Wednesday, August 28th 2024
MSI Prepares X870E "GODLIKE" Flagship Motherboard for AM5 Platform Processors
MSI is set to launch its most advanced AM5 motherboard to date: the MEG X870E GODLIKE. This flagship model is designed to support AMD's Ryzen 9000 series processors and beyond. The MEG X870E GODLIKE boasts an impressive 28-phase power delivery system with 110 A power stages, surpassing its predecessor's capabilities. This robust VRM design ensures a stable power supply even for the most demanding scenarios of next-generation CPUs. The motherboard's E-ATX form factor provides ample space for its array of features, including support for DDR5 memory speeds exceeding 8000 MT/s and a capacity of up to 256 GB. Connectivity is a strong suit for this motherboard, featuring eight USB Type-C ports with varying speeds of up to 40 Gbps. Storage options include five M.2 slots (two PCIe Gen 5 and three Gen 4) and four SATA III ports.
For graphics, the board offers two PCIe Gen 5.0 slots. MSI has also included several user-friendly features, such as EZ M.2 and PCIe release mechanisms, making component installation and removal a breeze. The M.2 slots are equipped with MSI's Shield Frozr heatsinks, ensuring optimal thermal performance for NVMe SSDs. Perhaps most intriguing is the inclusion of an additional 8-pin power connector, specifically designed to support future multi-GPU setups like NVIDIA's anticipated RTX 50 "Blackwell" series. While pricing details are yet to be announced, the MEG X870E GODLIKE is expected to carry a premium price tag, reflecting its top-tier status in MSI's lineup. With the high-end power delivery setup, overclockers will find this motherboard interesting, and users are planning to upgrade to next-generation RTX 50 series GPUs. Availability is also unknown as of time of writing.
Sources:
Wccftech, via VideoCardz
For graphics, the board offers two PCIe Gen 5.0 slots. MSI has also included several user-friendly features, such as EZ M.2 and PCIe release mechanisms, making component installation and removal a breeze. The M.2 slots are equipped with MSI's Shield Frozr heatsinks, ensuring optimal thermal performance for NVMe SSDs. Perhaps most intriguing is the inclusion of an additional 8-pin power connector, specifically designed to support future multi-GPU setups like NVIDIA's anticipated RTX 50 "Blackwell" series. While pricing details are yet to be announced, the MEG X870E GODLIKE is expected to carry a premium price tag, reflecting its top-tier status in MSI's lineup. With the high-end power delivery setup, overclockers will find this motherboard interesting, and users are planning to upgrade to next-generation RTX 50 series GPUs. Availability is also unknown as of time of writing.
28 Comments on MSI Prepares X870E "GODLIKE" Flagship Motherboard for AM5 Platform Processors
X870 without the E equals X670E just with forced USB 4.
Also new boards mean new inputs and features. Tons of 600 series boards are dated in this regard. Especially non-Extreme versions.
X870E is more or less a X670E rebranded with USB4, X870 and B850 are like the B650E with only one Promontory21.
PCIe 5.0 is the biggest thing most people care about in this context. Pretty much no-one needs tons of PCIe lanes today. Many board makers are even removing PCIe slots because most people use just 1 - for GPU and multi GPU is pretty much dead.
He was talking about X670 not X670E.
X670E is still good, and what I use. B650E is good as well. All the other 600 series chipsets, are obsolete in my book.
X870E and X870 both look good and supports PCIe 5.0 fully, with USB 4.
Asus don't even make good AMD boards.
X670 and B650 don't have PCIe 5.0 for the GPU, X670E and B650E has. Just like X870E and X870. Buying a motherboard today without PCIe 5.0 for the GPU makes no sense, unless you don't buy premium GPUs. I do.
X670 is 16x 4.0 (GPU), 4x 5.0 (M.2), 4x 5.0.
Also there's improvements you don't know about yet, since AMD has not launched 800 series chipsets officially. They will do that next month. They will be optimized and ready for 9000 + 9000X3D. No point in buying old 600 series chipset boards anymore, unless they are dirt cheap maybe.
X670E boards are no different in price today vs when they launched. I am sure that B650 boards may drop in price but there is nothing in X870E to tempt someone that has a X670E to replace it.
AM5 was plagued with expensive motherboards for a looong time after launch. Boards are much cheaper today.
And yeah, Asus don't really make good AMD boards and most 7800X3D that was fried on release, was on Asus boards as well.
Asus had tons of firmware bugs on their AMD boards. RMA has been crap too.
MSI, Gigabyte and AsRock are usually the way to go for AMD CPUs. This is nothing new really.
Asus looks to step up their AMD game with 800 series boards tho.
Zen 5 is power limited and needs OC to unfold true potential, especially 9700X which is massively held back by its 65W limit
And there's still tons of people that OC and gain 5-10% performance for free
Just because you don't need high end motherboards, does not mean others don't
X870 confusingly ist not like X670E or X670, but is B650E with forced USB4
X870E = X670E+USB4, X870 = B650E+USB4, B850 = B650 and B840 = A620. There is nothing like X670 without PCIe5.0 or USB4 anymore.
In what way, then, is X870E far superior? It's just the same old chipset with forced USB4 via AMS4242 onboard. Most boards now offer WiFi7 instead of WiFi6(E), but very few offer Realtek 5GbE instead of 2.5GbE.
ASM4242 is always connected to Gen4x4 from the CPU, which previously have been used for a M.2 slot, often Gen4x4, but sometimes Gen5x4 like the first one. So you lose 4 lanes Gen5 for something that doesn't neer them.
The boards that have been shown have mostly been X870, so only one chip, and fewer X870E with two chips than X670(E). Lane sharing is even more extreme now an there rarely are more than two PCIe-Slots or more than two independent M.2,
With USB4 integrated, the Asus ProArt Creator is the only board with true USB4 and 10GbE revealed yet. It's X670E predecessor had an Intel JHL8540 with PCIe3.0x4 for TB4/USB4.
There might come an Asrock Taichi with 10GbE, perhaps if Gigabyte will offer a Xtreme it will have 10GbE and since both the MSI X670 Godlike and Ace had 10GbE, their X870E successor will also have it.
If it's true then pointless, I will buy X670E instead.
look for the asterisks
USB4 is offered by an ASM4242 controller via PCIe4.0x4, but it always seems to be linked to the CPU instead of the Chipset, so you lose 4 lanes of the CPU that have been used for an M.2-slot on almost all X670/B650-boards.
On X870E and X870 you always have a PCIe5.0x16 and a M.2 with PCIe5.0x4 from the CPU, same as with X670E and B650E. Any additional M.2 with PCIe5.0x4 now comes from reducing lanes of the x16 to x8. Many new board offer two additional M.2 by giving you that option, which was much rarer on X670/B650.
The rest should be the same as X670E and B650E, but you don't see any new board with more than 4xSATA (there were few like that with X670 already!) and most of the X870 only have one additional PCIe-slot and one M.2 from the Chipset. Since X870/B650(E) only has 8 lanes PCIe4.0 and 4 lanes PCIe3.0, which can be turned into SATA-Ports, but need at least two lanes for 2.5GbE and WiFi, you can't even have 4xSATA, one M.2 PCIe4.0x4 and one PCIe4.0x4-slot at the same time. For more, you need X870E/X670(E).
In my opinion it doesn't make much sense to have more than one NVMe-SSD linked to the chipset either way, since the connection between CPU and chipset is only PCIe4.0x4 as well.