Performance

When it comes to performance testing, typically motherboard to motherboard we aren’t going to see any big performance difference when running the same components and clock speeds. The exception to that is when boards are auto overclocking of course and there are a few areas where components can make a difference like with ethernet and USB controllers. For testing the Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi I have compared it against the Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Wifi7 that I previously tested as well as the Asus TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi. This just gives us a comparison point to make sure things are still in line and the Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi was in line with what I saw with the TUF Gaming board but a little below the Aurus. It was better when it came to the gaming, however, improving on both boards slightly in two of the three tests.

The one area where motherboard testing does sometimes vary would be in the network testing and for that, I checked out both wired and wireless performance on the Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi and its wireless performance was in the same ballpark but a hair lower than the two other boards but its 5GbE NIC helped on its wired performance significantly doubling up the performance compared to the two other boards tested.

I also wanted to check out the lighting on the ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi. The only location was the large backlit ROG logo sitting up over the top of the rear I/O. I would have liked to have seen some underglow lighting around the board to spread the lighting out a little more, but this does look good. Beyond that, you just have the status LEDs in the top right corner and the post/error code display in that same corner.

In my testing, I also ran AIDA64’s CPU stress test using the FPU workload. I ran this for a half hour and got a few thermal images of the Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi to see how it was handling things. The heatsinks for the VRM had the heat evenly spread out. There was a little heat transferred into the PCB but it was less than on the TUF board which itself wasn’t bad at all. The hottest spot ended up being on the bottom edge right up against the M.2 slot where less airflow could reach but things ran cool.