should I get MSI MAG B850 TOMAHAWK WIFI or MAX WIFI?
Posted by PumpkinEater6000@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 5 comments
Is it worth spending an extra £50 for the MSI Tomahawk B850 Max wifi? The B850 Wifi already costs £180 and it seems to have excellent specs. I don't see much of an improvement in the B850 max wifi to justify it being £230, when the b850 wifi already seems to get over 95% of the job done.
All I can see are 200 extra MT/s of maximum overclocking, 2 extra layers of PCB, an extra 1 x PCIe 3.0 x1, a PCIe 4.0 x 16 instead of x4, and some minor changes to the usb ports at the back.
I am going to run a Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32 gb DDR5 and 3060 Ti (looking to upgrade graphics card when prices become reasonable at some point) and 2 x m.2 nvme
personally i do not think that the b850 tomahawk max wifi is worth the money, and I should probably go for the regular b850 wifi, but I might be missing something.
Is the b850 max wifi worth the extra cash over the b850 wifi?
N0body@reddit
Why are you getting 9800x3d? Wouldn't getting a cheaper CPU and saving money towards a better GPU make more sense?
HayesBrewery@reddit
I think most people this wouldn't matter, can probably do the non-max
GuyNamedStevo@reddit
The Tomahawk of course.
Personally, I would settle for a B650 Tomahawk.
PumpkinEater6000@reddit (OP)
both are tomahawk but one of them has max in the name and the other one doesn't
GuyNamedStevo@reddit
You'll be fine with the non-Max variant.