ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi AMD AM5 X870 ATX Motherboard 18+2+2 Power Stages, Dynamic OC Switcher, Core Flex, DDR5 AEMP, WiFi 7, 5X M.2, PCIe® 5.0, Q-Release Slim, USB4®, AI OCing & Networking

I recently upgraded my system to AMD's latest X870 platform and chose the ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi as the foundation for my high-end build. Having worked with several flagship motherboards, I can confidently say this board is an absolute beast and worth every penny for serious builders and overclockers.Unmatched Power Delivery and StabilityThe main selling point of the X870E-E is its power delivery system (VRMs). This board handles the most demanding Ryzen 9 chips with ease. Under heavy synthetic loads and during intensive compiling tasks, the VRM temperatures remained incredibly low—something lesser boards struggle with. For anyone pushing modern CPUs to their limits, this stability is non-negotiable.Furthermore, DDR5 memory stability is rock solid. Initial setup with my 6000MHz EXPO kit was flawless; a quick setting in the UEFI and it booted perfectly with no fuss. This is a huge relief, as DDR5 can sometimes be notoriously finicky on new platforms. The Q-Release PCIe Slot button on the side is a small but brilliant quality-of-life feature that makes GPU removal effortless.Connectivity Built for the Next DecadeASUS didn't skimp on connectivity, making this board genuinely future-proof.Storage: The sheer number of M.2 slots is impressive, including a dedicated PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot. This is essential if you plan on running the fastest NVMe drives available now or in the near future. The quick-release M.2 heatsink design makes installation incredibly fast.Networking: The inclusion of WiFi 7 and 2.5G Ethernet is perfect for low-latency gaming and high-speed local networking. Even if you don't have WiFi 7 infrastructure yet, the capability is there, meaning you won't need an adapter for years.Aesthetics: The subtle but effective $\text{AURA}$ Sync lighting and dark, aggressive heat sinks look phenomenal in an all-black case build. The design feels premium, not overly flashy.Final VerdictIf you are investing in an $\text{AM}5$ CPU (especially a Ryzen $7$ or Ryzen $9$) and intend to keep this system for many years, the ROG Strix X870E-E is the smart choice. It eliminates the guesswork regarding stability and provides all the performance, power, and high-speed I/O you could possibly need. This motherboard is a cornerstone component that delivers confidence and blazing performance. Highly recommended.

Top of the line, and is great for how much it costs with the many features this motherboard has, works perfect, pretty heavy but can installed easily and simple. Great black look with durable material and has very fast ddr5 memory support!

I really enjoyed building my PC around this motherboard. It looks beautiful in black and with the rgb light details it brings. It feels sturdy, made to last, good materials. Enough ports to connect everything, high quality dissipators for your storage drives. First thing I did was to update the bios using flashback feature and it was pretty easy. Just plugged the flash drive on the special usb port on the back panel, pressed the button and waited around 3 minutes. Everything went well and it booted correctly. This motherboard is ATX size, so make sure you have the right case to fit it.

