Tuesday, August 20th 2024
ASUS Launches AMD X870E and X870 Chipset Motherboards Across its Motherboard Brands
AMD's next-gen Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs have arrived, setting a new bar for gaming performance. For Gamescom 2024, we're introducing our X870E and X870 motherboard family. These boards unleash the full power of your new AMD CPU with upgraded connectivity, a host of smart features, and an arsenal of performance-boosting refinements.
Your most feature-rich, high-end options for an AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPU use the X870E chipset. The ROG Crosshair X870E Hero sits at the top of the stack. Premium metallic textures, nickel-plated surfaces, and second-gen Polymo Lighting II make this a true showcase motherboard. But this board doesn't just look the part—it's fully prepped to take your gaming to the next level with the power of advanced AI.
The ROG Crosshair X870E hero debuts our all-new NitroPath DRAM technology, a revolutionary DRAM slot design that gives you more headroom for extreme memory overclocking. A pair of PCIe 5.0 x16 slots stand ready for the fastest graphics cards of today and tomorrow, and they can be run in an x8/x8 configuration to support creators and AI enthusiasts ready to harness two GPUs. Five total M.2 slots, three of which support PCIe 5.0 drives, allow you to establish a fast, massive storage array, while a SlimSAS connector makes it easy to add even more storage. You'll find all our latest refinements for installing M.2 drives, including the new M.2 Q-Latch, M.2 Q-Release, and M.2 Q-Slide.
High-performance networking options, including WiFi 7 support and dual Ethernet ports, allow you to integrate your new PC into your next-gen network. A pair of onboard USB4 ports give you versatile options for connecting displays, storage drives, and more, and you'll find the header you need to hook up a front-panel USB Type-C port with Quick Charge 4+ up to 60 W. For unrivaled gaming immersion, the ROG Crosshair X870E Hero offers a SupremeFX 7.1 Surround Sound audio solution with integrated amplifiers and op-amps. Click here to take a closer look at everything the ROG Crosshair X870E Hero has to offer.
Four new ROG Strix motherboards are getting in on the action, too. The ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi leads the charge with a robust power solution that's primed for overclocking, premium cooling options, and our latest refinements that ease the PC building process. The ROG Strix X870-F Gaming WiFi and ROG Strix X870-A Gaming WiFi bring next-gen performance to more mainstream audiences, while the Mini-ITX ROG Strix X870-I Gaming WiFi gives builders a powerful small-form-factor option.
On top of these new options from ROG, we've prepared a slate of X870E and X870 motherboards from TUF Gaming, ProArt, and Prime. Click here to learn more about all these boards and everything they have to offer your next custom desktop PC.
Your most feature-rich, high-end options for an AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPU use the X870E chipset. The ROG Crosshair X870E Hero sits at the top of the stack. Premium metallic textures, nickel-plated surfaces, and second-gen Polymo Lighting II make this a true showcase motherboard. But this board doesn't just look the part—it's fully prepped to take your gaming to the next level with the power of advanced AI.
High-performance networking options, including WiFi 7 support and dual Ethernet ports, allow you to integrate your new PC into your next-gen network. A pair of onboard USB4 ports give you versatile options for connecting displays, storage drives, and more, and you'll find the header you need to hook up a front-panel USB Type-C port with Quick Charge 4+ up to 60 W. For unrivaled gaming immersion, the ROG Crosshair X870E Hero offers a SupremeFX 7.1 Surround Sound audio solution with integrated amplifiers and op-amps. Click here to take a closer look at everything the ROG Crosshair X870E Hero has to offer.
Four new ROG Strix motherboards are getting in on the action, too. The ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi leads the charge with a robust power solution that's primed for overclocking, premium cooling options, and our latest refinements that ease the PC building process. The ROG Strix X870-F Gaming WiFi and ROG Strix X870-A Gaming WiFi bring next-gen performance to more mainstream audiences, while the Mini-ITX ROG Strix X870-I Gaming WiFi gives builders a powerful small-form-factor option.
