STORAGEConnect any ultra-fast storage device and get into the game sooner. |
USBRead and write your files over USB faster than ever. MSI offers a wide variety of options to connect and boost your USB devices, delivering lightning-fast transfer speeds up to 10Gb/s |
IN-GAME ADVANTAGEMSI motherboards are built with enhanced audio and advanced LAN networking capabilities that turn any gaming experience into an immerse one. |
AUDIODeliver sound quality through the use of premium audio components and get the most immersive sound experience when gaming. MSI motherboards let you enjoy breathtaking, gaming-changing sound. |
EXHILARATING AND INSPIRING
Each MSI motherboard is built based on the specific topic in order to match different tastes and favors. Furthermore, MSI also adopts the modern style to design the heatsink through huge surface and sleek but simple cuts in order to make the heatsink and appearance looks ripped and powerful. Combined with neutral colour, such as black, grey and silver, as the main background, MSI motherboard can perfect fit different RGB LED effects and strongly shows the gamers tunes.
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INDUSTRIAL DESIGNMAG series motherboards are focused on functionality and durability. Descended from MSI Arsenal GAMING, these motherboards take their likeliness from rugged military equipment and are ready for battle. |
MYSTIC LIGHTIlluminate with MSI Mystic Light and bring the motherboard RGB lighting to life. Choose from millions of colours and sync across compatible devices. |
LOYAL COMRADEWith years of experience, MSI is no stranger to building high-performance motherboards. Our R&D and engineering teams have reviewed countless designs, evaluated a wide selection of high quality components, and developed products for reliability even under extreme conditions. |
COMPONENTSUsing only quality components and integrating the latest technological innovations delivers the best possible professional experience. Rigorous quality testing under the most extreme conditions ensures a super reliable, long-lasting and high performance motherboard. |
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While the new X570 motherboard range has been released specifically for these chips, it is a brand new range and requires active cooling (fans on the motherboard chipset). I was uncomfortable with the idea of being a guinea pig, so I went for the older B450 chipset instead.
This motherboard, being the "MAX" variant of the B450 Tomahawk is already set up for Ryzen 7 out of the box.
Everything worked first time, and my system has been running for 3 weeks with no issues.
Overclocking also does not seem to be a problem - temperatures and performance have stayed well within acceptible ranges.
After a considerable time umming and ahing over motherboards, I decided on the MSI Tomahawk MAX. It was what I wanted to pay, great feature set and none of the unwanted bells and whistles like RGB strip lighting, Wifi and stuff like that. I just didn't need it. I absolutely love the downplayed grey colouring. My case already has a lot of red in it, so the grey was a nice change and really worked well with my current component colouring.
Ryzen 3xxx series don't work on most B450 boards without a bios flash. No thank you! I can put together a computer, but I draw the line at getting involved in bios updates and complicated overclocking. The Tomahawk MAX has you covered as out of the box this B450 board will work fine. My Ryzen 7 3700X fired up without a hitch.
Installation was a doddle. Applied the CPU, heatsink and memory, and slid it straight into my NZXT H440 case. With my last ASUS motherboard I had a hell of job fitting that, and it was a smaller board. The MSI Tomahawk MAX just glided in like I'd lathered it up in butter first! (I hadn't).
I bought the Scythe Mugen 5 Rev.B cooler and my god was it easy to fit. The Intel bracket looked a nightmare, but the AMD fitting was simple, so fewer parts and it uses the Tomahawk MAX's manufacturer back plate, something else I didn't have to worry about. There was a nice amount of space between the CPU mount and the memory slots too, so no need to worry about RAM not fitting even with a behemoth like the Mugen 5.
Another great thing for me was fan headers. On my last (more expensive) ASUS board, it only gave me a couple of them, on the Tomahawk MAX I get 4 chassis fan headers! I was able to remove my fan splitter, use all the headers and save myself some space in the case.
I bought Crucial Ballistix RAM and the MSI Tomahawk detected the XMP 3200 profile right out the gate. So applying that in the EZ Mode was simple, and worked perfectly giving me the RAM's advertised speed with no errors at all.
The only other MSI product I've owned is my GTX 1080 Gaming X Plus, that's been fantastic as well and seems to be playing well with the Tomahawk MAX, so I'm really starting to now pay attention to the MSI quality and attention to detail.
A couple of points to note, the Tomahawk MAX comes with 6 x USB ports on the back, but one of them is USB-C (useless to me). If you want all 6 as regular USB, the MSI GAMING PLUS MAX maybe the better choice. I understand it is identical to the Tomahawk MAX, only with 6 regular USB. I went for the Tomahawk MAX over the Gaming Plus MAX though as it had more people raving about it.
