MSI X870E MPG Carbon WiFi Review

Introduction and Technical Specifications

Introduction

The Ryzen 9000 series of CPUs are spectacular across the range. We’ve reviewed a lot of them and found them to be superb. You can check out the 9600X and 9700X or the flagship Ryzen 9 9900X and 9950X if you wish. What AMD have always done well is reward you for buying into their ecosystem. The AM3 range lasted from 2009 to 2016 for goodness sake, and even the early processors for that worked in AM2 systems. AM4 took over in 2016 and lasted until AM5 appeared two years ago. Clearly if you buy a good AMD motherboard you don’t need to keep buying them to keep up with the latest in processors. Perhaps, then, it’s worth investing in a very good one? If it’s going to last you for 5 or more years, having a cutting edge one makes perfect sense.

The MSI Carbon range has always been a big seller. This latest version boasts two PCIe 5.0 slots, 2 Gen 5 M.2 slots – as well as two Gen 4 ones – and more USB ports than you could realistically fill. Certainly if you like high bandwidth hardware you could do a lot worse. But let’s not tell you in dry text and even drier tables when we could show you it in the flesh. Especially as MSI have really gone to town on the design details.

Naturally you’ve been reading whichever of these reviews is the one you’re interested in. As a peek behind the curtain, this is the last one of these I’m writing and it’s 10pm on Sunday night, such has been the hard work we’ve put in to bring you as many as these for launch as we can. Roll on October and, hopefully, a slightly less “crunch” week. So one more time, let’s cast our eyes across the specifications and then the MSI MPG X870E Carbon itself.

Technical Specifications