MSI MAG A520M Bazooka WiFi and MAG B550M Vector WiFi motherboards are entry-level

According to the source, MSI has expanded its range of motherboards based on AMD 500 series chipsets with two entry-level models. These are MSI MAG A520M Bazooka WiFi and MAG B550M Vector WiFi boards.

The MAG A520M Bazooka WiFi board is similar to the MAG B550M Bazooka but is based on the cheaper A520 chipset. In the case of MAG B550M Vector WiFi, the situation is the opposite – this model can be considered an improved version of the MAG A520M Vector WiFi board.

The MAG A520M Bazooka WiFi micro-ATX board is equipped with a nine-phase (7 + 2) power subsystem. The voltage regulators have a large heat sink. The board received four slots for DDR4 DIMM memory modules, a PCIe 3.0 x16 expansion slot and two PCIe x1 slots. The equipment includes a Realtek ALC887 audio codec and a Gigabit Ethernet port on the Realtek RTL8111H controller.

The MAG B550M Vector WiFi micro-ATX board has only two slots for memory modules. At the same time, it has a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot and an NVMe Gen 4 slot. The audio subsystem uses the same Realtek ALC887 codec, and the Gigabit Ethernet port is also built on the Realtek RTL8111H controller.

Both boards are equipped with 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.2 wireless connectivity. The manufacturer does not name prices.