SALES Trick?! - 3 PCIe Gen 5 SSDs* .... well.. NO! 👉 ASUS ROG X670e-E Strix Motherboard Review

[@yumeN0dengon]

Another thing I found out looking at manuals while shopping for an AM5 mobo is the PCIe 4.0 X4 SB-CPU uplink. You mention it in passing in the video, but I believe it's actually crucial information because there's generally a lot of stuff crammed into that link - USB, SATA, PCIe and M.2 ports. I think this can become a real bottleneck with some heavy I/O workloads. LGA1700 is better in terms of PCIe lanes and MB uplink imho, but the downside with that platform - aside from the crazy power draw - is the very limited upgrade path as well as the i7-i9 stability/degradation issues - and of course the loss of trust that ensues. Anyway, nice board presentation/summary 👍

[@michaellindstrom5680]

I think the MSI X670 Carbon is pretty solid. 2 Gen 5 M2 slots without losing GPU lanes. No USB4 though, which is not a must have for me. You can run 2 GPUs at x8 for those that need it. I've had no issues.

[@MarceloLangame]

Thank you so much for this information. Now I can upgrade my setup. I use both Nvidia and Intel Ark for video editing.

[@Airwolf2030]

also has 2 more sata ports compared to asus so I might go for msi in the future but I'm gonna wait what X870 motherboard full lineup has to offer

[@yumeN0dengon]

Yep, it looks like it's one of, if not _the_ AM5 ATX board with the best specs for a workstation in that price range. AFAIK, the Asus Crosshair Hero packs a bit more features and a better VRM, but it also costs a lot more and has less native video out ports ; the ProArt Creator costs about the same but is lacking in some areas (including a much weaker VRM and less SATA ports, though it does include a DP input port) ; the Biostar Valkyrie is also comparable except with a much better VRM, but you lose the Wifi and it costs a lot more. The Carbon hits a really great balance.

[@G_MAN_325]

@@Airwolf2030 You may be disappointed with the x870 boards. Because they will natively support Pci Express Gen 5 x 16 and USB 4 you can expect less lanes and thus maybe a scenario where it may only have 3x m.2 slots and 4x SATA ports. They have to give and take somewhere. You will most likely have to go high end with x870e. PCI express gen 4 x16 is more than enough for GPU's. Even with the Gen 5x 4 m.2 I feel gen 4x 4 is more than enough for NVME drives. At this point in time all this is just marketing BS. The price of gen 5 m.2 drives are outrageous! FYI Gen 5 x8 is the same speed as Gen 4 x16. If you are on a budget check this x670 board out - MSI X670-P WIFI. The MSI Carbon in my opinion and others here is probably the best board but damn it's expensive.

[@jakubjandourek2822]

Well. And WHAT's the difference? When you use 2 Gen 5 and 1 Gen 4, still have 16 lines on X670E-E.

[@firsh]

This is a nice board. From the manual: "When M.2_3 is enabled, PCIEX16_1 will run x8 and PCIEX16_2 will run x4" so yeah, out of four m2 slots, one gen5 is useless, that leaves you with two gen5s and one gen4, that's a generous assortment if you want to upgrade in the future with more than one gen5 in the system evantually. Other boards in this category usually have one gen5 and 2-3 gen4, one of which may be restricted.

[@ArtyomExplainsEng]

Nice board overview. When is is the review coming out?

[@mcjaaxon]

Now i sound, like american ( in Scania in USA videos :) ) , buuuuut. Are they really building fan headers running on 24volts ???

[@cyberletho]

I plan to go with ASRock X670E Steel Legend.

[@Kapono5150]

Got a brand new X670E Hero for 370 been great so far

[@TheD4rkZEK]

Update? planning to get this motherboard and all I have seen is bad stuff about it

[@JamesireV]

2.5Gb Ethernet port for that price is insane.

[@larrydysondev]

i have the A version of this board( white and silver) and i can attest that the intel i-255-v lan port is terrible. it constantly is not detected by my ubiquiti router or cuts out on its own. i plan on getting a 10bge nic soon. outside of this, the motherboard is solid

[@haloharry97]

A version?

[@Eerbyrb]

@@haloharry97 X670e Strix A in this video Strix E

[@Anon-cv7ru]

Was comparing between this vs the ProArt X670E... in the end chose the ProArt as it has 2 x USB4 port, but lesser 10Gbps Type A port.

[@mazzerisk]

Great choice.

[@psylencecy]

i had the exact same dilemma for a music production station. ended up with the gaming because of i feel the gaming has better expandibility. if i need usb 4 or 10gbps i can add later.

