The AMD X570 Motherboard Overview: Over 35+ Motherboards Analyzed
by Gavin Bonshor on July 9, 2019 8:00 AM ESTMSI Prestige X570 Creation
The MSI Prestige X570 Creation is designed with content creators and enthusiasts in mind with similar aesthetics to its HEDT counterpart, the MSI X399 Creation, and implements them onto an E-ATX sized consumer desktop model. On the rear panel cover is a funky RGB enabled design, with the creation logo being the centrepiece. This covers the large power delivery heatsink which features an extended design from around the MOSFETs, down the side of the memory slots and into the chipset heatsink. The X570 chipset heatsink also includes a cooling fan, while the two M.2 heatsinks are moulded into the board's design.
Across the PCI area is a PCB cover which gives the X570 Creation a premium look as it also blends into the aesthetic of the chipset heatsink. Included is three full-length PCIe 4.0 slots which run at x16, x8/x8, and x8/x8/x4 as well as four PCIe 4.0 x1 slots. This means that the X570 Creation supports up to three-way AMD CrossFire, and two-way NVIDIA SLI multi-graphics card configurations. The MSI Prestige X570 Creation is using a 14+2 power delivery with two 8-pin 12 V ATX CPU power inputs, and a single 24-pin 12 V ATX motherboard power input designed to power the board. Storage options include two PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 slots, with six SATA ports. In the top-right hand corner are four memory slots with support for DDR4-4600, and up to 128 GB.
MSI's Prestige X570 Creation has one of the most impressive rear panels for USB 3.1 Gen2 connectivity. The X570 Creation has eleven USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A, and a single USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C port. There's also two USB 2.0 ports and a PS/2 combo port. Also included are two Ethernet ports with one controlled by a 10 GbE Aquantia AQC107 NIC, with the other being controlled by an Intel I211-AT Gigabit NIC; also featured is an Intel AX200 Wi-Fi 6 wireless interface. The board's onboard audio is handled by a Realtek ALC1220 HD audio codec which gives users five 3.5 mm audio jacks and a S/PDIF optical output on the rear panel.
The MSI Prestige X570 Creation represents more elegant range directed towards content creators and professional users. Although this model is the only E-ATX sized offering from MSI at present on X570, the rear panel includes the most impressive selection of USB 3.1 G2 Type-A ports of any model on the chipset with a total of twelve; eleven Type-A and one Type-C. This coupled with a 14+2 phase power delivery, support for DDR4-4533, and an MSRP of $499, this could be the most attractive of all the higher-end X570 models at launch.
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isthisavailable - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link
The industry needs to make up its mind when it comes to USB C. Laptops are launching with only USB C and meanwhile $700 motherboards only have 1 USB C port and 8+ "outdated" USB A'sThe_Assimilator - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link
It's almost like there's a huge amount of peripherals with USB-A connectors that people who use PCs expect to continue to work when they upgrade! Isn't backwards compatibility a funny feature?Meanwhile, the only peripherals that laptops generally use are docks, hubs, and storage devices - all of which have USB-C versions out the wazoo.
naris - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link
Why are memory speeds and channels show & discussed when talking about chipsets when the memory controllers are in the CPUs? Memory controllers have not been in chipsets for many years now!halfflat - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link
ECC support can be hard to verify for mere mortals; collating (or even better, verifiying) ECC capability on these motherboards would be an extremely useful addition to the article.ishkatar - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link
Does any of the boards support Raid 5? I only see 0, 1 and 10.Zibi - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link
You don't want to use RAID 5 without proper RAID Controller with cache.That means dedicated card.
Actually from performance / security perspective RAID 10 is pretty OK.
The_Assimilator - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link
AMD dropped RAID-5 support upon introduction of the AM4 socket (remember, chipset functionality like RAID is now a CPU function). I don't have an issue with that, since -5 is a very uncommon use-case in consumer workloads and if you want to do -5 right, you really want a hardware RAID card with a BBU.But -5 is pretty much dead anyway due to ever-increasing drive sizes - the rebuild time on anything over 1TB is horrendous, what you really want in such a scenario is RAID-6, and no consumer motherboard every has or will support that.
And please don't tell me you're using RAID-5 for data integrity, because invisible corruption is a thing that I have experienced personally. If you want *actual* data integrity, use Windows Storage Spaces or RAID-10, and as a last resort RAID-6.
Arbie - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link
There must be something you left out of this roundup. Whatever it was, please go back and put it in, and next time get it right. Thanks.Korguz - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link
huh ????Gastec - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link
That $700 must be an error right, perhaps of judgement?