On the contrary, something that does not go unnoticed are the brushed aluminum heatsinks that it has spread over its entire surface. These coolers have a generous size and an attractive design with black lines and grooves that give the board some charisma. Another thing that surprised me is that both M.2 ports have their own heatsinks, which MSI calls M.2 Shield Frozr .
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Aside from the LGA1700 socket and the four DDR4 slots for system expansion , MSI has provided a PCIe 4.0 x16, PCIe 3.0 x16 and PCIe 3.0 x1 slot on a mechanical basis on the micro-ATX board . Two M.2 and six SATA 6GBit/s sockets enable a solid storage expansion and some USB interfaces should not be missing. In addition to the 2.5 GBit/s LAN port, there is also a WLAN module. All in all, MSI’s MAG B660M MORTAR WIFI DDR4 sounds pretty interesting. Now let’s go into detail.
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Performance on the Z690 Tomahawk ended up average overall among the other boards we tested. While all tests were very close in either direction, the Procyon tests showed the most significant departure from average, matching the slower DDR4 boards more closely than their DDR5 counterparts. Gaming results were on par, if not marginally faster, than the rest so we’re in good shape there.
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But leaving aside the non-enlightenment. The most interesting thing about this board is possibly the type of memory it uses, I am talking about the well-known DDR4 memory. For this, the Tomahawk has 4 slots that support up to 128Gb in total and that support speeds of up to 5200MHz with overclock . Although, as you already know, depending on the memory that is installed, this speed can be very different.
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The cost of MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk WiFi DDR4 in Russian stores is 25 thousand rubles, and the version with DDR5 memory support is only one thousand rubles more expensive. This is a low price level for motherboards based on the Intel Z690 chipset. Yes, there are models that cost 16-17 thousand rubles each, but their capabilities, to put it mildly, are rather modest.
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It’s been a while since we got a new firmware update on the AMD 500-series platform. The last one, the AGESA 1.2.0.4, and its respective patches were launched back in September and with new Ryzen CPU families coming to the platform real soon, a new BETA BIOS was inbound for launch.
According to MSI, the major changes that the new AMD AGESA 1.2.0.5 BIOS firmware adds is first of all the update to the new firmware which also updates the SMU firmware for AMD’s Ryzen CPUs including Vermeer (Ryzen 5000), Cezanne (Ryzen 5000G), Picasso (Ryzen 3000G) and Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2000G).
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The MSI MPG Z690 Carbon WIFI motherboard can be called ideal without a twinge of conscience, since it gave us extremely positive emotions during testing / overclocking. The device offers the owner an enviable functionality, a powerful power subsystem, a reliable element base and room for experimentation (a perfectly “readable” UEFI BIOS additionally contributes to this).
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MSI MEG Z690 Unify is one of the most advanced motherboards from the manufacturer to work with Alder Lake-S processors. But what is most interesting is that at first glance this board seems not only interesting, but very interesting – it seems that it was the engineers, not the marketers, who won the battle for the capabilities of this particular model. Why did we say that and what do we mean? We’ll tell you as we study the board!
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MSI did give us a small teaser of its B660M Mortar motherboard last week but now we get to see the full upfront view of the motherboard. The B660M Mortar features the LGA 1700 socket & will support the entire range of Intel’s Alder Lake Desktop CPUs. It can house the unlocked lineup all the way up to the Core i9-12900K but the more preferable choice will be to equip this board with the non-K series the launches alongside the B660 series.
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The MSI MEG Z690 GODLIKE is truly a fascinating flagship motherboard, it’s not only the largest of all flagship Z690 boards that have been released so far but also aims to be the most feature-rich. MSI is incorporating a whole touch panel on the motherboard which will measure 3.5″. This is the same display size as the original iPhone. Furthermore, the panel will be entirely removable as it is connected through a USB Type-C interface and not a proprietary connector.
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