MSI B850MPOWER Motherboard Review – $259 Is What You Pay For The Best Overclocking mATX AM5 Motherboard

Test Setup

For testing, I used the Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, which was sent to us by AMD, on a range of B850 motherboards.

AMD B850-series "AM5" Motherboard Test Platform:

Processors	AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Motherboard	MSI B850MPOWER (1A11) ASRock B850 Challenger WIFI (3.40) Biostar B850MT-E PRO (B85AQ407.BSS) MSI MAG B850M Mortar WIFI (7E61v1A3) ASRock B850 Steel Legend WIFI (3.20) ASRock B850 PG RIPTIDE WIFI (3.20) ASRock B850 LiveMixer WIFI (3.20) ASRock B850I PG Lightning (3.20) ASRock X870E Taichi (3.08 AGESA 1.2.0.2)
Power Supply	FSP Hydro G 1200W PSU
Solid State Drive	Crucial T700 2 TB Gen5 SSD
Memory	T-Force Delta RGB DDR5-7200 (CL34 2 x 16 GB)
Video Cards	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
Cooling Solutions	Arctic Liquid Freezer III 420mm AIO
OS	Windows 11 64-bit

Our test rig includes the Crucial T700 2 TB Gen5 SSD that boots up our main OS. In addition to these, we are running an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition graphics card and an FSP MEGA Ti 1650W PSU. For this specific review, we used the T-Force  Delta RGB DDR5-7200 memory kit running at CL34 timings.

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