Review NZXT N9 x870E

Like many manufacturers, NZXT has decided to accept his weight for Intel thanks to the up-to-date processor and the chipsets prime minister last year. Although it is very slow at the party and only starting the trio of up-to-date motherboards together with ASRock, it still went with two LGA1851 motherboards and only one AM5 board, in the form of the N9 x870E, which we look at today.

This may seem illogical, considering that AMD has long been seen as a better option with Arrow Lake Intela processors nearby, at least so far. The sale of the latter is pale compared to AMD equipment, especially when it comes to pairing V-CC 3D processors. It is a pity that this time we do not have the AMD B850 chipset option with AMD, but instead a monstrous model worth $ 500 x870E.

Despite the similar price to the N9 Z890 option, this does not seem to be so generous in terms of aesthetics, there is no extensive RGB lighting that flows through the heat of M.2. This is partly due to the fact that the X870E board has two chipsets requiring cooling, so it is more by accident a function above the form. If I had to choose, I would still choose the N9 Z890, as it is more falling, but there is still an impressive number of functions.

If you want to employ many SSD M.2, then the N9 x870E has four in total with one of the people supporting SSDS PCIE 5.0 and also includes cooling the bottom – something that N9 Z890 does not do, although it had more heat. There is enough bandwidth for all places and ports that can be occupied without devices needed to share the bandwidth, which is one of the advantages that you expect more expenses on X807E.

There are three more M.2 ports lower with one immense cooling. In this case, heat is without tools, unlike the upper, which will require a screwdriver, but these ports do not feel like SSD to below. However, this should not be a problem with the cooler SSDS PCIe 4.0. There is Audio Wi-Fi 7, 5G LAN and Realtek ALC4080, and the rear panel offers two USB4 Type-C ports, so this is the newfangled technological fields. If you still have older SATA devices that you want to add to the up-to-date system, there are also four SATA ports here and they are at an angle to improve the cable skin.

The printed plate has many covers that carefully surrounded, such as power and reset buttons and various ports, thanks to which the minimum ugly printed plate is observable. This means that the black version is particularly looking, but the white version still has a black printed plate and components such as ports and memory gaps, so Gigabyte does a better work if you are looking for a motherboard that is as white as possible.

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Being NZXT, cooling is improved mainly using freely available CAM software, and EFI remains basic without a newfangled graphic interface for playing with curves of fans. This makes the adaptation of computer fans and lighting is straightforward, but one of the problems we had is a pair of VRM fans hidden under a immense tax on the We/O panel that cools the supply of 20+2+1. They are associated with the processor temperature, not VRM, and the latter takes much longer.

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As a result, petite VRM fans are often loud under medium or ponderous processor loads. Fortunately, the software allows you to tune them to acceptable levels, but because there is no VRM temperature reading, you guess a bit. Hwinfo revealed an auxiliary temperature that matched the VRMS reading in EFI, so we went with it for our results, but again VRMS fans are not associated with it as strange.

The rear panel has a immense number of USB ports with a total number of 10 type A, with half a USB 3.1 GEN 2 type 10 GBPS, in addition to two USB4 Type-C ports. You also get CMO Clear and USB BIOS Flashback, while petite holes in the We/O disc allow you to ventilate petite fans. Speaking of fans, as well as normal fan headers, there are also 8-pin NZXT connectors that support its RGB accessories. However, there are adapters in the field that convert them to standard fans headers and 4-pin RGB NZXT connectors.

If the auxiliary reading is really a VRM temperature, it was decent at 38 ° C, which is one of the lowest we saw. One would expect that considering that he has two loud fans of actively cooling heat. The temperature of chipset was more anxiety, which was quite the opposite. It was one of the highest we saw at 69 ° C, perhaps because the real heat is relatively low to deal with two chipsette underneath, with other X870E boards that we saw, using something much larger. Despite this, this did not affect any of the reference points with similar results to other boards, for example in 7-ZIP Benchmark.

The average power of the processor package was also slightly high at 10-15 in more than usual from other X870 boards. It seemed, however, that this did not translate into pure best places in our comparative tests, with typical results in Cinebench, Blender and our game tests. Our SSD PCIe 5.0 seemed, however, cheerful, at a peak temperature of 67 ° C, allowing it to reach maximum speeds, and at the same time sits far above 10 ° C from choke.

Although it may not be as eye -catching as his siblings Z890, the NZXT N9 X870E is mainly a solid house for the Ryzen 7000 or 9000 processor and with a pleasure he sits in the heart of high -class computer computers or content creation. Both black and white versions look stunning, although the icing on the cake would be a white printed plate and ports on a white version, i.e. a competition that has more points.

It has many USB ports, newfangled functions such as USB4, Wi-Fi 7, PCIE 5.0 GPU and SSD Operation and has premium functions, such as power and reset buttons, and immense without tools M.2 heat. The speed of USB ports on the back panel is also impressive, with the majority is USB 3.2 GEN 2 10 GBPS or faster.

However, there are several niggers. The temperature of the peak chipsets is a bit high, and VRM fans are quickly heard under medium loads to the processor. The reason for this is that they react to the processor temperature, not the VRM temperature, although the latter is observable in EFI. Similarly, there is no VRM temperature option in CAM NZXT software, only the ability to adjust the VRM fan speed. This is a bit rapid repair to reduce noise, but it can be better set

In general, NZXT N9 X870E offers a unique design, high -class functions and high rapid connectivity. However, it is the dated EFI, which does not have newfangled options for the fan control, as well as its loud VRM fans mean that despite the excellent VRM temperatures, unless you want to spend time refining cooling, there are slightly better options.