MSI B850M MORTAR WIFI Motherboard Review

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Introduction Today, we have the MSI MAG B850M MORTAR WIFI, one of MSI’s latest M-ATX form factor motherboards. As a reminder, the MAG line-up from MSI is the lowest level of their three main tiers (MEG, MPG, and MAG) of products, and as it is designed to be the go-to for the no-frills gamer at […]

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Pretty sure this was my 2nd choice when I was looking for a B850M board. I can't remember for sure, but at the time, there was an MSI board that was only available overseas, and this looks a lot like it and if I remember correctly, that board only just recently became available in North America. The main deal breaker I had with this board, and it shouldn't stop anyone else unless they have similar concerns, is that I didn't like the idea of having my drives underneath the GPU. Between the heat of a 5090 and whatever gets produced for a gen5 NVMe, I had my concerns about the two adding heat to each other.

I also found it interesting about the 12+2+1 configuration, but at 60a per stage. One of the more unique configurations I came across when researching smaller boards.

Otherwise, for users who don't have extreme needs, it looks like a nice board. Plenty of fan headers, 2 drives, lots of ports, and a good selection at that and okay price given what AM5 micro boards go for on average. Generally speaking, I usually prefer MSI boards as I've had some pretty good experiences with them in my AMD builds (except for some odd BT/WiFi driver issues here and there).
 
MSIs B850 MPower would be my vote, but I've seen rumors that it will only be available in Asia:


(also, the Mortar looks good, thanks Spencer for the review!
 
Hate to nick pick. Looks like auto correct took a type for Muted and turned it into the word smutted. While it is a word... I don't think it's the word you intended. I hate when Autocorrect does crap like that to me. It's in the first page.
 
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