ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi AMD AM5 X870 ATX Motherboard 18+2+2 Power Stages, Dynamic OC Switcher, Core Flex, DDR5 AEMP, WiFi 7, 5X M.2, PCIe® 5.0, Q-Release Slim, USB4®, AI OCing & Networking

The ASUS ROG Strix X870E‑E Gaming WiFi is a premium motherboard, and while it definitely sits on the higher end of the price range, it delivers the kind of quality and convenience that make the investment worthwhile. One of its biggest strengths is the AI overclocking system. Instead of spending time fine‑tuning CPU voltages and stability parameters manually, the board’s AI tools handle the heavy lifting for you. In practice, this saved a significant amount of time and still produced stable, optimized results—perfect for users who want high performance without hours of trial‑and‑error tweaking. Beyond that, the board offers: • Excellent build quality with a clean layout and strong power delivery • Wide connectivity options, including next‑gen PCIe and multiple high-speed USB ports • Great thermals and robust heatsinks for sustained performance • Polished BIOS with intuitive controls and advanced features for enthusiasts If you're looking for a top-tier AM5 motherboard that combines performance, automation, and reliability, the X870E‑E Gaming WiFi is an outstanding choice—especially for users who appreciate ASUS's AI tuning features, 9/10 for a product review from me.

I've used almost exclusively ASUS motherboards going all the way back to the 1990's and I don't honestly recall ever having problems with them. I've purchased everything from the top end ASUS motherboards to their entry level motherboards over the last 30 odd years (though I've tended towards their high end boards since the early 2000s) I can say they all just work and do what they claim they will do. This board continues that tradition of rock solid performance from ASUS and I'm very happy with my purchase. I also enjoy my first opening of the motherboard box like a kid on Christmas, and this board really stood out as one of the best looking boards I've purchased in the last 10 years or so. The first thing I noticed with this one after the obvious visual appeal was the weight. I was upgraded from the X570 to the X870E with this and this motherboards has a lot of aluminum and a lot of weight! To call this thing chonky is an absolutely fair statement. The trade of with all that aluminum of course, is cooler temperatures for your VRM (which is totally overkill for the 9950X!) and cooler temperatures and better performance of your NVMe drives both Gen5 (My Gen5 NVMe drive stays at a relatively cool 42c!). My Gen4 NVMe drives hover right around 44c, I was worried about the heat in the Gen5, turns out with this particular board that is a non-issue. The latest BIOS (1003 as of this writing) improves gaming performance with the 9950X and works beautifully to park your unused cores to better improve your frame rates. If I had one complaint with my upgrade is that training DDR5 is a slow process. Fortunately you only have to do that once (more if you're tweaking your memory) but for me it's select the non-tweaked profile in BIOS and it's been rock solid since (I had issues with the tweaked profile crashing games, and switched to the standard one, and the problems went away). I settled on this particular board as it had all the features I was looking for, at a price I thought was reasonable. I did my research and while I did briefly consider an ASRock motherboard I ended up settling on this for both the lanes for the NVMe and keeping my graphics card PCIE slot at x16! It also has amazing connectivity on the rear I/O shield. All that and my great experience with ASUS motherboards is why I picked this. In my opinion, you can't go wrong with ASUS motherboards.

The ASUS ROG Strix X850E-E is an absolute powerhouse and easily one of the best high-end motherboards I’ve ever used. From build quality to performance and features, it delivers excellence across the board. First, the **build quality and design** are top-tier. The board feels incredibly solid, with premium components, reinforced PCIe slots, and excellent heatsink coverage. The ROG Strix aesthetic is clean and aggressive without being overdone, and the RGB lighting is tasteful and easy to sync with ASUS Aura. **Performance is outstanding.** Power delivery is rock-solid, making it perfect for high-end CPUs and overclocking. Even under heavy workloads or gaming sessions, the system remains stable and cool thanks to the excellent VRM design and thermal management. The **connectivity and features** are where this board truly shines. With PCIe 5.0 support, blazing-fast M.2 slots, USB4/USB-C options, Wi-Fi 7, and 2.5G Ethernet, it’s completely future-proof. ASUS BIOS is intuitive and powerful, making tweaking, tuning, and setup very straightforward—even for users who aren’t hardcore overclockers. Audio quality is also impressive, delivering clear and immersive sound, and the onboard troubleshooting features (Q-Code, BIOS FlashBack, etc.) make building and upgrading stress-free. Overall, the ASUS ROG Strix X850E-E is a **premium motherboard that justifies its price** with exceptional performance, reliability, and cutting-edge features. If you’re building a high-end gaming or workstation PC and want a board that will last for years, this one is an easy recommendation. Thank you for this motherboard

