ASRock AMD X870E Nova WiFi 7

[PaddieMayne]

Just wondering if anyone has dealings with the above board as I'm thinking of purchasing for a friend's build as its on sale at the moment. I've heard some worries about burning cpus ? Is it still a thing?

 

[rickyrich93]

I just bought it and so far no fried CPU but I am running into issues with my GPU crashing, I'm just trying to understand if its a BIOS thing, a psu things, or RAM thing. I am tempted to return the mobo to newegg and seeing if a different motherboard is worth checking out.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Does this help? The OP bought one and like you asked for opinions beforehand .......................

Thread 'ASRock PHANTOM GAMING X870E Nova WiFi opinions'

Feb 19, 2025

I’m seriously thinking of buying this board for an AM5 build. I’d like some input experience and thoughts in general about this board.
It will be my first AsRock board ever.

I’m thinking to pair it with a 9700X to get my entry into AM5 and later (2-3years) getting a Zen6.

9700X will not run stock at 65W TDP. I’m into tuning it with PBO, CO and also do some DRAM tuning also.

Primary usage is entertainment, gaming, video, movies. I know that X3D is the ultimate CPU for gaming but trying to keep budget in check as 9700X is almost half priced here compared to 9800X3D.

GPU is 7900XTX and...

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[evernessince]

It's one of the more popular X870E boards due to it providing features of competitor's $500 - $700 boards. Compared to the $500 taichi you are trading one x8 slot for an x2 and x1 slot. VRM is still completely over-kill, it still has an 8-layer PCB just like the Taichi, it still has 4 M.2 slots (although one is PCIe 3.0 x2).

The burning CPU issue seems to have been resolved by a BIOS update from ASRock.

 

[rickyrich93]

It's one of the more popular X870E boards due to it providing features of competitor's $500 - $700 boards. Compared to the $500 taichi you are trading one x8 slot for an x2 and x1 slot. VRM is still completely over-kill, it still has an 8-layer PCB just like the Taichi, it still has 4 M.2 slots (although one is PCIe 3.0 x2).

The burning CPU issue seems to have been resolved by a BIOS update from ASRock.

These were the reasons I went for one.

 

[Sol_Badguy]

It's one of the more popular X870E boards due to it providing features of competitor's $500 - $700 boards. Compared to the $500 taichi you are trading one x8 slot for an x2 and x1 slot. VRM is still completely over-kill, it still has an 8-layer PCB just like the Taichi, it still has 4 M.2 slots (although one is PCIe 3.0 x2).

The burning CPU issue seems to have been resolved by a BIOS update from ASRock.

And backplate, onboard power and reset, and very importantly no lane sharing for the primary GPU slot.

Crazy good, people went nuts for this and consequently it was frequently out of stock and always full price during Q1 2025. I don't know if it's the same situation today but I wouldn't be surprised if it is.

 

[evernessince]

And backplate, onboard power and reset, and very importantly no lane sharing for the primary GPU slot.

Crazy good, people went nuts for this and consequently it was frequently out of stock and always full price during Q1 2025. I don't know if it's the same situation today but I wouldn't be surprised if it is.

Didn't realize it had a backplate as well, you don't even get that with $500 competitor boards.

 

[_roman_]

It depends on the uefi version. You may verify yourself. I think it was limited to the X3d cpus.

 

[rickyrich93]

It depends on the uefi version. You may verify yourself. I think it was limited to the X3d cpus.

9000 series as well I believe

 

[Shakallia]

Got that board since November, never had a single problem, rock stable, very solidly built, no lane sharing.

 

[PaddieMayne]

Thanks for everyone's feedback, managed to buy one for £300 in a sale here in the UK, will update the bios to the latest as soon as I get it.