
This board meets my expectation. I really do not care too much of the extra USB or satas. The motherboard did not have any issues out of the box and very easy to use with Bios. I felt MSI does the job well rarely I do not have anything bad to say about their products.

BIOS flashback Easy to install M2 SSD

I love the clips for the m.2 slots so I do not have to deal with screws that's nice. Also the board seems sturdy and not made cheap.

What I love from the motherboard is its very presentable and looks great Very nice to navigate through the motherboard with the onboard writings Has about everything you need And cant never go wrong with a little rgb on the board.


- EZ-Latch for both GPU and NVMe drives - Excellent thermal management - WIFI7 support - Works great with 9950X3D

MSI products have always worked well for me and this motherboard is great just like the others I have used for my builds in the past.

Good quality, works out of the box with Zen 2. Smart PCI slot arrangement, takes into consideration dual slot graphic cards to leave you with 2 slots available.

AM5 socket, ease of use, heatsink for gen 5 drive, pcie 5.0 compatible, plenty of RGB and fan/aio headers, sleek black look for black builds. USB-c on back panel, easy to use bios.

Best layout among competing motherboards. A 2-slot width GPU still allows use of x1 PCIe in addition to the other x16. This allowed mounting a 10Gbps network card on the x1 (albeit max at 7Gbps) and a U.2 NVMe on the other x16 slot. The M.2 slots are all exposed. That means, mounting U.2 NVMe's on the M.2 slots is possible. I mounted a U.2 Optane for OS and caching to the hard drives on one of the slots. This setup is not possible with Gigabye, Asus, and MSI micro-ATX boards. These competing motherboards have either 1 or both of their M.2 slots underneath the PCIe cards! The slots have open ended notches that allows longer x16 card to be mounted on the x1 slot, for example. The BIOS features is extensive. Bifurcation is possible on the PCIe. Runs Ryzen 9 7950x with ease. EXPO setting on a GSkill 6000Mhz CL30 is running excellent. Supports ECC memory. Nice. I paired it with an A6000 GPU for a true creative workstation setup.

Plenty of options for top end setups

The ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Dark Hero is phenomenal. I want to start by mentioning the attention to detail and the build qualityit's on another level. The board feels very solid, strong, and heavy. The main reason I decided to go with this board is that it allows me to run two Gen 5 SSDs at full speed without losing GPU performance, keeping the graphics card running at x16. I do lose the use of the 40Gb USB-C ports, but honestly I dont use them anyway. Working on the board was super easy thanks to all the EZ-Latch mechanisms, which made installing components quick and hassle-free.

3 nvme slots Good wireless Like UEFI bios, upgrading from circa 2010 lol

Beautiful mobo, everything has been thought of to make building east and beautiful at the same time

Amazing look perfect for micro atx builds good future upgrade path for am4 and ddr4 budget builds pcei 4.0 Wifi extender Easy bio setup process budget friendly

ran a ryzen 5 3600 with 16gb of ddr4 3600mhz out of the box. wifi works good.


- Stunning White aesthetic Board - Blends Well in White Build - Plenty of Modern Features. M.2's, PCIE 5, DDR5 - 9000 Series Ready

Recognized and played well with a Ryzen 5 8600G CPU right out of the box. Updated BIOS to newest version with zero issues. Board has everything you need without all the fluff. I guess that makes it a budget board, but it's exactly what I was looking for. Features vs. price makes this a great value.

perfect fit for case,did everything it should,5 stars!