Installation
During our installation, we didn’t encounter any issues with the MSI MAG B850 TOMAHAWK MAX WiFi motherboard. Everything fitted nicely in our open-frame vertical chassis.
To cool the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X processor, we used the Thermaltake 360 Ultra AIO cooler mounted with 3 x Corsair RX120 RGB cooling fans.
We also installed 32GB of Patriot Viper Gaming Xtreme 5 DDR5-7600 ram, Crucial T700 1TB PCIE Gen5 SSD, and the GeForce RTX 4080 Super.
BIOS
There are two BIOS modes on the MSI MAG B850 TOMAHAWK MAX WiFi motherboard … Easy Mode and Advanced Mode. The Easy Mode allows you to monitor all the system status on this page such as fan speeds, CPU temperatures, memory and processor speeds, as well as voltages.
MSI’s newly designed CLICK BIOS X offers an aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly experience. The new design ensures that users of all experience levels can quickly access and adjust system configurations with ease.
BIOS Key Features include:
- Game Boost
- AI Boost
- EXPO / A-XMP
- Hardware Monitor
- M-Flash
- U-Key
- Profile
- Favourites
- Search
Users can also configure other settings for CPU, chipset, storage and NVMe, as well as onboard devices such as USB, TPM, onboard devices and more.
In the Advanced Mode, there are a lot of options available for tweaking your processor, memory speeds and more. Voltages for memory and processor can also be adjusted here.
During our tests, we left everything on AUTO/Default. Although the motherboard was able to support both EXPO and XMPO memory modules, at the time of testing we didn’t have any EXPO memory on hand, so we decided to use XMP memory for our tests. We set the ram at DDR5-7600 speeds. You can check out MSI’s QVL/download page for more information.
