Breaking Msi Meg X870e Godlike X Edition Review

With only 1,000 MEG X870E Godlike X Editions being made by MSI, you might feel that this is a motherboard that could never grace your PC. Fortunately, it's practically identical to the standard X870E Godlike. Whether it's worth spending over one thousand dollars on a motherboard is a question only you can answer, but drooling over one costs nothing.

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As hardware reviews go, this one has probably been the most challenging one I've ever undertaken in my three decades of testing and rating PC hardware. Not because the product is incredibly complex or difficult to use; far from it, in fact. And not because it was a bug-ridden, early-release mess either. Indeed not, as the MSI MEG X870E Godlike X Edition is probably the most stable, easy-to-use, and feature-rich desktop PC motherboard I have ever tested.

The problem is in its name: X Edition. This is a limited release model, created by MSI to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its Godlike series of motherboards. Only 1,000 units will be made available, and restricted to Micro Center and Newegg in the US, and Scan in the UK. So the chances of an average PC enthusiast being able to buy one are astonishingly remote, even if you have a wallet capacious enough to afford the Godlike X Edition.

So how does one go about testing and ultimately reviewing a product that hardly anyone will be able to buy? In some ways, MSI has made the challenge simple by taking a standard MEG X870E Godlike (though they're hardly what you call standard) and upgrading the package to produce the X Edition.

I might as well get this out of the way now, though. It doesn't feel like MSI has done enough to make the X Edition really worth being limited to one thousand units. That's because there's only a handful of differences between the standard Godlike and the Godlike X Edition. You get an MSI plushy-keyring dragon toy, a bespoke heatsink for the primary M.2 SSD slot that's labelled with the unit's production number, plus a USB-powered stand/box to show off said heatsink.

Socket: AMD AM5Chipset: AMD X870ECPU compatibility: AMD Ryzen 7000/8000/9000 desktopForm factor: E-ATXMemory support: DDR5-4800 to DDR5-9000 (OC), up to 256 GBStorage: 5x M.2, 2x M.2 via adapter card, 4x SATAUSB (rear): 2x USB4 Type-C 40 Gbps, 5x USB 3.2 Type-C 10 Gbps, 8x US

Source: PC Gamer