[@Shadowman-1960]

Why does it matter? I'm new at this.

[@alrizo1115]

man, these pcie bandwidth sharing making me nuts.

[@mazzerisk]

this "marketing snafus" are why I went with the x670e PRO ART it was the only AM5 mobo that could simultaneously run the video card and two M.2 gen slots at full gen 5 speeds.

[@duncancampbell9490]

Agree - a much better deal !

[@NotSureBrawndo]

Thanks for the video. I got this mobo this summer and did not know about the little square pads, I populated slots 1,2 and 4 with Samsung 990PRO without the little pads in 2 and 4. Maybe when I upgrade my CPU I'll have a look at those.

[@duckiehedrick1804]

If I were buying now I’d be getting the X670E Taichi.

[@mehck-gk9yn]

4:35 this may be the cheapest current mobo that has post code LEDs... def one of the cheapest if not the cheapest. That's cool. You know what else is cool? Having post code LEDs on $250 motherboards, too.

[@X862go]

They don't do that anymore 😅

[@mehck-gk9yn]

@@X862go you've kicked me while I'm down. I can't believe you've done this.

[@nadtz]

Gigabyte had a board that was around $250 that had post code LED's not too long ago. It annoys me to no end that such a useful feature is being limited to 'high end overclocking' boards when it costs like $30 to add. You can get USB and TPM modules but those only work with older TPM headers to make it just that much more annoying.

[@X862go]

@@nadtz Same especially when overclocking is dead in 2024.

[@damnwhyisitsohard]

you forgot $100 mobo with the almost same specs

[@duckiehedrick1804]

I hope ASUS gets their QC and customer service sorted. In the meantime I am waiting for the X870 chipsets to arrive for my next build, and for the first time my computer won’t have an ASUS motherboard

[@ben-3467]

Sometimes if the pci riser cable is kinda mid then you can force to an older generation and get it to work. So if you didnt have video and you are using a pci riser cable you can use that toggle to swap to attempt to get video out... It is kinda dumb because you are spending at much as you are on the motherboard that why would you skimp on the riser cable, so probably more of a troubleshooting toggle.

[@LiannLee1666]

I just bougt that board...i am totally an ROG fan. All my pcs have ROG E bords with Intel. Noe made an all blck build with AMD and the ROG x670e E and AMD ryzen 9 9950X. For video its going to be Sapphire NITRO+ AMD RADEON RX 7900 XTX Vapor-X 24GB OR ASUS GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER PROART-RTX 4080S-O16G.. I like AMD cards and 24 gig mem instead of 16 gig??? ..now running on the onboard Video wich works xtremely well.

[@danmar007]

I have that board. It's great.

[@jksoftware1]

The ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI is about the same price and I think it has better value. 10 gig for one along with USB4/Thunderbolt.

[@TazzSmk]

lack of PCIe lanes on both cpu itself and motherboard as well is pathetic, I'm basically stuck on older X99 platform (i7-5820K supporting 28 PCIe lanes) because there I can use a gpu, PCIe quad-nvme ssd card, PCIe audio interface, and still could probably throw in a PCIe network card too

[@giovanniluigi791]

I have it and use it with 96GB RAM (2x48) at 5600mhz (Ryzen 9 7950x3d). It works fine at 6000mhz, (for the most part, to be completely 100% honest, since I have some issues wich I'm still trying to understand, but it seems it has nothing to do with the ram speeds) but I keep it at 5600 to be extra safe. Also, I use 3 Gen 4 nvme and leave that slot that shares bandwith with the GPU alone. Gen 5 nvme prices doesn't make much sense right now, so maybe only in the future I get one.

[@kramnull8962]

Does the 2nd channel of ram have a latency discrepancy like the LGA1700 motherboards? Where you naturally need to downclock the ram to run 2 kits of ram? And or buy $500 kits of overclocking ram?

[@cheekster777]

A bit on the pricey side for a X670E motherboard imo but plenty of 10Gbps ports (12!). Shame that they didn’t include 10Gbps Ethernet, especially at this price point.

[@cheekster777]

Thank you Lauri.

[@autracer]

Header @ socket is for the AMD boxed CPU cooler

[@voidkassadin5304]

I've been looking at this motherboard and their Crosshair because I am coming from Crosshair Hero VI which was around $250 when I bought it 6 years ago. I am flabbergasted at the inflation on Asus' Crosshair and Strix product line. Anyone has more affordable recommendations that rival these ones? So far I've read MSI X670 Carbon and ASRock X670E Steel Legend?