The other thing is if you intend to use an M2 drive (like I did), note that 2 of the 6 SATA connections are unavailable when you use an M2.
In summary, I am so glad I went with the Tomahawk MAX. I knew it was going to be great after reading all the stellar reviews online, but I have to say I was even more impressed and can't rate it enough for ease of installation, ease of setup and just great no frills quality design and build. Well done MSI!
By MR J. on 14 November 2019
After a considerable time umming and ahing over motherboards, I decided on the MSI Tomahawk MAX. It was what I wanted to pay, great feature set and none of the unwanted bells and whistles like RGB strip lighting, Wifi and stuff like that. I just didn't need it. I absolutely love the downplayed grey colouring. My case already has a lot of red in it, so the grey was a nice change and really worked well with my current component colouring.
Ryzen 3xxx series don't work on most B450 boards without a bios flash. No thank you! I can put together a computer, but I draw the line at getting involved in bios updates and complicated overclocking. The Tomahawk MAX has you covered as out of the box this B450 board will work fine. My Ryzen 7 3700X fired up without a hitch.
Installation was a doddle. Applied the CPU, heatsink and memory, and slid it straight into my NZXT H440 case. With my last ASUS motherboard I had a hell of job fitting that, and it was a smaller board. The MSI Tomahawk MAX just glided in like I'd lathered it up in butter first! (I hadn't).
I bought the Scythe Mugen 5 Rev.B cooler and my god was it easy to fit. The Intel bracket looked a nightmare, but the AMD fitting was simple, so fewer parts and it uses the Tomahawk MAX's manufacturer back plate, something else I didn't have to worry about. There was a nice amount of space between the CPU mount and the memory slots too, so no need to worry about RAM not fitting even with a behemoth like the Mugen 5.
Another great thing for me was fan headers. On my last (more expensive) ASUS board, it only gave me a couple of them, on the Tomahawk MAX I get 4 chassis fan headers! I was able to remove my fan splitter, use all the headers and save myself some space in the case.
I bought Crucial Ballistix RAM and the MSI Tomahawk detected the XMP 3200 profile right out the gate. So applying that in the EZ Mode was simple, and worked perfectly giving me the RAM's advertised speed with no errors at all.
The only other MSI product I've owned is my GTX 1080 Gaming X Plus, that's been fantastic as well and seems to be playing well with the Tomahawk MAX, so I'm really starting to now pay attention to the MSI quality and attention to detail.
A couple of points to note, the Tomahawk MAX comes with 6 x USB ports on the back, but one of them is USB-C (useless to me). If you want all 6 as regular USB, the MSI GAMING PLUS MAX maybe the better choice. I understand it is identical to the Tomahawk MAX, only with 6 regular USB. I went for the Tomahawk MAX over the Gaming Plus MAX though as it had more people raving about it.
The other thing is if you intend to use an M2 drive (like I did), note that 2 of the 6 SATA connections are unavailable when you use an M2.
In summary, I am so glad I went with the Tomahawk MAX. I knew it was going to be great after reading all the stellar reviews online, but I have to say I was even more impressed and can't rate it enough for ease of installation, ease of setup and just great no frills quality design and build. Well done MSI!
I put a lot of research into make sure I was confident of having the best parts and this motherboard was the clear choice for me out of all the other AMD compatible boards out there
For a "budget" board you get so much for your money here firstly it was so easy to install the parts and then putting it in the case. Good number of fan headers and sata connections as well.
Note that if you use an M.2 SSD that 2 SATA ports deactivate but they've kept it convenient in the fact that the sata ports are numbered 1-6 and the 2 highest ports 5 and 6 would be deactivated
The next best thing for me about this motherboard was the BIOS it was so easy to use, one click of a button in the bios activated the XMP profile to make full use of my 3200mhz RAM and changing the smart fan control settings to make the fans go quicker at higher temps was really easy to do also. Installing latest BIOS updates and windows 10 was also really east to do with this board.
