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RenesisRotary624 /r/MSI_Gaming
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1970-01-20 09:59:20.927 +0000 UTC

Looking at the user manual on your board, the Wifi/BT combo is based off of the Intel AC-3168 chipset (page 16).

Wow, shit...I thought they would do better than that - especially for an X570 class.

There are three ways you could go about it.

  • The Easy Way: buy an external USB BT Nano adapter (if BT is all you are after). Just be sure to disable the onboard wireless in BIOS if you're not using the WiFi portion.

  • The Intermediate way: If you are using both Wifi and BT, you could buy a PCIe Wifi adapter card and place it on any of the free PCIe x1 slots you have on the board. Nearly all of them are going to be based on either the Intel AX200 or AX210 WiFi chipset with BT 5 - in order to get BT to work, you just have to plug in the cord to an empty internal USB header

  • The second intermediate way: If you don't want to deal with Intel. Try to find a PCI-e wifi adapter card with no card built in to it, and hit eBay (for instance, here is a Mediatek/AMD RZ616 chipset WiFi6E module for example) and again, plug it into an empty PCIe x1 slot. Don't know how lucky you are going to get with finding drivers though. It's not like AMD has wifi drivers on the support site and no telling if Windows Update will pick it up. You'd probably have to go through an OEM laptop support site to grab them.

  • The Hard Way - if you refer to the manual again, on page 26, you see an overview of all the components on the motherboard. Where the antenna outputs lie on the rear I/O shield, that is where the card is. It should be plugged into an "E-Key" interface. You would have to remove the VRM heatsink to get to it. Probably remove the shielding around it (which is secured by a small screw), unplug the antenna connectors and remove the faulty card. Then install whatever WiFi card you want in its place and put the VRM heatsink back in place