[@yumeN0dengon]

The Steel Legend really isn't in the same price range at all though. It's much more affordable, and you're giving up a lot for that. It's up to you to see if it's a deal breaker or not. The Carbon is the best spec/price ratio imho, but of course it makes no sense to spend $200 more for stuff you don't need.

[@BeersYourFriend]

I’m a bit of a PC Gaming noob, and when it comes to motherboards, I have always wanted to know why people upgrade their motherboards so often? If you’re gaming or video editing and everything is running perfectly fine, then what are some advantages to upgrading motherboards? I have a cheap 2 year old Gigabyte B660 motherboard, and have had no issues with it. If I were to upgrade, to let’s say the board featured in this video, will I really feel a massive increase to performance? The only way to see significant performance gains, no matter the motherboard you buy, is if you upgrade your CPU or GPU. Components have failsafes to throttle temperatures to protect themselves from breaking. Most boards I see are loaded with M.2 storage slots and multiple USB ports. So, what is the reason why someone would want to buy, or upgrade to an expensive motherboard? How can there be a drastic difference in performance, between a basic motherboard for only $200 bucks that works, compared to a $1,500 or higher motherboard? I’d love to see you do a live performance test, showing off the differences between 2 identical PC Builds, with the only differences being that one has a cheap $200 motherboard, versus the most expensive motherboard on the market using identical specs. I’m talking about using the same pc case, power supply, fans, memory, AIO, and with both running an Intel i9-14900K and Nvidia 4090, so that we as consumers can see if there is any differences in FPS for games, or differences to video editing. I just think it would be a fascinating video to watch. Anyways, thanks for all of the reviews you do that are just excellent, but let’s put some of these technologies head to head sometime. I am not expecting you to do this all the time, since it would be a total pain in the butt. I am just talking about a few per year that would be a nice watch. Cheers!

[@Kliq-n2s]

Totally agree 👍

[@theanglerfish]

Power to MB can't be only 12v not to mention issues with that connector

[@ed2fun]

Could be possible for you to make a ProArt with a 9950X build? all benchmarks shows is the way to go, plus 14900k instability and crashes are not solved yet, and intel customer support refuses to refunds but I do not care, they made me team red themselves with the mediocre performance of the 14900k

[@mainsource8030]

nothing about this is new, ive had it for 2 years and have 3 gen 4 nvme drives in it yet lose nothing and still have gen 4 x 16 for my gpu, you just cant use the nvme 3 slot. plus tons of usb ports and 3 x gen 2 usb internal headers and a type c and usb 3 header. the aio header can be changed in the bios. couldnt you run a gen 5 m.2 on the 2 and 4 slots and still be fine gpu wise also 10g wasnt as common 2 years ago

[@Dragunov1111]

That secret header is probably not tpm and by the positon it most likely is for bios flashing.

[@MrHonestZ1]

If I was going to spend $450 bucks plus tax I would go with the The next Gen motherboard and since we are close to the next gen boards coming out soon. And I have a question about what you describing on Gen 5 lanes I'm assuming if you have a Gen 5 m.2 would the PC first spot would be Gen 5 at 16?.

[@kramnull8962]

There's plenty of time. It will take 3 bios to make the x8xx motherboards right. Took a year to get the 7800x3d's working right. Then you see where Jay's 3 cents put the 13700k in all his tests this past week....... That's the reason Intel and AMD are fighting the 13700K so much... They need it to fail...

[@johnbhisitkul5290]

For me, I am hoping I can put an M.2 in the top slot and a gpu so that GPU still gets 16Pcie 5.0 lanes (eventually for a 5090 which should be pcie 5) And both GPU and M.2 are to the CPU.

[@milordas]

yes

[@olibertud]

Now it makes sense to have x8 GPU on 40 series.

[@milordas]

B650e-e have only 1 M2 gen 5, this one have 3. Its ok if PCI-E_1 goes to x8 stage, anyway its more than enough for high end gpu pci-e 4.0

[@laggmonstret]

So basicly if you want to run your GPU at PCI x16 you can only populate 2 M.2 SSD's?

[@Skott62]

Correct the 3rd one will cause the PCIe to drop down from x16 to x8. So best to only use three of the four ssd slots if you want x16 speed.

