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MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WIFI Motherboard Review – A Mainstream Option For Core Ultra 200S Builders

Hassan Mujtaba

Test Setup

For testing, I used the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU which was sent to us by Intel on a range of Z890 motherboards.

Intel LGA 1851 "Z890" Motherboard Test Platform:

ProcessorsIntel Core Ultra 9 285K (Extreme Profile)
MotherboardMaxsun iCraft Z890 Arctic (1.1)
ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF (2.17)
ASRock Z890 Taichi Aqua (2.12)
ASRock Z890 Taichi (2.08)
ASRock Z890 Taichi LITE (2.08)
ASRock Z890 PG Nova (2.08)
MSI MEG Z890 Unify-X (7E20v1A1)
MSI MPG Z890 Carbon (7E17v1A1)
MSI MPG Z890 Edge TI (7E19v2A2)
MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk (7E32v1A3)
Gigabyte Z890 AORUS Master (F9)
Power SupplyFSP Hydro G 1200W PSU
Solid State DriveCrucial T700 2 TB Gen5 SSD
MemoryT-Force Delta RGB DDR5-7200 (CL34 2 x 16 GB)
Video CardsNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
Cooling SolutionsArctic Liquid Freezer III 420mm AIO
OSWindows 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 Hydro G 1200W PSU. For this specific review, we used the V-Color Manta DDR5-9466 MT/s (48 GB) memory kit running at CL46 timings.

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