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

I needed to build a new PC when my old rig died at the end of 2020. I Decided i was going to jump into AMD again and build an AMD build. I bought an 5950X and started looking for motherboards. I like to build computers that last at least 5 years or so. After careful consideration, I came across the X570 Creation by MSI. The board ticks all of the checkboxes I was looking for. It offers 2 M.2 Slots with an M.2 PCI-E add on Card. 10 networking, WiFi, Support for AMD 5950 processor and has a built in Post Code Reader.The board is rock solid. No issues with the stability of the motherboard. It is a beast with the 64 gigs of Ram That is installed and Paired with an RTX3070, it is a good gaming computer, streaming computer, and computer for content creation. I had to upgrade the BIOS to enable Resizeable bar and this comuter cant be beat.Pros.* Tons of IO. Including 10G networking, USB C, USB A, M.2, PCI-E, Sata, dual channel memory, ** AM 4 Support*Raid Support* SLI SUPPORT* Built in WIFI* M.2 to PCIE expansion card.*Side angeld Power conector.Cons*Need a large case as this is an EATX motherboard*No bios flash button,* no clear cmos buttonOverall this motherboard is a great product and 10 out of 10 will buy MSI for future computer building needs.

I've put this mainboard to good use for a little over a year, and it worked so great that i had my boss build an almost exact replica of my PC at work for our VFX pipeline. The mainboard at my workplace keeps working flawlessly, but the one at home developed issues a few months ago, that i could not quite identify.For one thing, the PC began restarting spontaneously, and then freezing right before POST, which is never good. The error code would swing between 15 (issues with DDR communication), and 0D, which is a reserved MSI code for "future messages".My first thought was the CPU failed, so i reseated it, bought a Thermaltake radiator, and the restarts were happening less frequently after that. Then i noticed as the weather got warmer, and the room temperature raised, the PC would absolutely refuse to POST, until a considerable cooldown.Finally, it got so bad that i decided to order a new mainboard, a cheaper one this time, since i am in no position to replace a grand worth of bad mobo. Suddenly, all issues are gone, and i can only assume one of the capacitors on the mainboard must have gone bad, and caused the chipset or some other component to overheat, or "think" that it's overheating.Another odd sign, and this happened very early on, was that the mainboard would refuse any BIOS update. Updating the BIOS would brick it completely, so I would have to flash back it, and this whole time I have operated with the original BIOS from stock.This is a very expensive piece of equipment, and it really sucks that such serious issue manifested right after the standard warranty expired, so i STRONGLY recommend to stress test it before the return window closes on Amazon. Dealing with MSI support isn't the most stress-free experience, so if you see something is off, be smarter than i was, and return it for a replacement.Aside from this stroke of bad luck, i have nothing but good things to say about this mobo, and it continues to serve my work pipeline really well. even in hot weather, for extended periods, without liquid cooling.UPDATE:As it turns out, i have been testing my system with a new mainboard, and a milder variation of the same issue has been manifesting, which leads to me to think that my PSU is what's causing the issue, as it might have a bad capacitor and supplying the wrong voltage, which would, under load, ultimately trigger the mainboard to shut down. This would explain why the system refuses to reboot manually until i physically switch the PSU off and back on, to with, the system will slowly but surely boot again, in a somewhat unstable state until voltages stabilize.Sometimes they don't stabilize at all until several forced shutdowns and restarts, which is indicative that something is definitely going on with the supply of electricity to the mainboard. Also, the fact that the issue occurs while gaming, could lead to a bad supply of power to the GPU, but at this point that would be just speculation.At any rate, mobo works, all is well. For now. I hope.ADDITIONAL UPDATE:I finally got to the bottom of it, and it appears that a serious issue with one of the SATA leads from the PSU is supplying the wrong voltage. This has caused one of Mt SSDs to burn out, as well as two separate RGB LEDs from two different radiators, one was tge Thermaltake, and the other a CoolerMaster. Case closed.

Brought 2 cards for 2 new builds. First card work great no issues at all. Second card I got the ram ports b1 b2 do not work at all. Boated will not boot with ram in the ports at all. Yes tried different ram. Took ram out of the first board that had no issues at all. Still had the same problem. Really up set that you spend a lot of money on a board that is messed up. Still need to call MSI and see what they are going to die about the board.Had to wait to build second computer because was for my son. He was not doing to good in school so he had to wait till he got his grades up.The first board works great no issues at all. Even with the second board I would say this board is built to last.