[@flaccus123]

​ This board has 3x5gen M2 slots and a single 4gen M2 slot. However you can use 2 5 gen M2's and the single 4 gen M2 no problem and still run GPU at 16x. The issue, as mentioned earlier, is if you populate the 3rd 5gen M2, this drops GPU to 8x because at that point you have used all 24 lanes from CPU (16x+4x+4x) . The newer x870e is even worse as 4x Gen5 lanes are used for USB4, leaving you only 20 lanes. So if your GPU is using 16x, it means you can only populate 1 of the Gen 5 M2 slots without compromising the GPU.

[@laggmonstret]

@@flaccus123 OK that sounds good for the X670E, but if true about the X870E I can't even consider it. That's pretty horrible for a new chipset!

[@firsh]

@@laggmonstret And if you still need USB4 on x670e, you could get that via an expansion card connecting through the chipset's expansion slot, but it'll be sharing the x4 gen5 that the entire chipset is using to comm with the CPU which should cover it just fine, no need to outright reserve it as it happens in x870e.

[@gerryf7015]

With all the customer service issues with both ASUS and Intel, do you have a recommendation on a creator build like your ASUS ProArt Z790 and Intel i9 13900K, but with someone else's MB and AMD. Both ASUS and Intel have a PR nightmare that I don't see getting fixed quickly. Both are too big and arrogant to listen to customers. Would need a few major SIs to convince them otherwise. Time to move on.

[@supertiger2607]

Would it be possible to have an elgato 4k pro capture card in the PCIE_3 slot, M.2 in Slot 1 & 4, and still be able to have the GPU in x16 mode in PCIE_1?

[@larsmench]

So just to make sure I got that right: If I have a GPU and 2 PCIe 5.0 M.2d and I plug them in, my GPU shares the bandwith with both NVMEs so it throttles down?

[@Parmoteera]

do these work with c-payne risers(For multi GPU)

[@adrianwolff2007]

Doesn't matter how many pcie gen 5 you have when the cpu doesn't have enough pcie lanes.

[@RobertGlotzbach]

I am thinking about buying this one together with a Ryzen 7 7700x. Can someone tell me please if the Asus GTX1060-06G-Gaming card will fit on it? I also have a Corsair Hydro series 110 cooler, will that fit, or will I need to buy another cooler?

[@MissxAdventure]

I plan to buy either this motherboard or the F variant and I have two concerns that have stopped me from pulling the trigger. 1 I've heard that there's issues with the ethernet intel i-255-v lan, I've read several discussion threads complaining about this although the threads were a year or two old. Does anyone know if this is still an issue? unfortunately I live in australia so Wi-Fi is not ok with me (neither is ethernet tbf but it's the best i've got). 2 does the panel which lights up on the motherboard when it's switched on stay lit up? and can it be disabled? hate rgb. Thanks

[@tecnicalk]

Theres a major issue with posting after serveral reboot and this is on latest stock bios do no't buy this mobo

[@MissxAdventure]

​@@tecnicalkcheers mate. I'll steer clear

[@TFMsnavy]

Its a shame the caps on the bottom of the board are shiny and all the others are black

[@shiftctrlhack]

WOOT WOOT ! LETS GOO.

[@icyeye1]

in mine country the price of that board is 530 euro... ROFL!

[@furynotes]

uh... You know what. I would rather pay more for built in thunderbolt Io at the rear. Then hunt down a proper asus thunderbolt card. Hopefully not only on ebay for $100+.

[@svsv6575]

NO USB 4

[@starcasm8590]

Own it, love it. I've also had no issues in the past with asus with 2 RMA's (a keyboard & a rog moba), so I think this whole asus fiasco is a lil exaggerated, but hey, it's something to make content with, right?

[@johnfirst3986]

I just bought this MB pair with 7800x3d because its a bundle and cheaper in my area. Do I need to Update Bios after installing windows 11? im currently scared of burning CPU/MB since i saw some issue with Asus MB. im not really good at Computers and this is my first build hope someone can answer my question and apologize for a noob questions like this, Thank you and godbless you

[@milordas]

Bios update is always good. I have done bios update few days ago after w11 install, the most important is to install amd drivers and set cppc to driver if youre doing not only gaming. with my 7950x3d it works like charm at undervolt with -15 on all cores. 36500 score in cinebench r23

[@valhallasashes4354]

I wouldn't buy the Strix X670E-E Gaming Wifi. I really don't like the spec nor the PCIE configuration of that board. I would buy the MSI X670E Carbon Wifi instead. Much better PCIE configuration. 2 Gen5 PCIE NVME (to CPU) + 2 Gen4 PCIE NVME (to chipset), all able to be installed at the same time without having to sacrifice half the bandwidth to the GPU slot. You still don't get 10Gb ethernet and your front USB-C drops to 10Gb, but honestly, I'd rather have the better NVME support without needing to eat into my GPU's PCIE lanes.

