Like a number of manufacturers, NZXT opted to put its weight behind Intel with last year’s new processor and chipset launches. Even though it’s very late to the party and only just launching a trio of new motherboards co-designed with ASRock, it still went with two LGA1851 motherboards and just a single AM5 board, in the form of the N9 X870E that we’re looking at today.
That might seem illogical given AMD has long been seen as the better option with Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs not faring well, at least so far. Sales for the latter pale compared to AMD’s hardware, especially when it comes to pairing up 3D V-Cache CPUs. It’s a shame then we don’t have an AMD B850 chipset option with AMD this time around, but instead a monstrous $500 X870E model.
