


Let’s have a look at the main features this motherboard provides: And as I mentioned previously, an upcoming Ryzen 5000 will be supported as well.īut in case you are looking for a smaller, mATX board, I would highly recommend checking MSI B450 Mortar MAX since it’s basically a Tomahawk board just in a smaller form factor. You can use it with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gen Ryzen processors. It has some lightning effects which can be controller with MSI software and it can be turned off in case you do not want it. It has quite a nice industrial-style black and grey color scheme and since it’s an ATX board, you will have quite nice expandability options. So, it brings us to one of the best price to performance rated motherboard – MSI b450 Tomahawk MAX. And that’s awesome news since you have the possibility to buy a cheaper motherboard and still have a good CPU upgrade path. But a few weeks later, AMD -announced Zen3 will be supported on b450 and x470 chipset motherboards. Just a few weeks ago, AMD announced that the upcoming Zen3 will not support the older 300 and 400 chipsets series.Īnd so, many people already owning motherboards with these chipsets, will not be able to upgrade their CPU to a new lineup. So a short recap of Ryzen 5000 series and motherboard support. So in today’s video, I present to you one of the best value motherboard – MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX. You do not have to buy an expensive x570 or upcoming b550 motherboard in order to have an awesome upgrade path.

I assume most of you already know, that AMD announced their Zen 3 aka Ryzen 5000 processors will be working on a B450 and X470 motherboards.
