Conclusion

Final Words 

Yep, she's purty and agile, the new STRIX X570-E Gaming delivers on most fronts. Also, it seems that for gaming perf is boosted a bit, wether that is a BIOS tweak, AGESA, Driver, game patch update we cannot tell just yet. But it is definitely improving with Ryzen 3000. The motherboard overall looks great, really great and offers all the basics and extras you'd need. The price then, X570 remains high, but this particular motherboard seems to be dropping under that 300 EUR/USD marker, and that is exactly what the docker, or guru, ordered. We've been able to spot this board at € 299,- if it would fall even a notch more to say 269,- this is looking to be a killer piece of hardware. The STRIX comes with Multi-GigE (2.5 Gigabit but not 5 or 10 Gigabit). Then an extra Gigabit jack as well as the AX WIFI implementation. That 2.5 Gigabit jack does it all really nicely in the 300 MB/sec ranges. What the industry now needs are affordable Multi-GigE switches so that your home LAN infrastructure finally is getting faster.  

Gaming performance on Ryzen 3000

Previous Ryzen reviews have taught me that it is extremely hard to convince a big part of the guru3d community and reader base that Ryzen 1000/2000 was plenty fast for gaming, at least mainstream gaming. For the new Zen2 Matisse based processors that will be less difficult. Combined with the respective platform, ZEN2 offers far more oomph compared to the previous two generations Ryzen processors. There are mostly wins for Intel, there will be wins for AMD based on competing and price level matched processors. It's a much closer call to make, and that by itself is a win for AMD all thanks to the increased IPC and clock frequencies. So based on the fastest consumer card on the globe,  GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, we can calculate and average out roughly a 5% to 10% advantage for the 9900K compared to the 3900X and 3700X overall. With varying differences per game title, of course. Guys, this is how close things have gotten in the year 2019 with Ryzen 3000. And we did pick Intel's most expensive 8-core proc here and, again, who really owns an RTX 2080 Ti? All slower cards are more GPU limited and thus the performance differences are narrower.

DDR4 Memory

Memory compatibility should not and likely will not be an issue as long as you stick to recently released DIMMs. I'll keep repeating this, but there are some really good Ryzen optimized kits out there. With Ryzen Generation 3 you can go higher in DDR4 clock frequency if you want to. We advise that up-to 3600 MHz and CL16 is fine, after that frequency value a 2:1 divider kicks in, and that can have an effect on the Infinity Fabric bandwidth, inter-core CCX bandwidth. We see no reason for faster DDR4 memory anyways, it's expensive and does not bring in added perf, much like what you see on Intel platforms as well. So my advice is a minimum 3200 MHz frequency for the memory, CL14 would be awesome of course especially since DDR4 prices have been on the decline for a year now.

The conclusion

The STRIX X570-E Gaming ticks some pretty good boxes, it's also close to a hundred bucks cheaper than the X570 Aorus Master and the two have near-identical feature sets. From that point of view, this board is a no-brainer. We would like to see it drop a good notch below the 300 EUR/USD marker though to be competitive enough against X470.  Other than that you get it all from proper M.2 performance, dual multi-GPU slots, eight SATA3 slots, all the USB connectivity you need and overall a lovely looking product. The big plus, of course, is the PCIe Gen 4.0 infrastructure the X570 platform with Ryzen 3000 offers. It does open up a plethora of faster storage options. If you do not care about AX WIFI and PCIe gen 4.0 you probably want to settle with a fast PCIe Gen 3.0 storage unit, so X470 is fine and cheaper as well. There will be no perf differential for CPU and memory, that's is the honest truth. The DDR4 memory worked straight out of the box, we enabled the 3200 MHz XMP and as well as 3600 MHz G.Skill memory used immediately kicked in. We advise a good 3200 Mhz kit though as that is plenty fast and offers better value. Tweaking wise, the motherboards will not be any limitation, the processors however are. 

The ASUS STRIX X570-E Gaming is among the first boards that I deem acceptable in relation to digesting the money you need to put down. If you can spot it under 300 USD/EUR marker, recommended. once it drops to say 269 it would even get to thumbs up from Guru3D as this is a darn nice product in terms of features, compatibility and really sweet aesthetics.

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