 I love getting ASUS motherboards for review because they're beautiful both inside and out. I mean, take a look at this X670e-E Gaming Wi-Fi, 18 plus 2 power faces, 8-layer PCB, 8 layers, 1 PCI-E5 GPU slot, 2 PCI-E5 NVMe slots and it looks so good in black. Or this ROG Strix B650-A Gaming Wi-Fi. Hard to go wrong. Thank you because they're beautiful both inside and out. With this kind of color scheme, white and gray, 1 PCI-E5 NVMe slot and really just the attention to detail. Siguro mga 1% lang of users will actually bother to flip the board around and look at the back. Kasi likod nga to, walang titingin dito. But even then ASUS said, what the heck, we're gonna make it pretty, we're gonna put our design on it. And it, you know, that whole attention to detail and quality just superb. But I also hate reviewing motherboards because they're so hard to talk about. What makes them interesting is very technical. Like, ano ba yung significance na more number of power faces better? So what kung 8 layers yung PCB? Bakit may dalawang E sa X670e-E? Oo, may significance yun. So we'll do something a bit different. Yes, we'll still throw the technical terms at you kasi apparently gusto ninyo yun. But we'll also slow down and take the time to actually explain ano ba tung numbers and acronyms, what do they all mean? Kasi alamang naman tayo sa channel na to, we take the hard out of hardware. You know what I mean. Pinakabasik muna tayo, there are currently two chipsets which support AMD 7000 series. Ito yung X670 and B650. But both of these chipsets have extreme versions. Ito yung unang E sa ROG X670e-E gaming wifi. So there's the X670e, X670, B650e, and then B650. Yung isapang mobo in this video, the ROG B650-A gaming wifi is the standard version of the B650, hindi siya extreme. Nakakalito sa simula, pero madaling tandaan yung pagkaiba nila since the difference is just in how much PCI-E5 goodness each board has. Higher number better, the more PCI-E lanes, the faster the CPU can communicate with all of the other parts. So yung X670e has 24 usable lanes of PCI-E5. X670 has 8 lanes, B650e has 24 lanes and you heard that right, it has the same number of lanes as the X670e. Tapos yung pinaka basic version, B650, walang PCI-E5 lanes at all. Also only the extreme versions have PCI-E5 on the PCI-E expansion slots, aka where you plug your GPU in. All versions though support PCI-E5 and BME slots, although for the B650 that depends on the board manufacturer, in this case, the ROG B650-A gaming Wi-Fi does have a PCI-E5 and BME slot. So those are the basics in general. Dive in tayo sa specifics nito ang dalawang boards na to and we'll start with the Q goodness of ASOS, the Q release and the Q latch. Both of these boards have those features. For ASOS boards, I like starting with the Q features because they're so useful. Really clever touches from ASOS. The Q latch is for SSDs which does away with the M.2 screw, which is annoyingly small and easily lost, and actually quite difficult to install too. The Q release allows you to remotely unlock the PCI-E slot, which is a godsend when dealing with large cards and you can't fit your fingers beneath the card to unlock the clip. Parang malit lang na mabaga yung mga toe, but if you're enthusiast or you build a lot of computers, you recognize how bloody useful these two features are. Other brands should just blatantly rip this stuff off and so it becomes an industry standard. Sorry ASOS, pero imitation is the serious form of flattering ha naman di ba? Onto power faces, the X670E-E is a beast with 18 plus 2 power faces. I think this board has the most number of power faces that I've ever physically interacted with. The first number 18 are the number of power faces dedicated to the CPU and the second number 2 are the number of power faces dedicated to everything else on the motherboard. 18 plus 2 is an extremely high number even for high-end motherboards. You want more power faces because the more faces you have, the more tightly you can control the voltage, the electricity running into the different components. The CPU in particular needs just a very finely tuned range of electricity and it has to be clean electricity. It can't have a lot of spikes. So the more power faces you have, the more finely tuned the electricity is and the cleaner it is signal-wise. Both crucial things to CPU health as well as CPU overclocking. The B650-A gaming wifi is no slouch with 12 plus 2 power stages. 12 plus 2 is actually a very respectable number. It's in keeping with a mid-range motherboard. In contrast, the Z790-A which we took a look at a month ago also from ASOS has 15 plus 1 and the Z790 is the highest possible chipset for Intel's latest 13th gen. So 15 plus 1 is already quite high-end. And comparing that to what we have here, 18 plus 2 for the X670e-E and 12 plus 2 for the B650-A, you can really see especially in the X670e na grabe talaga. I mean, Ryzen 7000 does use a lot of power so you do want those extra power faces again just to more finely tune the voltage being pumped into your CPU. 18 plus 2 is crazy. I mean, again, cannot emphasize just how crazy it is for me that we actually have a board in use with those number of power faces. 