[@flaccus123]

The Asus X670E-F is the same as the MSI. 2 Gen5 NVME to cpu and 2 Gen4 NVME to chipset. All 4 can be installed no problem and GPU runs at 16x. The -E variant tested here, while it offers Q codes and an oversized M2 heatsink, it offers no advantage in terms of M2 capacity, as the 3rd Gen5 NVME will drop GPU to 8x. So you can only populate 3 M2 slots without compromise.

[@HookedonHD]

@@flaccus123 I just did the comparison on Asus's website and I am showing 3x PCIe Gen 5 M.2 slots versus 2x on the F series.

[@mantulis7767]

Never 👎 asus 3x times bay new and all have bugs! Thanks !)

[@Mobslayer-dp3nu]

34 seconds is crazy

[@nal_er]

The upcoming x870 hero needs a similar comparison with the x870 ProArt. Sadly the new pro art does not seem to offer an extra power plug for the extra GPU.

[@laxnatullou]

Any thoughts about ROG Crosshair Hero despite its price?

[@mangatom192]

I ain't touching any asus mobo or any asus devices anytime soon or the near future. My current mobo is having issues to say the least and my previous asus laptop also crapped itself in just a week then RMA'd then crapped itself again after 1 month after the warranty expired.🙃

[@kyledurning]

You want to build the perfect motherboard for the 2020s, here is the layout. First reduce the "spam" components (like junk mail, just hardware, never used) These components are, ethernet ports, SATA ports (no one uses spinning hard drives any more (unless its in a nas), WIFI on MB. Think of how motherboards have evolved so far. Audio card have disappeared and integrated into motherboards. Most motherboards have 4-6 SATA ports each take up 2 channels. Now days if you want to run, say a nas over LC fiber, you have to add a card taking up to 4 pcie lanes. If they ditch the 2 ethernet ports they can replace them with 2 SFP slots. With these slots you can have almost any port you want, etehernet, fiber, wifi, etc. Now take those extra channels from the SATA ports and give them to either extra m.2 or beef up the pcie lanes so you can do 2 16x slots, etc..

[@critic_empower_joke_rlaxtslife]

Just the price tag alone and I skip the board with no regret or afterthought. Buying at that tag is litterally giving right to more value for technology used over material used, in other words you don't mind getting funked over or have complete disregard for what $ means.

[@StereoGraph4]

I'm still buying it

[@Shuttterbugg]

No way...when u use 3 gen 5 pcie m.2s u have no bandwith for graphics card at sll

[@demonprincess5634]

where the PS/2 port?

[@ZomgZomg007]

for the price, the ssd setup is kinda lousy. first off the way it shares is messed up. second the bottom part has no cooler, so one side will be done well, the other side is melting, like venus. as always asus rog strix overpriced. i think the taichi light is way better option than this.

[@flaccus123]

Not true. A lot of boards, their Gen5 M2's only have thermal pads on one side (the heatsink where it matters) and not the base plate attached to the board. I have this board and use a Crucial T705 with the bottom heatsink (using the oversized one that comes in the box) and have zero issues with cooling even though there is no thermal pad on the board.

[@blackbeanburger3357]

should be less than half the price

[@piotr2951]

Looks like its designed for teens

[@mytglg6uh]

Looks like an entry level beginner class board.... Stick with MSI Meg class boards.

[@fracturedlife1393]

At least €100 of seven segment display

[@JayzBeerz]

Way over priced. Asus is trash dude.

[@darrenhankner5282]

NO WIFI 7?? FOR $450? WHAT A RIP. AND IT LOOKS CHEAP. SMALL AND CHEAP

[@kramnull8962]

Guess that would mean no bluetooth either.

[@AlfaPro1337]

ASUS = big no

[@DingleBerryschnapps]

Why? Because tech influencer Jay told you not to? 😂

[@AnuragCrafts]

Nope, not always

[@AlfaPro1337]

@DingleBerryschnapps There are other tech ytbers says to stay away. But hey, you are stayed away from a no name 500W PSU, instead of using it. You can't argued back ;)

[@specialist812003]

I’ve never had a single Asus board go bad and I’ve owned over 20

[@JayzBeerz]

@@specialist812003I owned 2 and both took a dump.

[@xGamerGeek]

Asus Rog Overprised X670E - E bla bla bla🤦🏻‍♂️

[@HectorDomino.]

ROG is for real Gaymers. That's why it's so Expensive.