MAG B550 Tomahawk MAX WiFi Gaming Motherboard (AMD Ryzen 5000 Series, AM4, DDR4, PCIe 4.0, SATA 6Gb/s, M.2, USB 3.2 Gen 2, HDMI/DP, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, 2.5Gbps LAN, ATX)

I had a great experience using this motherboard to upgrade an older system. Everything works out of the box using Windows 10. I didn't have to install any extra drivers or bloatware from the manufacturer. Setup and configuration was easy. All the connectors are accessible and nothing is placed in a weird spot, so cable routing was a snap. You should be aware that that there are a limited number of PCI lanes shared between the PCI-E connectors and the M.2 slots. It's not a big deal but read the motherboard manual for a complete description of all the PCI-E slot and M.2 slot configurations to understand how many lanes you can have accessible. For me, other than a video card I used one M.2 and a bunch of PCI-E x1 cards so the limited lanes wasn't an issue for me. The M.2 slot connected directly to the CPU is also right next to the CPU socket so be aware that there will be limited space around it for a large M.2 drive cooler with the CPU cooler next to it. I'd plan for that accordingly. You'll want to use that for your boot drive because it's the fastest M.2 slot on the board and doesn't waste any PCI-E lanes like the others do. I had to do a BIOS update and it was a little tricky; the MSI BIOS has no problem detecting USB thumb drives but the BIOS updater mode only supports specific USB thumb drives. So you will be able to see your USB drive easily in the MSI "Board Explorer" display, but still have the BIOS update tool be unable to detect it. I happened to have a bunch of old random USB thumb drives from 512MB to 8GB and just tried different ones until it worked. So if you have issues updating the BIOS it isn't you: it's the thumb drive and you'll just want to try a few. Not a big deal but this isn't clearly explained in the motherboard manual. The motherboard has HDMI and DisplayPort outputs but there is no onboard video; this only works if you have a CPU with integrated graphics. I didn't, I used a Ryzen 5900X so you'll need a PCI-E video card for most kinds of CPUs. The built-in WiFi works great. I didn't like the included antennas but it uses a standard WiFi antenna connector so you can put on other ones. So overall this is a great motherboard. Everything works, there's no hidden gotchas, and it is quite stable. Performance is exceptional. Since I had a lot of DDR4 RAM this was the newest motherboard I could get without having to dump the old RAM and buy a lot of DDR5 so I'm quite happy with it.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rock-Solid Motherboard with Everything You Need! 🛡️⚡ The MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk MAX WiFi is a powerhouse for its price. Stable, reliable, and packed with features — excellent VRM cooling, solid build quality, and fast WiFi connectivity. Perfect for gaming or heavy multitasking. BIOS is intuitive, installation was a breeze, and it just works flawlessly. If you want a dependable, high-performance B550 board, this one is a no-brainer. 💯

Had a gigabyte 450 go bad after 4 years of use, a computer tech guy mentioned he only uses MSI boards as the quality seems above average compared to other brands. I had never used a MSI board, but this board is really great out of the box. Updating bios was a snap, the system went together very easy. Was able to keep my win 11 in place and change drivers without much trouble. In other words no fresh install of windows. The wifi runs really good. In the future if I upgrade I will only be looking at MSI. l was looking at upgrading and spending 1500 after my old board died. For the 170 bucks on this MSI board; my computer with AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 64 megs of ram,,, running pretty strong. I could not be any happier!!!!!!!!!!!!

