Manufacturer: MSI
UK price (as reviewed):£169.99 (inc. VAT)
US price (as reviewed):$159.99 (exc. Tax)
If you"ve been scoffing at the prices of other X570 boards we"ve reviewed then you"re likely not alone. They certainly offer a huge range of premium features, but if you just want PCIe 4.0 tư vấn for that shiny new 5,000MB/s SSD, then there are, thankfully, cheaper options. The MSI X570-A Pro is one of them, & at £170 it"s reasonably-priced for any ATX motherboard these days, not just X570. But just what has MSI had khổng lồ sacrifice lớn get down below £200, and can it still overclock the Ryzen 9 3900X as well as more expensive competitors?
The board is fairly plain to look at apart from a patterned PCB và MSI"s signature X570 chipset fan, which, incidentally, was just as quiet as the one on the Prestige X570 Creation, rarely spinning up despite the fact its heatsink is far less bulky than that on the more expensive board.
The VRMs offer a relatively lowly eight phases to the CPU (10 in total), and under load these did get undeniably toasty, with the software reporting 78°C under a sustained 10-minute load test and our own manual measurements (via IR thermometer) being only a few degrees south of this.
This didn"t seem to impact on benchmarks; at stock speed, even with the Ryzen 9 3900X, things appeared to be fine. That said, we"d still have concerns about using this board for hefty overclocks and/or for AMD"s upcoming 16-core Ryzen 3950X or sustained periods of heavy load. The heatsinks themselves seemed khổng lồ be doing a good job & are a reasonable size, but they"re not linked by a heat pipe either to each other or khổng lồ any other areas of the board.
Bạn đang xem: Msi x570
There are two M.2 ports, but only one offers PCIe 4.0 support, with the second lower slot limited lớn PCIe 3.0 or SATA M.2 SSDs. There are also no heatsinks, so you"ll be forced lớn use the one included with your SSD. Interestingly, rather than opt for the full six SATA ports from the X570 chipset, MSI has chosen to include an ASMedia ASM1061 controller for two of the six ports included. Both 16x slots support PCIe 4.0, but the three 1x slots are again limited to PCIe 3.0.
Xem thêm: Tải Phần Mềm Acronis True Image 2014 Portable, Tải Phần Mềm Acronis True Image
The layout is mostly fine, as there aren"t too many components khổng lồ get in the way. However, one issue we did encounter was the location of the fan hâm mộ headers. The majority of these are, for some weird reason, located at the base of the PCB with four of the six headers on the PCB squished together here as if they"d been forgotten & added at the last minute. This wouldn"t normally be an issue, but with the CPU tín đồ and pump headers the only ones located on the top half of the PCB, rear case fans and possibly some case fan hubs are at risk of requiring extension cables.
There"s a generous seven Type-A USB ports, with four of these being USB 3.0 (USB 3.1/3.2 gen 1) và one being full-speed USB 3.1 (Gen 2). This latter port is joined by a USB 3.1 Type-C port, but there"s no USB 3.1 Type-C header on the PCB. You don"t get Wi-Fi và LAN connectivity is limited khổng lồ a single Realtek-powered Gigabit Ethernet port, but there is onboard Realtek ALC1220 audio with the full complement of audio ports, plus MSI also includes a handy USB BIOS Flashback button.
Specifications
ChipsetAMD X570Form factorATXCPU supportAMD Socket AM4Memory supportDual-channel, four slots, max 128GBSound Eight-channel Realtek ALC1220Networking 1x Realtek Gigabit EthernetPorts 1x M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 64Gbps up to lớn 22110, 1 x M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 32Gbps/SATA 6Gbps up to 2280, 6 x SATA 6Gbps, 1 x USB 3.1 Type-A, 1 x USB 3.1 Type-C, 8 x USB 3.0 (4 via headers), 6 x USB 2.0 (4 via headers), 1 x LAN, audio out, line in, mic, Optical S/PDIF outDimensions (mm)305 x 244Extras None1 - MSI X570-A Pro đánh giá 2 - Test thiết lập 3 - nội dung Creation: Cinebench R20, Blender 4 - Gaming: Far Cry 5, 3DMark Time Spy 5 - Audio Performance: RightMark Audio Analyzer 6 - Storage and I/O: CrystalDiskMark 7 - nguồn Consumption 8 - EFI & Software 9 - Overclocking, Performance Analysis, & Conclusion Next
%3A£169,+99+(inc){kind=link}