#ASUS ZEN 3 REVIEW PRO#
The ASRock X670E Pro RS isn’t what you'd call a beautiful board, but I like the silver and black combination, along with the fonts atop the M.2 heatsinks. At half the price of high-end boards like ASRock's own Taichi, the Asus Crosshair X670E Hero or Aorus Extreme, does the X670E Pro RS have to cut too much for such a saving? You'll need to choose a B650 or B650E board if you want to save more money.
#ASUS ZEN 3 REVIEW FULL#
In fact, it's one of the cheaper X670 boards full stop. It's designed to be a cost-effective motherboard that offers the important X670E feature set, including PCIe 5.0 GPU and SSD support, the ability to run a Ryzen 9 7950X without issue, and provide the essentials like Wi-Fi 6E and ample storage support.Īt $279 / £320 / AU$569 it's one of the cheaper X670E motherboards. One such example is the ASRock X670E Pro RS I've got on hand for review. Not all AM5 boards are exorbitantly priced. Read our full Gigabyte X670 Aorus Elite AX review.ī650E boards offer many of the same features For the mainstream market, a board like the Aorus Elite AX is where it's at. If you absolutely must have USB4, 10G LAN, or Thunderbolt, you'll have to pay a LOT more for it. If nothing else, the Elite AX shows that manufacturers are getting a bit greedy at the high end of the market. A S/PDIF output would be nice too, but apart from that, there's not much to complain about with regard to connectivity. The audio is nothing special, with an aging Realtek ALC897 codec taking care of things. That's 13 rear USB ports! There's an HDMI 2.1 port for use with Ryzen 7000's newly included integrated graphics and a BIOS flashback button. You get a 3.2 Gen 2x2 type-C port, two Gen 2 ports, six Gen 1 ports, and four 2.0 ports. You'd expect to miss out on USB 4 at this price, but the rest of the USB count is stellar. The Aorus Elite AX includes AMD's RZ616 Wi-Fi 6E and Realtek 2.5G LAN. The cooling, storage, and VRM is more than enough to suit most users. Your cooling will hit that 95 ☌ operating temperature of a 7950X long before the VRM gets stressed.Įven if Zen 5 or Zen 6 CPUs take a step up in TDP, it’s hard to imagine the Aorus Elite AX struggling to power them. Throw a Ryzen 9 7950X with PBO enabled into the Elite AX, and you won’t have a problem. The board comes with a 16+2+2 phase VRM with 70A power stages. Other highlights include a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 type-C header, power, reset, and CMOS clear buttons, and a Thunderbolt 4 header. There are four SATA ports to round out the storage complement.
#ASUS ZEN 3 REVIEW PLUS#
In total, there are four M.2 slots made up of the aforementioned primary PCIe 5.0 x4 one, plus a further three PCIe 4.0 x4 slots that are cooled by a single large heatsink. Here you get effective heatsinks, particularly the VRM one, though sadly Gigabyte opted not to include its excellent finned heatsink design on this model.
But does the Elite AX have to sacrifice a little or a lot to come in at that price? And at $289 / £349 / AU$599, the Gigabyte X670 Aorus Elite AX is a heck of a lot better value than X670E boards. But since PCIe 5.0 x16 for graphics cards means nothing right now, an X670 board is a perfectly viable option. Part of the reason X670E boards cost a lot is because of the high-quality signalling required for both PCIe 5.0 expansion and M.2 slots.
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