#12815274, By Mekanik Building A Gaming PC - Parts Advice Needed

Mekanik 20 Dec 2020 16:29:38 4,729 posts
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dfunked09 wrote:

MSI MAG X570 TOMAHAWK looks quite decent, and is what I was leaning towards getting in my most recent drunken PC part shopping spree.

This is the exact board I put in my build a couple weeks ago and it runs perfectly.

Every single 500 series board requires the bios flashed to run 5000 series cpu's. So far none of the boards are sold with the updated bios for the new Zen cpu's.

If you have a previous gen AMD cpu you can install that, update the bios and then swap over the CPU to the 5000 series, which is precisely what I did (3600XT > update bios > replace with 5800X). I didnt expect to get hold of a 5XXX any time soon which is why i bought the 3600XT as a placeholder to let me build my PC. I got lucky and picked up a 5800X for msrp so went for it.

Can easily recommend the X570 TOMAHAWK though. Zero issues with getting it all working and it benchmarks lovely in my system.