cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Re: X670E Extreme - Wifi chip replacement?

MultiDoc
Level 9

Hi, yes ofcourse it;s possible, and quite easy to do. I have the X670E Gene motherboard and also wanted to upgrade to WiFi 7. The problem is that currently the only WiFi 7 chipset that is working on AMD systems is the Qualcomm NCM865, and the only option you have is to either buy just the NCM865 chipset alone and replace the one that your motherboard came with (just have to remove the rear IO heatsink to get to the card and carefully replace it with the new one) or buy a separate PCIe card (this is what I currently run myself) and install it on a free PCIe slot on your motherboards and then go through Device Manager and disablke the onboard card. Problem is the drivers for the Qualcom NCM865 are hard to find and not very regularly updated. I used the Windows Update Catalog and searched for them and got them through there (search for "FASTCONNECT 7800"), link here

 

If you choose to replace the onboard card you can get the NCM865 either through Aliexpress or eBay. But if you want to get the PCIe card instead, the only one currently available that uses this chipset is the MSI Herald-BE NCM865 WiFi 7 (This is what I currently use, but also have a stand alone NCM865 in case I find some time to take my system apart and replace the onboard one).

I found the above the hard way after buying the ASUS PCIe WifI 7 card first without ressearching, thinking it would be as always straight forward liek always has been and all wifi/BT chipset worked for all systems both Intel and AMD alike. Unfortunately this is not the case and still to this day the Intel chipset based cards do NOT work on AMD systems. I am hoping that AMD and Intel sort this out soon so i can use ethe Intel chipset at some point.

 

If you need any more specific help just ask.

 

P.S: the drivers on Windows Update Catalog are newer than the ones offered in the support page from MSI directly

Asus Crosshair X670E Gene, 7950X3D, G. Skill F5-6000CL30 2x32GB, 2 xSamsung 990 Pro 4TB, 1 x Samsung 990 Pro 2TB, 1 x Samsung 870 QVO 8TB, MSI Gaming X 4090 Slim, Asus ROG Swift PG35VQ, Sliger Cerberus, Cooler Master SFX1300 V, Logitech G Pro, Wooting Two HE, Soundblaster Katana X v2, Audeze LCD-GX, Logitech BRIO, Win 11 Pro 23H2
186 Views
0 REPLIES 0