I have had nothing but issues with certain features on this motherboard since I got it, Asus Support pretty much gave me 2 possible solutions, I tried both while in chat support with them, and after they both failed to fix the issues, their answer was "RMA it" - like I can afford to have down time on my only PC lol Things that are great about this board: ECLK OCing on the CPU works well, I have a 7800X3D in it currently and I can push an extra ~200MHz over the normal 5025MHz max boost a 7800X3D has, without issues, and it's stable. The software suite - some hate Asus Armory Crate, and I used to be one of those people on older generations of their software, but it's better now in my opinion. RGB control is pretty good, the different settings you can use are quite nice, I in particular like Starry Night with the background set to off/black, and the colors set to Random, looks pretty awesome. Fan control is also very good, you can set each fan header to it's own curve, and control that curve with multiple temperatures at once (so if the CPU or GPU gets hot, you can have the fans ramp up based off both of those at the same time, so whether you're gaming or doing something CPU intensive, the fans will ramp up). The Q-Release slots are nice, no more having to try & get that stupid GPU-slot lock to pop off so you can get your GPU out. Before we get in to the bad, I should note I use this system for a combination of rendering (which is why the 9950X3D is an incoming upgrade) and gaming. What were the issues I am having you ask? Well, apparently it's all related, at least partially, to RAM settings/clocks, BUT the primary issue is that the 2nd & 3rd M.2 slot are completely messed up unless I run the system with NO XMP/DOCP/EXPO settings, and even then if I manually tune the RAM, it STILL happens randomly. This has happened with two different RAM kits of different sizes, I had a 2x16GB CL30 6000MHz kit, and I'm not running a 2x48GB kit that I have set to CL30 at 6000MHz as well. Sometimes the 2nd & 3rd M.2 slots will just not work at all, sometimes they'll run at PCIe 1.0 x4 (which in case you didn't know, is BASICALLY physical HDD speeds, less than 500MB/s maximum speed). If I enable the EXPLICIT setting in the BIOS to ENABLE both of those M.2 slots & set the GPU slot to x8 speed ... it disables both slots & still sets the GPU slot to x8 speed. If I enable the setting to DISABLE the slots and set the GPU slot to x16, it will still show them as being accessible half the time. Any time I set the RAM speed to what it should be (6000MHz) those 2 M.2 slots will randomly appear or disappear from one power up to the next - sometimes from one REBOOT to the next. This has happened across multiple BIOS updates, including 2 BIOSes that Asus said would "fix the issue" later on. I went back to Asus because I wanted to give them another chance after the whole debacle they've had with poor customer service etc in past years - now I'm regretting ever making that decision. I will be purchasing a different motherboard (liikely an Asrock Taichi) at some point in combination with a 9950X3D, at which point I'll be RMAing this motherboard with Asus, and reselling the replacement as I want nothing to do with it. I highly recommend NOT purchasing this motherboard, if you search Asus Support forums, I am not the only one that has experienced these issues, there's dozens of other users on there that have experienced the same things, and who knows how many others that just "haven't noticed" because they're not trying to use all 5 M.2 slots.

I've used almost exclusively ASUS motherboards going all the way back to the 1990's and I don't honestly recall ever having problems with them. I've purchased everything from the top end ASUS motherboards to their entry level motherboards over the last 30 odd years (though I've tended towards their high end boards since the early 2000s) I can say they all just work and do what they claim they will do. This board continues that tradition of rock solid performance from ASUS and I'm very happy with my purchase. I also enjoy my first opening of the motherboard box like a kid on Christmas, and this board really stood out as one of the best looking boards I've purchased in the last 10 years or so. The first thing I noticed with this one after the obvious visual appeal was the weight. I was upgraded from the X570 to the X870E with this and this motherboards has a lot of aluminum and a lot of weight! To call this thing chonky is an absolutely fair statement. The trade of with all that aluminum of course, is cooler temperatures for your VRM (which is totally overkill for the 9950X!) and cooler temperatures and better performance of your NVMe drives both Gen5 (My Gen5 NVMe drive stays at a relatively cool 42c!). My Gen4 NVMe drives hover right around 44c, I was worried about the heat in the Gen5, turns out with this particular board that is a non-issue. The latest BIOS (1003 as of this writing) improves gaming performance with the 9950X and works beautifully to park your unused cores to better improve your frame rates. If I had one complaint with my upgrade is that training DDR5 is a slow process. Fortunately you only have to do that once (more if you're tweaking your memory) but for me it's select the non-tweaked profile in BIOS and it's been rock solid since (I had issues with the tweaked profile crashing games, and switched to the standard one, and the problems went away). I settled on this particular board as it had all the features I was looking for, at a price I thought was reasonable. I did my research and while I did briefly consider an ASRock motherboard I ended up settling on this for both the lanes for the NVMe and keeping my graphics card PCIE slot at x16! It also has amazing connectivity on the rear I/O shield. All that and my great experience with ASUS motherboards is why I picked this. In my opinion, you can't go wrong with ASUS motherboards.