Works perfect for home build

I had no issues installing my AMD hardware (Ryzen 7 5700X and Radeon RX 6700XT), in fact everything worked like a charm. My only concern was the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth adapters, since many other reviewers have encountered issues with them. Additionally, I have read from other reviewers that they have encountered LAN Ethernet problems, but fortunately I have yet to see an issue with that so far. From time to time I use Bluetooth on my PC for my phone or speaker, so I asked myself "what could go wrong"? I never use Wi-Fi as an internet option since wired LAN via Ethernet is my go-to. The motherboard already offered other great features and they were the main focus anyway so I went for it anyways thinking it wouldn't be a big deal. Upon first use of Bluetooth I didn't face any problems, and I figured it was because I installed the latest Bluetooth drivers from the MSI driver website. It was a little finicky until it got worse overtime. 2 months in, and the Bluetooth drivers refuse to function correctly. All I wanted to do was connect my JBL Flip 5 for some music, and although it would connect it just would not play any audio. At first I thought it was my wireless speaker, so I did some factory resetting to it and not even that did the trick. I got fed up and looked through my garage for old hardware and found my ASUS BT500. It's an old USB Bluetooth adapter dongle I had for some time and claims to have Bluetooth 5.0 but I remember it working in the past. I disabled my motherboard's Bluetooth Adapter Driver, plugged in the USB Bluetooth adapter dongle and VIOLA my speaker finally connects properly and actually plays audio! So yeah the B550 Tomahawk advertises that they have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but don't expect them to function properly in the long-run. This motherboard would have been perfect if they actually had fully functioning wireless connection, but it seems like this is the one thing it fails at. If you depend on Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connections I highly recommend purchasing third-party dongles just in case. Does this make the B550 Tomahawk an inferior motherboard? Of course not. It is a great motherboard that offers a lot of features, just be aware that the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth capabilities they advertise may not be as great as they sound.

I did need an ethernet connection or a thumb drive with the downloaded Wi-Fi drivers to get the Wi-Fi started but it's a great motherboard. Very durable and works as intended. There are plenty of USB, video and audio ports. The price was right too.

High Quality Materials in a good motherboard were used here and the reason I bought this B550 motherboard to replace the B450 motherboard I used prior. Other reasons for purchase were the ability to flash the BIOS using a USB port on the motherboard, USB drive, and power supply with no GPU, CPU, or RAM needed and that the motherboard has 2 M.2 nvme slots on board that I can configure as a RAID system drive. Since I bought a MSI case to replace my old case after discovering this ATX sized mb did not fit into my old case I found it easier than normally is the case to connect all the wiring in the MSI case to the correct place on the MSI motherboard. And some of the wiring on the MSI case was combined into one connector making it even easier. The BIOS when newly unpacked was version 2.20 but I updated it to version 2.60. That I did not like was that even though my CPU and RAM are not designed to be overclocked or the voltages altered the BIOS allowed me to do that anyway and it wasn't obvious I had done that either from the BIOS GUI. I think it shouldn't allow me to do that, as it can read what they are, and I did get strange memory related blue screens in Windows until I realized it was probably a BIOS settings problem after which I set the settings in the BIOS back to defaults and had no problems since. The BIOS GUI is amateurish looking and difficult to read and interpret.

I bought the product brand new, and on arrival I knew immediately it wasn't going to work. I opened the box and it wasn't even padded with any sort of cushion, just wrapped in a torn anti-static bag. It was missing the 3 extra M.2 screws listed in the online manual, and all I recieved was the motherboard and a quick setup guide. After painstakingly putting everything together hoping it might still be functional and noticing a very slight bend in the board(which I assumed was normal), I install windows, download drivers, update BIOS and the chipset, etc. Only after all this do I find out the wifi part of the wifi/bluetooth card does not work, as well as multiple usb ports. I tried everything to get it working and nothing helped at all. I believe I may have just been very unlucky with the board I got. Hopefully the next one isn't handled the same way.

Brilliant Motherboard, no trouble , easy to build on

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Produto chegou em perfeito estado, em apenas 10 dias da compra. Chegou ontem, já instalei e já estou usando. 1 dia de funcionamento hoje, até agora tudo ok! Esta placa veio de Hebron nos EUA.

Very disappointed to receive a used returney board... Very obvious its not new. Tomahawk is a solid choice... I was excited to get my first ever MSI tomahawk board going... But no chance a used board goes in my build, cant trust it... Had to go back.

I got this to replace a b550 tomahawk well worth the upgrade