ASUS ProArt X870E-Creator WiFi (AMD AM5)

There’s a lot to love about this motherboard, and for me, first and foremost it has to be the overall aesthetics. It’s a gorgeous-looking piece of hardware and a refreshing change from the gamer-focused designs that dominate the market. They’re appealing to a more professional market, but honestly, even for a gaming PC, I’d be happy with this design. Of course, I am a gamer, but I am also a content creator, and this board has a lot to offer to people like myself. The VRM configuration is robust, ensuring that I can get the maximum performance from my CPU when rendering videos, gaming, and anything else. Plus, there are massive heatsinks all over the motherboard, so the ultra-fast M.2 storage options will all be kept running at their optimal speeds with no throttling, which is obviously going to have advantages for content creators, and just about any other type of PC use really. But what is an advantage here, is the overall connectivity. There’s a lot of fast USB ports on the back, including a pair of USB4 ports (Type-C) which offer up DisplayPort 1.4 8K @ 60Hz, PowerDelivery, and 40Gbps speeds. There’s also 20Gbps and 10Gbps, so hooking up all your external drives, USBs, etc, should be a breeze. It’s one of the few new X870s with WiFi7, 2.5GbE LAN, and 10GbE LAN!