ASUS PRIME X670E-PRO WIFI, an AMD X670E Ryzen AM5 ATX motherboard with PCIe 5.0, four M.2 slots, DDR5 slots, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C, USB4 support, WIFI 6E, and 2.5G Ethernet

This is a wonderfully featured X670E motherboard for the money and has proven to be efficient, fast, and reliable - I have no problems running a PCIE 5 NVME drive and PCIE 4 graphics card from a AMD 9000 seriues CPU. The AIO is great if you don't care about USB 4 or 5gbit LAN speeds, and it has a much higher spec than more expensive B850 and X870 motherboards, which are generally overpriced and blend PCIE lanes because they carry only one chip. When the repugnant 'Prime 01' RBG is turned off it looks great too, and this board would be equally at home in a clean white or black and silver build.Boot times are not fast, and EXPO is hard to align if 4 sticks of RAM are used (I’m not now sticking with 2). These are common themes on the AM5 platform.

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I bought it used - like new, for £180. And yeah, it was genuinely like new. I was also looking at the X670E Tomahawk, which was going for similar price used. This X870 just edged it out mainly because it’s just easier to set up.It covers all the important X870 bases you'd expect. You get your PCIe 5.0 slot for an RTX 50s and one fast PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot for your main drive (you can just slap a gen4 SSD there too, since it's backward compatible). It's also got Wi-Fi 7 if you're using like gigabits wireless internet, and 2 USB4 ports on the back, that's a big plus for fast external gear. In total, you've got four M.2 slots, so plenty of room for quick storage. The power delivery, with its 14+2+1 stages, is enough for a stock 9950x or x3D under heavy loads, maybe a bit OC too.Yeah, ASUS slaps "AI features" on the box, but the practical win here is that this X870 board will supports a 9000 Ryzen series chips right out of the gate, no faffing about with BIOS updates compared to previous gen chips.Everything installed without a problem for me, boot time was 10 secs max to desktop, the bios itself has a fair amount of options and tinkering. ASUS got plenty of softwares you can download and install too, just don't get their 'gamer' related ones.The integrated I/O shield and VRM heatsink setup, that big metal block on the top-left, is seriously chunky though. I was surprised how much weight it adds to the whole board. While it’s there to cool the VRMs, it feels like a massive piece of metal for what it does, almost a bit over the top and contributes a lot to the board's overall heft.Look, for the £180 I paid, it’s what I’d call a no-frills, budget X870. The onboard audio is pretty standard, nothing fancy and only 2 SATA ports if you care about that. But that's the point. It delivers the core next-gen stuff most people actually need for a current build without charging you for extras you might not. If you can find one at this sort of price, it's a very decent buy.

I got this board because I wanted the 6 sata ports.Only X670 and X670-E have the extra PCIe lanes for this.3x SATA for DVD-ROM and 3.5 + 2.5 HDD hot swappable ports, and 2x SATA for some extra storage (3TB HDDs) with an extra spare.Armoury Crate is naff, but you need it to begin with, otherwise you're gonna get really confused as to why you can't get the WiFi to work.So make sure to use Armoury Crate to update all your drivers then:UPDATE YOUR BIOS!The bios you're looking for on the Asus website MUST be for the "WIFI" version (there's a non-wifi version)I believe the file name should end up as "PX670PW.CAP"I did it wrong to begin with (with the non-wifi bios) but it didn't brick the motherboard thank goodness.I think it's because all the different bios' have different checksums - so it knew I was doing it wrong and wouldn't continue to prevent me breaking it.After you've successfully updated the bios, make sure to use Armoury Crate again to update/install your WiFi (and other) drivers again.UPDATE:Over a year in use now. I've added an NVMe SSD, the Kingston KC3000 (gen4 7000MBs/7000MBs read/write) I thought about getting PCIe 5.0 (gen5) but honestly what's the point right now, it's so expensive compared to gen4 and am I really going to notice the difference of anything over 7000 MB/s?(7 Gigabytes a second!! That's insane already!)I put a fresh install of Windows 11 the new SSD and it's incredibly speedy.Windows go BRRRRRRRR!!!! hahaI've had no problems with this board, I'm very much looking forward to putting in a Zen 5 or Zen 6 processor into it in the future, probably an X3D chip.EXPO worked immediately with my 6000 MT/s RAM.WiFi has been perfect, Bluetooth also fantastic (several BT devices at the same time and no issues)Will update again in 2025 when I put a new chip (CPU) in it!

Great mobo, but don't buy from here. Received a used one with missing bags of screws that didn't work once i built (no wonder it was previously returned). Bought a new one from Asus directly for slightly more and it works fine.

Great motherboard, loads of fans connectors has rgb and 4 MMVE slots.

Using this for my Nas/proxmox server. It supports ecc ram, just make sure to check the compatibility. Has 2.5gig networking. Would have been nice if it had more pcie slots and more sata slots but for the price it's ok

Chasing my tail for hours as I thought a new board would come with an up to date bios, it doesn't so make sure you update the bios via USB stick. Tbh the bios menu is pretty awful too, works now but I'd definitely buy from a different company next time. I have an Asus gaming pc which I find great, so maybe just this board. It is a cheap Am5 board so probably that too. If you're having issues drop me a msg, might be able to help.