12 plus 2 is decent. Again, that's more in keeping with a mid-range board. Moving on to another proxy number for quality are number of PCB layers and the X670e is again bonkers with 8 PCB layers. Rule of thumb, usually entry-level boards are 4. Mid-to-high-end boards are 6 layers and the extreme-mother boards are 8. I've never seen an 8-layer PCB board at this price range, to be honest. Yes, the X670e is a bit pricey. We'll get to that in a bit. But usually an 8-layer board has a much higher price than this. You want more layers because that gives the designers more room to work with, more room to make proper connections between the different components, more room to stabilize and isolate problematic parts in the sense that there's a lot of energy that's gonna be coursing through this. We don't want it affecting the stability of the other parts, interacting, affecting other parts. So we're gonna shunt it off to one side. The more layers you have, just give the designers more freedom to have more stable connections basically to come up with a more quality board. This isn't always the case. I mean, more space just means that you can be a bit sloppier. You can have 6-layer boards or even 4-layer boards that are just as good, but it takes a lot more effort to design them to be as good. 8-layers is just really an extreme amount. Although considering the number of PCI-E5 connections the X670e has and the amount of voltage it means to take in for the enthusiast level 7,000 CPUs that most likely people would pair with it. Perhaps that's why they went with 8-layers. The other mobile, the ROG B650-A gaming Wi-Fi is no slouch with 6-layers. For M.2 slots, the X670e has 4, 2 PCI-E5 and 2 PCI-E4. The B650-A has 3, 1 PCI-E5 and 2 PCI-E4. Max speed of RAM compatibility both top-out at 6,400 MHz. This is a very decent number for DDR5 RAM in keeping with the high-end range of what you could reasonably buy nowadays. For internet speed, both again have the same spec, Wi-Fi 6e and a 2.5GB Ethernet port. For most mid-range boards and up-now days, I don't really look at the possible maximum internet speed anymore because dito sa atin, mas likely na yung bottleneck or yung mas mabagal na component yung internet connection mo rather than what the motherboard can take in. So, you know, Wi-Fi 6e, 2.5GB, all nice to have, nice to brag about. But realistically, anong ISP dito sa atin kanino kwa makakakuhat ng speed na ganyan or kaya it's speed na menyo malapit pa dun. Moving on to the nice-to-have extras, these are just the little things that make working with the board just a little bit easier. The X670e does have a clear CMOS button. The B650-A does not. Both have a BIOS flashback feature. Really useful if you want to update the BIOS and it's nice that even the B650-A has that feature. For diagnostic lights, the B650-A does have these. Pretty standard in most motherboard's mid-range and up. Standard for high-end motherboards is what you find on the X670e which has a digital error readout. Basically, it'll spit out a number and then you need to go look up what that number means when it encounters an error. So nothing too out of the ordinary for the nice-to-have stuff. Before we get to the price, let me just say that both boards handle superbly in our tests. Easily delivering the speeds of RAM and CPU that were advertised without any problems. Our heat testing of VRMs is not the most accurate yet. We're still working on that. But from the rough tests we did, temps on both were pretty good. Especially considering that raw electricity usually consumed by 7,000 CPUs. Before again, we get to the price just as a side note, both boards look gorgeous with so many little details that have no practical value really but show that motherboards don't need to look so damn boring. And that the ASUS designers much like their core consumer. Personally, I really appreciate these little flourishes. So nice to look at and a wittier expression of aesthetic compared to just slapping some RGB on a product and calling it a day. Onto the price, the X670e retails for around $500 or it should, let's say MSRP. With the B650-A almost half that at just around $280. A lot of ink has been spilled complaining just how expensive the 7,000 ecosystem is and a lot of the blame with the CPUs expensive and the motherboards themselves expensive. Even the B650-A price is already a high-end board in other ecosystems. And yet here on the Ryzen 7,000 it's just kind of mid-range. It's not even the B650e. But it is what it is. These are the options available. If you're looking to get into the Ryzen 7,000 the ROG Strix B650-A gaming Wi-Fi is a good choice. And to be honest, you don't need a lot of the PCI-E5 goodness now. Yes, the B650-A doesn't have a PCI-E slot. So what? Even the 4090 now isn't a PCI-E5 card. The B650-A does have a PCI-E5 NDME slot. But again, so what? PCI-E5 NDMEs have been announced but good luck finding them right now in the wild. So even the entry level which is what the B650-A is kind of like the entry level board for Ryzen 7,000 it's more geared towards the future. You can't really appreciate the speed boosts it has yet. You might want to just go with the B650-A since even at that level the speed boost is still mostly potential. You can't actually buy hardware yet that will take advantage of it. So why splurge for an expensive board? If even at the entry level you're not already maximizing the hardware. I mean the ROG-X670-E-E is just amazing man. 18 plus 2 power faces. Eight layer PCB board. I mean, come on. And sometimes when I say these kind of things I do run into trouble with some comments saying that I'm not being realistic enough and not being mindful of other people's budgets. And it's true, $500 MSRP probably more expensive pa dito sa atin is quite a lot for a board. CPU na yan, GPU na yan. Dito sa, pero dito sa Ryzen 7,000 mobo lang yan. I mean, damn. At least you can say you're getting what you paid for. Again, 18 plus 2 power faces and eight layer level PCB are both things I would not thought I would see at this price range. So for score we're going to give the X670-E 4.5 candies a bit on the pricey side but you really do get what you pay for. And for candies for the B650-A this would basically be your entry level board currently for the Ryzen 7,000 series. It's still a bit pricey as with most ASUS products but it serves as a good foundation to bring you up to that PCI-E5 goodness when that hardware does get released. Bit hard really to justify doubling up your ante and shifting to the X670-E. So for a lot of people the ROG B650-A would be the responsible same choice. But if you're feeling a bit insane I have to say that X670-E-E gaming Wi-Fi is just superb. Thanks for watching. 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