Teardown of the MSI MEG X670E ACE Motherboard - Part 2 of the Review

A look at an AMD X670E motherboard from MSI, including a teardown and detailed IC analysis.
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[@LawrenceTimme]

Great detail content. Buildzoids videos are good but he only covers the vrm and repeats himself over and over, you covered the entire board on the same time. Great job

[@StevesHardware]

Thank you!

[@3SoccerPlayer3]

I greatly appreciate tear downs and explanations like this. This is the board I'm looking at getting so it was very informative to know what to expect.

[@PlaAwa]

the best thing about this board is that its existence allowed me to grab a NOS X570S mobo for a steal. renesas baby

[@GameTechReviews]

Excellent coverage going over all the specific chips on the board. This is my favorite X670e board by far. Unfortunately, it seems really hard to track one down.

[@StevesHardware]

Thanks!

[@abdulrabb1616]

@@StevesHardware which camera are u using ?? Nice crisp video..

[@StevesHardware]

@@abdulrabb1616 GH5

[@abdulrabb1616]

@@StevesHardware too expensive..can't afford to buy🙃

[@Eikonic_]

id like to see an indepth bios video for this board, as you mentioned. i just built a system with this, and iv gone deeper into the bios on this system than any other to date, so id love to hear what a more seasoned user has to say about it.

[@gerryleb8575]

I am committed to a board of this ilk when I build my next rig. This is the sort of overbuilt, carefully crafted board that will carry me into the next decade of gaming. Great video.

[@Pabula]

Really enjoyed the video, very entertaining with all your knowledge, you sold me the board, you got a new sub.

[@Marthos01]

someone that actually knows their stuff. and shows a lot of things, thank you.

[@samueldickes]

Wow, what a nice presentation of this board. Second to none, you have so much knowledge and what a nice motherboard. I just ordered the board.

[@choatus]

Love your in depth video mate!! I hope that you will be doing this exact thing on the Raptor Lake Z790 ACE board too, I have one coming next week with a 13900k, can't wait to get my hands on it and play around. Tinkering is so fun on these boards :)

[@abdulrabb1616]

Mine has come with the same spec..want a through teardown of z790 as well.

[@generalgrevous1984]

Stellar overview! Learned a lot. Thanks.

[@WilliamChoochootrain]

Man, it's really unfortunate that when I search Steve's Hardware, Gamers Nexus appears above you in the results lol.

[@StevesHardware]

It's cool, he does great work. I think I met him a while ago. There are a bunch of guys named Steve. Long ago Steve from newegg TV, Steve from futurelooks, and I would meet up at industry parties and say hi to eachother and people would give us looks, hey Steve, hey Steve, hey Steve haha we would all have a good laugh.

[@WilliamChoochootrain]

@@StevesHardware ahahaha nice

[@begna112]

Looking forward to a bios guide for this one. Haven't used an MSI board in about a decade and their bios guide pdf adds no extra detail at all.

[@GSP-76]

AM5 isn't that much different than AM4..same stuff like PBO, Curve optimizer, offset voltages, etc. MSI BIOSes aren't bad but they really do lack more fine tuning that you find on Asus motherboards.

[@reallyryan_]

This board looks so nice although I'm not a fan of the gold I wish it was just plain black it would have looked so much better!I would have bought it if it wasn't for the gold :/

[@mrmrgaming]

Nice board, really torn between this one and the Gigabyte X670E AORUS XTREME eATX.

[@Knarf2285]

Suggestion: Use a toothpick when pointing to these tiny chips. Otherwise, outstanding.

[@baldknobby]

Nice vid, thanks.

[@DirkPeki]

Hi Steve, unfortunately I can not finde any documentation if the m.2 Xpander Card can be used in the PCI_E3 slot when using only one ssd on the card. Would be great to know, cause I don't want to have PCI_E1 at x8. Also the cooling of the VGA would be improved I guess when there is no card in PCI_E2. Cheers Dirk

[@hassanaoude7895]

I couldn’t find the bios video, still planning to post one?

[@jonathanhall5670]

This board vs the Asus hero for the same price. Which would be better for video editing build?

[@juggsforlife1]

im wanting board parts like IO and so on that are on the mother board im trying to make a custom build but i dont want to buy full boards just to get specific parts off of them that would be a huge dump in money

[@keithd5181]

I ordered this board. Why does MSI make replacing the CMOS battery so hard though? It looks like you have to remove the whole motherboard to replace it! Not good design.

[@michaelcavalchire]

Am I going to have to tear down my Loop, remove my motherboard in a few years..remove the back plate...just to replace the CMOS CR2032 Battery?

[@croslowj]

I have a question about this board, hopefully you will be able to answer as msi can't. I just bought this board mainly for the looks and the audio . I do not have loud headphone output. The ess sabre should be able to make 32 ohm gaming headphones loud. My question is do I connect headphones to the front panel, or the rear io. And how do you control the dac. I have not seen anything in realtek app. Hopefully you can help. Thanks.

[@StevesHardware]

I believe front.

[@selforganisation]

Is the wifi card the same as Mediatek MT7922?

[@BonesoulTV]

where is the cmos battery?

[@ThatGuyBrighFly]

Does it have a ASIO?

[@LoginWong]

Will be better if you have take the wifi chip apart

[@StevesHardware]

Sorry about that, the board was still in pieces so I snapped a picture: steveshardware.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wifi-scaled.jpg

[@LoginWong]

@@StevesHardware Thanks👍🏻really great to have this information, did the motherboard slot is m.2 Key E for the wifi module?

[@StevesHardware]

@@LoginWong It looks like it is key-E, but no promises if another module will work, I haven't tested it.

[@LoginWong]

@@StevesHardware I have also brought one of this board, will test it will the board arrive