You're building a Ryzen 9000 rig and you need a board that won't bottleneck it six months from now. The Crosshair X870E Dark Hero gives you two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, five M.2 drives, and Wi-Fi 7 without the E-ATX footprint eating your case space. DDR5 runs to 8600+ MT/s with EXPO. You get 10GbE plus a second 5GbE port, so your creative workstation and your NAS don't fight over one pipe. USB4 at 40Gbps means that single cable to your external GPU or dock actually keeps up. It's an ATX board, 30.5 × 24.4 cm, drops into the case you already have. Ships as soon as it lands in our warehouse. Add to cart and we'll get it moving
| brand | ASUS |
| model | ROG CROSSHAIR X870E DARK HERO |
| socket | AMD AM5 |
| chipset | AMD X870E |
| form_factor | ATX (30.5 cm x 24.4 cm) |
| memory_type | DDR5 |
| max_memory_gb | 256 |
| memory_slots | 4 |
| pcie_slots | 2x PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| m2_slots | 5 |
| sata_ports | 4 |
| wifi | Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) |
| bluetooth | v5.4 |
| ethernet | 1x 10GbE + 1x 5GbE |
| usb4_ports | 2 |
| operating_system | Windows 11 |
| warranty | 2 years |