MSI X670E GAMING PLUS WIFI Gaming Motherboard (AMD Ryzen 9000/8000/7000 Series Processors, AM5, DDR5, PCIe 5.0, SATA 6Gb/s, M.2 slots, USB 3.2 Gen 2, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, 2.5Gbps LAN, HDMI/DP,ATX)

Running very cool temps and I do believe this board to be a big part of that. It seems to disperse heat very well. Gaming with a 9700X on 105w mode I have not seen my CPU temp go over 62°C. Using a cheap 6 heat pipe horizontally mounted radiator CPU cooler with 120mm Noctua.It's been plug and play, every easy to flash but find the YouTube videos that discuss proper USB formatted drives, notably FAT32 with MBH partitions. You MUST have another working computer to flash the BIOS prior to first system boot if building new using a 9000 series AMD CPU.BIOS is extremely easy to use and with F7 will switch between easy mode or advanced mode. One click overclocking for CPU and RAM, AMD SAM was already enabled and ready to go. No bloatware except a single bottom corner Norton security pop up when powering on the system each time but I believe that is from MSI Afterburner software if you refuse it when downloading. Otherwise just don't get MSI Afterburner and you won't get the pop up. Norton security is nowhere else to be found thankfully.WIFI does not work when first time booting, must use Ethernet cable, and download wifi driver later. Of which the antenna works really well and 16 feet from my router through two walls I am only seeing a 60mbs drop in speed, getting 240 out of 300mb/s.This thing is quite large so do be sure to check your case dimensions.Comes with NVME thermal plates with built in pads on top and bottom of NVME and the bottom plate cannot be removed so third party NVME heat sink cannot be used. But with this built in top and bottom I don't see the need for additional cooling as what's there seems to be sufficient. However if you get a thicker NVME with a built in heatsink/graphene strip, at just 4mm it's nearly too thick to mount it between both thermal pads with heat sink plates. They really need to fix this on this board but not a deal breaker....unless you got a thick NVME of course like a SAMSUNG EVO or BLACK. My HP 4TB NVME has a graphene thermal tape strip on it and it was difficult to sandwich in there.Overall highly pleased, board is overbuilt making it solid, cool running, and you don't have to worry about pulling too much power or power limitations.

For over fifteen years I have been loyal to Asus motherboards and add-ons, but their current offerings are overpriced and did not get good reviews. So I took a chance on this X670E Gaming Plus WiFi motherboard and I couldn't be happier. It is a nice looking product with plenty of M2 ports. So far my onboard temps are good but I do not use it for gaming. Initially I used the onboard video and it worked great for me. When I added a Radeon video card it was entirely plug and play. The board is sturdy enough to hold my three fan video card with no problem. My initial Windows 11 install from USB was quick and easy.There are enough fan headers for me. There are two ARGB headers and two RGB headers which was plenty for me. I have not had much success in changing the default ARGB settings , but I have not spent much time as the default setting is fine for now. As I said, the board looks good but the Peerless Phantom Spirit 120SE CPU cooler is so large it obscures the view of the MSI dragon and the LED lighting of my two RAM sticks.The only negative I can now think of is the limited number of SATA ports. There are only four SATA ports but that was enough since my case would not accommodate a DVD drive and I was able to replace SATA drives with M2. But a couple more SATA ports would have been nice.Overall I am very happy with this motherboard build and I am glad I found a lower priced full featured alternative to Asus.

This is overall a good motherboard. Relatively simple to use and set things up. There are plenty of M.2 slots, plenty of usb ports. I didn't really have issues with boot times or memory training, but considering other reviews have mentioned it, maybe keep it in mind. Definitely look at the memory compatibility list on MSI's website.The main thing I like is that, unlike some of MSI's 870(e) boards, I don't need a chart to understand which port actually runs at a slower speed if there's a pcie or m2 slot in use. Everything just runs at the advertised speed. Although, if you need multiple pcie5.0x16 or pcie 5.0 m2 slots, maybe look at a different mobo.One issue that came up is that my board had issues recognizing my ssds. When starting up, it would reach the msi logo, the boot light would come on and then the system restarted; when this happens, it always booted up normally after it rebooted. Part of the problem is that this has only come up occasionally (every couple of weeks). I bought the motherboard on black friday, and the bios it came with was compatible with the 9800x3d (another plus), but it still had this SSD booting issue. I updated the bios to the latest one at the time of writing, and for the past week it has booted fine, but maybe update your bios just in case.I only realized that this was (MAYBE. HOPEFULLY) the issue since I saw reviews elsewhere mentioning it, but no one on Amazon.So a great value mobo overall, especially if you can get it around $200 and don't need USB4 or only need one pcie 5.0 slot and pcie 5.0 m.2. Just make sure to update your bios.