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ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero

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Processor AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D (BOX)
Motherboard ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero (BIOS v4902)
Cooling Noctua NH-D15 + NA-HC4 + NM-AMB12 (all chromax.black)
Memory 4x8GB Team Group Xtreem DDR4-4133 (3800@1900 15-15-15-15-30-45_T1 (55), V1.48)
Video Card(s) EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming
Storage 500GB Samsung SSD 980 Pro (System); 1TB Samsung SSD 990 Pro (Games and other)
Display(s) Philips Brilliance 239CQH (IPS, 1080p, 60Hz)
Case Open Stand
Power Supply Seasonic PRIME Ultra 850 Titanium
Keyboard Corsair K70 RGB RAPIDFIRE (1000Hz, with CHERRY MX Speed switches)
Software Microsoft WIndows 11 Pro 23H2
Am I correct in concluding that I would be better off with the X870E-E if I need to use the second PCI-E slot for an x4 10GBE card?
Correct! But ASUS also want to scam buyers here - second slot is... wait for it... PCIe Gen 4.0!

While X670 (same board) - Two slots PCIe Gen 5.0 and one PCIe Gen 4.0.
 

quadraticus

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second slot is... wait for it... PCIe Gen 4.0!
That's fine for my use case. It's not like I'm trying to run two GPUs.

Anyway, it just seems weird that the far more expensive board lacks the dedicated GPU lanes.
 
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