ASUS ROG Strix X870-A Gaming WiFi, AMD ATX motherboard, 16+2+2 power stages, DDR5 slots, four M.2 slots, PCIe 5.0 with full support for next-gen GPUs, WiFi 7, USB 20Gbps w/PD 3.0 up to 30W

Used this in my first PC build for over ten years (yes, I was due an upgrade). I was impressed by the connectivity, with well arranged sockets for NVMe SSDs, with heatsinks built in, making installation really easy.While hardly cheap, the features on this motherboard are worth paying for if you want a high performance, and highly upgradable, motherboard. It works perfectly with the latest 9800X3D and an RTX 5070 Ti.

This whole platform is very powerful and is a great match for the Ryzen 9 7950X3DIn 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.ConnectivityAsus 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 7950X3DMOBO: ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E Gaming WiFIRAM: 32GB (16GBx2) Corsair Vengeance DDR5 EXPO_I 6000MHz @ CL30 (Soon to upgrade to 2x32GB Kit)GPU: RTX 3070 8GBCooler: 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 AX1600iHope this helps. Solid BUY!

I love this board. I went for it over others or even an X870 board because you get two gen5 nvme slots off the cpu without messing with the primary x16 pcie slot's bandwidth like so many other boards. It has been rock solid and runs my 6000mhz ram at 6200 with tightened timings without issue. Running with a 7800X3D and it's worked perfectly since day one. 4 months later, several BIOS updates later and it is still fine.

This is the third x670 chipset board I have tried in the last year or so. I'm reluctant to review it as the previous 2 started well but soon became useless. So at the moment this board is working very well and justifies a good review. But as with the previous boards this one could also end up not good if it followed the same pattern and then you would end up reading an inaccurate review. Anyway for now......Everything you need to install the board is included in the box - easy. At first power up it immediately goes into safe boot mode asking for F1 key press. That in itself is an improvement over the MSi board which would hang and not enter BIOS. So on first power up it works as expected and boots up into Windows 11 without issue. I run 6400MTs DDR5 which is problematic when coupled with a new Ryzen processor. It has been years since latest Ryzens release and yet still the manufacturers are having to release BIOS updates to try and make things work. I don't know who is to blame but it was at release and still is at present a mess.So it is encouraging that this Asus Rog Strix board boots up and into windows without any DDR issues at all. There's not a lot else to say. It's performance is the same as the other boards when they worked. There's no sudden magical increase in anything. It does what it says. I bought it for the e-clock. The latest generation of Ryzens and associated hardware just doesn't work very smoothly - as in most people will have some kind of issue. On first release my Ryzen would run all 8 cores at just under 5700Mhz. It was great. Now it has been nurfed by AMD so that it is impossible to reach that speed anymore unless you have access to an external clock generator - hence e-clck on this Asus board. On the MSI board for example, if I was lucky enough to get it to boot, the processor would rarely achieve over 5400 - on single core! It is the same for this Asus board because all boards are constrained by the same idiotic nonsense from AMD trying to sort out their mess that should have been done long before release. - back to the same old story of industry not behaving and deliberately releasing unfinished products.Anyway, as this board has e-clck I can fool (essentially) the system into running faster because it doesn't know that it is!! It works very nicely, but .....I manually tune my system. It takes many hours but gives me the absolute best performance/efficiency setup. However, Asus have a few tricks for people that don't want to get into that level of detail. For instance "AI Overclocking". lol I laugh because there is no AI. It's just nonsense using buzzwords for marketing. There is "A". there is no intelligence attached to it. AI can self learn and adapt to unforeseen variables. This Asus AI does not. It is basically a firmly constrained set of algorithms to try and enhance your system speed. It does work. Within an Asus defined range of variables the system can actually boost it's own performance, but not to any level worth writing about and indeed still well below what was achievable on first release. And...... it is unstable. Random restarts or hangs etc only go to prove that Asus AI is NOT AI otherwise it would use its "I"(for intelligence) to prevent errors. That is the whole point of AI - which this is definitely NOT.Basically no current Ryzen setup will perform without issue. I guarantee that at some point something will go wrong, but so far with this Asus Rog Strix board all that has gone wrong is Asus own jiggery pokery such as AI overclocking.It is a nice change to press the power button and be loaded into Windows within a few seconds each time reliably. Long may it continue.