ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme Motherboard Pictured

[btarunr]

Here are some of the first pictures of the ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme, the company's new flagship Socket AM5 motherboard. Until now, the company's AMD 800-series chipset motherboard lineup topped off with the ROG Crosshair X870E Hero for connectivity and the ROG Crosshair X870E Apex for overclocking chops, and the company is looking to push things up a notch, especially given that AMD's Ryzen 9000X3D series is established as the fastest processor series for gaming PC builds. This board is designed to compete with the likes of the MSI MEG X870E Godlike and the GIGABYTE X870E AORUS Xtreme. It is firmly into the E-ATX territory in terms of dimensions. The board draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX, two 8-pin EPS, and an 8-pin PCIe power. It uses the company's most powerful CPU VRM solution for the AMD platform, above even the 22-phase solution of the Hero.

The ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme comes with a large number of 4-pin PWM fan and water pump headers. Storage connectivity includes one M.2-22110 Gen 5 on the board with a chunky heat pipe-based cooler; a second Gen 5 and two Gen 4 slots on the board, and a DIMM.2 module that provides additional slots. The expansion slots provided are a PCI-Express 5.0 x16 and a second PCI-Express 4.0 x4 (physical x16). There are a boat-load of USB ports, including a couple of 40 Gbps USB4, 20 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, and several 10 Gbps and 5 Gbps USB 3.2 ports. Networking interfaces include Wi-Fi 7, a 10 GbE, and a 5 GbE. The board features the company's most premium onboard audio solution that probably combines a Realtek ALC4082 with an ESS ES9219 DAC for the front channels, an audiophile-grade OPAMP, and premium capacitors. The board offers many of the exclusive overclocker-friendly features found in the company's ROG Maximus Extreme motherboards. A star-attraction is its 4-inch true-color display over the VRM heatsinks, which can be programmed to show anything. There is no word on availability or pricing.



View at TechPowerUp Main Site | Source

 

[jesdals]

The price will surely be extreme but thats apperently 2025 for all of us

 

[freeagent]

The Hero is like 1100 Polar Pesos with tax, I can only imagine the pain this board would cause your credit card.

 

[Timbaloo]

Who needs two kidneys after all...

 

[btarunr]

Price guesstimate: Hero is $750, so this one should be $1000-1200.

 

[Bobaganoosh]

There is no word on availability or pricing.

This is one of those "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" situations.

 

[fevgatos]

i took a look at ROG CROSSHAIR X870E HERO specs and it looks like its paying more money to have USB4 controler with downgraded video output specs and $10 bifurcation adapter build into the motherboard.

what is the performance of nvme drives routed throught the chipset?

just buy your Matx AM5 with CPU pcie 4x4 slot. Should be 8x cheaper and better

 

[thesmokingman]

They will prob gouge this out at 1K, smh.

 

[Chaitanya]

Atleast with Gigabyte X870e Xtreme users are getting dual 10Gbps NICs unlike overpriced Godlike and this RoGarbage turd.

 

[LabRat 891]

Yet again, a 'halo tier' board lacking the key features of past top-tier boards.
We've gone backwards, further.


What stops an AIB from slapping a Gen4 Switch upstream of the PROM21 and ASM4242?
Why hasn't any AIB even experimented with parallel-linked PROM21?

Why are we being charged more for features, that would've been cheaper to just slot an add-in card for, a couple generations back.


I do not like the direction the Consumer Desktop Platform has gone, at all...

 

[azrael]

I love how this board based on the X870E chipset provides for exactly two PCIe slots. And yeah, considering this is ASUS and this is probably supposed to be their top AM5 board (at least for the foreseeable future) it will probably cost around 1000 Trump Bucks. Maybe more, if the attempts at devaluating the US dollar succeed.

 

[BorisDG]

I hope it comes soon. I'm just waiting for this so I can finalize my order... Still disappointed that it has 2x PCI-E slots tho..

 

[bonehead123]

Who needs two kidneys after all...

Or arms, legs, testicles/mammaries, or 1st bornes for that matter, all of which will be required sacrifices to buy this board

 

[lambda]

I love how this board based on the X870E chipset provides for exactly two PCIe slots. And yeah, considering this is ASUS and this is probably supposed to be their top AM5 board (at least for the foreseeable future) it will probably cost around 1000 Trump Bucks. Maybe more, if the attempts at devaluating the US dollar succeed.

