ASUSROG 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

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.

***Update***Feb 23 2025After the motherboard finally stabilized for a while I purchased new memory to up my count for AI support. After updating to the latest BIOS that say that they increased the support for larger memory sizes I found that the board is once again unstable. I reverted back to the old memory and the old BIOS and it is still unstable which means that the board must go through the pains of massive random reboots before it learns the memory that is installed which is horrible practice. Again, this is probably going to be the last ASUS product I buy seeing as they can't get their stuff together and you would think that after 2 years the motherboard would be able to handle 128GB of memory... nope. The increase was support for 2x32GB memory... this is a high end motherboard which should be able to support this right from the get go.***Update***It has been a year since I purchased this Motherboard and have religiously kept up with the BIOS updates hoping that at some point it would stabilize. Unfortunately, it has not stabilized and seems to be getting worst. I have not attempted to overclock this board because the stability without overclocking is not there yet. I matched the X670-E Hero with a 7950X and Sapphire Radeon 6900XT and pretty much get reboots every 10 to 15 minutes right now. I am currently sitting on BIOS update 1602.Also, all the software that comes with this motherboard is garbage as well. The ASUS Armory Crate is the worst piece software that I have seen. Every time you go to run it... it reinstalls itself which takes forever. When it does work it is nice because you can manage all your ASUS drivers from there, keeping them up to date.Stability - NoneValue for Money - If it doesn't work like it is supposed to then it is not worth the money. When I purchased it, it was $800+. So definitely not worth it.For Gaming - Can't get it to work long enough to play a game on.