Amazon.com: ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero AMD X870E AM5 ATX Motherboard, Advanced AI PC Ready, 18+2+2 Power Stages, DDR5, PCIe® 5.0, 5X M.2, Wi-Fi 7, USB4®, AI Overclocking, Core Flex, PCIe Slot Q-Release Slim : Electronics

Very nice motherboard. No problems at all and is very stable. 7900X processor running 5500mhz on all cores with power reduced and thermal limit set @ 85C. Never passes mid 70s C in 1 hour Aida 64 stability tests. I have a custom loop with an extra thick 360 radiator from Alphacool and using EK's Velocity2 AM5 block.I think where most people are having issues is not the motherboard, but the memory. Did a lot of research and settled on a 64Gb 6000 kit from G.skill. Was on the compatible list both from G.skill and ASUS. I also upgraded the BIOS to the latest available before I even began building. Booted right up, about a minute or so to run the memory test, then right into BIOS. Set the memory up, saved and rebooted. After I finished configuring everything else and had rebooted a few times, I set Memory Context Restore so that it doesn't have to do the memory testing every time and it boots to windows in about 20-25 seconds now.Buy components that match the quality of the board, check compatibility carefully, see what is working for others, and you'll end up with a very nice PC. Don't try to run 4 sticks of RAM unless you want to run it at very low speeds. This is an AMD thing, not ASUS and as far as I know, there are no 128Gb kits available yet. Any time you mix kits, you are asking for trouble. That's not an AMD thing, its a PC thing.Bought this board because it had every feature I wanted and a few that I don't need yet. Was a little concerned about all the negative comments I've read but have not had the first issue and couldn't be more pleased with the purchase.Yes, it's an expensive board, but you know that up front. With parts availability what they have been lately, I was just happy to get everything I needed. But what you get for the money is a very high performance system that just exudes quality. I'm looking at it as a long term investment that should be serve me well for years. Oh...and it's fast!Combo that worked for me:G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO RGB Series (AMD Expo) 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin SDRAM DDR5 6000 CL30-40-40-96 F5-6000J3040G32GX2-TZ5NR2 - SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD 2TB PCIe NVMeAMD Ryzen™ 9 7900X 12-Core

Bought this because I wanted the best of the best, everything about this was going to help build a monster pc. I love most ASUS products and I thought for sure this was going to be worth the money. Had it for about a year, new bios update came out... updated because the computer seemed sluggish and I couldn't figure out why (several post suggested updating the bios) did the update and dang was the computer fast again. It was better than when I first built it. Super excited I load into one of my favorite games, it the game for about 5 minutes when I hear a pop and everything shuts down. I look at my tower as a cloud of smoke comes pouring out of it. One of the capacitors fried and in the process destroyed my ryzen 7700k and my 32gb or RAM. I had to start all over on the build. After doing some research on this, turns out ASUS knew about the problem. I called to try to get it RMA and was told it was out of the warranty time.

I put together a new system that turned out to be extremely unstable. It took me a long time to narrow the problems down to this motherboard - who would think to even check that? All Steam games of decent size (10gb ) were corrupt after installing. Sometimes the files would fail to verify and sometimes Steam would just complain that the installer was corrupt. Also sporadic BSODs, system hangs, and lots of weird quirks.I thought for sure this must be bad RAM, so I ran days of RAM tests, underclocked my memory, tried one stick at a time, etc. Everything came back OK. Well, then maybe the drive itself is bad. I tried multiple formats/reinstalls of Windows. Some were better than others, but all had weird quirks like failing to install updates, hanging indefinitely on shut down, and sporadic BSODs. I even tried a different drive I had sitting around - same problem. I underclocked my CPU and ran lots of torture tests - all came back fine but the problems persisted.After a couple weeks of doing this, I returned to this page and saw the reviews had steadily declined for this mobo and turned my attention to that. Surely a motherboard couldn't cause all of these problems - but of course it did. Finally, I turned on Window Driver Verifier and caught the motherboard red handed - multiple ASUS drivers were misbehaving while all other drivers were fine. I swapped this for a different brand x670e and I haven't had a single problem since. In hind sight, this seems obvious - one place I consistently got a BSOD was in ASUS's Armoury Crate when installing drivers.Do yourself a favor and steer clear of this mobo. The worst part is that the system boots, works fine for many things (I could play the games I wanted to play with lots of re-downloading) but has lots of little sporadic issues. I was fortunate to buy this at a time which qualified for Amazon's extended holiday return period, otherwise I would've been hosed. As near as I can tell, it's ASUS's drivers causing the problems, so an RMA would probably not fix anything.For those technically inclined, among many other issues, this mobo seems to corrupt a very small amount of TCP traffic *after* it's been checksummed, which is just nuts and causes all sorts of problems. Of course a small amount of corruption multiplied by gigabytes of traffic becomes a huge problem.

I built my system and was able to post, but it did take a little time the first boot. I was generally happy with the state of the BIOS version that shipped with the board. I was a little nervous to flash a new BIOS because my PC was mostly stable, didn't seem to really be having any memory issues, and there was that fiasco with voiding your warranty using officially released BIOS from Asus (what a joke). BUT, all that warranty stuff has been corrected and I finally decided to update the BIOS to the latest version for stability reasons.It wasn't often, but I DID notice that my system would abruptly crash and reboot (No blue screen, no warning, just like the monitor would turn off and system would reboot) randomly out of nowhere.It wasn't enough to give me concern or anything, but still I wanted to identify the issue and get it ironed out. So I finally decided to update the BIOS to the latest version (at time of review- version 1415), I made sure that all of my drivers were the latest versions from Asus's website, then installed all updates that I had for Windows 11- basically dotted all my i's and crossed all my t's.I'm happy to report that after almost a week or so I haven't experienced any crash or hiccup and everything seems to be operating stable and no issues to report.I know that there's a lot of people complaining about their Asus boards and issues they're having, but I always take these complaints with a grain of salt because I don't know how experienced these users are at building pc's, and more so- troubleshooting issues they may be experiencing or if they even bothered to update their BIOS in the first place. Some users expect a simple plug and play experience (which isn't unreasonable) but when we are talking about a BRAND NEW platform and chipset- well, as you are aware of, there are sometimes growing pains and a maturation process that just takes a little time.The quality of this board is TOP NOTCH. It has virtually every feature you could want or need (although 10gb Ethernet at this price point is not asking for too much), the BIOS are robust and take some time to find all the settings, but they're there! Lol, you can fine-tune and customize every aspect of your system.Auras Sync works great between all my peripherals and components. I mean, Idk what else to tell you. Board was a first time go. No major issues and after my first BIOS update- NO ISSUES to speak of. It looks great, it works great. That's what I paid for and I got my money's worth so far.I've owned 4 or 5 Asus motherboards, used in personal rigs and I've never had a problem with any of them. I not only recommend their products but continue to purchase them myself. It would take a lot to get me to purchase a board from another manufacturer at this point, but this is just my opinion and experience.