MSI MEG X570S ACE Motherboard
August, 2021Type
MotherboardPrice
$449.99 USTest Setup
For testing, I used the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. The chip is the fastest CPU in the AMD Zen 3 family and rocks 16 cores and 32 threads. It is the ultimate chip and the best way to know how the MSI MEG X570S ACE fares against other AMD 500-series board options in performance tests.
AMD 500-Series Motherboards Test Setup:
| Processors | AMD Ryzen 9 5950X |
|---|---|
| Motherboard | MSI MEG X570S ACE ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII HERO WIFI MSI MEG X570 ACE MSI MEG X570 Unify ASRock X570 Taichi ASRock X570S PG Riptide MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk X570 AORUS PRO WIFI Coloful CVN B550M Gaming Pro |
| Power Supply | ASUS ROG THOR 1200W |
| Solid State Drive | Samsung SSD 960 EVO M.2 (512 GB) |
| Memory | G.SKILL Trident Z Royal Series 16 GB (2 x 8GB) CL17 3600 MHz |
| Video Cards | MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio |
| Cooling Solutions | ASUS ROG Ryujin 240 |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
Our test rig includes the Samsung 960 EVO 512 GB SSD that boots up our main OS while a 2 TB Seagate HDD is used for demonstration purposes for the Intel Optane memory. In addition to these, we are running an MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio graphics card, an ASUS ROG Thor 1200W power supply and 16 GB of G.Skill provided Trident Z Royal series memory which runs with a clock speed of DDR4-3600 MHz. For cooling, we used the ASUS Ryujin 240 AIO cooler.
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About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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