MSI X870E Godlike motherboard drops at an eyewatering $1,099 — AM5 motherboard unleashes DDR5 9000+ RAM, five M.2 slots, 10 GbE, and Wi-Fi 7 alongside two USB 4.0 40 Gbps ports

MSI’s flagship and top-of-the-line MEG X870E Godlike motherboard is now available for purchase, and it doesn’t come cheap—it is priced at $1,099 over at Newegg. Of course, this motherboard isn’t for the faint of heart (and wallet) and requires you to shell out a pretty penny if you want the best there is—after all, it doesn’t get any more premium—unless you want a Threadripper, that is.

Let’s talk specs. The MSI MEG X870E Godlike uses the E-ATX (Extended ATX) form factor – measuring around 288 x 304.8mm. The board incorporates a 10-layer PCB with a heavy-duty 24+2+1 duet rail power setup rated at 110A – five more amps than its predecessor. The X870E Godlike features four DIMM slots rated for DDR5-8400+ speeds at 1 DPC (DIMM Per Channel), supporting up to 256GB of RAM. MSI touts speeds of over 9000MT/s – so you can complete mayhem with the overclocking.

In terms of expansion, we find three PCIe slots: two full-sized PCIe 5.0 slots (from the CPU) – one wired at x16 and the other at x8 and one PCIe 4.0 x4 slot (from the chipset). One of the most exotic offerings, the X870E Godlike, comes packed with five M.2 slots: two using PCIe 5.0 (from the CPU) and three using PCIe 4.0 (from the chipset).

Theoretically, you could slot MSI’s M.2 XPANDER-Z SLIDER GEN5…