MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi - DDR5 8000 for the win!

Today Leo takes a look at the new MSI MPG X870E Carbon WIFI - priced at around £430 inc vat in the UK. Is this a board you should be shortlisting? Leo goes over the technology in these new boards and gives his usual measured approach on whether you should buy one or not. He also tried DDR5 8000 and gives some thoughts on that as well.

00:00 Start
01:00 A little update
02:05 Digging into the board
02:54 Power delivery / VRM’s / Features
05:54 Component Installation
07:56 BIOS, Power and Temps
09:30 USB4 testing
10:55 Performance info, setup
12:20 Cinebench R23 Multicore
14:07 AIDA64 Memory Bandwidth
14:52 Far Cry 6
15:40 Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
16:11 Assassin Creed Mirage
16:54 Cyberpunk 2077
17:14 Closing Thoughts

Test system
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
Motherboard: MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi BIOS 1.A13 AGESA 1202
Memory: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 Royal Neo DDR5-8000
CPU Cooler: Phanteks Glacier One 360D30
Graphics card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming OC 16GB GDDR6X
Power supply: Seasonic Focus GX-1000 ATX 3
SSD: 1TB Crucial T700 M.2 NVMe
OS: Windows 11

Specification:
Chipset: AMD X870E
CPU Support: AMD Ryzen 9000/8000/7000 desktop processors.
VRMs: 18+2+1 x 110A Smart Power Stages

Memory support:
4 DIMMs, Dual Channel DDR5, Maximum Memory Capacity 256GB
Max. overclocking frequency:
1DPC 1R Max speed up to 8400+ MT/s
1DPC 2R Max speed up to 6400+ MT/s
2DPC 1R Max speed up to 6400+ MT/s
2DPC 2R Max speed up to 4800+ MT/s

Expansion slots:
1x PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 slot (from CPU)
1x PCIe Gen 5.0 x4 slot (from CPU)
1x PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 slot (from chipset)

Storage:
2x M.2 Gen 5.0 x4
2x M.2 Gen 4.0 x4
4x SATA 6Gbps

USB support:
2x USB 40Gbps Type-C (Rear)
1x USB 20Gbps Type-C (Front)
2x USB 10Gbps Type-C (Rear)
9x USB 10Gbps Type-A (Rear)
4x USB 5Gbps Type-A (Front)
4x USB 2.0 (Front)

Ethernet: Realtek 8126 5Gbps and Realtek 8125 2.5Gbps LAN
Wireless: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4

Audio: Realtek ALC4080 7.1-Channel Audio

Form Factor: ATX 244mm x 305mm
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