Alternative board to Asus ROG Strix X570-E

[WhitetailAni]

I'm not sure what to do.

I'd like to upgrade my motherboard to an X570 board, and the ROG Strix X570-E has all the features I need.

One problem: It's E X P E N S I V E.

I was going to get the ASRock X570 Steel Legend, but realized it has no SLI support, and that's why I'm choosing X570.

And yes, I know the B550-E exists. It doesn't have enough SATA ports though.

So I have come here to see if anyone else knows of a good motherboard with these qualifications in an ATX form factor (ordered from highest to lowest priority):

1. SLI support

2. 8 SATA ports

3. 3 PCIe x1 (or higher, just not the CPU-wired ones) slots that aren't blocked when a dual-slot GPU is installed

4. 2+ M.2 slots

5. USB-C front panel header

6. Dual LAN ports

 

Does anyone know of an AM4 board with these qualifications?
If not, guess I'm getting the X570-E.

[Hampoon]

5 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

I'm not sure what to do.

I'd like to upgrade my motherboard to an X570 board, and the ROG Strix X570-E has all the features I need.

One problem: It's E X P E N S I V E.

I was going to get the ASRock X570 Steel Legend, but realized it has no SLI support, and that's why I'm choosing X570.

And yes, I know the B550-E exists. It doesn't have enough SATA ports though.

So I have come here to see if anyone else knows of a good motherboard with these qualifications in an ATX form factor (ordered from highest to lowest priority):

1. SLI support

2. 8 SATA ports

3. 3 PCIe x1 (or higher, just not the CPU-wired ones) slots that aren't blocked when a dual-slot GPU is installed

4. 2+ M.2 slots

5. USB-C front panel header

6. Dual LAN ports

 

Does anyone know of an AM4 board with these qualifications?
If not, guess I'm getting the X570-E.

I would just advise against SLI unless you NEED it. SLI is a dying technology where less and less games are supporting it and there are big performance issues and it isn't cost effective. You are better off buying 1 gpu.

[boggy77]

how about these:

Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming

ASRock X570 Taichi

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

I got a x570 taichi, has almost all of that(well except dual lan, but I got a 10gbe nice cause no am4 board has sfp+ on it)

[Jurrunio]

If you can't pay for SLI support you don't need it, guess that's what Asus have in mind.

 

I dont see any boards that might be cheaper managing to tick 8SATA and dual LAN box together, so I guess you have to take the X570-E

[Grabhanem]

The only cheaper board I see that meets all those requirements (except for the PCIe slots, but the X570-E doesn't either) is the X570 PGX:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/3bvqqs/asrock-x570-phantom-gaming-x-atx-am4-motherboard-x570-phantom-gaming-x

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

If you can't pay for SLI support you don't need it, guess that's what Asus have in mind.

 

I dont see any boards that might be cheaper managing to tick 8SATA and dual LAN box together, so I guess you have to take the X570-E

Oh well.

19 minutes ago, Hampoon said:

I would just advise against SLI unless you NEED it. SLI is a dying technology where less and less games are supporting it and there are big performance issues and it isn't cost effective. You are better off buying 1 gpu.

Getting SLI means I can use my 2 GPUs, allowing me to get two upgrades with one purchase.

Also, forgot to mention:

How is the ASRock RGB software compared to Armoury Crate?

[WhitetailAni]

Also, does anyone know where to find an X570-E new?
It's only used on Newegg and I can't (nor do I want to) buy from eBay.