MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE Motherboard (AMD AM4, PCIe 4.0, DDR4, SATA 6Gb/s, Triple M.2, USB 3.2, AX Wi-Fi 6, 10G Super LAN, Extended-ATX)

Purchased this for my new game rig. x570 Godlike in case they mix and match with other mobos.Solid quality board, everything worked, which is what you want.Goods:- Lots of cables and supporting stuff- Comes with a nice glossy "here is your mobo" image with all the ports identified, this was fantastic, kept from having to flip back and forth looking for which port is where on a tiny image in most manuals and the detailed section hoping for a bigger picture. Definitely a valuable asset to the build- Clearly labeled boardNot so goods:- Typical crappy manual, as is true with all mobos. But has a nice glossy "here is your mobo" with all the ports identified, see above- This board is tall due to the heat risers, as such, it made the fit in a case precariously tight. see image, the heat sink is touching or almost touching the radiator fan in a typical mid-sized ATX board.- This is an e-atx board in an atx case that says it supports E-ATX boards, showing how it fits to see what you can expect for most e-boards in a non-e case. This case is the Fractal design 6 (nice case, have a 4* review there too)- There is an interesting video that plays on the "dynamic dashboard", I had no idea when I purchased the board. there are some numbers next to it that change, I thought they were temperatures, but today I noticed them zeroed out. So I really dont know what the number is. The manual has some samples, but none match what mine show.- not sure if it is the case or the Mobo, but the memory placement sucked for my radiator, I had to remove the middle fan because the memory was in the way. If they moved the memory down .5 inches or a hair more it would have fit. Have a new 1/2 fan coming for the radiator, but it was a bummer .Happy with it, loaded 3 gen 4 m2 SSDs, it screams.

[EDITED]In this review, I originally stated the M.2 Standoff screws where missing and could not finish my install because this was going to be a 100% M.2 SSD build. I even googled this issue and found many forum posts (possibly including reddit, but can't remember now) about this issue.I even took out all the included contents of the motherboard box and spread them out over my workbench that had a white sheet on it just to make sure I wasn't missing anything. I thought, and that was my mistake, I didn't look hard enough.I contacted MSI tech support and they informed me the screws was in a very little clear cellophane like package (about the size of those little moisture packets) and not pre-installed onto the motherboard. I double checked and sure and even after laying all the contents out individually previously, I found that little bag of screws statically stuck to one of the cable packages. That is on me. My fault, but dang that was a small package.Turns out what I thought were M.2 screws were actually the stand-offs. The actual screws were in the little bag. The stand-offs looked like no stand-off I've seen before and the internal tapped/threaded hole was so small it was hidden well inside the phillips head.I do think MSI could do a better job in their instructions of stating the M.2 stand-offs were pre-installed but the screws were not, and I'd knock a star off of this review for it if the board did not work flawlessly after I did put it together. It's running like a champ, so I'll take the hit and say my fault and give it the 5 stars because of performance.

I've bought two of these boards for my household. The first did not properly detect the 5000 series AMD chips with CPU error with several error codes. An attempted bios update may have bricked the board as a process that should take 10 minutes took hours and never finished. Successfully returned this board and got the same components working on the Asus ROG VIII Hero, which is advertised to come pre flashed on new boards to support AMD 5000 series chips.My second board worked okay for about a month and a half, just enough for Amazons return to expire. The board now doesn't even power up though the LED's show display while the 24 pin power is connected. MSI's RMA processes leaves you without a motherboard for 15-30 days so essentially you'll revert back to your old (if you still have it) or you'll just buy another motherboard and question what to do with the $700 brick that comes back in the mail if they can fix it. I would have opted to return the board with a fee attached, essentially paying them allow me to realize this board isn't for me, but the process is not friendly to BYOD software engineers as I cannot be out a computer.On the board itself:Its ATX extended and for whatever reason the USB3 panel connectors opted to come out of the board horizontally instead of vertically utilizing the maximum horizontal space you can imagine.On the Godlike variant the BIOS flash would be nice if it worked, offering a single click if a proper file is in the proper place on a FAT32 USB, though there is a confusing process of renaming this file one might think they'd be able to discover the file regardless of the name based on the file header.Most will not use the bandwidth offered by the 4 PCIe gen 4 lanes as you would need several 3000 series Nvidia cards to do this, and this seems to be the only factor in the higher price of the board.