MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WiFi Review
Conclusion
Conclusion
As our graphs demonstrated, if you don’t require a motherboard that has all the latest technologies, the MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WiFi is more than capable of giving you excellent performance.
By utilising the beefy 14 phase 80A power stage we were easily able to extract the maximum from our Ryzen 9 7900X. The results bore our how well this combination works, especially in calculative heavy tasks. Able to boost its 24 threads to 5.7 GHz also ensured that we saw good gaming performance when compared to the flagship X670E motherboards. AMD really understand the importance of having both their main and more affordable chipsets be capable weapons.
MSI also understand that if you’re building to a reasonable budget then the benefits of high end features are out-weighed by the cost. Yes a Gen5 NVMe drive might blow your socks off, but it will also empty your wallet. A GEN4 drive, on the other hand, is way cheaper and still pushing high transfer rates. Similarly we might not have any Gen5 PCI Express lanes but it’s not as if anything but the most extreme GPU will start to saturate the available bandwidth. On the other hand, the price of DDR5 memory kits has fallen to the point that you don’t take a chunk out of your budget supplying the B650 Tomahawk with quality RAM, yet receive all the benefits of DDR5 bandwidth.
Final Thoughts
Clearly there are always going to be some compromises getting a motherboard at the sub £200 price point of the MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WiFi. Thankfully it’s only the above Gen5 elements that are found missing. 80A power is enough for any CPU. There are plenty of USB options. The 6E WiFi and 2.5G LAN have all the network bandwidth you’ll need. At £179.99 it’s a steal and wins our OC3D Gamers Choice Award.
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