MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WiFi Motherboard Review

Test Setup

For our tests, we will be using a test rig which is comprised of the MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WiFi motherboard, along with an AMD Ryzen 9 7900X @ default clock speed of 4.7GHz (with Turbo Boost of up to 5.6GHz), as well as 32GB of Kingston FURY Beast RGB DDR5-6000 in dual channel mode.

All tests were conducted at turbo clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.

CPU	AMD Ryzen 9 7900X (AM5) at default 4.7GHz
Cooling	Cooler Master MasterLiquid PL240 Flux AIO cooler
Motherboard	MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WiFi motherboard
Ram	Kingston Fury Beast RGB DDR5-6000 32GB Memory Kit
EXPO profiles	Yes but only up to DDR5-5600
SSD/HDD	Lexar NM800PRO 2TB PCIe Gen4x4 M.2 SSD
PSU	Thermaltake ToughPower GF3 1000W Gold
VGA card	EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB
Drivers	Latest Nvidia Drivers
OS	Windows 11

AIDA64 Info

CPU-Z Info

Load Temps

Using the the Cooler Master MasterLiquid PL240 Flux AIO, the processor produced a full load temperature of 97 degrees Celsius, which was higher than I expected. Having said that, we didn’t encounter any issues of crashes during our full load tests. Since the Ryzen 9 7900X is a fairly high TDP of 170W, we highly recommend a 360 AIO cooler.