Godlike, that is the identify MSI offers to its best gaming motherboards. It has launched numerous fashions through the years, going again to the MSI X99A Godlike Gaming for Intel’s high-end desktop chips. I even reviewed one again in 2019, the MSI MEG X570 Godlike. That over-the-top custom continues to be going robust immediately, and MSI is celebrating 10 years of Godlike motherboards with a golden particular version.
Earlier than you get your hopes up, this is not golden in the identical approach as, say, the ROG Astral Dhahab RTX 5090/RTX 5080. The MSI MEG Godlike X Version is highlighted in gold, throughout the dragon emblazoned on the IO, the chipset, heatsinks and dynamic dashboard (the display screen unit magnetically hooked up to the appropriate of the RAM).
I could not think about a greater mixture for displaying off your immense and immeasurable wealth than the Godlike X Version, ROG Astral RTX 5090 Dhahab Version, and G.Talent Trident Z5 Royal Neo. Rattling, I need to construct that PC, however I would not need to pay for it. We do not have a value for the Godlike X Version but, however the usual version prices $1,100, placing the entire for these three components at $8,510 alone. I additionally could not think about having that a lot money to spend on PC components—cry me a river, yeah?
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You could possibly avoid wasting money with the ROG Astral RTX 5080 Dhahab Version, to be honest. That is a bit over $2,500—you would purchase an RTX 5090 for that sorta money.
“Throughout Gamescom 2025, MSI celebrates the tenth anniversary of Godlike with the MEG X870E Godlike X Version,” MSI says, “a limited-edition board that honors a decade of innovation and units a brand new overclocking file. It options Dynamic Dashboard III, EZ Hyperlink, and the M.2 Xpander-Z Slider Gen5 with EZ Slide, plus unique X-shaped anniversary accents.”
MSI is manufacturing just one,000 items of the Godlike X Version. It comes with a golden nameplate, stand, and a Black Fortunate plush—this being a black model of the corporate’s dragon mascot, so far as I can inform.
The Godlike X Version seems to be the identical as the usual MSI MEG X870E Godlike, beneath the revamped trim. It is nonetheless absurd to the intense, combining chunky VRM (24 + 2 + 1 part), heaps of heatsinks, additional energy connectors, and top-quality supplies with all of the added extras you’d anticipate in 2025—a built-in display screen amongst them.
I used to make use of the X570 Godlike in a PC construct, till I lastly obtained fed up with the shortage of USB ports (ironic, proper?) and moved on to one thing cheaper with extra connectivity. Although for the most recent board, MSI hasn’t skimped on the IO: the X870E has seven USB Kind-C ports on the rear, two of that are USB4. The remaining 5 Kind-C and eight Kind-A are all USB 3.2 Gen 2. That is fairly an enchancment even on the X670E Godlike, which has 9 ports whole, and the X570 Godlike, which solely has six. The earlier boards felt extra targeted on overclocking capability than usability, whereas this seems extra suited to each.
It may be barely gauche, however that is nothing new for luxurious items. And that’s the market that MSI is aiming for right here, as we have seen different producers attempt to do the identical. Making an attempt to make PC {hardware} right into a premium product for the ultra-rich leaves me with some ailing emotions, however that’d seemingly be lacking the purpose of this product, I suppose.
Simply be additional cautious putting the CPU into it—you do not need to be bending any pins on this unhealthy boy.
MSI additionally has a line-up of recent motherboards it is calling ‘Max’ popping out. These provide overclocking instruments equivalent to OC Engine and OC jumper to allow fine-tuned management over the AMD CPUs they’re constructed for. And if there aren’t sufficient screens in your system, it additionally has a brand new display screen popping out, the MAG View Xpander 12 is a 12.3-inch display screen you may run inside its Pano, Velox 300, and Maestro instances, or as a seperate display screen on the desktop. The brand new Maestro 900 Collection additionally introduced at Gamescom seems like a fairly beefy, too.
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