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MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi review: An excellent AMD Ryzen motherboard
With a price of $500 / £430, you’d be right to expect the MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi to look great, offer an abundance of high-end features, and generally leave you with little reason to lust after an upgrade until it no longer offers support for the latest processors. It’s the company’s most expensive MPG Carbon WiFi motherboard yet, and it certainly offers plenty of headline features, including Wi-Fi 7, USB 4, PCIe 5.0 SSD and GPU support, and a handsome appearance.
There’s a lot going on here in terms of what’s been crammed onto the PCB and, of course, there are the added benefits of the MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi using AMD’s best gaming motherboard chipset, X870E, rather than just the plain old X870 chipset. This gives advantages in terms of the number of high-speed USB ports and PCIe lanes available, meaning you’re less likely to need to watch out for SSDs stealing PCIe lanes from your graphics card, for example.
As well as kitting out this board with cutting-edge features, MSI has also given its EFI a makeover with a new HD interface and redesigned layout, and it certainly hasn’t cut back on other features either. You get plenty of overclocking and testing tools, and even thermal probe inputs that can feed into your fan speeds, which is useful for cooling specific areas of your PC, as well as with custom water cooling.
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