Finally an AMD X870E motherboard (socket AM5) that can support Asus’s BTF ecosystem.
Taken from TPU … SUS introduced the ROG Crosshair X870E Hero BTF motherboard. This Socket AM5 motherboard is a variant of the original ROG Crosshair X870E Hero that ASUS debuted with its AMD X870-series chipset motherboard lineup launched alongside Ryzen 9000 series processors; and comes with ASUS’s BTF standard of backside connectivity. The board has all its onboard headers, ports, and connectors pointing backside (reverse side of the PCB), to nearly eliminate visible cable clutter. A key aspect of this board is its preparation of BTF power delivery for graphics cards. The board has a 600 W-capable 12V-2×6 power input on the reverse side, which is wired to the BTF power delivery slot meant for compatible ASUS TUF Gaming, ROG Strix, and ROG Astral series BTF graphics cards.
Besides these, the ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero BTF is laid out similar to the original board, and comes with an otherwise identical feature-set, which includes a power CPU VRM, a PCI-Express 5.0 x16 slot, as many as five M.2 NVMe slots, two wired Ethernet interfaces (2.5 GbE and 5 GbE), and Wi-Fi 7 + Bluetooth 5.4, driven by a premium MediaTek MT7927 (320 MHz) WLAN controller. USB connectivity includes two 40 Gbps USB4, eight 10 Gbps USB 3.2 ports (6x type-A and 2x type-C), two 20 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (type-C header), and two additional 5 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1 headers. The onboard audio solution combines a Realtek ALC4082 CODEC with ESS ES9219 quad DAC and Savitech AMPs. The company didn’t reveal pricing, but we expect this board to cost 5-10% more than the regular ROG Crosshair X870E Hero.
Source: TPU
