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:

www.techpowerup.com

MSI Prepares OC-Focused B850E MPOWER Motherboard, and X870 ITX Board with PCB I/O Extension

MSI's Computex booth has prepared new products for everyone, even for overclockers in microATX form factors. The company has presented a microATX MPOWER B850E motherboard, as we expected the MPOWER series comeback, with a very simple visual layout, aiming to please overclockers and even extreme...
www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com

(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.
 
Ok what kit is that... i don't NEED 256 gigs of ram... but just dont need 16 cores or a 4tb pcie5 nvme either.
 
Grimlakin said:
Ok what kit is that... i don't NEED 256 gigs of ram... but just dont need 16 cores or a 4tb pcie5 nvme either.
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I don't think you're gonna like the price. It's not a single kit, the only single 4x64GB kits you can get are G.Skill 6000C32/34/36 using Samsung M-die, and I really don't care to bother with any DDR5 except Hynix.

It's two of these kits: https://www.newegg.com/p/0RN-00MB-000S4

Although I paid the extra $10 each for the kits that include dummy RGB DIMMs because the standalone kits ship from Taiwan and I didn't want to risk customs or tariff issues on the purchase - https://www.newegg.com/p/0RN-00MB-000S5

It's currently the only way to get high binned Hynix 32Gbit M-die.

I just stuck each matched pair to a channel so they would have (hypothetically) better matching for training.

I honestly didn't expect it to even POST at EXPO 6400, I figured I would have to run them at 6000C30/32, if even that. A very pleasant surprise that it.. did post and has been running without issues so far. I have a big pile of testing to do to validate that its actually stable. It takes... a long time to test that much ram on a dual channel platform.
 
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