ASUSProArt X870E-CREATOR WIFI, AMD X870E ATX motherboard, PCIe 5.0 x16 slots with full support for next-gen GPUs, 16+2+2 power stages, DDR5, dual USB4, 10 Gb & 2.5 Gb LAN, WiFi 7, four M.2 slots

I bought this board as it was the only one that appears to offer the range of slots and lanes combinations to enable me ro run all the hardware I want (a lot of enterprise Optane drives). It's a bit of a shock coming from a 2014 x99 HEDT platform to find out how backwards things have got at the high end. Anyway the board did everything I needed and has worked perfectly. There is still masses of hardware I don't need that I switched off on it though. (10Gb/Wi-Fi/BT/Audio/Serial/RGB) and I wished they offered a version without all this for £100 less. I didnt bother with the Precision Boost as the 9900X runs 3 times faster than my old i7-5960x and with the PBO on, it used 110w more under full load than without. I'll pass on that. Again 4 stars due to the ridiculous price for a domestic motherboard.

The box was open and the manual is missing.. loaded the manual from internet and the picture looks nothing like the actual board. Eventually I took the bit between the teeth and removed a panel not mentioned in the manual and there were some slots for memory. The second panel has a superfluous semi clear panel but after unscrewing it no components are revealed. I could not find a way of removing a similar panel to the first. I’m not about to force it. I can’t find any instructions on the official site that tells me what I should do. These parts do not appear to be referred to at all. Have yet to look on YouTube. The hype about this being a great diy board is to say the least Not Very AccurateOne of the items missing from the packaging was an ASUS card related to activating ASUs software. I contacted ASUS asking for assistance. They refused, stating we only make it, we don’t sell it. I’m fairly sure that’s not legal. I have kept their emails on this subject.In addition typing the name of this board into the officiate produces a failed search….Oh Dear !!!18th January updateNo matter what I tried I could not get a spark of life out of the motherboard. I have built and maintained a lot of these for my local police force have never before had so much trouble. I even went to the expense of buying an additional power supply, had no effect. Using a circuit tester I was able to prove power was being delivered. In the end I have returned it to amazon. Now need to find a suitable replacement.

I bought this mainly for the 10gb nic. It is the cheapest (at the time of writing) x870 mobo with 10gbe. It does exactly what it says on the tin and is a great match for my 9800x3d. Only reason I went 4 stars was value for money. Product is spot on otherwise.