ASUS ROG Strix X870-A Gaming WiFi AMD AM5 X870 ATX Motherboard 16+2+2 Power Stages, Dynamic OC Switcher, Core Flex, DDR5 AEMP, WiFi 7, 4X M.2, PCIe® 5.0, Q-Release Slim, USB4®, AI OCing & Networking

really like this motherboard. works well haven’t ran into any issues at all. struggled to get the wifi and bluetooth working at the start until i realized i had to plug in that white fin thing. other than that i have ran into zero issues. the smart ai overclocking works great and it let me reach my max ram speeeds. i usually am super critical on tech stuff but this board is amazing the build quality is fantastic, the white makes it even more dope even with my black setup. all ports worked properly and my games all ran smooth and amazing. if you’re building a pc get this board you won’t regret it especially for the price. ASUS and ROG never fail to amaze me. 10/10 would buy again.

Build quality is exceptional the asus way is the only way, Works with Gskill trident royal 8000mt out of the box just enable expo. paired with a 9800x3d and a 4080 games are beyond fluent. No load times , no hard frame dips it just eats. I will recommend if running a newer card go at least 1000-1250w psu as things get hungry. The board has hundreds of customizable options to oc and even comes with AI tuner to automatically tune clocks and their respective , curves , it will even tune aio pumps. Update your bios to thenlatest version on first boot , install or boot windows. I recommend a clean install and then download the drivers via windows update or the motherboard site and load up it's a beast.

what i like:white pcb board, its sickmultiple fan headers,4 m’2 slots, 2 connected to the cpu and 2 connected to the pcie slots; plenty of room to upgrade your storagemultiple argb headers if you’re like me and gotta have purple rgb with the white boardsuper fast post and boot time, has lights showing it posting from cpu to vga to bootplenty of room for lots of ram if you’re a gamer you wont meet the limit for a whilethis board is future proof for the next 3-4 years as of 2025usb c, bios flashback, and usb 3 to 4 i believe. lots of Usb portswhat i dont like (most are nitpicky):when assembling the solder on the bottom cut my finger, it can be sharp so be careful when holding the boardheaders for specific things are harder to stretch cords to making it look ugly, cable management is necessary but i cba to sort that outtwo of my ram slots arent working, unsure if its the cpu or the board itself which i have 32 gb installed so im not super worried about as of right nowthe cpu install felt very tight when putting the clip downall in all it is a beautiful board, great value for money, it is pricey if budget is a concern i would worry about your cpu, graphics and ram before finalizing your purchase. an upgrade from a 2019 board for example would leave you having to buy a new cpu ram and graphics card as well to keep up. ive used it for about a month and i havent had much trouble out of it.

First board I bought the ethernet port would not work, so I had it replaced. Received the second board and everything worked perfectly. 27 days after buying it the ethernet port went out. I thought maybe my two network cables were bad, so I bought a new network cable from Amazon and it still would not work. Tested all three cables on my wife's laptop with no problems. I plugged the WiFi antenna up and started using it. I will say the WiFi on this board is amazing. With 1GB internet I was getting over 700 Mbps on the speedtest. On the 30th day I got the solid orange DRAM light. I reseated everything on the board. CPU, GPU, RAM, and all connections. Still would not boot up. I can understand one board not working but not two. So I returned it for the Asus TUF X870-PLUS. Ten days in so far with the TUF with no problems. It even seems to run faster, probable because something was wrong with the X870-A.

ASUS as put together a nice motherboard it is limited to 96 gig on the ram and that is cumbersome. The software is a little quirky, but I haven’t found software yet there wasn’t a little quirky. Wi-Fi is great as it should be. I happened to use ethernet myself and the ethernet speed is limited to 2.5 gig while MSI is five gig at the ram is 256 gig. All in all, though the performance was good. I do consider it a good value for the money. The lights on my nine fans don’t flicker or do crazy things. They’re all used to monitor different temperature points on the motherboard CPU and IO cooling, and having different temperature locations are the motherboard aids in that and this motherboard accommodates. Notice all the fans are green, my favorite color LMAO.

Amazing motherboard with plenty of USB ports and m.2 slots! Also looks super nice, and keeps my components nice and cool.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:very good and beautiful design

I purchased the ROG x870-a motherboard in January 2025 for $270 for my white gaming PC build and I have been thoroughly happy with the performance and features of this motherboard. I am currently pairing this motherboard with a Ryzen 7 9800x3d cpu, 64gb of DDR5 ram and a Gigabyte Aorus Master 5080 GPU. The board is well constructed with solid thermal heatsinks and plenty of PCI-e slots for SSDs, the RGB lighting is subtle and pairs well with the rest of my machine. The bios is easy to use and the AI overclocker feature makes it easy for beginners to unlock additional CPU performance, adding additional speed to my 9800x3d boost clocks and running my memory at EXPO settings of 6000 mt/s with no issues. At $270 it's a great price for a quality x870 chipset board.