MSI B450M MORTAR MAX AMD Socket AM4 Motherboard

Great AM4 MB used with a Ryzen 5 3600 processor and Radeon RX5600XT graphics card to replace failed AM2+ system. Worked straight from the box with no need to update the bios. A slightly cheaper, scaled down, version of the Tomahawk Max, but still has two M.2 ports and 4 RAM slots.

Amazing motherboard with fantastic specs all for a brilliant price. Fantastic customer service too!

No problems so far. it is now running 3600 memory, with the Ryzen 5

Great product, safely packaged and delivered quickly. Couldn't ask for more of a quality prompt service

The audio quality over the microphone on this motherboard is by default atrocious, a very annoying static sound will make people on voicechat request that you stay quiet. The way to remedy this seems to be: - Download and install the latest audio drivers from MSI - Uninstall the Realtek Audio Console - Make sure you have reboot at this point - Open up "Realtek HD Audio Manager" from the window system tray - Go to the microphone settings and - - Enable "Noise Suppression" - - Lower the recording volume to +0.0dB or +10dB (higher gives an annoying static sound) You do however become less understandable because noise supression alters the way things get recorded. Cheapest motherboard with a SPDIF audio connection I could find that also comes with decent VRM cooling. On the flip side, the VRM cooling is unnecessarily high which caused a problem with my Alpenfhn Brocken 2 CPU cooler. I had to slightly lift the fan up for it to fit as it was colliding with the VRM cooling - that in turn made the fan sit awfully close to the sidepanel of my case a Cooler Master NR400. I had rotate the CPU cooler 180 to have its RAM clearance side provide the clearance for the motherboard heatsink. Then I had to swap my memory out for the lowest profile memory I could find so that the side that wasn't made for RAM clearance became a tight squeeze for the RAM.

I have not done it yet so I will report back after it is running.

great motherboard with decent features for the price, paired with a ryzen 5 3600 cpu and 16gb of 3200 ram it makes a great gaming rig.

Great price for an amazing motherboard, looks great too!

A very good value board for a micro ATX case. The box came a bit mashed but the board itself was not damaged.

If you dont need more than one PCIe (assuming youre putting in a chunky GPU which will cover the other PCI slots), this motherboard is a really solid bet. It will be futureproofed with AMDs Ryzen 3 technology, so has loads of potential there. RAM support is great and over locking is super simple. It really is made for tweaking with bios support for novice OCers. Voltages are robust and at this price point Im struggling to see why I would even consider upgrading to newer mobo given prices versus performance across generations. For a no nonsense, solid motherboard, your search stops here.

Great Motherboard with good looks and functionality

Very nice mobo and it worked without a snag, but I was confused (it turns out) by the detail on the second M.2 slot (M.2_2). I found it very confusing that it turned out to be NVME only (not M.2 sata) and that it was only running at PCIe 2.0. Both of those details took me a while to dig out because they seemed so counter intuitive to what I expected. I just thought it would be the same as the M.2_1 - stupid boy!!!

Paired with 1600AF and 3200 DDR4 CL16. Out of the box the CPU down clocks the ram to 2400ghz but the Mortar max has profiles to adjust this with ease. CPU running at 4.0ghz @~1.26v, ~64c at full load on the stock cooler, no issues. The mainboard has an led strip underneath the right hand side.

Perfect starting point for my second ever build. Downsizing to this from my ATX asus build was a good decision (way too much unused space in my ATX case and a lot of unused pci slots). This appeared to be the best value mATX MB on the market. Once everything was assembled it booted up first time! Happy with the service provided by CCL, all components arrived earlier than expected!

Solid b450 board, looks to be the best in the mATX range. Good bios and good features.

All good except if you use m.2 cannot use corresponding pci.

Fantastic motherboard. no need for bios update for newer cpu's. good looks and fantastic quality. red led on rhs of motherboard (not sure if you can change the colour)

This mATX motherboard has all the fittings of the normal atx. I was struggling to find a mATX with 4 ram slots. This is perfect for anyone who needs the extra slots and only has a small case. Very easy to install and the rgb on the side of the motherboard can easily be changed or synced with the cpu fan.

Easy to use well laid out motherboard, runs cool enough and 3rd gen ryzen processors work without issues. BIOS is a bit awkward to find some CPU features and figuring out how to save configuration to profiles however when you figure it out it isn't too bad. Overall best package if you need a ryzen 3 mATX motherboard with 2 x16 for expansion, comes with a great manual for inexperienced system builders.

I have it up and running with relative ease and it's now running 'folding@home' medical research for COVID19. Check it out and contribute surplus computer capacity.

Its a grate all rounder

As good as it gets for the money

Great mobo

Great MB for mine 3700x, was thinking a more expensive x570 board at the beginning but it's not necessary to spend a 80-100 more with basically the same performance. End of the day, it's easy to build and happy to work with, would recommend to those who like a simple but reliable MB. The extra M.2 slot won me over compared to the tomahawk max.

great MB for 3rd gen AMD CPUs. micro ATX but easy to install and has plenty slots

Very easy to work with. Paired with an rx 590 and an AMD Ryez 5 3600 - Everything is running perfectly. Fast delivery.