ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Review

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We had to have a small chuckle at the AI badge on the box. For those of us who are old, we recall when everything – and we mean everything – had a Turbo version. From vacuum cleaners to motorbikes. It seems AI is the current buzzword that is on everything. We had a software update the other day that had just renamed a feature we’ve had for years to “AI blahblah” without remotely changing what it did. Anyway, the Strix X870E-E is AI Ready. We’re sure you’ll be pleased to know that.

There are always a plentiful array of accessories in a Republic of Gamers box and the Strix X870E-E is no exception. We like that the Quick Start guide now includes an ‘at a glance’ motherboard overview. More manufacturers need to include these. Obviously we’re used to building rigs, but everyone has to start somewhere and it behoves us to make our hobby inclusive rather than gate-keeping.

The heatsink on the Strix X870E-E is just like the one we have seen on the X870 Strix-A (review also available here today). You already know how we feel about these heavily pixelated graphics. All that money we spend getting higher and higher definition images and ASUS, for whatever reason, insist on designing stuff on a ZX81.

Beneath this very robust VRM heatsink is all the power you could hope for. 18+2+2 110A Power stages. Yes you read that right. No fourteen plus two plus one. Eighteen plus two plus two. Even Zeus would be impressed.

Just in case you want the quick start guide at your fingertips instead of hunting out the manual, the BIOS handily includes of a lot of information for the curious.