MSI MAG B850 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI Motherboard Review

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Introduction The MSI MAG B850 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI motherboard is based on AMD’s new B850 chipset for the AMD AM5 platform, and it is targeting an appealing midrange price point of just $229.99, allowing more enthusiasts to jump on the AM5 platform. The MSI MAG B850 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI supports AMD’s Ryzen 7000 and Ryzen […]

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Oh bugger. I had that happen a couple of times when testing the product pages as well, but it seemed to be more for logged in users vs logged out I thought.

Any adblockers running that would stop jQuery? One of the fixes that I did to make the modal pictures work a few months back was to hit them with jQuery to add a CSS class to make them pop when clicked... the trigger is when page load finishes allegedly.
 
David_Schroth said:
Oh bugger. I had that happen a couple of times when testing the product pages as well, but it seemed to be more for logged in users vs logged out I thought.

Any adblockers running that would stop jQuery? One of the fixes that I did to make the modal pictures work a few months back was to hit them with jQuery to add a CSS class to make them pop when clicked... the trigger is when page load finishes allegedly.
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Ad Blockers disabled for your site.. It was strange...
 
Hi there. Thank you for the great review. Would you be so kind to share a feedback also on the behaviour of the B850 Tomahawk for the ALC4080 audio chip and the 8126-VB LAN chip ? Unfortunately the ALC4080 chip is famous for producing cracks and pops rumors in the audio whilst the 8126 LAN chip has a very long bad history of LAN disconnects/issues only mitigated or worked-around with driver tunings (Economy mode disabled and things like that). In few words: did you notice anything strange with the audio and the Internet connection during the test you executed ? Thank you. Great job.
 
Great review, thanks. I recently purchased this board after almost buying the x870e Tomahawk. I read the manual and check the diagram to find what exactly is shared, but did not see any mention of M2_4 sharing bandwidth with the Wifi/Bluetooth chip (It mentions M2_3 clearly). Coincidentally, I installed the SSD in the 4th slot and see similar results as yours in testing (after reading your review). Do you think this is something related to the firmware as they do not mention it in the manual?

Funny thing is that I installed to M2_4 as I had one T500 with heatsink available to me and I did not want to replace the first slot heatsink because of the markings on it, though after I installed the GPU cannot really see any of them.
 
SolarBirdPipe said:
Great review, thanks. I recently purchased this board after almost buying the x870e Tomahawk. I read the manual and check the diagram to find what exactly is shared, but did not see any mention of M2_4 sharing bandwidth with the Wifi/Bluetooth chip (It mentions M2_3 clearly). Coincidentally, I installed the SSD in the 4th slot and see similar results as yours in testing (after reading your review). Do you think this is something related to the firmware as they do not mention it in the manual?

Funny thing is that I installed to M2_4 as I had one T500 with heatsink available to me and I did not want to replace the first slot heatsink because of the markings on it, though after I installed the GPU cannot really see any of them.
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In my option, the root cause is likely more due to there only being 4x Gen4 lanes between the chipser and CPU, so the aggregate speed of everything hanging off the chipset is limited... This, M2_4 will likely never show full Gen4 speed...
 
That's probably right. There's a 4x 4th Gen link from CPU to first chipset then 4x 4th Gen to the second chipset. Nothing hanging off either chipset will be getting full speed.
 
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