12th generation support. Rebar Technology

The bios needed to be updated to fix a small issue.

This is an excellent motherboard with the support of Intel's 12th generation. Also, this motherboard supports many modern technologies like Rebar, boosting the performance of your PC in games. It is highly recommended.

So far, so good. :)

No complains so far, as expected for a board at this price.

Great board for a 12th gen Intel CPU.

Nice and sturdy. lots of USB ports. Great for i7-12700k with Liquid cooler

only one M.2 shield frozr

Overall a good board, if you are looking to save some money on a board. MSI products are always good and they are very well build. I have bought this board as i want to stick with DDR4 for a while as DDR5 is not that readily available yet.

Fast and cool.

Download network drivers, ethernet / wifi doesn't work right out the box (for me at least).

Overall, the best 12th Gen board for the price!

After completing the form for the MSI Review Rebate Program within the time specified, no rebate was issued. It once indicated pending in my MSI account and now there is no trace of the request. Will update if it materializes

not worth my time to jump through hoops investigating were my manufacture rebate is Memx 5 stars MSI 1 star

- Good amount of features on the rear I/O - 4 m.2 slots - adequate power delivery - adequate VRM's / VRM cooling

- no manual in box. Can be downloaded from MSI, not handy if your building and need to reference - Realtek® ALC897 Codec ( lower end ) - only 1 M.2 heatsink - This review is for the MSI Review Rebate Program

My First MSI board. Excellent Price Vs. Feature set. no issues encountered so far

This review was motivated by the MSI review program. Specifically: This review is for the MSI Review Rebate Program

Linux Performance has been great minus a few issues with IOMMU groups being less than Ideal. Performance in AVX-512 workloads (enabled by a post launch Bios) has been great. Alder lake in general is not worth pumping extra power/voltage through for compute/scientific workloads. My testing has show the Ideal sweet spot at long duration power max=180w, short duration =200w long duration time=128s This allows for longer sustained system performance. You lose ~2-3% but gain that and more back to to systaining lower temperatures and higher overall clocks on both core multiplier AND ring bus (with ecores disabled)

Z690 chipset, good VRM stability, 3 NVME drives (one with a heatsink), two ARGB headers, two RGB headers, plenty of USB 3 and 3.1 headers, a thunderbolt header, tons of USB ports (the main reason I got this board) and includes WiFi/Bluetooth where other boards this price do not.

Haven't found any so far - it has been very stable, did some light overclocking with no issues.

I feel this is the best value motherboard for this chipset, especially if you're looking for lots of USB ports!

-Fast

-High Voltages

Board lasted 2 days before it died. It appears that MSI may have some sort of overclocking out of the box. Watching both the wattage and VID in Core Temp I was noticing quite often the voltage was going over 1.32V, and the wattage never went beneath 3.2W. Got a replacement chip and Gigabyte Z690 UD AX board and the voltage never hits 1.3V, and the wattage drops down to 1.3W at times.