ASUS ROG Strix B850-E Gaming Wi-Fi Evaluate

Introduction

It’s in all probability fairly straightforward to get confused as to why a mid-range chipset corresponding to B850 finds itself on a motherboard costing greater than $300, and seemingly with premium options corresponding to USB4, RGB lighting and twin PCIe Gen 5 M.2 slots together with heatsinks for each M.2 port. But the actual fact is that the ASUS ROG Strix B850-E Gaming Wi-Fi—like many related boards—focuses on a premium feature-set relatively than dropping in an costly X870 or X870E chipset for advertising causes.

The result’s much less bandwidth, however a board that is way more drool-worthy than your typical B850 board, and maybe extra balanced when it comes to options than a low-end X870 board. There’s additionally extra superior cooling and CPU energy supply, so if you wish to create a high-end system with a flagship CPU and PCIe Gen 5 SSD, then on paper, this board has all the things you want.

As you’d count on, Wi-Fi 7, 5 Gbps Ethernet, PCIe Gen 5 GPU and M.2 assist, alongside loads of ports and headers are right here, in addition to a excessive finish 16+2+2 energy section design, so this actually is about as premium as you get with B850. With an inexpensive quantity of life left in Socket AM5, this could possibly be a good possibility for these switching from an older Socket AM4 system that desire a comparatively high-end board when it comes to supporting the most recent options and high-end CPUs, however with out the worth tag related to similarly-specced X870 and X870E boards.

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