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Used for: More than a year
10G LAN and Wi-Fi built in, no add in cards needed
E-ATX will not fit half the cases people already own
Absurd amount of board for the money but it does everything. Check your case depth before ordering, the E-ATX edge overhangs the cable cutouts on mine.
Used for: Less than a month
Flash BIOS button and the POST readout made the build painless
The board is so wide the top fan header ends up behind the radiator
First AM5 build and I picked this because I wanted the diagnostics rather than the badge. The two digit POST readout told me straight away that my first stick was in the wrong slot, which would have cost me an evening otherwise. Flashed the BIOS from a stick before the CPU went in. Only real annoyance is that in a 360 radiator case the top fan header ends up underneath the rad, so route that cable first. Three weeks in and it has not put a foot wrong since.
Used for: More than a year
VRM does not care what you throw at it
Overkill in the best way, VRM never breaks 50!
Used for: 1–3 months
Rear IO is ridiculous, I have run out of things to plug in
The audio utility wants an account before it will do anything
Counted twenty odd USB ports on the back and I still have spares. Sound quality through the front jack is a clear step up from my old B550.
Used for: 1–3 months
Memory training was instant with EXPO on a 6000 kit
The bundled expansion card eats a PCIe slot you might want
Posted first time with a 7950X and two 32GB sticks at 6000. The M.2 expansion card gives you the storage but costs a slot, worth knowing.
Used for: More than a year
When it is behaving, the hardware is superb
Three BIOS revisions in and cold memory training is still glacial
Hardware wise there is nothing wrong with this board, which is why it gets three stars and not two, but the firmware has worn me down. Cold boot memory training still takes the best part of half a minute with a 64GB EXPO kit, and that has survived three BIOS revisions now. Two of those updates reset my fan curves without warning and one lost the boot order entirely, which is not what you want on a machine you rely on. The good bits are genuinely good. The VRM has never gone above 52 with a 7950X pulling everything it can, the 10G port has been rock solid, and the debug readout has saved me twice. Fifteen months in, at this price I expected the flagship to be the polished one, and instead it has been the fussiest board I have owned. If you want the feature list, buy it. If you want something that boots and never asks anything of you, look a tier down.
Used for: 3–6 months
It is enormous and heavy enough that I fitted it before the case went upright
Five stars for what it does, with a warning about what it is. This thing weighs more than some small cases and the E-ATX footprint means the right hand cable channel is completely covered, so plan the 24 pin and front panel runs before it goes in. Once fitted it has been faultless for four months, memory at 6000 on the first attempt, every M.2 detected, chipset temperature in the fifties under sustained writes. Just do the cabling in the right order.
