Msi meg x570 godlike review in Spanish (full analysis)

In the AMD press kit we have received the fantastic MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE motherboard. We already saw it during Computex 2019 and its 19 power phases, its powerful design, high durability components are some of its strongest points.

Will we need to buy such a high-end motherboard to play? Will it be worth us with the Carbon Gaming or the MGE X570 ACE? We will solve these doubts and many more in reading our review. Let's start!

MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE technical characteristics

Unboxing

It is great news that MSI has chosen to include the new AMD platform in a top-of-the-range model such as the MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE. An impressive motherboard that has not arrived in a large flexible cardboard box as a method of beautifying the main box. In this first box we have a nice decoration with photographs of the motherboard and the badges in golden letters. On the back we are given a lot of information about the key features of this board.

Then we proceed to remove this first box to find the definitive rigid cation box in black with the brand's logo and case-type opening. Inside, we find a well-known distribution, base plate on the top well fixed by a black cardboard mold, and just below all the accessories, which are a lot. Let's see them, because they have no waste:

• MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE Motherboard Xpander -Z Card with Dual M2 PCIe 4.0 Ranua Super LAN 10G Card Wi-Fi Antenna with Extender Cable 2x Temperature Thermistors Corsair Rainbow LED Cable Dual LED RGB Splitter 2x Extension Rainbow LED Cables 6.3 Jack Adapter mm audio3x SATA 6Gbps cables with textile meshDVD with drivers and softwareCable stickers and bag to store somethingVarious cards and our important user guide

Without a doubt we have a great accessory pack with many useful cables to extend the lighting of our equipment, our indispensable user guide and above all two PCIe expansion cards that we will now see a little more in detail.

Design and Specifications

MSI has worked a lot on the design of this MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE motherboard, not for nothing is its top range, although we will see in a next review the ACE model is also very similar to this one. Note that an E-ATX format has been used instead of ATX, be careful with your chassis, since we must ensure a space of at least 305 x 272 mm.

We are going to study its cooling system carefully, because it is something that until now has not been done on a motherboard in such detail. Starting with the X570 chipset, the manufacturer has been forced to place a fan with a fairly large size and with ZERO FROZR technology to automatically adjust its speed according to needs. In this area we have RGB Mystic Light lighting.

The chipset heatsink has three extensions in the form of M.2 SSD heatsinks, also built in aluminum. All three offer an easy and independent opening for the installation of units and integrated thermal pads in their lower area. The next item that has been placed is a heatpipe that communicates chipset heatsink with VRM heatsinks. These oversized aluminum blocks are linked by this tube, which ends just below the rear port panel.

This panel has an aluminum protector with a Mystic Light Infinity II lighting system in its upper area. Of course all lighting will be managed with MSI software. And we end up with a rather interesting element that MSI has introduced called Dinamic Dashboard. Basically it is an OLED screen located next to the RAM that acts as a hardware monitor and we can customize it with GIFs and animations.

VRM and power phases

We begin our in-depth analysis of the MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE by taking a closer look at the power system it incorporates. A configuration of 14 + 4 +1 supply phases has been chosen . The main line of 14 will be responsible for providing the necessary Vcore for demanding overclocking to this new generation of processors and the previous one.

The system can be divided into three stages as always, although all this will be managed in the first instance by an IR35201 digital PWM control manufactured by Infineon. This control is designed for the voltage regulation of the following elements at a maximum switching frequency of 2000 kHz in a 6 + 2 multiphase configuration. Such a powerful VRM will need a dual 8-pin EPS connector for power, alongside traditional 24-ATX.

After the PWM control, 7 phase multipliers IR3599 are located, which in this case will double the phase count to a total of 14. They operate at a voltage of 3.3V and by means of a single PWM signal they are capable of doubling or quadrupling the number of phases. In such a case, what we have to know is that these 14 phases are not physical from the first stage, but have been previously multiplied by these controllers.

