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. Read more here: https://www.kitguru.net/components/motherboard/leo-waldock/msi-mpg-x870e-carbon-wifi-review/ 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 Buy our merch from here: https://kitgurutech.myspreadshop.co.uk Discord invite link: https://discord.gg/4cqFSWY Steam Community https://steamcommunity.com/groups/kitguruofficial Be sure to support us on PATREON https://www.patreon.com/kitgurutech and read our MANTRA on HONEST REVIEWS Here: http://bit.ly/2BopnF9 Visit our facebook page over here! https://www.facebook.com/KitGuru.net/ Visit our Twitter page over here! https://twitter.com/kitgurupress?lang=en #MSI #X870E #amdryzen