An extremely successful line of "combat" motherboards, which phenomenally showed itself in the "price —quality" coordinate system, attracting both economical gamers and overclocking fans. Representatives of this series look solid, are inexpensive, and in terms of a set of skills are not inferior to boards a step higher. At the same time, they have practically no weak points that could turn away from buying. Actually, that's why they are being sold out so quickly.


An excellent example of all this is the MSI B450M MORTAR MAX board, which many experts called one of the best motherboards based on the AMD B450 chipset. Paying a little less than $100, the owner of this board gets a full set of all connections: 4 DDR4 slots, 2 M slots.2, several USB-C, a couple of slots for installing video cards, an optical audio output and a pack of SATA connectors with an integrated RAID controller. RAM can operate at speeds up to 4133 MHz, and the VRM-cooled power subsystem will power the overclocked Ryzen without any problems. In addition to everything, the board is equipped with an Ez Debug LED fault indication system. It is more common to see such equipment in products for enthusiasts, rather than a motherboard, which costs a little more than office materials.

But further more. For example, in the MSI MAG B460M MORTAR model, in addition to advanced equipment, buyers will find a strong 14-phase power subsystem, a high-class audio track and a specialized game controller with a bandwidth of 2.5 GB/s. And it costs a little more than a hundred dollars. A similar desire to surprise and give more is found in many other boards of the series. MSI was one of the first companies to give the middle finger to the blocked capabilities of Intel chips. As a result, many "combat" boards of this series (note: MORTAR, TOMAHAWK b BAZOOKA) have acquired the PL Overclock function, which removes most of the overclocking restrictions from Intel B450 level chipsets.