Our Overall Score:
9.0/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Processors category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £119
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, MSI or alternative products in the Processors category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard
MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard scores 9.5/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Processors. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Processors, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Processors? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard scores 8.2/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Processors category was £1670.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £4.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Processors category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Processors category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Processors category. This was £400.57 from the 59 products we found in that category. So MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard actually comes in below average at £119.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £1670.00 and the least expensive, which was £4.99. In total we found that of the 59, 45 were more expensive and 13 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard.
Prices of products from MSI
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, MSI. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from MSI, which was £574.23 of the 43 products we found. So MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from MSI was £9.99 with the most expensive coming in at £2199.00.
Prices of products from MSI and in the Processors category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from MSI that sit specifically within the Processors category.
For this we found that the average price was £266.62, making MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard at £119 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £630.00 with the lowest priced item being £99.99. In total there were 6 items that were more expensive and 1 that was less expensive.
Reviews of MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard
MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard scores 9.3/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard is.
Overall score
MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard scores 9.0/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from MSI so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard
- Brand: MSI
- Model Number: B450
- Form factor: ATXSocket: AMD AM4Chipset: AMD B450Memory: DIMM x 4 / Max RAM: 64 GBAMD CrossFire x 2
- EAN: 4719072587031
- Description: Top features: – Upgrade your components with loads of connectivity – Take control of your cooling with six fan headers – Customise your lighting with RGB connections Upgrade your components The MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard is built to give you loads of options, whether this is your first build or an upgrade. Compatible with the latest M.2 storage, you can add superfast SSD storage to your build – boot up in seconds and reduce the time you’re stuck waiting for games to load. And because your SATA ports are freed up, you can pile up huge capacity hard drives. The AM4 socket is compatible with Ryzen processors, so you can upgrade through the range over time, or jump straight to a powerful Ryzen 7 CPU for your initial build. Take control of your cooling When you’ve got your cooling set up, you want to be able to adjust everything accurately. Which is why the MSI CARBON AC AM4 Motherboard has six fan headers with full controls and an extended heatsink. There’s also compatibility for water cooling, so even with loads of great components, it’s easy to keep everything cool.Customise your lightingCustomise your PC with RGB lighting – the GAMING PRO CARBON features MSI Mystic Lighting, so you can personalise the lighting on the motherboard, and connect all your other RGB components. It’s easy to choose from a huge palette of colours and effects, so your entire PC can glow in the same rainbow hues, or flash at the same time.
- Product ID: 23215142073
