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Used for: 3–6 months
The tool free features make it the easiest board I have built into
White finish shows every speck of dust
Chose this over the Tomahawk for the extra M.2 slot and the tool free everything, and it was the right call. Drives clip in with no screws, the heatsinks lift off with a latch, the graphics card releases with a button, and the front panel is one block. What used to be the annoying part of a build barely registers now. Running a 9800X3D with 32GB at 6000, EXPO enabled on the first boot and no failed posts in the four months since. VRM sits in the low forties. The white finish does show every speck of dust, which is my only complaint and a trivial one.
Used for: More than a year
Onboard audio is merely adequate for a board at this price
Excellent board that has done everything asked of it, with one disappointment. The audio is merely adequate, noticeably noisier through headphones than the ALC4080 boards I have used, and there is a faint hiss at low volume that a cheap external DAC cured entirely. Everything else, memory at 6000 first time, thermals, storage, network, has been exemplary.
Used for: 6–12 months
Good value for an X870E
Rear USB count is stingy
Solid mid range board, though I ran out of rear USB ports quickly
Used for: 1–3 months
Went in without a fight, took the memory profile immediately and has not missed a beat
Used for: More than a year
The bundled heatsink for the top M.2 slot is barely a heatsink
Good board at a fair price, but the cooling on the top M.2 slot is token at best. A Gen5 drive under sustained writes hit 78 degrees under the supplied plate, which is closer to throttling than I am comfortable with, and swapping in a proper heatsink dropped it into the sixties. Everything else about the board has been dependable.