MSI MEG X870E Godlike X-Edition Review

Introduction and Technical Specifications

Introduction

Often when it’s time to review motherboards we reach into the bag labelled ‘consistency’. Should you remember the old days of Socket 939 – AM1 folks – you’ll know that motherboards scaled almost linearly with price. The more you spent, the more performance you gained. Additionally so much was off the chipset that more money also brought major feature changes.

Thankfully for consumers recent years have bucked that trend. Now all the main features are consolidated within the chipset. Yes there are a few more things to be gained here and there, usually USB and M.2 slots, but primarily any motherboard will be good enough for the average user. This means that, to use MSI as an example, affordable options such as the B850I Edge Ti we recently looked at, are enough for most people.

But what if you want to go down the alternative route? Instead of spending as little as possible to get just enough, what if you spent as much as you can for a premium option? The “Yes a Kia Picanto can get you from A to B, but so can a Rolls Royce” approach. Which neatly leads us to a motherboard name that is synonymous with excess. The MSI MEG X870E Godlike X Edition. All MSI Godlike motherboards push the boat out. They show us what you can achieve when budget isn’t a limiting factor.

It would be easy at this point to look at the price, laugh, and move on. But this is a motherboard that understands it’s a niche product. It’s not Accrington Stanley, it’s Real Madrid. If you ever desired a motherboard that showed you the Concorde approach, Kobe Beef in a McDonalds world, this is that motherboard. You can already see from the image that adorns the top of this page that we’re not in the realms of the ordinary. Nobody dreams about a weekend at Pontins. Let’s live the high life for a few pages and dream of what we could own should a rich old uncle cough their last and leave it all to us.

Technical Specifications