MSI - MPG X670E CARBON WIFI (Socket AM5) AMD X670 ATX DDR5 Wi-Fi 6E Motherboard - Black

Great aesthetics, fits perfectly in my chasse, compatible with all my parts I purchased! It looks amazing in my computer and I am super happy I got this. I've always liked MSI products when I'd search for computers in the past. I love how many ports it has too. Bios is fairly easy to do but went a little wonky for me so I had to go into best buy for some assistance and it worked :)

Premium high quality future proof motherboard with all the bells and whistles Easy to navigate bios . Boot first try with a bios flash

I'm running the board with a 7700X and two 16GB sticks of G.Skill 6000 MHz CL30 and so far the board has been great. The board has an excellent set of features, tons of I/O, USB/Fan/ARGB headers, a 7 segment LED debuigging display (which is a must have for me), and loads of M.2 slots. I had heard that memory training on AM5 boards could take 10+ minutes on first boot, but the board booted up in about 30 seconds the first boot. boot times since then are longer than with my old AM4 board, but aren't anything crazy. After updating the board to the latest bios from April 14, it boots in about 15 seconds or so. I only have 2 complaints, and they aren't about the board itself. The board doesn't come with a paper manual. I know most companies just put pdf's on their website, but if you're having motherboard problems you may not be able to access online manuals, so having a paper manual is important. With such a high price board there is no reason to save pennies by not including a manual. The digital manual on MSI's website is also terrible. If you're a first time pc builder, you are going to have a rough time with the manual. Lacks a lot of crucial details, makes no mention of all kiinds of important things, and is filled with poor grammar and broken english. My other complaint is minor, the bios is kind of confusing. It took me a bit to figure out how to make it boot from a USB to install windows, and also took some time to figure out how to enable things like EXPO and PBO. Advanced mode should really just display better menus that are clear where every option is located in the bios, but the advanced mode screen looks a whole lot like EZ mode. Lots of menus within menus within menus with menus resulting in a labyrinth to try to find the setting your looking for. I ended up using the search function to find settings, which is a bad habbit since you might not see all available settings for a particular feature. This is my first MSI motherboard though and I'm not used to their BIOS (I'm used to ASUS), so I imagine I'll get used to it and it will be fine. There were some settings like ReBAR and PBO enabled by default, which you don't normally see enabled by default, since they can cause problems sometimes. Overall, I'm really happy with this board. It was extremely overpriced (I would expect a board with these features to be more around $300-350, not $500), but it's a good board. The manual was terrible, but I didn't really need it, and the bios is a little awkward, but will be fine once I get totally familiar with it.