News Asus launches the flagship ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme, starting at $1,400

[Admin]

Asus China has officially introduced the ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme, set to hit shelves by late April at $1,400.

Asus launches the flagship ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme, starting at $1,400 : Read more

 

[-Fran-]

This not so much a criticism to Asus, as it is to AMD directly: with the available I/O you have in AM5, charging this much for a board is just criminal. Absolute clown-like behaviour.

The "premium" features you get on this board will absolutely get drowned in the anemic I/O you get in Ryzen CPUs.

And I say this as the owner of a 9950X3D and a Strix X870E-E WiFi, which I think is a great board, even if on the more expensive side. At least the bells and whistles it comes with make sense for the platform and to my use case (only 10gbps USB ports? yes please!).

I hope when AMD decides to design AM6, they just increase the lanes, so the gap between ThreadRipper and the consumer line is not so big.

If ArrowLake wasn't such a disappointment on the CPU front, the I/O Intel added to it (the platform), is what I would've expected to see with AM5 originally.

Oh well... Rant over. Whomever buys this board, I hope they enjoy it... Oof.

Regards.

 

[micheal_15]

Please remember that in 2023 2024 AND 2025, ASUS said it was openly 'defying' worldwide laws concerning trading standards and warranties, and anyone unhappy or wanting a refund "can just sue instead".

ASUS is a crumbling once-popular brand that people need to AVOID AVOID AVOID.

They've been caught THOUSANDS OF TIMES shipping cracked/damaged motherboards, GPUs that are secondhand mining cards with serious damage, covered in dust and dirt, repackaged as new.

Not to mention all the "whoops, your PC is on fire!" incidents. They literally said they were ignoring the law worldwide, and unhappy people can just sue them....

So this $1400 motherboard HAS NO WARRANTY WHATSOEVER. they can ship you a damaged secondhand X470 and blow you off, telling you to sue.

 

[dwd999]

Yeah, but does it come in an all white version. LOL

 

[endocine]

The "premium" features you get on this board will absolutely get drowned in the anemic I/O you get in Ryzen CPUs.

Couldn't agree more, the fact that in 2025 we don't have enough PCIe lanes, and there have to be 2 chipsets is nuts.

 

[Firestone]

A $1000 motherboard with only two PCIe slots? What a joke. Even flagship AM4 boards from a few years ago cost half as much and have more PCIe slots. And there are $200 AM5 boards with more PCIe as well. Literally no reason for this board to exist.