In the second power stage of the VRM Vcore, a total of 14 TDA21472 MOSFET DC-DC converters manufactured by Infineon of the DR.MOS family with capacity to withstand up to 70A of current have been used. We reached the third power stage, where we have a count of 14 CHOKES (5 more for the rest of the phases) making a total of 19, built in titanium together with Japanese capacitors of maximum durability.

The entire system will be integrated with the UEFI BIOS so that voltage management is simple through a vdroop with up to 8 voltage management modes for overclocking situations. If we prefer, with Dragon Center or the physical button located on the MSI Game Boost board, we can also move the voltage profiles and perform automatic overclocking just by changing the operating mode. We have a total of 11 positions and compatibility with 2nd and 3rd generation Ryzen processors.

Socket and RAM

Building on what we've said previously, this MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE supports 3rd and 2nd generation AMD Ryzen processors with, and without Radeon Vega integrated graphics. The manufacturer does not give data on compatibility with 1st generation APU processors with Bristol Ridge, and neither appears on the official compatibility list, so we must understand that there is not. Remember that for example Asus does have compatibility for 1st generation APUs.

And when it comes to RAM, MSI also leaves the user with a few doubts due to the issue of maximum supported speed. What does not change is the count of 4 DIMM slots, all of them reinforced with steel plates on their sides and a one-click clamping system. The maximum allowable size will be 128 GB DDR4.

MSI details in its data sheet and in its compatibility list, only RAM memories with speeds of 1866, 2133, 2400 and 2666 MHz. We understand that we will not only be able to install this type of memory, but rather faster modules with JEDEC OC profiles customized by the brands, since it is clear that the board is compatible with A-XMP and DDR4-BOOST. Also, these new AMD Ryzen have support for modules up to 3200 MHz natively, there would be no point in limiting memory usage that much.

AMD X570 chipset

The element that takes the leading role in this new AMD platform is undoubtedly the AMD X570 chipset. Successor of the X470 and that comes, this time yes, with great better than the previous one. And it is that, if you see specifications of all the previous ones, the X470 is simply a small update of the X370. In addition, it is a chipset that its performance has been reason enough for the plate manufacturers to give it the prominence it deserves in top-of-the-range motherboards.

AMD X570 has a total of 20 PCIe lanes in its version 4.0, this makes it the only chip, along with Ryzen 3000, compatible with this new version of the bus par excellence for data exchange. The bandwidth it offers is 2, 000 MB / s bidirectional, and it is true that they currently do not have too many applications when it comes to graphics cards, for example. But there are already PCIe 4.0 capable M.2 drives that exceed 5, 000MB / s in read file transfer.

Well, of these 20 LANES, 8 lanes will be for PCIe and another 8 lanes may be for SATA devices or USB peripherals. The remaining 4 lanes are of free choice for manufacturers, although in principle they will be intended for a configuration of 4x SATA 6 Gbps or 2x PCIe 4.0 x2. It offers support for up to 8 USB 3.1 Gen2 10Gbps and 4 USB 2.0 ports. finally 4 PCIe lanes will be the ones that provide direct communication with the CPU for the exchange of information.

At this point, it will be interesting to see how MSI distributes these lanes on both CPU and Chipset for port usage.

Storage and PCI slots

And we'll start this PCI lane analysis precisely by detailing the main features of the MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE expansion and storage connectivity.

Let's start with the PCIe slots, of which we have a total of 4 PCIe 4.0 x16, which is certainly a lot, compared to other boards. Of course, we will not find any PCIe x1, which would have been interesting for expansion cards of this specific size. All four slots have steel reinforcement, and the first three, starting from the top, are connected to the CPU, while the last one goes directly to the chipset.

Ryzen's generation and chipset are going to influence the configuration of these slots, so let's check it out:

• With 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs the slots will work in 4.0 to x16 / x0 / x0, x8 / x0 / x8 or x8 / x4 / x4 mode . With 2nd generation Ryzen CPUs the slots will work in 3.0 to x16 / x0 / x0, x8 / x0 / x8 or x8 / x4 / x4 mode . With 2nd generation Ryzen APUs and Radeon Vega graphics, the slots will work in 3.0 to x8 / x0 / x0 mode. The fourth slot connected to the chipset will lock x4 in 4.0 or 3.0 mode.