On top of these new options from ROG, we've prepared a slate of X870E and X870 motherboards from TUF Gaming, ProArt, and Prime. Click here to learn more about all these boards and everything they have to offer your next custom desktop PC.
70 Comments on ASUS Launches AMD X870E and X870 Chipset Motherboards Across its Motherboard Brands
Greedy a$$holes.
ASRock are usually the best here, so wait for their boards, although I expect theirs might be only a little bit better at best. ASRock's arrow lake board has been massively nerfed compared to Z690 on PCI-e connectivity (I would say overall as it trades 2 pci-e slots for 1 extra gen 4 M.2, very bad trade off, as well as losing SATA ports as well). :( so it doesnt bode well for AMD. I couldnt find a good picture or good info on ASRock's X870E Steel Legend board.
Considering riser cables are already a thing, I wonder if someone will ever release a cable that goes from M.2 to a riser PCI-e port, if its even possible.
Having NPU as a part of CPU is nice but with time it's space requirements will grow rapidly in order to satisfy ever growing performance demands for AI-related stuff).
To further push performance uplifts in new generations of CPUs, manufacturers will need space for new transistors, so everything non-critical (iGPU, NPU) will go outside the SoC.
The other way to handle this is to release a new, larger socket every year or two. Hopefully, that's not the approach that AMD would take, they commited to support one socket for 4-5 years.
I think we'll see dedicated AI expansion cards for regular PCIe slots just like now we have graphics cards, let's say in 3 years.
This way any (older) PCIe and Win11 compatible hardware would be able to run Copilot even without having NPU as a part of CPU SoC.
Okay, enough of my future-vision offtopic talk ...
Comparable Intel motherboard released bit less than a year ago. +$70 AMD tax. +$120 if we count current, not initial price.
THIS is what's hurting AMD CPU market share. More than any lackluster AM5 launch AMD themselves can do.
With
robberspartners like these, who needs enemies.Expect the X870E Hero to clock in at anywhere from $650 to $700 USD if the price of this Strix board is anything to go by. Totally crazy.
Model for model the E is almost 2x the cost of the x570 E.
I can remember when Asus initially split its gaming tier boards into the TUF, Strix and ROG lines. TUF was supposed to be "budget" with a focus on durability and gamers on a budget; Strix was the next tier up, with a nice balance between the TUF and ROG tiers; ROG was the top of the hill. But ever since the x570 days, I feel like ASUS has been trying to blur the lines between the ROG Crosshair tier and the Strix tier, because there's something wrong about having to spend $500+ for a motherboard in the mid-tier Strix brand.
Or is it just me?
Im sure plenty of people will fork over the cash for a hero this generation, I could, but the price is just idiotic. Pricing across the entire market is just disillusioned.
Notification #: KZ0000008672 (22.08.2024)
PRIME X870-P WIFI
PRIME X870-PRO WIFI
ProArt X870E-CREATOR WIFI
ROG STRIX X870-A GAMING WIFI
ROG STRIX X870E-A GAMING WIFI
ROG STRIX X870E-E GAMING WIFI
ROG STRIX X870E-F GAMING WIFI
ROG STRIX X870E-I GAMING WIFI
ROG STRIX X870-F GAMING WIFI
ROG STRIX X870-I GAMING WIFI
TUF GAMING X870E-PLUS WIFI
TUF GAMING X870-PLUS WIFI
ROG CROSSHAIR X870E HERO
Notification #: KZ0000008674 (22.08.2024)
PRIME X870E-P
PRIME X870-P
PRIME X870-P-CSM
ROG CROSSHAIR X870E EXTREME
ROG CROSSHAIR X870E GENE
TUF GAMING X870E-PLUS
As u understood, i can use the USB4 Port from the X870E Boards directly but only get Signal from the iGPU instead from my RTX4090? is There any solution to get it work with the new Platform?