I have had nothing but issues with certain features on this motherboard since I got it, Asus Support pretty much gave me 2 possible solutions, I tried both while in chat support with them, and after they both failed to fix the issues, their answer was "RMA it" - like I can afford to have down time on my only PC lol Things that are great about this board: ECLK OCing on the CPU works well, I have a 7800X3D in it currently and I can push an extra ~200MHz over the normal 5025MHz max boost a 7800X3D has, without issues, and it's stable. The software suite - some hate Asus Armory Crate, and I used to be one of those people on older generations of their software, but it's better now in my opinion. RGB control is pretty good, the different settings you can use are quite nice, I in particular like Starry Night with the background set to off/black, and the colors set to Random, looks pretty awesome. Fan control is also very good, you can set each fan header to it's own curve, and control that curve with multiple temperatures at once (so if the CPU or GPU gets hot, you can have the fans ramp up based off both of those at the same time, so whether you're gaming or doing something CPU intensive, the fans will ramp up). The Q-Release slots are nice, no more having to try & get that stupid GPU-slot lock to pop off so you can get your GPU out. Before we get in to the bad, I should note I use this system for a combination of rendering (which is why the 9950X3D is an incoming upgrade) and gaming. What were the issues I am having you ask? Well, apparently it's all related, at least partially, to RAM settings/clocks, BUT the primary issue is that the 2nd & 3rd M.2 slot are completely messed up unless I run the system with NO XMP/DOCP/EXPO settings, and even then if I manually tune the RAM, it STILL happens randomly. This has happened with two different RAM kits of different sizes, I had a 2x16GB CL30 6000MHz kit, and I'm not running a 2x48GB kit that I have set to CL30 at 6000MHz as well. Sometimes the 2nd & 3rd M.2 slots will just not work at all, sometimes they'll run at PCIe 1.0 x4 (which in case you didn't know, is BASICALLY physical HDD speeds, less than 500MB/s maximum speed). If I enable the EXPLICIT setting in the BIOS to ENABLE both of those M.2 slots & set the GPU slot to x8 speed ... it disables both slots & still sets the GPU slot to x8 speed. If I enable the setting to DISABLE the slots and set the GPU slot to x16, it will still show them as being accessible half the time. Any time I set the RAM speed to what it should be (6000MHz) those 2 M.2 slots will randomly appear or disappear from one power up to the next - sometimes from one REBOOT to the next. This has happened across multiple BIOS updates, including 2 BIOSes that Asus said would "fix the issue" later on. I went back to Asus because I wanted to give them another chance after the whole debacle they've had with poor customer service etc in past years - now I'm regretting ever making that decision. I will be purchasing a different motherboard (liikely an Asrock Taichi) at some point in combination with a 9950X3D, at which point I'll be RMAing this motherboard with Asus, and reselling the replacement as I want nothing to do with it. I highly recommend NOT purchasing this motherboard, if you search Asus Support forums, I am not the only one that has experienced these issues, there's dozens of other users on there that have experienced the same things, and who knows how many others that just "haven't noticed" because they're not trying to use all 5 M.2 slots.

