Packaging and Contents

The packaging is exquisite, with a large box covered in an MEG X870E Godlike X Edition sheath that gives an overview of the monster board and equally monstrous accessory set inside.


We then have a flip-open interior compartment that reveals the accessories and there are some very interesting and unique items here. However, we're not done with the box just yet.


The accessory sections swivel out to reveal the motherboard itself. It's a suitable amount of fanfare and rightly so given its asking price. First and foremost we have the M.2 Xpander-Z Slider Gen 5, which we saw at Computex, housing two M.2 PCIe Gen 5 ports in hot-swappable bays in an actively-cooled PCIe expansion card. There's also an EZ Control Hub, which boosts the number of fan and RGB headers, as well as a collector's stand for displaying a customized, illuminated heatsink. There's a little plush collectable MSI dragon and then a mountain of cables and small accessories.



The full list of accessories includes:

• 1× Wi-Fi antenna
• 4× SATA cables
• 1× M.2 Xpander-Z Slider Gen 5
• 1× EZ Control Hub
• 1× Anniversary Plush Collectable
• 1× Collector's stand
• 1× 1 to 3 ARGB splitter cable
• 1× 4-pin ARGB extension cable
• 1× 1 to 3 EZ Conn-Cable
• 1× EZ Link cable
• 1× EZ Control Hub SATA power cable
• 1× M.2 Xpander card fan control cable
• 1× EZ front panel cable
• 1× 2x Thermistor cables, M.2 Xpander card thermal pads
• 1× EZ M.2 Clips II remover
• 1× EZ Control Hub screw set
• 1× USB drive
• 1× MSI sticker set
• 1× Quick start guide