All the features for half the price
by ShakeyC
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First of all the board has pretty much the best VRM available which should matter to those choosing z490 boards.It also boasts pretty much every feature they can stick on mobos these days which includes BIOS flashback and a code display which are essential imo. Despite the board lacking any RGB features it supports multiple different LED solutions via the onboard headers which is nice. They even throw in a WiFi adaptor that is external so you can place it somewhere high. Overall this motherboard is a very good board with all the features, I just wish it wasn't such a premium for LED features.
You will not regret it
by Bungusbeefcake
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I purchased this board having not been in the PC building arena for about 20 years. After doing a lot of research it had a lot for the price. For me I needed a reputable board capable of potentially handling some CPU, RAM and GPU overclocking if necessary plus I wanted an in-built wifi module as I hate add-on wifi cards. The board has not disappointed. The bios is easily navigated and easy to overclock within the bios if thats your thing. There are 2 CPU power inputs so as to allow the extra draw of an LGA 1200 CPU (mine is a i9-10850k) and 4 RAM slots. Setup was a breeze to get it going out of the box. I have an M.2 drive and might extend to more in future. 6 SATA connections, however this confused me as I am fairly certain that using the M.2 drive in bay 1 takes away the use of SATA 1, but it has lots of additional SATA ports to negate this. My one gripe with the board is that it seems that you can potentially double overclock a CPU. If you set the OC in the bios and then open the MSI dragon app, there can be an additional OC here. I've had it reset on me a few times because of that. Overall an extremely solid MoBo, worth the money and definitely recommended!
Top Quality Board
by Space Monkey
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Another top board from MSI, it has a nice chunky metal heatsink over the VRMs, not just a cheap plastic cover! Has 3 NVMe slots not 2 like a lot of cheaper boards.It has a cool all black look, will blend in with all types of PC builds.Plenty of ports, built in WiFi, very well built board, highly recommended motherboard.