Asus: New AM5 motherboards up to ITX at Gamescom

Five future AM5 motherboards from Asus for AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7000 processors with the X670E or X670 chipset are already known. At the start of Gamescom 2022, Asus has now presented further boards, which this time also leave the ATX form factor and are significantly smaller with Micro-ATX and ITX.

Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Gene in mATX

The Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Gene is said to be in no way inferior to its larger colleagues in terms of quality, but it does not adhere to the ATX, but the smaller Micro-ATX standard. The mainboard is equipped with AMD's largest X670E chipset, PCIe 5.0 is available for the graphics card and two M.2 SSDs. There is also another M.2 slot that works at PCIe 4.0 speed. The ROG Crosshair X670E relies on a USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Type-C header, USB 4 on the I/O panel, WiFi 6E and 2.5 Gbit Ethernet.

External “Hive” extends connectors and buttons for ITX

The Asus ROG Strix X670E-I Gaming WiFi then goes one better and is again a bit smaller with ITX. The second X670 chipset was obviously a challenge because it is housed on a separate plug-in card. The mainboard offers two DDR5 banks and PCIe 5.0 for the graphics card as well as an M.2 connector; another leaves it at PCIe 4.0. A pluggable “ROG FPS-II” card expands the mainboard with two SATA ports and numerous buttons known from the larger boards, such as for the CMOS reset.

Asus: New AM5 motherboards up to ITX at Gamescom

Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Gene in mATX

External “Hive” extends connectors and buttons for ITX

ROG Strix X670E-I Gaming WiFi in Mini-ITX