The irony is that the Godlike board is actually a step down in most major areas. It has one less USB-C port (likely swapped for the additional Ethernet port), two more SATA ports but only two of the eight can be used for RAID (completely idiotic and ridiculous move by MSI, what's the point of adding more SATA if you can't even use RAID?), and it costs $500 more for losing those key features. The ACE is, somehow, their best board, which is a shame because the aesthetic of the Godlike is better, but it has nearly an identical feature set beyond that, including the same M.2 expansion card. Hopefully, MSI's engineering team pulls their head from their crack for the next round, because they went from having these features on the X570 Godlike to ditching them in the next generation, a move that makes no sense.
Glad you touched on PCIe functionality. Would like to hear any more potential quirks on this going forward in other boards, as most retail websites (even some manufacturing ones) are often unclear on the variables of function. E.G. some boards will lose SATA ports if you occupy all M.2 slots, having something in PCIe#2 slot will nearly always put it and Slot #1 in x8 mode, etc. Take this board with the PCIe M.2 card, great to have those on one side, but it'll be at the cost of running the top two slots in x8 mode. Fine for today, but potentially leaving performance on the table when the day for PCIe 5.0 GPUs arrive.
Just bought this board and mounted the CPU, RAM and M.2, but don't have the case yet, so haven't installed. I have to say the M.2 slot by the RAM fought a bit to click once I pulled the plastic off the thermal stuff and installed the drive. Once it clicked, it's definitely solid. It's surprisingly heavy, but for $699, it better be! Can't wait to get it fired up next week after the case gets here...
@@minesolo1969 It's running great and I love it, but I am still on the initial BIOS. I can't get any of the new BIOS to run stable even at stock settings. I get BSOD with the note "Power drive system failure"...
@@minesolo1969 Actually it's power driver failure, misspelled it lol. It's some sort of driver conflict that I haven't figured out. Stock BIOS and stock drivers work great. There's been like 10 new BIOS releases since I bought it...
Oh 😅 that makes more sense, sounds like alot of trial and error to get it fixed unlucky,at least it sounds like it's performing well without the update
You never have enough features 😂You are paying for it. Nice looking motherboard. Bought an msi x570s torpedo a couple of months ago for 150 euros. Never had an msi motherboard and it works like a charm. Keep up the great work bro and stay safe.
Yes, one of the reasons I bought this board is the number of M.2 slots (and huge number of USB ports). ZERO SATA, all NVME. Sticking with 4 drives currently, but the way I fill up drives with 3D graphics files and games, good chance I break out that expansion card eventually. Hopefully they do improve the board a bit with BIOS updates. I still have to flash mine for the 7900X3D.
I bought this motherboard a couple of weeks ago and it's been causing me headaches ever since. I have a Ryzen 7900X paired with a Radeon 7900XTX and am using RAM listed on the QVL. I'm using 3 of the M.2 slots (including the one by the RAM modules) and have a 1KW PSU powering the whole setup. The machines randomly reboots without any error messages other than a Critical Event / Kernel-Power message in Event Viewer. I'm not sure if it's the MB, CPU, or GPU but given your experience I was hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction. Anything obvious with my setup that might cause these reboots? Please and thank you!
Check your temps. I just had the same thing happen with me just getting the kernel power code 41. Turned out my AIO on cpu had died and pc was shutting down to save the processor.
No USB4 is a bummer for this board. Apart from that it looks pretty perfect. Some of the other boards that have USB4 only have 2 pcie slots, you put 1 card in the second slot and your gpu now runs in 8x..
Bought it 3 Months ago, i dont get a signal so i thought it might be the GPU, but then tested my CPU integrated graphics with USB on Mainboard, also no signal, they send me a faulty Mainboard and all the support tells me to do i've already done, also none of the debug lights are on. Also everything works, GPU fans and case fans are spinning and rgb is on, AIO is also on, CPU doesnt turn off, also everytime i boot up the code stays on 41, so far this board is garbage.
MAN this is an expensive motherboard! 800 quid! I paid less for my whole PC! My x570 ACE AM4 board was only £199 brand new! I will definitely wait until they come down in price. And yeah, it's ok having a professional looking board with RGB, great looking heatsinks etc., but once you stick it in a case all that is lost so it's stuff you are paying for for no reason! For me, it's not really because I haven't used a case in 3 years, but for most it is. For me it's the ridiculous OVER pricing! As you said, especially for us, "Tea Drinking Brits!" The gigabyte board you show in your benchmarking is a lot cheaper and looks nicer too! That would be the board I would get if I was looking to upgrade which I am not. Well not for at least another 5 years.
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I own one. Love it! Going to keep this board for years.I brought it for the longevity.
Me Too!!
Wow “dual-bios” making a comeback ✊🥳🥰👍
The irony is that the Godlike board is actually a step down in most major areas. It has one less USB-C port (likely swapped for the additional Ethernet port), two more SATA ports but only two of the eight can be used for RAID (completely idiotic and ridiculous move by MSI, what's the point of adding more SATA if you can't even use RAID?), and it costs $500 more for losing those key features. The ACE is, somehow, their best board, which is a shame because the aesthetic of the Godlike is better, but it has nearly an identical feature set beyond that, including the same M.2 expansion card.
Hopefully, MSI's engineering team pulls their head from their crack for the next round, because they went from having these features on the X570 Godlike to ditching them in the next generation, a move that makes no sense.
what about using 4 sticks on this mobo? what is the max frequency on 4x16GB sticks ?
