ROG Strix X670E-E Gaming WiFi Motherboard Review

A Closer Look

It’s said that first impressions are important, and well, the ROG Strix X670E-E Gaming WiFi makes an extremely strong and positive first impression, there’s no doubt about that. This motherboard looks absolutely immense, with huge heatsinks around the CPU, and a lot more heatsinks and armour on the lower half too. This motherboard is NOT cheap, but it’s clear a good chunk of that investment is going on a lot of precision-engineered aluminium components.

Everything looks more robust than usual, such as the 8-pin CPU power connectors, of which there are two, and both are solid-pin design, with more robust soldering, and metal jackets.

The CPU configuration is on the extreme end of the spectrum, 18+2 power stages are paired with high-quality alloy chokes and durable capacitors, and a Digi+ VRM to allow it to handle the shifting power and temperature requirements that come with more high-end processors and overclocking.

This motherboard is DDR5, so you will need the latest memory kits, but with both AMD EXPO and ASUS Enhanced Memory Profile (AEMP), you can plug and play and still get the best high-performance settings from compatible memory kits, which is just fantastic! There’s also a reinforced central pin, adding to the durability.

The bottom half of this motherboard is very busy, with lots of amazing features crammed in. There’s the M.2 Combo heatsink on the top M.2, which has a massive heatpipe jammed into it too. There’s a significant heatsink in the middle just for the chipset alone, yet, the whole width of the motherboard!!! Then there’s an M.2 heatsink on the bottom right of the large chipset heatsink, then a wide heatsink that spans two more M.2 mounts.

With all that metal removed, you can see the chipset is split into two chipsets, one on the left and one on the right, which goes some way to explain the size of its heatsink. Why two chipsets? Well, it likely has something to do with the expanded connectivity, as this motherboard offers up not one but two PCIE x16 Gen 5.0 slots! It’s also one of the first motherboards to offer up three PCIE 5.0 M.2 slots and one PCIE 4.0 M.2 slot. NVMe and SATA RAID configurations (0/1/10) are available through AMD RAID Xpert2.

There’s a separate trace on the motherboard for the audio chipset too, which you can see on the bottom right of the picture below (yellow line). It’s the ROG SupremeFX design, which features the newer ALC4080 codec, and the front outputs benefit from the Savitech amplifier, so lovers of high-fidelity speakers and headphones will find a lot to love here.

Mother of god, look at this back panel. USB 2.0? Not a single one is to be found. However, the internal headers allow for 3 x USB 2.0 headers (up to six ports). There are 12 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Ports, 10 of them are Type-A and 2 are Type-C. I have literally no bloody idea what the hell you could do with all those super fast ports, literally none. There are 3 x Type-C in total, the two 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) and then there’s also a USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Port for 20Gbps.