I'm knocking one star off because I mainly went with this choice because of the onboard sound thats suppose to be better than a lot of boards as I was hoping to be able to go that route with this build but its horrible as onboard sound seems to have always been from anyone. Probably could have went with a little cheaper board if not hunting sound quality. Ended up just getting a DAC solving the problem and moving on but that just added to the cost. Cheaper board and a DAC would have been less money than this board alone. Otherwise the board seems to perform great. Bios is pretty simple to use. Kinda of a pain to update but not that bad just gotten use to one click updates from MSI. Nice looking board and has plenty of heat sinks and lots of M.2 slots if you need them. The LED logo is nice looking as well. Asus has been solid for me in the past so overall i'm happy so far.

I have used PC parts from most of the major manufactures. Some I have found to have equal build quality, but lacking in some other aspect. Normally horrible customer support or discontinuing product and not providing updated bios or drivers after that point. I have another Asus motherboard that runs my containerized applications. It's an ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero X570. Yes Asus makes workstation motherboards, but this was repurposed when I bout this new ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi board. I've been using it for about four months now and have had no issues*. No hardware comparability issues, and the default bios fan curves work great for me for a good balance of cooling and a low db noise level. The one complaint I have with every manufacture is their custom software. It would be a much better world if they all worked together to have a single dashboard for monitoring your system and keeping your drivers up to date. It would be even better if that project were fully open sourced. By that I mean the dashboard, not the drivers as many of those come from specific chip-set manufactures. That said the new Armoury-Crate dashboard application is far better than the one one that was originally available when I bought my older ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero X570. It's this type of continual improvement and listening to the community that in my opinion pushes Asus in front of the competition. While I do buy from Asus' ROG gaming line, I do so because I need the performance their products in this line deliver. I primarily work in Blender3D and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Studio. With this new ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi board works great for that in Windows, I often do a god bit of my work in Linux. That is what the asterisk above comes in. This is not a negative on Asus, but rather the chip-set manufactures in that there are many things that do not work in Linux at this moment. For the most part Asus can only influence the manufactures to work with the Linux community, and at the same time they cannot only use parts that are Linux compatible because that would mean not using the newest and or best components available. As for Asus' support, it's good. Everything could always be improved, but in the few interactions I've I did not get someone asking me for information that I had already provided in my original request. This is an issue I've had with many other companies and I hope Asus continues with good support and taking feedback from the community and content providers like Linuxx Tech Tips, GamerNexus, Roman (der8auer) Hartung. If you are looking for a new motherboard, go to Asus' website and use their comparison tools. This may not be the right board for you, but they certainly have one that is. Don't hesitate to contact their support to ask question. The biggest reason people complain about a company instead of a specific product is they did not do enough research and they did not reach out to the manufacture for advice. If that manufacture doesn't want to help you then move on. So far Asus has been helpful, even when they have had to tell me that my question, usually Linux related, isn't something they can answer and that I'm better getting an accurate answer from that community.

The amount of PCIe 5 lanes this board offers is the reason I bought it despite the fact I don’t have and currently don’t plan to get any PCIe 5 devices but I was looking at the next 4 to 6 years with this board and probably 2 processor upgrades during that time. First thing I did was update the bios as Asus did have an issue with 7800x3d that could kill the cpu. I didn’t both to look at what version was on it out of the box I just updated it first thing. Another reason I bought this board is I like to overclock but the 7000 series doesn’t use a lot power so on AMD this is probably over kill in power delivery. One of the things I wasn’t aware of when I upgraded to AM5 is it doesn’t currently support 4 sticks of DDR5 running at there expo settings. At can’t get my 4X16 expo 6000mt sticks to even run at stock 3600mt but that is likely the ram sticks not being matched well even though they are the exact same sticks. I had initially accidentally ordered sticks meant for intel systems. When I had issues running 4 sticks of G.Skill trident x 5 AMD expo sticks (two no problem) I decided to see what would happen if I used the T-Force Delta RGB kit which had the same CL30 latency of the G-skill. They work at there rated XMP speed of 6000mt CL 30 with zero problems. I’m pretty sure that was just luck but I’m very happy with the results. It’s probably not worth the hassle to run 4 sticks simply for duel rank instead of single rank. It is a little faster but not noticeable under normal use but if your pushing the system why not but again this is NOT supported by AMD AM5 at the time of this writing so it may not work without spending money on different sets of memory until you get 4 sticks that will run the overclock setting. I have no complaints about this board and would buy it again if I was building another system.