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

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B450 TOMAHAWK MAX
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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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SMOOTH OUT YOUR GAMEPLAY WITH AMD FreeSync

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.

SMOOTH OUT YOUR GAMEPLAY WITH AMD FreeSync

Anti-Flicker Technology

178 DEGREES OF WIDE VIEWING ANGLE

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 September 2019
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 November 2019
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5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a fantastic, easy to install motherboard at an affordable price!
By MR J. on 14 November 2019
I have been dreading upgrading for quite some time. It's always a minefield. I've used Intel for as long as I can remember, but this time decided to go AMD thanks to Ryzen rave reviews.

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!
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 January 2020
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beast of a motherboard!
By JamesB on 2 January 2020
I bought this Tomahawk motherboard on Black Friday 2019 for about £89.99 as part of a new PC build (1st time building it myself).

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
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2019
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 October 2018
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect
By Jam on 15 October 2018
For starters:
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.
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