MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK AMD B550 Ryzen Socket AM4 ATX Desktop Motherboard

I had a MSI MPG b550 before, and it died. Taking it to the manufacturer they said it was dead and offered me a upgrade I was not happy with, Wootware stepped in and offered me this board instead which is a slight upgrade from the previous board.

The board is perfect for my needs, supports everything and more I need, It's also really good looking for the Aesthetics lovers (like me)

It features an extra Ethernet port which makes having a dedicated failover for internet easy for me, its good if your line of work requires uninterrupted networks, The ports can also be bridged to enabled 3.5gbps speeds.

This is my 1st MSI board\product.
I've never really been a fan of MSI.

So far this seems like a good board,the percieved build quality seems good.
I was looking at a Gigabyte board as well but this had more features for only a few hundred Rands more.

I bought this to replace my X570 Taichi because I'm having issues with my NIC and the Asrock boards can't run W7
with a 5000 series CPU.
The performance between the 2 chipsets seem the same.
I've had the board a week so far and I don't have any complaints.

the product works really well and hasn't giving any problems i bought this product because it had a good look, good brand, and it's features satisfied what I was after with USB-C headers it was really easy to get bios flash to update the bios without a CPU installed to support my 5600 XT

Chose this because it had a good look, good brand, and it's features satisfied what I was after with USB-C headers for my case and dual M.2 slots with a decent rear IO.

Was also an easy bios flash to update the bios without a CPU installed to support my 5600x!

Very happy with this, mystic light RGB is also great.

To be clear the B550 line is not the budget oriented boards people are looking for. Unlike B450 ect. But what you get is way above the specs of previous boards. Specifically in terms of VRM quality and cooling. The board is robust. I wish MSI would make their BIOS a little simpler with less graphics. Having used gigabyte for years, this is my first MSI board. I feel like they should spend more time adding detailed descriptions of the bios settings instead of flashy visuals. PWM fan control could be better but they allow you to set fan curve profile. The one feature that made me buy the board, the self reset to previous know good settings for memory, does not work 100% of the time. Some settings cause the system to just not boot at all. Makes overclocking a bit more frustrating. As this feature was supposed to make it easier.

Overall you get a really powerful motherboard. Just wish the bios was better.

I'm not too sure what to say about this motherboard as it was one of the few B550 boards that was available at the time. I went for it as the Tomahawk boards seemed to get really good reviews. I am giving it four stars as it is/was rather pricey. The two LAN ports seem unnecessary and I would've preferred WiFi or extra USB ports instead. All the 12V RGB headers are at the bottom so that is something consider if a CPU cooler is going to be used that requires one of these headers and cable management is important to you.