I love how this board has a M.2 NVMe PCIe Card that supports two NVMe SSD's into RAID and that it's M Key both and not B Key like others. Needed the extra USB ports along with the WiFi built in is very good. Can game and use to store data as primary server and work on Visio files. Only down side was having to spend 2 weeks working on the RAM timings and setting up RAID. When setting my RAM timings to the manufacture of G.Skill of rated speed - the unit would not POST/no BIOS. Thought I had bad ram and gave the ram a negative review since kept having to reset the CMOS to clear out this issue only to then default the speed back to 2400 and not 3600. Last option resort was updating the BIOS the bios and thinking that the board is still very new that there should not be any newer BIOS verison yet and to my supprise on MSI site, found 3 newer BIOS updated versions not counting the original BIOS on the site. Grabbed the lastest one released on 11/2019 and flashed the BIOS and finally was now able to get to set the ram timings to 3600 as rated by G.Skill and RAID my two NVMe SSD's successfully. This process was soo painful for the past two weeks. I'm a CompTIA A+ Certified Tech and for new boards these issues should not be occurring. This has also been happening with Aurous which is why I switched. MSI - you need to send motherboards out with working BIOS from the get go and not having to have customers pull their hair out upon from getting a new board. Painful experience. Now that I'm past that the board working superbly and boot time is less than 15seconds and performance very good. But that BIOS.....

Every feature you could want for the 5950x and looks great. Add on m.2 pcie card is extremely useful.

La MB llego en muy buenas condiciones, rapido, la pedi para ensamblar con un Ryzen 5900X, y aqui fue donde comenzaron los problemas, es sabido que se necesita hacer update del bios para que los nuevos procesadores Ryzen sean compatibles ya que esta placa base aun no cuenta con el bios actualizado de fabrica, el problema es que requiere de un procesador montado para hacer eso, uno compatible puede ser un ryzen 3000, aun que pude resolverlo, considero que se debe poner especial atencion a este detalle ya que hay otras MB son mas "user friendly" debido a la funcion de Flash BIOS por boton, esos que pones la USB en el puerto requerido, con solo la fuente conectada a la MB el proceso se hace solo, entonces con esta no es el caso, otra cosa a considerar es que el bios no se encuentra en un estado avanzado para la nueva plataforma de AMD ya que tengo unas RAM que en XMP deberian correr a 4k mhz pero por lo que estuve leyendo, la maxima velocidad que aceptan de momento son 3200mhz, esto debido a una limitante de base con los procesadores Ryzen 5000, no quiere decir que no se puedan hacerlo, simplemente que al activar el XMP la PC no arranca, entonces por lo que e estado investigando hay que meterse mas a fondo con cosas del BIOS y asi para que corran a 4000mhz y aun no lo hago. Fuera de eso, la placa es soberbia, cuenta con un kit de expansion para SSD nvme por PCIE 4.0 con dos puertos, configurar 2 de ellos en RAID en una instalacion fresca de windows es realmente facil y los resultados son sobresalientes, en carga de software como en productividad simplemente estoy contento. Esta MB tiene igual que varias otras codigos de debug los cuales son muy utiles para saber si se trabo, en que se trabo y la cantidad de conectividad es muy buena

Ich musste das Board bei Amazon USA bestellen, da es in Europa nicht lieferbar war. Die Lieferung dauerte ca. 2 Wochen. Nachdem das Board durch den Zoll freigegeben war, wurde es innerhalb von 3 Tagen geliefert.Die Installation lief problemlos. Das Board arbeitet mit einer AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU. In den vergangenen 4 Wochen gab es keinerlei Beanstandungen und keine Abstürze. Die Benchmarkwerte sind hervorragend - ohne spezielle Overclockingmaßnahmen. Ich habe dieses Board ausgewählt, weil es über 7xPCIeX Slots verfügt (ich benutze nur eine Grafikkarte, aber etliche andere zusätzliche Komponenten) und einen zusätzlichen 10GBit Netzwerkport onboard hat.

I've bought this motherboard to go with my high end pc and it does deliver. I've had no issue with it and it work wonderfully with a Ryzen 9 3900x and a RTX 2080 super. But, for the price, I would only recommend it if you are making a high end pc, otherwise, it is not worth the investment and you should go look for cheaper options that will do just as great for mid/low end build.

I like this motherboard, it's expensive, but it's got built-in 10gig networking along with all the USB expansion you could ever need.