Okay, we have 4 x16 slots, but only one of them will work to the maximum of its lanes. This not only happens here but on all boards on the market, since Ryzen have only 16 PCI lanes enabled for expansion slots. In any case, the MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE supports AMD CrossFire 4-way multiGPU and Nvidia SLI 2-way.

Now we are going to discuss the storage section, in which we will also differentiate between chipset and CPU. And we start with the CPU, since an M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 slot that supports sizes of 2242, 2260, 2280 and 22110 will be connected directly to it. This slot does not have support for the SATA interface.

If we go to the chipset, it is striking that MSI has chosen to take part of the 4 free configuration lanes to put in total two M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 slots and 6 SATA III 6 Gbps ports. These two slots support both NVMe and SATA drives, and support sizes 2242, 2260, and 2280, one of them, and the other up to 22110. Later we will see that introducing so many M.2 in the chipset will affect the capacity of the board's USB ports.

Network connectivity and sound card

We ended up with the main internal hardware with the sound card and network connectivity of the MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE, which is quite good.

Starting with the sound card, we have a dual codec Realtek ALC1220 with capacity for 7.1 channels in high definition. In addition to this, a DAC with SABER ESS E9018 amplifier has been installed that supports a 32-bit audio signal at 135 dB SNR in mono and 129 dB SNR in 8 channels. High-fidelity WIMA capacitors and Chemicon capacitors have been installed in the filtering stage to generate professional-quality audio. And something that is striking is that the reason for introducing two sound codecs is because we have a 6.3mm Jack input on the pro-level stereo headphone board. At the user interface level we have the Nahimic 3 software for system management.

Now let's move on to network connectivity, which we already know can be expanded using a PCIe card in a 10GbE port. But it is that the one that comes already installed is quite good, with a double Ethernet connection. The most powerful is controlled by a Killer E3000 chip that offers a bandwidth of 2.5 Gbps, while the other has a Killer E2600 controller with 1 Gbps.

And as a good customer of Killer, MSI has chosen to incorporate an M.2 2230 Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 card, aimed at gaming, for its wireless network connection. This card supports 2 × 2 connections with MU-MIMO and OFDMA technology under the IEEE 802.11ax protocol, Wi-Fi 6 for friends, and dual band at 160 MHz. The maximum bandwidth in the 5 Ghz band will be 2404 Mbps, while in 2.4 GHz we will reach 574 Mbps. The chip also supports Bluetooth 5.0 connections.

I / O ports and internal connections

Before looking at the ports we can see that the board has on-board buttons for reset, power and automatic overclocking mode in the lower right area. Likewise, we have the Debug LED panel for the numeric codes that inform the status of the BIOS and the board.

The ports included on the rear panel are:

• Clear CMOS button Flash BIOS button 2x antenna connectors PS / 22x port RJ-45 Ethernet 2x USB 3.1 Gen13x USB 3.1 Gen21x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C 6.3mm jack S / PDIF port 3.5mm Jack for audio

The majority of CPUs that we will install on this motherboard will be CPUs without integrated graphics, so AMD does not see the need to put video connectors on it. As we have commented before, the number of USB ports on the rear panel has been affected by the chipset lanes already being occupied, having a total of 6 of them.