Sadly, it's been this way ever since the launch of AM4 (that approximate timeframe).

Threadripper was decent but had terrible platform continuity. Intel gave up soon afterwards.

I'd love to have a 5820k-esque CPU from either vendor as HEDT since I can't source the Xeon equivalents.

Threadripper remains too expensive with even shittier bifurcation (quad and octa channel memory).

 

[mclaren85]

Why don't they put a metal ram shield anymore?

 

[blinnbanir]

I love how this board based on the X870E chipset provides for exactly two PCIe slots. And yeah, considering this is ASUS and this is probably supposed to be their top AM5 board (at least for the foreseeable future) it will probably cost around 1000 Trump Bucks. Maybe more, if the attempts at devaluating the US dollar succeed.

This will be priced in the range of the MSI Godlike

 

[LabRat 891]

Sadly, it's been this way ever since the launch of AM4 (that approximate timeframe).

Threadripper was decent but had terrible platform continuity. Intel gave up soon afterwards.

I'd love to have a 5820k-esque CPU from either vendor as HEDT since I can't source the Xeon equivalents.

Threadripper remains too expensive with even shittier bifurcation (quad and octa channel memory).

I seriously wish someone would make one of these 'halo tier' boards w/ a Gen5 PCIe switch far upstream.
Maybe, even a Gen4 switch for the (x8?) remaining lanes after subtracting 5.0x16 for the PEG slot?

Microchip PSX 5 Gen 5 Fanout PCIe Switch PM50###
Broadcom ExpressFabric Gen5 Series PCIe Switch PEX89###

Either switch, would much better fanout AM5's Gen5 x24 lanes. Esp. for non-gaming HEDT use.

They're expensive ASICs, but it's been done before on this class of board:
The AM3+ ASUS Sabertooth 990FX/GEN3 R2.0, utilized a PLX Gen3 PCIe switch as far upstream as it could be implemented (HT link to chipset, PCIe link to switch).
to best fanout expansion.

If we're already paying well-north of $500 for a board, the least they could do is give us back some of those HEDT features.

 

[MachineLearning]

This board appears great for overclockers in almost every way, except it has 4 DIMM slots and no x8/x8 capability. Unless there's some true magic in the RAM topology.

 

[abysal]

No GPU remove button? Well guess you have to pay extra for that, and have it scratch up the GPU and all that jazz too. Bummer.

 

[Chaitanya]

This board appears great for overclockers in almost every way, except it has 4 DIMM slots and no x8/x8 capability. Unless there's some true magic in the RAM topology.

There seems to be a miniSAS connector of some kind on the bottom edge of board, not sure of how everything is wired though. If it really is missing x8x8(or x8x4x4) capability then its another way someone in Shitsus has gone out of the way to satisfy castration fetish.

 

[eidairaman1]

I would go Taichi or OC Formula myself, otherwise up to a Threadripper.

 

[N3utro]

Damn this is a good looking motherboard. Almost could make me go crazy and get it

 

[OneWithMisery]

FoR ThOsE WhO DaRe
GaMe cHaNgEr

 

[_roman_]

As an owner of an asus mainboard, asus proart monitor and previous asus tablet and previous asus gaming notebooks I finally understood the greeting slogan.

"In search of incredible" = in search of incredible bugs / bad build quality tablet / worse build quality over every gaming notebook
"for those who dare" = I'm stupid to repeat past mistakes to buy asus

Nothing which annoys me more that the ASUS Proart PA278QV monitor has a very long startup time and than greets me with this nonsense which can not even be turned off or changed.
I was confident enough to not check the monitor with tests. I saw ~3 months ago I had a single dead pixel. (red and blue shows dead pixel - i saw it in the file browser recently)

Regarding mainboards - a few will not buy ASUS mainbaords because of the PEG slot causes refused RMA for graphic cards and any other add in cards. whataboutism: Same as a few will not buy mining cards or any nvidia 5000 seriess gpu (missing rop / connector issues)

 

[Frizz]

It's hard to find a high end clean looking board . Only NZXT does the clean look. Less is more..