MSI B450M BAZOOKA PLUS AM4 AMD ATX Motherboard

The B450M Bazooka Plus is a pair of microATX motherboards from MSI’s entry-level Arsenal Gaming range. Its PCIe configuration and layout with a single full-length PCIe 3.0 x16 slot and two PCIe 2.0 x1 slots. This board have onboard audio and network controllers with the Realtek ALC892 8-channel audio codec and Realtek 8111H Gigabit LAN controller both being featured. The visuals are dominated by a black PCB with an industrial looking grey pattern printed on. The B450M Bazooka Plus has a bigger power delivery heatsink and has a light metallic grey look. It’s also having a have a 6-phase power delivery operating in a 4+2 configuration. The B450M Bazooka Plus looks to be the more premium of the two microATX offerings, it has support for DDR4 and have a total of four memory slots meaning up to a maximum of 64 GB of system memory can be installed. The options for storage is identical with B450M Bazooka Plus boards having four SATA 6 Gbps ports and a single PCIe 3.0 x4/SATA M.2 slot which allows drives up to a size of M.2 22110 (22 x 110 mm) and also having four right-angled connectors. Another unique feature of the B450M Bazooka Plus adds another USB 3.1 5 Gbps header giving the capability to add up to four ports. . For users looking to add extra RGB LED lighting B450M Bazooka Plus has two 5050 RGB header. On the rear panel, have four USB 3.1 5 Gbps ports, two USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI 1.4 output, a DVI-D output, three 3.5mm audio jacks due to the Realtek ALC892 audio codec, a single LAN port controlled by the Realtek 8111H Gigabit networking chip and a PS/2 combo port. The B450M Bazooka Plus has the added benefits of a BIOS Flashback+ button.