Review Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Hero Review: Attractive, with lots of M.2 and 5GB Ethernet

[Admin]

The X870E Hero is a full-featured, high-end motherboard with a premium appearance, solid performance, and good connectivity, including three PCIe 5.0 M.2 sockets. The MSRP didn’t go up from X670E, but it’s still expensive at $699.

Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Hero Review: Attractive, with lots of M.2 and 5GB Ethernet : Read more

 

[jackoblacko]

Typo on the title, the 5Gb (gigabit) ethernet, not 5GB (gigabyte)!

 

[Krusher]

One more minor edit, the ProArt X870 Creator WIFI ($479.99) should be the X870E. Mine is sitting here in the box yet waiting for the 9800X3D. The reason why I bought this model over the others is that it actually has a 10G Ethernet port built-in already.

 

[bit_user]

Typo on the title, the 5Gb (gigabit) ethernet, not 5GB (gigabyte)!

Yes, this. I checked the article and every reference correctly used the lowercase "b". So, it's really just an issue with the title.

BTW, I'm glad to see the enthusiast tier already moving beyond 2.5 Gigabits/s. Adoption of 2.5 seemed to start sometime around 2018, but then stalled out during the pandemic, probably due to supply chain issues. I have it on pretty good authority that ethernet chips were one of the hardest-hit components. I'm not sure if that was entirely an issue of demand, or maybe due in large part to the actions of scalpers.