ASUS ROG STRIX X870E Gaming WIFI Motherboard Review 

How Much Does It Cost?

Keep in mind that the X870 chipset is the flagship chipset for the new motherboards, so all of these are regarded as high-end motherboards. However, there are of course more affordable X870 and more premium X870 motherboards in this launch, with the largest variance being increased VRM, which is paired with larger VRM cooling solutions, which increases the price. The number of M.2 mounts, USB ports, and networking, for example, will all increase the price too. This is why the cheapest board such as the Prime starts at around $249, while a flagship board such as the crosshair is $699, despite using the same chipset and AM5 socket. Unfortunately, we don’t have UK pricing for these boards at the time of writing but will update that with retail links as soon as they’re available sometime after we publish these reviews.

However, what we can see is how these prices have changed since the previous generation (X670) motherboards launched, and largely they’re all about the same, with the Prime coming in cheaper than before, and the ProArt a little more expensive, but overall, they’re all in a similar price bracket as before.

In the US, prices for the X670/X670E and X870/X870E versions of the motherboards are generally the same, with a few exceptions. The ASUS Prime X70-P WIFI shows a 16.72% lower price for the X870/X870E version, while the ASUS ProArt X70E-Creator WIFI is 7.88% more expensive for the X870/X870E version. The ASUS ROG STRIX X70-A Gaming WIFI has a 7.52% lower price for the X870/X870E version, and the ASUS TUF Gaming X70-Plus WIFI is 6.08% cheaper in its X870/X870E version.

However, we don’t have UK pricing for these boards at the moment, and we don’t have pricing for the MSI Carbon or the Gigabyte Aorus ICE, but again, we’ll update you with these as soon as possible once the NDA lifts.

If these are too expensive for you, there will be more affordable B-series motherboards coming, but we suspect these will be revealed at CES 2025 and launch in Q1 2025, if you can wait that long, if not, then the X-series boards are clearly some of the best options right now for those building an AMD focused build.

More X870 Motherboards

This is a major chipset launch for AMD, so there are dozens of new X870 motherboards hitting the market today. Of course, we’ve been very busy testing 9 of them for you, and they’re all linked below, so if the one in this review isn’t quite meeting your needs, there’s plenty more to choose from! Largely, all being the same chipset, with the same AMD 9950X CPU being used for our testing, we expect the majority of the benchmarks to be broadly the same, with perhaps small differences in some of them. Largely, the price and performance of each motherboard are dictated by the additional features. Such as more PCIe slots, more M.2 mounts in Gen3, Gen4, or Gen5, more high-speed USB ports, more cooling hardware, etc. Largely, we recommend buying a motherboard that meets your current component requirements, with a little overhead for future upgrades; a spare M.2 slot for example.

• ASUS Prime X870-P WIFI Motherboard [Review]
• ASUS ProArt X870E-Creator WIFI Motherboard [Review]
• ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero Motherboard [Review]
• ASUS ROG Strix X870-A Gaming WIFI Motherboard [Review]
• ASUS ROG Strix X870-I Gaming WIFI Motherboard [Review]
• ASUS ROG STRIX X870E Gaming WIFI Motherboard [Review]
• ASUS TUF Gaming X870-Plus WIFI Motherboard [Review]
• Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite WIFI7 ICE Motherboard [Review]
• MSI MPG X870E Carbon WIFI Motherboard [Review]

Conclusion

The ROG STRIX X870E-E Gaming WIFI is obviously very well equipped, it’s one of the very high-end gaming motherboards in the ASUS range, so it has a lot of upgraded hardware. While you can get similar day to day performance with a cheaper X870 motherboard, the much bigger VRM configuration, 18+2+2 with 110A Power Stages, as well as significantly enlarged VRM heatsinks, will ensure you can game, render, and do anything else for extended periods of time without compromising on performance.

Of course, this hardware also ensures you can push your CPU much harder in general, as well as overclock it for more extreme performance. ASUS has put a lot of effort into their BIOS and controllers too, ensuring you can push everythign to the extreme, with PCIe, M.2 and DDR5 overclocking support and AI training features to ensure you get the best performance with just a few clicks.

ASUS ROG STRIX X870E Gaming WIFI Motherboard

There’s also a lot of upgraded connectivity, with three Gen5 M.2 and two Gen4 M.2 ensuring you can get incredible read and write speeds from the latest M.2 SSDs, as well as various RAID configurations. There’s also massive heatsinks on all the storage mount too, ensuring your drives are always running at their optimal performance.

All of the X870 boards come with some form of fast networking and storage, but there’s just a lot more of it on the STRIX X870-E Gaming. You get both 2.5 GbE LAN and the incredibly fast WiFi 7, there’s a huge number of USB ports on the rear I/O making it very gamer friendly if you have a lot of peripherals, and also the latest SupremeFX audio processing too, making it a well rounded option for enthusiast gamers and content creators.