Colorful has a new motherboard for AMD’s AM5 processors called the iGame X870E Ultra-S V14, featuring five M.2 slots, two USB4 ports and power delivery for high-end Ryzen chips. The company announced it in a press release, and its product page lists the full specs.
Three of those M.2 slots run at PCIe 5.0 x4, wired straight to the processor, and the other two at PCIe 4.0. Put a drive in the second or third PCIe 5.0 slot, though, and the graphics card slot drops from x16 to x8.
The heatsink over the drives has a quick-release latch, so swapping an SSD doesn’t need a screwdriver. The two USB4 ports on the back run at 40Gbps and can drive a 4K display at 60Hz.
Power runs through 16+2+1 phases rated at 80A, and Colorful says that’s enough to run a two-chiplet Ryzen 9 9950X3D at full load. A built-in clock generator lets you raise the CPU’s base clock, a finer dial than the multiplier alone.
For Ryzen 9000 X3D chips, X3D AI High Frame Mode tunes the processor’s boost, temperature and power limits and voltage by itself. Colorful says it lifts frame rates and cuts stutter while keeping multi-core performance, unlike other brands’ X3D game modes, which switch off a chiplet and some threads.
Colorful also says it ran four 48GB sticks, 192GB in all, at 6600MHz with tight CL28 timings. The spec sheet’s ceiling is higher: up to 256GB across the four slots, and memory overclocks to DDR5-8400.
The black heatsinks carry the iGame Ultra family’s graffiti-style lettering and dot-matrix art, with pixel-style RGB lighting under the power-section nameplate. Colorful files the look under hip-hop, a genre that has gotten by without heatsinks until now.
iGame X870E Ultra-S V14 key specs
- Chipset and socket: AMD X870E, AM5; Ryzen 7000, 8000 and 9000 processors
- Memory: four DDR5 slots, up to 256GB (64GB per slot); DDR5-8400 (OC); XMP and EXPO
- Power: 16+2+1 phases, 80A
- Storage: five M.2 slots (three PCIe 5.0 x4 from the CPU, two PCIe 4.0 x4 from the chipset); four SATA 6Gb/s
- Expansion: one PCIe 5.0 x16 slot (x8 when the second or third M.2 slot is in use); one x16-size slot at PCIe 4.0 x4
- Rear ports: two USB4 40Gbps Type-C (4K 60Hz video), three USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps, four USB 3.2 Gen 1 5Gbps, two USB 2.0, HDMI 2.0 (4K 60Hz), BIOS update and CMOS clear buttons
- Networking: Realtek RTL8126-CG 5Gb Ethernet, MT7925 Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4
- Audio: Realtek ALC1220, 7.1 channels
- Size: ATX, 305 x 244mm
- Other: front USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 20Gbps Type-C header, four ARGB headers, clock generator for base-clock tuning, BIOS switch
The iGame X870E Ultra-S V14 costs 1,899 yuan (about $284 or Php 17,900) in China, where pre-orders for it are now open. Just how many of those five M.2 slots you fill, we assume, is between you and your wallet.