Let's now look at the internal connectors, including USB:

• 1x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C2x USB 3.1 Gen1 (supporting 4 USB ports) 2x USB 2.0 (supporting 4 USB ports) Front audio panel connector 10x connectors for fans and cooling pump 2x 2-pin headers for temperature sensors (available on the bundle) 1x 4-pin header RGB LED2x 3-pin header A-RGB LED1x 3-pin header for Corsair RGB LED

We also have 7 temperature sensors distributed throughout the motherboard to monitor the main components of it. All this will be manageable from MSI Dragon Center

To finish we will mention which USB ports go to chipset and CPU:

• X570 chipset: 2 rear panel USB 3.1 Gen2, internal USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C, 4 internal USB 3.1 Gen1 and 4 internal USB 2.0. CPU: 2 USB 3.1 Gen2 and 2 USB 3.1 Gen1 rear panel

Expansion cards included

They are part of Unboxing and we are not going to proceed to test or review them, so we will only explain a little their main characteristics, because for the user they will be extremely useful in this MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE.

From the M.2 XPANDER card, this is a PCIe x8 card in an x16 slot configuration with two M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 slots for installing high performance SSD storage drives. It also has a cooling system with an aluminum heatsink and a fan with MSI's FROZR technology.

The second expansion card consists of a network card with an RJ-45 port working at a speed of 10 Gbps. A great option for users who need large file transfers on their computer.

testing bench

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	AMD Ryzen 9 3900x
Base plate:	MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE
Memory:	16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB Royal DDR4 3600MHz
Heatsink	Stock
HDD	Corsair MP500 + NVME PCI Express 4.0
Graphic card	Nvidia RTX 2060 Founders Edition
Power supply	Corsair AX860i.

This time we will also use our second test bench, although of course with AMD Ryzen 9 3900X CPU, 3600 MHz memories and a dual NVME SSD. Being one of them PCI Express 4.0.

BIOS

We arrived at one of the weakest points of this motherboard. The BIOS of the MSI X570 Godlike has given us quite a few head warms. It came with a very green BIOS, and updating to the new one has literally cost us "life". We have had to use the flash button in order to have the latest stable BIOS installed.

As always, it allows us to manually overclock, adjust fans, monitor all components and quickly see all connected components with a map. Very to improve the voltage that launches our Ryzen 9 3900X of 1.5v… obviously, we have had to lower it to less than 1.3V to avoid possible degradations.

Overclocking and temperatures

At no time have we been able to upload the processor at a faster speed than what it offers in stock, it is something that we have already discussed in the review of the processors. Although we want to give proof, nevertheless we have decided to do a 12 hour test with Prime95 to test the feeding phases.

For this we have used our Flir One PRO thermal camera to measure the VRM, we have also collected multiple measurements of average temperature with the stock CPU both with and without stress. We leave you the table:

Temperature	Relaxed Stock	Full Stock
MSI MEG X570 ACE	34ºC	55 ºC

Final words and conclusion about MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE

The MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE is one of those motherboards that are bought once in a lifetime. It has 19 power phases (14 + 4 + 1), a brutal design, a large number of connections, an unbeatable dissipation and very good performance.

This board is ideal for use with a Ryzen 9 3900X and a Multi-GPU system to get the most out of it while playing and / or working.

We really liked that it incorporates a 10 Gigabit LAN network card and an adapter to connect several M.2 NVME and have a super fast NVID SSD RAID. The integration of an 802.11 AX wireless network card makes it a very good system.

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We also really liked the built-in sound card. It has an excellent DAC and allows us to connect high-end speakers and microphones (studios).

The big downside is the BIOS, we think it needs a lot to polish. Avoid startup failures and an overvoltage not good for our processor. We still think that during this summer, all these problems will be fixed in these Ryzen 3000.

Its price in store is heart attack. We can find it with a price higher than 700 euros. So I said it is a motherboard that you buy once in a lifetime. There are options like the X570 ACE that perform just as well but have far fewer extras, but are considerably cheaper.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ VRM AND COMPONENTS	- UNSTABLE BIOS
+ DESIGN AND RGB	- HIGH PRICE
+ REFRIGERATION
+ 10 GIGABIT CONNECTIVITY AND 802.11AX WIFI
+ HIGH RANGE SOUND CARD

The Professional Review team awards him the gold medal:

MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE

COMPONENTS - 95%

REFRIGERATION - 90%

BIOS - 77%

EXTRAS - 90%

PRICE - 80%

86%