Monday, September 30th 2024
AMD X870E and X870 Motherboards Have Been Released, Prices Start at $199 Up To $699
Major AMD partners like ASUS, ASRock, GIGABYTE, and MSI have unveiled their latest AMD AM5 motherboards featuring the X870E and X870 chipsets. The new motherboards offer broad compatibility, supporting not only the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 series, but also the Ryzen 8000 and 7000 CPUs. These boards are aimed at high-end and enthusiast users, sporting optimized VRM designs and enhanced I/O capabilities, including WiFi 7 and USB 4 support.
The motherboards are all in ATX format; however, mATX/ITX models should follow later this year. They all support DDR5-5600 MT/s memory speeds natively, with some models supporting over 8000 MT/s memory speeds. In terms of chipset, the X870E series uses two Promontory 21 dies with support for USB 4 and Gen 5 GPU/SSD (24x Gen 5 CPU Lanes, 8x Gen 4 + 12x Gen 3 PCH Lanes). The X870 will use just one of the dies, retaining the Gen 5 lanes, however the PCH Lanes will be limited to 4x Gen 4 + 8x Gen 3.From the current batch of motherboards, if we look at prices from Newegg US, the cheapest is the ASRock X870 PRO RS listed at $199.99, while at the other end we have the ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E HERO available for $699.99, for which we already published our extensive review here. Stay tuned for more X870E/X870 motherboard reviews in the coming days. Our team has just grown with the addition of a new hardware reviewer.
ASUS Motherboards
Sources:
Videocardz, Wccftech
The motherboards are all in ATX format; however, mATX/ITX models should follow later this year. They all support DDR5-5600 MT/s memory speeds natively, with some models supporting over 8000 MT/s memory speeds. In terms of chipset, the X870E series uses two Promontory 21 dies with support for USB 4 and Gen 5 GPU/SSD (24x Gen 5 CPU Lanes, 8x Gen 4 + 12x Gen 3 PCH Lanes). The X870 will use just one of the dies, retaining the Gen 5 lanes, however the PCH Lanes will be limited to 4x Gen 4 + 8x Gen 3.From the current batch of motherboards, if we look at prices from Newegg US, the cheapest is the ASRock X870 PRO RS listed at $199.99, while at the other end we have the ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E HERO available for $699.99, for which we already published our extensive review here. Stay tuned for more X870E/X870 motherboard reviews in the coming days. Our team has just grown with the addition of a new hardware reviewer.
ASUS Motherboards
- ASUS PRIME X870-P WIFI - $249.99
ASUS TUF Gaming X870-PLUS WIFI - $309.99
ASUS ROG STRIX X870-A Gaming WIFI - $369.99
ASUS ProArt X870E-Creator WIFI - $479.99
ASUS ROG STRIX X870E Gaming WIFI - $499.99
ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E HERO - $699.99
- ASRock X870 PRO RS - $199.99
ASRock X870 PRO RS WIFI - $209.99
ASRock X870 Steel Legend WIFI - $259.99
ASRock X870 RIPTIDE WIFE - $279.99
ASRock X870E NOVA WIFI - $349.99
ASRock X870E Taichi LITE - $399.99
ASRock X870E Taichi - $449.99
- GIGABYTE X870 Gaming WIFI6 - $219.99
GIGABYTE X870 Eagle WIFI7 - $229.99
GIGABYTE X870 Gaming X WIFI7 - $249.99
GIGABYTE X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 - $289.99
GIGABYTE X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 ICE - $289.99
GIGABYTE X870E AORUS ELITE WIFI7 - $319.99
GIGABYTE X870E AORUS PRO - $359.99
GIGABYTE X870E AORUS PRO ICE - $359.99
GIGABYTE X870E AORUS Master - $499.99
- MSI PRO X870-P WIFI - $239.99
MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk WIFI - $299.99
MSI MPG X870E Carbon WIFI - $499.99
62 Comments on AMD X870E and X870 Motherboards Have Been Released, Prices Start at $199 Up To $699
Why are people so mad about having options and or boards they don’t have to purchase?
X670/B650 will drop in price, if you don’t need connectivity you have a cheaper buy in to the platform. I guess be happy AMD isn’t dumping socket support left and right like intel.
Sheesh…
If there’s anything to be justifiably angry about, it’s the damn pricing on all of tech the last 3-4 years, these boards included.
My primary B650E Aorus Master system has 6x internal M.2s, the secondary B650E Aorus Master system only runs 5x of them. Admittedly, it’s not your typical gamer use-case, but I doubt that I'm the only one who has such or similar setups.
Price will drop after a month or two.
Basically, no X870E is set up like that slide you linked. Most/all (?) boards that were released so far, drop the 2nd NVMe slot from the CPU, and connect the USB4 controller instead. To compensate for that loss, many boards bifurcate the PCIe x16 slot in some way or other. :banghead:
I assume, it comes down to trace lengths and the fact that most layouts place the second chipset near the bottom PCIe slots. That already happened around June where I live. Personally, I bought three additional AM5 boards, discounted by €50 to €80 each compared to the prices at the beginning of the year. :cool: If you want a specific model, you might already be too late.
Maybe we see another Gene, but I wouldn't hold my breath for many X870 or X870 µATX boards. However, mini-ITX gets some expensive love from Asus in the form of the ASUS ROG Strix X870-I Gaming WIFI.
Oh well, not that I need PCI-e 5.0 anyway. :ohwell:
USB4..... :roll:
Back to the original article though, I want to see real world benchmarks & stress testing with RAM overclocks in particular. Sources I've seen suggest improved memory tracers for X870E boards.
*dont mind me, I'm high Maybe you should pray for it, the god(s) will surely answer.
Cheap WD BLUE NVME in a 10gbps USB3 case on a USB 3 port is utilised a lot here while i do backups or when i boot from that drive.
I overpaid in summer 2023 for that backup drive.
I would have gone for a 20gbps nvme usb case when the price would have been more affordable. My mainboard has only one or two 20gbps USB 3 ports. The 20gbps usb nvme cases are still too expensive.
I create hole offline system images which are encrypted in around 6 minutes. Many years I had via 5gbps USB SATA SSD backup times with similar sizes which took me over 25 minutes. It's my user data and my system which i compile over 1400 packages from source code. Real life szenario different file systems, small and smallest files. There was a noticeable big improvement changing from usb 3 SATA SSD to usb 3 NVME SSD. I'm not sure if 20gbps usb3 case would make any sense. My desktop system noticeable hangs in daily use with higher compression and encryption on the file system (low end ryzen 7600X - 64GiB RAM - KC3000 2TB NVME drive as source).
I decompress a file from my USB3 64GB Corsair flash drive to my PCIe 4.0 M.2 drive & a 3Gb compressed file peaks out at a mere 200Mb/s at it's maximum speed according to windows 11 the whole time & yes all drivers & OS are up to date... . That's not even half the speed of UBS2 spec!
The point of my post is that is just does not translate into real world daily usage those super speeds up to 5Gb/s.. never happens. Then you'll get explanations that maybe its the USB cord your using or the flash drive is faulty or some other rubbish far from reality excuse. No, it is what it is as far as I'm concerned, marketing big talk to get consumers parting with their money for the next higher number generational upgrade.