Are X870 Motherboards EVERYTHING WE WANTED?! | ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi Review

AMD X870 and X870E motherboards have finally landed, and in this video, I take a deep dive into the ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi to see whether the wait was worth it.

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[LOLHoneybadger]

One thing that a lot of people are unaware of until they notice (or read the manual), if all 3 of the top m.2 slots that are connected to the cpu directly (lanes wise) are occupied, the gpu primary slot is reduced to x8 speed. Should be noted that really only has a meaningful effect on performance for an RTX 4090 (and even on that it's less than 5% if memory serves) and perhaps the 5080 & 5090 of next Gen. But it's something to think about if you actually plan on using all 5 m.2 slots (which I do when I get this board next month).

[shinobi]

I absolutely appreciate you powering the board up. When doing a new build i take the lighting into play.... this makes it so much easier.

[beedoox]

My Threadripper 2950X system died very recently, so time was short to research and buy the right/best parts. MSI and ASRock 870E boards don't appear to be available here, yet, and I didn't feel like parting $1299 for the Asus Hero 870E, so I plumped for the 870E Strix. Only after bought was I able to start researching what I was getting - and it surprised me that when compared to the MSI MEG 870E and ASRock Taichi, the Strix board lacks PCI lanes (my understanding), so additional M.2 drives will start to hijack lanes from the GPU?

[AlexGous]

A thorough review of the X870E chipset. Thank you, Tank!

[Pokeybumgank]

Noob question here - With the 2nd and 3rd M2 slots sharing bandwidth with the PCIEX16(g5) which the GPU would connect into, does that mean that if you connect two SSD's into those M2 slots, you will throttle your GPU? My build will utilise x2 2TB SSDs, so if I connect one into M1 and one into M2, GPU will still run at x16?

[Slademon]

My board is not even able to boot past stock ram speed.

[incogneeto]

Really enjoyed this review and subbed. Was surprised to not see at least 10x subs because of the quality of the video.
I'm looking to upgrade my build after 8 years (which means buying everything again and putting it together), and I want to get the best parts. I'm getting the 5090 when it comes out (thank you christmas and birthday money for getting me through this difficult time) and I'll get the 9800X3D as they're clearly the top of the line for gaming. But I'm not sure which motherboard I should get (and the other parts, but that's research I'll do the coming two months I suppose). Is this the motherboard I should go for, or should I consider something else?

Again, thanks for a great vid!

[discardedmeat]

I can see a lot of comments below saying a board like this isn't worth it but man, I gotta disagree. Its visibly a very premium board with tonnes of machined metal heatsink, overkill hardware and I'd honestly pay an extra £50 for that rear IO alone.
Sure you don't need a board like this, but you dont need a 7800x3d and 4090 etc either. Value is not the point of enthusiast level gear.
Very well put together review, really glad I found your channel.

[aleksdeveloper]

I think it is worth it x870e because this is exactly what I was missing for more than 10 years, always having problems with USB ports buying cheap motherboards.
This is the reason why these motherboards cost so much.

[Great_America]

Can’t get 128GB (4x32) to post on the X870 Hero mobo with the latest BIOS 0505. I sure hope Asus gets this fixed faster than they did with the x670 version.

[turbo]

someone explain the lane sharing set up on this one to me, GPU in the pcie slot, first SSD in m2_1? extra SSD in m2_4?

[JosephKarthic]

Why it doesn't have dp but f and a boards have it?

[turbokiller]

Guys, please help me make a decision: Currently I have ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI and I want to buy the new release 9800x3d. Should I also change the MB from what I have to: ROG STRIX X870E-E GAMING WIFI? I literally don't see any real difference (i compare them on the site) that I NEED to change it but maybe it has something I'm missing that the new CPU can take advantage...

Thank you.

[rkwjunior]

Do i need an 870 series chipset to maximize a 9800x3d? Will the 670 work as good?

[Noxatik]

My X870e-e isn't detecting my 4070 SUPER. Any ideas why?

[Wckd]

Sorry for the basic question, but I just want to confirm. Would you see any issue running 1 NVME in slot 1, another in slot 4/5 and a 10gb NIC in the bottom PCIe? Being I live in Japan I have 10gb to my house (about 60$ a month) and dont want to degrade the speed at all by saturating PCIe lanes.

[rdtheskald]

The thing is most of the x870e boards cost exactly the same as their ancestor x670e so I will 100% buy a x870e which is future proof too.

[GreenCrusher]

can you use all 4 sata ports & all m.2 ports for drives all at the same time ??

[boedilllard]

Would it have killed them to throw in another PCIe card slot?

[lumivar]

Hi, thanks for the review. Looking at this motherboard, and would love to know what the flexkey options are in BIOS? The manual doesn't say. I'm hoping that it can be used as a "safeboot" or a clear cmos button. Do you know?