ASUS ROG Strix X670E-I Gaming WiFi Preview
In Detail
Our normal close up tour of the PCB and its features always seems a bit redundant with ITX boards, as you could almost get away with a single photo. However, it’s how we do things around these parts so bear with us. First up a single 8 pin 12V CPU power connector, rather than the 2x8pin more commonly seen on regular ATX ones, although like all ROG products the X670E-I still has armour protection around the connector.
CPU cooling is handled by three fans, including a dedicated AIO pump header. Next to those are the RGB and ARGB headers that connect your flash lighting strips to the AURA lighting system.
It might be a tiny thing but we really love the attention to detail here with ROG Eye dust covers for the fan headers you’re not using. Okay on an ITX motherboard you’ll be using them all, but it helps clean up the visuals for those who are obsessed with how their system looks.
On the bottom right hand corner we find armoured sockets for both Type-C and Type-A front panel USB, as well as the two prongs upon which you mount the ROG FPS-II card we saw on the previous page.
Tada. In place it makes perhaps even more sense than it did when we looked at it alone. You can see what efforts have gone in to keeping everything compact and yet easily accessible. As anyone who uses small things knows, you usually get one or the other and rarely both.
As will be familiar to you from our top page image, the PCIe 5.0 M.2 heatsink and chipset heatsink are combined into a single thing. Hopefully neither of them induce too much heat soak and affect the other. We’ll find out in a full review later on.
The combined VRM heatsink works in conjunction with a backplate heat spreader to keep things as cool as possible. Hopefully the small fan you can see here isn’t required too often. Active cooling is all well and good but small fans are loud fans.
Lastly the backplate is simple but with a surprising amount of potential ASUS have two USB 4 ports on the back alongside the more familiar combination of USB 3 and 2 ports, whilst the Intel WiFi 6E and 2.5G RJ45 promise speedy home networking.
Price now live at £459.99
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