A SUPERB BOARD FULL OF FEATURES & CONNECTIVITY!
by Mo
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If like me you've done your research, your likely consideration here is whether you're ready to take the plunge on this premium board. You'll already know that in this price bracket (£400), this is a top tier board packed with a great balance of features and connectivity. Note, this board has the proper Wi-Fi 6E chip (Intel Killer AX) as opposed to the notorious MediaTek in some other boards, alongside PCIe 5 support for multiple M.2 slots. I think this board stacks up really well against the competition and an attractive offer for current and future builds on the AM5 platform!
Beauty and future proof
by Po Peter
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Some say overkill, but it's about how cool this mainboard looks and how you feel turning all that power on, and knowing that there's more than enough headroom for PCIe 5 ssd upgrades and even at x8 with several PCIe 5 devices, it's going to outlive a few generations of something! Has top notch audio codec and many features to help future proof your build
Premium board and premium price
by ZEUS_GB
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Pros:
Insane amount of I/O options (4 NVME slots and support for over 20 USB ports front/back).
Some many fan / pump header connectors and support for Thunderbolt.
RAID support for NVME and SATA.
Graphics card support bracket included.
Massive heatsink for the NVME drives.
Overclocking protential is massive and very easy with this BIOS.
Cons:
Only 4 SATA connectors (I had a lot of SATA drives and sacrifices had to be made).
No driver CD / USB provided in the box (good job I had a second PC).
The second PCI-E slot is too close to the graphics card especially with todays 3 slot and 2 1/2 slot cards. You could use the second PCI-E slot but not without choking the graphics card fans so it seems a little pointless it being there.
Overall:
This premium board has a lot of premium features and is very solid in the overclocking department. There are however some layout flaws to this board but if you can overlook those then it's a decent purchase.