Glad you touched on PCIe functionality. Would like to hear any more potential quirks on this going forward in other boards, as most retail websites (even some manufacturing ones) are often unclear on the variables of function. E.G. some boards will lose SATA ports if you occupy all M.2 slots, having something in PCIe#2 slot will nearly always put it and Slot #1 in x8 mode, etc. Take this board with the PCIe M.2 card, great to have those on one side, but it'll be at the cost of running the top two slots in x8 mode. Fine for today, but potentially leaving performance on the table when the day for PCIe 5.0 GPUs arrive.
Just bought this board and mounted the CPU, RAM and M.2, but don't have the case yet, so haven't installed. I have to say the M.2 slot by the RAM fought a bit to click once I pulled the plastic off the thermal stuff and installed the drive. Once it clicked, it's definitely solid. It's surprisingly heavy, but for $699, it better be! Can't wait to get it fired up next week after the case gets here...
How is it going with the motherboard?
@@minesolo1969 It's running great and I love it, but I am still on the initial BIOS. I can't get any of the new BIOS to run stable even at stock settings. I get BSOD with the note "Power drive system failure"...
Thanks, good to hear. It sounds like a psu problem, but im no expert idk good luck to finding a fix
@@minesolo1969 Actually it's power driver failure, misspelled it lol. It's some sort of driver conflict that I haven't figured out. Stock BIOS and stock drivers work great. There's been like 10 new BIOS releases since I bought it...
Oh 😅 that makes more sense, sounds like alot of trial and error to get it fixed unlucky,at least it sounds like it's performing well without the update
Why don't you have Asrock motherboards in the graphs
Do you need this many features? I mean SIX M.2 slots!!!!
You never have enough features 😂You are paying for it. Nice looking motherboard. Bought an msi x570s torpedo a couple of months ago for 150 euros. Never had an msi motherboard and it works like a charm. Keep up the great work bro and stay safe.
Yes, one of the reasons I bought this board is the number of M.2 slots (and huge number of USB ports). ZERO SATA, all NVME. Sticking with 4 drives currently, but the way I fill up drives with 3D graphics files and games, good chance I break out that expansion card eventually.
Hopefully they do improve the board a bit with BIOS updates. I still have to flash mine for the 7900X3D.
its a very slow boot is there any way fix the issues with board
The same peoblem. Slow boot. Realy iritating. If it goes so, i wil buy an cheaper asus board.
Where is the CMOS battery located?
On MSI´s website it says "4x DDR5, Maximum Memory Capacity 256GB"?
I bought this motherboard a couple of weeks ago and it's been causing me headaches ever since. I have a Ryzen 7900X paired with a Radeon 7900XTX and am using RAM listed on the QVL. I'm using 3 of the M.2 slots (including the one by the RAM modules) and have a 1KW PSU powering the whole setup. The machines randomly reboots without any error messages other than a Critical Event / Kernel-Power message in Event Viewer. I'm not sure if it's the MB, CPU, or GPU but given your experience I was hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction. Anything obvious with my setup that might cause these reboots? Please and thank you!
Check your temps. I just had the same thing happen with me just getting the kernel power code 41. Turned out my AIO on cpu had died and pc was shutting down to save the processor.
Is it compatible with amd 7800x3d or should i go with 7950x3d instead?
So. When installing m.2 near the cpu. Are there any trade offs?
Got the X670E Crosshair Hero, just looks way better imo
What’s the difference this and ace ?
No USB4 is a bummer for this board. Apart from that it looks pretty perfect. Some of the other boards that have USB4 only have 2 pcie slots, you put 1 card in the second slot and your gpu now runs in 8x..
Yeah I personally would rather have the extra PCI slot at get a USB4 card if I want it later.
Bought it 3 Months ago, i dont get a signal so i thought it might be the GPU, but then tested my CPU integrated graphics with USB on Mainboard, also no signal, they send me a faulty Mainboard and all the support tells me to do i've already done, also none of the debug lights are on. Also everything works, GPU fans and case fans are spinning and rgb is on, AIO is also on, CPU doesnt turn off, also everytime i boot up the code stays on 41, so far this board is garbage.
It’s missing USB4
True but it does have 3 decent PCI slots so you could add it. I personally prefer that to having USB4 and less PCI slots like the newer 870e boards.
Interesting. Good to know, thanks for your input.
MAN this is an expensive motherboard! 800 quid! I paid less for my whole PC! My x570 ACE AM4 board was only £199 brand new! I will definitely wait until they come down in price. And yeah, it's ok having a professional looking board with RGB, great looking heatsinks etc., but once you stick it in a case all that is lost so it's stuff you are paying for for no reason! For me, it's not really because I haven't used a case in 3 years, but for most it is. For me it's the ridiculous OVER pricing! As you said, especially for us, "Tea Drinking Brits!" The gigabyte board you show in your benchmarking is a lot cheaper and looks nicer too! That would be the board I would get if I was looking to upgrade which I am not. Well not for at least another 5 years.
Does youtube realise that their caption spelling is wrong?
5800X3D kinda makes upgrading to AM5 for gaming pointless 😵😵💫
Yea you could easily hold out until 2026 for the next chipset.
a mobo that should last until 2026 with no usb 4? why?
The only board I want is the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 APEX 🤩
700EUR+ here.. for a mobo ??? Nahhh
It's more than 900 euros here in Holland. Fucking ridiculous.
@@swizzler8053 You're right, same here in France, my bad, 700EUR is the Z690 version...
Z = Zee …. z = zed 🤪
Pairing this with a gigabyte 4090 water force and 7900x3d. Just waiting for cpu to drop and my psu to restock
did you encounter any problems with the mobo?
@minesolo1969 none. Only issue was with a cable from cablemod but they RMA'd pretty quickly.
Oh nice, thanks