MSI MEG X670E ACE Gaming Motherboard (AMD Ryzen 9000/8000/7000 Series Processors, AM5, DDR5, PCIe 5.0, SATA 6Gb/s, M.2, USB 3.2 Gen 2, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, HDMI/DP, EATX)

It seems like it has all features needed such as two PCIe direct connection to CPU (instead of chipset). However, it's quite scary. I was so lucky that I found a post on Reddit that mentioned this motherboard needs 5-10 minutes for the first boot. On first boot it shows CPU detection error LED. I was about to reassemble multiple times or return it. It seems like this problem high-likely happens when a newer CPU is used such as 7900x. In terms of BIOS options, I should say a b450 tomahawk almost has an identical BIOS to this. Generally other more expensive brands seem to have more advanced options in BIOS. For the price it is worth it but be careful for the first boot so that you don't destroy your CPU/MB pins for reassembling multiple times or some strange tricks on Youtube (such as fast toggling power button on the Power: DANGER! DON'T DO THAT, IT CAN BE DANGEROUS).

I don't see a good valid reason to go with the God-Like version for twice the price when this motherboard has all you'll ever need and some more. Unless you have money to throw away and burn, or you just really like the looks (aesthetics) of the God-Like motherboard and the 90-degree angle of the connectors.If you install two memory sticks, use channel A2 B2 to populate them, I do not recommend using all four memory slots since AMD has issues reaching the higher memory frequencies when all four memory slots are populated. I have 64gb 2x32gb @6400mhz sticks, and the expo profile 1 works perfectly with super stability. To avoid a long boot up every time with this motherboard, just enter the bios, and on the advanced tab select Memory Context Restore to (Enabled). But note that every time you do any changes in the bios pertaining to memory, the motherboard will retrain the memory and you'll get Code 15 on the debug LED panel for almost a minute before the system boots up. So no, don't panic, your board is not defective, the code 15 is normal and seems to last forever when we desperately want the system to boot up. But once the initial memory training takes place, and the context restore is enabled, you'll be able to boot up as fast as any other system with ddr4 memory or Intel CPU.I have a Ryzen 9 7950X3D, and the only change I made on the bios to improve performance and thermals, was to actually undervolt the processor slightly, by going to PBO, set profile to manual, and then set the thermal throttle control to 80 (degrees) or even 75 if you don't want it reaching the 80, and then on the CPU curve optimizer set to all cores (negative) and type in 20, or 15 if 20 is not too stable. That will make the processor draw slightly less power, and run slightly cooler and faster.But like I said, having a good motherboard gives you a bunch of options that you might miss, with lower end boards.Another confusing thing about this board that may scare many people on the Windows 11 installation, is that the WIFI and Ethernet cards on this board are not natively supported by windows 11, so upon the first boot, you will not have internet access, to overcome this, you can either bypass the windows 11 online account requirement, or you can use an inexpensive plug and play wifi adapter or a USB to ethernet adapter.If you get a Gen 5 M.2 NVME SSD for your primary drive, get the Crucial T705, the speeds are insane, over 14k MB/s both read and write. And it runs fairly cool. Speaking of that, another feature I love about this board, is that I can easily swap M.2 NVME SSDs from the gen 5 socket next to the memory slots, I love to play with installations and do some custom Windows 11 Installations, and instead of testing them with a virtual machine on virtual box, I like to actually use another ssd and do a clean full system installation!I know this board is a little expensive, but it is worth it and runs very very well.

I have 64g gkill 6000 and this board takes forever to load up. So then they had me flash the bios and the firm malfunctioned. I can boot into bios. I cannot use my mouse and keyboard inside the bios menu. They want me to disconnect everything and reflash the bios.If I travel for work and I’m gone for a week my board takes minutes for the ram and cpu to boot up. This was supposed to be solved with the bios flash. If I increase my ram mhz the board takes so long to boot up and sometimes doesn’t even compute the ram. I’m running 6000mhz at 3600.Sometimes it doesn’t boot back up in sleep mode. The last straw was when I booted up and my keyboard wasn’t working. I had to plug it out. I am returning this board it’s been a serious disaster. If you read reviews across multiple sites, a lot of people have the same issues. When you call them and explain what’s going on, they act like they’ve never heard of this. Even though they have bios updates to fix it. I’m tearing everything apart and installing a asus with a bios flashback option.Update:After speaking to a third technician on February 6, 2023 he was actually very helpful. It turns out the other two technicians didn’t know what they were talking about. I did not have to remove all the components out of the computer to re-flash the bios. There’s also a certain usb slot on my board I needed to plug it in to. It’s a good thing I was talking to him. He told me which slot it was dedicated to. The other two technicians didn’t bother to check, even though I gave them my board information. I guess it matters who you talk to. I’m not updating my rating on the experience I’ve had. I was literally about to return it and I thought let me give it one more try. I would rather get this to work correctly and tear everything out and switch to another board.