MSI Components Meg X570 Unify ATX Gaming Motherboard with M.2 Shield Frozr, M.2 Xpnader-Z Gen4

I LOVE this board. It was easy to install and get up and running. I had exchanged a bricked board for this one. This one cost me over a $100 more BUT this one has 3 M.2 slots instead of the other board. I wasn’t crazy that this board only had 4 SATA slots, compared to the board before this one which had 6 SATA slots but as I previously said, this one comes with 3 M.2 slots INSTEAD of 2. Another perk is this one has FAST WiFi and my previous one didn’t. I love the fact that this board has a red reset button on the board and it has a 2 digit fault code reader next to it. That’s a big plus for troubleshooting. The original seller had it listed as an mini ATX layout, and that worried me because I wanted an ATX sized motherboard but I was happily surprised when I opened the box and saw it WAS an ATX board. Getting into the BIOS was easy. The board I had returned for this one had sluggish BIOS and this one was easy and informative. I read some other reviewers which said, “I would have to install both 8 pin connections,” which this board does have for the CPU, but I also read I ONLY really needed 1 8pin CPU connector unless I was planning on seriously over locking, which I wasn’t. I love the X570 chipset this board comes with and I paired it with a RYZEN 5 3Rd Gen 3600 series. I also added an ADATA 1TB M.2 NVME drive for my OS and some programs. I also have a 3TB hard drive installed for space. I had to format the 1TB M.2 drive to GUID instead of NTFS for best performance because my OS wouldn’t recognize it as a bootable drive and so I could take advantage of UEFI speed instead of Legacy. I went into my BIOS after doing so, made my M.2 drive my first bootable drive, saved my settings and restarted my computer. Before my system used to take about 4 minutes to boot and run. This bad boy now boots and runs under 20 seconds. BIG difference. I was able to load all my software from a previously made backup to my now GUID partitioned 3TB internal hard drive. The WiFi is FAST but I don’t use it cause I have my Ethernet cable plugged right into my motherboard. I love the all black look and am not really into RGB’s but this board does have connections for it and even comes with 2 cables for RGB lighting. I’m not a gamer but I did download 2 games because I bought a video card. I can’t get my 5 year old son off my new build cause he loves the visuals of the games. I played a game and it was a nice experience. The game was crisp and very realistic looking. Computers have come a long way from my Atari days and even the days where you played games on your computer from a floppy disc. The board has 1 PCIE 16 pin slot and I think the other is an 8pin PCIE. The board also comes with 4 memory slots for up to 128GB’s of RAM. I have 2 Dual 8GB’s X 16GB’s total and this rig is FAST. I’ll eventually add 32GB’s soon and I think that’s all I will need for this board with the X570 chipset and my M.2 drive.

This board that I got has audio problems.
MSI service centre admit that front and rear ports cannot be used at the same time. Further, the supplied Realtek drivers, both on CD and from download centre, give no audio at all.
You have to remove driver, restart and allow Windows Update to install a Microsoft driver; that has no balance, equalisation or spatial facilities at all.
Just Google for “MSI X570 Unify audio problem”.

i got the x570 GAMING PRO CARBON was ok but this come out 4 months later and its so much better in every way the cooling on the bored is amazing no rgb is nice but comes with all the fan headers your ever need and rgb contotrs as well as nice looking all around this bored is the best bang for the buck at the moment all so msi move the fan down so gpu does not cover it means gpu is not pumping as much hot air on the chipset , the heatsink is all metal as well and this board is heavy as of that just buy it you wont be disappointed . i am running an 3700x boost on all cores at 4.27 and 4.4 single core using an be quite dark rock 4 cpu at lowest 39c and max 66c gaming