Review Asus ProArt X670E-Creator Wi-Fi Review: Creator Connectivity

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Designed with creators in mind, the Asus ProArt X670E-Creator ($449.99) has an elegant appearance, along with high-end hardware including 10 GbE LAN, USB 4 (40 Gbps) DisplayPort support with DisplayPort input, and dual PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 sockets.

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[evdjj3j]

If anyone else is wondering what DP input is for here is a discussion in the forum.

[SOLVED] - What is DisplayPort Input for?

Hey there I am building workstation with Intel I9 and need Z690 Motherboard, I prefer Asus. The build is for video editing. I must have Thunderbolt for my Audio interfaces. I preordered ASUS ProArt Z690-CREATOR WIFI LGA 1700 ATX Motherboard...

forums.tomshardware.com

 

[TJ Hooker]

It kind of looks like this motherboard may support ECC memory (ECC UDIMMs, not just the standard DDR5 on-die ECC), is there any chance you could test that?

Edit: According to the BIOS manual, there is a BIOS setting to enable/disable ECC: Advanced > AMD CBS > ECC

I'm not seeing anything like that in your BIOS screenshots though.

 

[atomicWAR]

Anything with less than 6 SATA ports is a hard pass for me. This is excatly why my wife and I both went with Asrock x670E Taichi based platforms with 8 SATA ports of which I am actively using seven, six connected to 20TB drives with room for one more (mixed drives her as well but all ports) and one running my case's external 3.5 HDD SATA test bay which I use regularly enough as well. I even have my HD DVD/Blu-ray player combo drive connected via an USB to sata adapter to free up SATA ports for drives. More SATA is always better for creators.

 

[Amdlova]

Anything with less than 6 SATA ports is a hard pass for me. This is excatly why my wife and I both went with Asrock x670E Taichi based platforms with 8 SATA ports of which I am actively using seven, six connected to 20TB drives with room for one more (mixed drives her as well but all ports) and one running my case's external 3.5 HDD SATA test bay which I use regularly enough as well. I even have my HD DVD/Blu-ray player combo drive connected via an USB to sata adapter to free up SATA ports for drives. More SATA is always better for creators.

Nah... you need five nvme drivers on the board... sata is something from the past! (Joke mod).

I agree with you if I have a ton of storage sata ports is a must! Six is the bare miminum.
My board today has four slots need to disconnect to test the hard drives from my costumers... it's a pain!

 

[lunar.holiday]

Anything with less than 6 SATA ports is a hard pass for me. This is excatly why my wife and I both went with Asrock x670E Taichi based platforms with 8 SATA ports of which I am actively using seven, six connected to 20TB drives with room for one more (mixed drives her as well but all ports) and one running my case's external 3.5 HDD SATA test bay which I use regularly enough as well. I even have my HD DVD/Blu-ray player combo drive connected via an USB to sata adapter to free up SATA ports for drives. More SATA is always better for creators.

That's a bit of an outdated use case, and the board design reflects that. Its intention is the use of a NAS (hence the 10GbE port) for mass storage, with very fast SSDs as working drives. If you're still going with all internal drives, then this may not be the best option unless you add sata expansions. In my case, I run a raid 5 nas with four nvme drives. The photo/video editing take place on the ssds, then get offloaded to enterprise nas drives for archival. It's a pretty common workflow now with certain advantages of bulk internal storage, and the board is great for that.

Also the other boards missing "only" the 10 gigabit ethernet is a bit bigger deal than they're implying, since just a 10 GbE expansion card will run anywhere from $50-100 for a good one.

 

[atomicWAR]

That's a bit of an outdated use case, and the board design reflects that. Its intention is the use of a NAS (hence the 10GbE port) for mass storage, with very fast SSDs as working drives. If you're still going with all internal drives, then this may not be the best option unless you add sata expansions. In my case, I run a raid 5 nas with four nvme drives. The photo/video editing take place on the ssds, then get offloaded to enterprise nas drives for archival. It's a pretty common workflow now with certain advantages of bulk internal storage, and the board is great for that.

Also the other boards missing "only" the 10 gigabit ethernet is a bit bigger deal than they're implying, since just a 10 GbE expansion card will run anywhere from $50-100 for a good one.

1st I am old so lol on the outdatedness. 2nd not a huge fan of most purpose built NASes. Had several in the past but prefer PCs built to double as a NAS. Especially since I already run 2 desktops (mine and the wife's)

Thus I use 2 pc's, one as my NAS other as back up...AND I have external enclosure for cold/off site storage I can leave at the inlaw's when not actively using it. Also run 12TB of nvme for active work flow and about to make it 16TB next month.

 

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Designed with creators in mind, the Asus ProArt X670E-Creator ($449.99) has an elegant appearance, along with high-end hardware including 10 GbE LAN, USB 4 (40 Gbps) DisplayPort support with DisplayPort input, and dual PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 sockets.

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