MSI B450 Tomahawk review

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This motherboard will get you six SATA 6 Gb/s storage ports (two horizontal and four vertical). Sitting to the right of the PCIe x16 slot is one M.2 slot at x4 PCIe lanes Gen3 directly from the CPU thus 32 GB/sec of performance. There are USB 3.03.1 ports available through internal motherboard connectors, including USB 3.1 Gen 2, the fastest with a 10 Gbps connection. 

  

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Here we can see the four DIMM slots which offer support for dual-channel DDR4 memory up to an advertised 2933 MHz (with Zen+). You can install a maximum of 64 GB in total. Given the nature of Ryzen and its CCX interconnect tied to the memory speed, we do recommend high-frequency memory. Please make sure you get a 3200 MHz kit if you are a gamer (which works just fine and is the current sweet spot)

 

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Here you can see the 10cm type 2242/2260/2280/2210 slot. Delivering up to 32 Gb/s data transfer speed per connector. So it supports PCIe 3.0 x4 (Ryzen series processors). No thermal shield though. 

 



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