On youtube Paul's Hardware recently built a new PC with this board and his step by step really convinced me that this motherboard was the easiest to work with and you should definitely check it out
The RGB light strip on this board is controlled by msi mystic light software but note that software doesn't control any RGB on the MSI RTX graphics cards instead needing other software so syncing is harder unless you go for a static colour scheme. This didnt bother me really I actually kept my cpu and gpu as their rainbow colours to differentiate from the rest of the RGB in my build
All in all it's a great board aesthetically pleasing and it has enough USB ports on the back to cover all my accessories but every slot is used so would have preferred maybe 1 or 2 more USB ports on the back but it's not a big deal. One other bonus is the future proof element I have a ryzen 7 2700 currently but the board is compatible with 3rd gen ryzen like the ryzen 5 3600 so if I need to upgrade in a couple years time then i can without needing to change too much
Full PC specification (plug and play 0 overclocking):
Ryzen 7 2700 (non X variant)
MSI Gaming X RTX 2060 Super
16gb Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3200mhz RAM white
MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX motherboard
Sabrent 256GB NVMe M.2 SSD
ADATA ultimate SU800 512GB SATA SSD
Corsair RM850x 850w Gold power supply
Corsair Carbide SPEC-06 white rgb case
2 120mm stock fans from Corsair SPEC-06 case as intake
3 Corsair iCue SP120 120mm RGB fans as exhaust (1 back 2 top)
Windows 10 64 bit
Games tested on highest/Ultra settings @1080p
Witcher 3 100 FPS
GTA 5 around 88-100 FPS
Destiny 2 130 FPS
League of legends 300+ FPS
Battlefield 5 90 FPS
Star Wars Battlefront II 90-100 FPS
By JamesB on 2 January 2020
I put a lot of research into make sure I was confident of having the best parts and this motherboard was the clear choice for me out of all the other AMD compatible boards out there
For a "budget" board you get so much for your money here firstly it was so easy to install the parts and then putting it in the case. Good number of fan headers and sata connections as well.
Note that if you use an M.2 SSD that 2 SATA ports deactivate but they've kept it convenient in the fact that the sata ports are numbered 1-6 and the 2 highest ports 5 and 6 would be deactivated
The next best thing for me about this motherboard was the BIOS it was so easy to use, one click of a button in the bios activated the XMP profile to make full use of my 3200mhz RAM and changing the smart fan control settings to make the fans go quicker at higher temps was really easy to do also. Installing latest BIOS updates and windows 10 was also really east to do with this board.
On youtube Paul's Hardware recently built a new PC with this board and his step by step really convinced me that this motherboard was the easiest to work with and you should definitely check it out
The RGB light strip on this board is controlled by msi mystic light software but note that software doesn't control any RGB on the MSI RTX graphics cards instead needing other software so syncing is harder unless you go for a static colour scheme. This didnt bother me really I actually kept my cpu and gpu as their rainbow colours to differentiate from the rest of the RGB in my build
All in all it's a great board aesthetically pleasing and it has enough USB ports on the back to cover all my accessories but every slot is used so would have preferred maybe 1 or 2 more USB ports on the back but it's not a big deal. One other bonus is the future proof element I have a ryzen 7 2700 currently but the board is compatible with 3rd gen ryzen like the ryzen 5 3600 so if I need to upgrade in a couple years time then i can without needing to change too much
Full PC specification (plug and play 0 overclocking):
Ryzen 7 2700 (non X variant)
MSI Gaming X RTX 2060 Super
16gb Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3200mhz RAM white
MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX motherboard
Sabrent 256GB NVMe M.2 SSD
ADATA ultimate SU800 512GB SATA SSD
Corsair RM850x 850w Gold power supply
Corsair Carbide SPEC-06 white rgb case
2 120mm stock fans from Corsair SPEC-06 case as intake
3 Corsair iCue SP120 120mm RGB fans as exhaust (1 back 2 top)
Windows 10 64 bit
Games tested on highest/Ultra settings @1080p
Witcher 3 100 FPS
GTA 5 around 88-100 FPS
Destiny 2 130 FPS
League of legends 300+ FPS
Battlefield 5 90 FPS
Star Wars Battlefront II 90-100 FPS
motherboards and saves a lot of effort and hassle with updating bios. Would definitely recommend.
I did a fair amount of research into the best motherboard for me. I advise you do too. There are plenty of reviewers out there that do a very good job of highlighting the pros and cons of each board. I suggest if you're debating spending money that you look elsewhere other than the amazon reviews for more in depth information.
That being said
Pros:
Streamline look
Worked straight out of the box,
Bios is fairly easy to navigate
Delivery was great, good communication and arrived early.
Cons:
For my purposes none; I'm aware that MSI does not allow you to undervolt ryzen chips but for me that's a non-issue.
By Jam on 15 October 2018
I did a fair amount of research into the best motherboard for me. I advise you do too. There are plenty of reviewers out there that do a very good job of highlighting the pros and cons of each board. I suggest if you're debating spending money that you look elsewhere other than the amazon reviews for more in depth information.
That being said
Pros:
Streamline look
Worked straight out of the box,
Bios is fairly easy to navigate
Delivery was great, good communication and arrived early.
Cons:
For my purposes none; I'm aware that MSI does not allow you to undervolt ryzen chips but for me that's a non-issue.