I have used PC parts from most of the major manufactures. Some I have found to have equal build quality, but lacking in some other aspect. Normally horrible customer support or discontinuing product and not providing updated bios or drivers after that point. I have another Asus motherboard that runs my containerized applications. It's an ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero X570. Yes Asus makes workstation motherboards, but this was repurposed when I bout this new ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi board. I've been using it for about four months now and have had no issues*. No hardware comparability issues, and the default bios fan curves work great for me for a good balance of cooling and a low db noise level. The one complaint I have with every manufacture is their custom software. It would be a much better world if they all worked together to have a single dashboard for monitoring your system and keeping your drivers up to date. It would be even better if that project were fully open sourced. By that I mean the dashboard, not the drivers as many of those come from specific chip-set manufactures. That said the new Armoury-Crate dashboard application is far better than the one one that was originally available when I bought my older ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero X570. It's this type of continual improvement and listening to the community that in my opinion pushes Asus in front of the competition. While I do buy from Asus' ROG gaming line, I do so because I need the performance their products in this line deliver. I primarily work in Blender3D and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Studio. With this new ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi board works great for that in Windows, I often do a god bit of my work in Linux. That is what the asterisk above comes in. This is not a negative on Asus, but rather the chip-set manufactures in that there are many things that do not work in Linux at this moment. For the most part Asus can only influence the manufactures to work with the Linux community, and at the same time they cannot only use parts that are Linux compatible because that would mean not using the newest and or best components available. As for Asus' support, it's good. Everything could always be improved, but in the few interactions I've I did not get someone asking me for information that I had already provided in my original request. This is an issue I've had with many other companies and I hope Asus continues with good support and taking feedback from the community and content providers like Linuxx Tech Tips, GamerNexus, Roman (der8auer) Hartung. If you are looking for a new motherboard, go to Asus' website and use their comparison tools. This may not be the right board for you, but they certainly have one that is. Don't hesitate to contact their support to ask question. The biggest reason people complain about a company instead of a specific product is they did not do enough research and they did not reach out to the manufacture for advice. If that manufacture doesn't want to help you then move on. So far Asus has been helpful, even when they have had to tell me that my question, usually Linux related, isn't something they can answer and that I'm better getting an accurate answer from that community.

Amazing motherboard! I didn't expect it to be big but it has a lot of options compared to your standard ATX motherboard, absolutely no issues, motherboard also looks premium. The drivers are also simple to install thanks to their ASUS driver hub that downloads the required drivers from a browser, which is really cool and convenient! WIFI and speeds are pretty great as well. Although I eventually switched from ATX to Mini-ITX to make my PC build smaller, as my pc was too heavy to carry, even my standing desk couldn't raise itself because of the case!

Bought a "Like-new" ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E, and it arrived nearly destroyed. The m.2 heatsink was loose in the bag with the board, half the socket pins were bent, and dents/scratches/scuffs on nearly every part. Tried the "like-new" used lottery again, and the second one arrived in like-new condition, no damage, never used, stickers still on all the m.2 thermal pads. It's a great board. Tons of IO, rear ports are plenty. USB output is very clean for my audiophile gear. My one complaint is that the first GPU slot is 1 PCI slot lower than most boards due to the m.2 layout. My GPU now sits very close to the right floor of my Lancool 207 case. The right GPU fan doesn't have as much air to breathe due to the lower GPU slot. They should fix this for better mid-tower case compatibility.

ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi [EDIT: after reading all of the $1000+ boards' manuals, along with all the other X870 manuals, this board has the best mitigation of limitations of all the boards. To me, it offers the best solution for limited PCIe bandwidth, and keeps every premium feature.] Has great features, but limited functionally. There are 5 nvme slots, 3 are gen 5, and 2 of those share bandwidth with the only pci-ex16 gen 5 slot on the board. This means that if you use either of the shared bandwidth m.2 slots, then the gen 5 pcie gets downgraded to x8. I am only using the independent m.2 slot because of this. There are only 2 pcie slots in total, the other being a pcie x16 4th gen. I haven't tested the USB 4.0 yet, which is why I bought the board, and I easily switched the ai overclocking on. AI overclocking is amazingly effective, and easy to use. I'm overclocking every system component that I can, and I did it all with a few clicks. Amazing performance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The major headache Running this board with CMK64GX5M2B6000Z30 RAM was a headache and a half. I had to flash the bios with the most recent version, hard reset the board's RAM interactions by removing the power and CMOS battery then holding the power button for 60 seconds, then train an individual stick (the first stick would not train for an hour so I switched them), then add the other stick creating a 2 stick arrangement, and then the other stick was trained. As mentioned, the first stick could not train, so I had to switch the sticks, and luckily the second one trained. It took about 7 minutes for each successful stick training period. I then had to set up my system in the bios again. But I'm overclocking everything with the board's AI overclocking, and everything is extremely fast. I'm very happy with the result.