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ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi AMD AM5 X870 ATX Motherboard
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I think anything ASUS has a chance of burning up an AMD chip. I personally plan to get the MSI carbon for that reason.
I think anything ASUS has a chance of burning up an AMD chip. I personally plan to get the MSI carbon for that reason.
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You know, if people stop buying the this cringe garbage, manufacturers will stop making their highest end stuff look like this.
But allow me to jump ahead here:
1.0 out of 5 stars Would not recommend, I'm not the only one that has had serious issues
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2025
Style: STRIX|ATXSize: X870E-E|M.2x5|WiFi7|AIVerified Purchase
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.
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1.0 out of 5 stars All the negative reviews on this board are accurate
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2024
Style: STRIX|ATXSize: X670E-E|M.2x4|WiFi6EVerified Purchase
X670E-E Purchased brand 1 year after launch about 2 weeks after X870 launched. Tried to save $60.
I have been building custom PC's and custom loops for 10 years. Lot's of experience & lots of extra parts in my shop for troubleshooting.
--This build--
X670E-E
7800X3D
G. SKILL 6000mhz CL30 32GB
3090 FE
1200W CORSAIR PLATINUM RATED PSU
SAMSUNG SATA SSD 2.5TB
T7PRO PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSD 2GB
T300 PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD 2GB
PSU, GPU & Samsung SSDs were removed from a perfectly normally operating machine and had been in working order for multiple years prior to this review.
Assembled on an open air test bench (cardboard edition) to test components before constructing a new hardline custom water loop. I started off with a Corsair Dominator RAM kit of the same specs. 4800mhz RAM and stock everything else other than disabling Secureboot and making EUFI the windows shell mode. Updated BIOS to 2404 on first boot. Installed Windows 11 with all necessary drivers installed from a USB on first login and disabled Bitlocker. Ran 30 min of Cinebench R23 and 30 min Prime 95 without crashing, albeit there were a few seemingly small problems. Occasional screen flicker through mobo HDMI & system was hanging a little bit here and there but it did not crash. Looking back I think it crashed while installing Windows, but it restarted without me noticing and resumed right where it left off so I thought nothing of it.
Set up rest of PC and built loop. After full completion I booted it up, only to get stuck in a boot loop. Had to hard shut down but eventually got back into Windows. This is when it began to BSOD anywhere from 5 min to 1 hour of uptime. I was getting BSOD codes from so many different random reasons I didn't know where to begin looking. It was like a piñata of BSOD codes.
Troubleshooting Steps Taken
1. Swapped RAM DIMM Slots
2. Ran off one stick of RAM. Tried both sticks.
3. Changed RAM kit to G. Skill of same specs. Tried single stick operation.
4. Tried new PSU (confirmed 100% operational)
5. Tried new GPU (confirmed 100% operational)
6. Tried installing Windows 11 on 4 different drives. 2 of which are 100% operational.
I did not have another AM5 CPU at the time to slot in. Generally CPU would be the least likely item to be deflective so I will not test with another confirmed operational chip until everything else has been ruled out to prevent the possible destruction of a perfectly good AM5 chip due to ASUS having terrible QA.
Swapped to an X870E-E board and all problems went away. I had done a Cinebench R23 run on the X670E-E that scored 15,000. Scored just shy of 18,000 on the X870E-E. That is way too much of a gain for it be a mobo generational improvement. Especially when the X670 and X870 are using the same exact chipsets.
From my tests and other users similar issues with the same board over the entire lifetime of this boards manufacture I was able to deduce that ASUS X670 boards have inferior RAM engineering and trace setups. This led to instable memory issues, even on board approved kits. The RAM itself was completely fine so it would pass Memtest.
Also the Intel LAN and WiFi on this board are absolute trash and should be avoided like the plague.
Just spend the extra $60 or w.e. it is right now and get the X870E-E if you want to be fancy or go with a B650 if you want to save money. Don't be like me and try to be slick going somewhere in between.
ASUS please get your QA act together. If I had issues with the X870 it was going to be the last thing I ever purchased from your company.
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