MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk Review

Test Setup

As well as the B550 motherboards we’re also including our X570 motherboards in our graphs today, just to demonstrate how little the ‘lesser’ AMD Chipset is giving up compared to its bigger brother. Perfect if you’re on a tight budget.

MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
G.Skill Trident Z 3600 MHz
Corsair Vengeance RGB 4600 MHz
Corsair MP500 M.2 – OS Drive
Aorus PCIE4 NVME – Storage Speed Tests
Nvidia RTX 2080Ti
Corsair HX1000i
Corsair H150i
Corsair ML Fans

Overclocking

We know that putting a twelve core Ryzen 9 3900X is probably overkill for the majority of people who will be looking to base their system around a B550 motherboard, but it’s also a great test of the attention to detail in the power department. The MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk comes up trumps with 4.4 GHz across all of our cores. Impressive stuff, particularly as it doesn’t remotely stress the VRM section.