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5.0 out of 5 starsMOBO with AM5 future upgrade path, Excellent overall Performance, Build & BIOS control options
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 March 2024
This whole platform is very powerful and is a great match for the Ryzen 9 7950X3D
In it's entirety, This Motherboard is a Feature Packed Platform with many Top spec technologies. It has been rock solid in its primary role as part of a home Compute cluster, (part-time gaming rig ;) running demanding compute workloads (VMs/Pods/containers) almost 24/7.
One part where I feel that maybe a few pcie lanes could have been sacrificed would have been with native 10G LAN, but with that said the actual Intel I255-v 2.5G Ethernet is still more than good, plus with the option to use USB4/Thunderbolt/Plugin USB 10G NIC or a PCIE slot it provides a lot of flexibility options.
Asus have done a solid job on the actual build quality itself, one key aspect are the heatsinks for the Gen5 NVMe slots, these are substantial/Beefy heatsinks and will actually function well as opposed to only being there as just part of the Aesthetics. The same for the VRMs Beefy heatsinks to help with any power demands you throw at this board.
The Board layout is very good with ideal positioning for fan headers, etc. QLED is another very nice touch with acts as a Temperature indicator as well as displaying BIOS Codes on Boot.
Connectivity
Asus have provided a huge number of ports on this board, with multiple USB USB3.2 / USB-C 20G /TB4. Lots of room for devices and future expansions. The labeling on the Rear IO shield is helpful and a nice touch. The Board also comes with WiFi 6E (.ax 160MHz spread) which works very well!
This goes to my point this MOBO gives you options and the flexibility you need.
Audio and DAC/DSP Chip.
This board comes offers some very nice features and 32Bit @ 192k plus a SPDIF for optical in/out. It has some very nice companion apps if installed via the ASUS ARMOURY Crate Utility. It has a very nice sounding Realtek package.
BIOS.
The BIOS of this motherboard is packed with features, many of which I am still yet to learn about. You have complete control to change almost every aspect you could ever need to customize for their needs. With the AMD CPU you can manipulate the Curve optimizer and have a say on how you want the power delivery to be applied. There is way to much to list here the number of features this motherboard supports is crazy, in a good way!
This whole platform is very powerful and is a great match for the Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU.
I am Happy with this purchase and the Build I finally settled on is as follows:
Spec's:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D
MOBO: ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E Gaming WiFI
RAM: 32GB (16GBx2) Corsair Vengeance DDR5 EXPO_I 6000MHz @ CL30 (Soon to upgrade to 2x32GB Kit)
GPU: RTX 3070 8GB
Cooler: AIO Corsair H150/170 320mm iCUE .. (I forgot if its the 150/170?)
NVMe: X2 WD SN850X [2TB] Crucial 4TB SSD SATA3. (Waiting for prices to drop for Gen5 before upgrade)
Case: Corsair 5000D (Very nice case BTW!)
PSU: Corsair AX1600i
Hope this helps. Solid BUY!