ASUS ROG Strix X870-A Gaming WiFi Preview

Overview

Overview

Regular readers will know the colour preferences of the OC3D team. Given that Republic Of Gamers products normally are a black box with red accents, it feels OC3D specific to have a white box with orange accents. It’s like the boss and your preeminent writer have paired up into a super team. Lovely.

Although reflective text on a white background does require a little wiggling to read properly. Like trying to read the cooking instructions on a microwave meal for one.

As befits an ASUS ROG product the Strix X870-A has a good selection of accessories in the box. We like the clarity of the quick start guide too. Quick starts are usually as useful as a braille speedometer, so kudos to ASUS for producing one you might actually refer to.

If our thoughts of the Prime could be distilled into a photograph, it would be one of us pointing at this. The Strix X870-A is everything that you could wish for if you prefer white hardware. I guess if we were crazy nit-picky we could want for fully grey/white plastics, but come on. It’s good enough for us. It’s certainly attention grabbing. A white PCB always helps, and boy does the Strix look great.

Peel off the Strix heatsink and you can see the range – except the one above the main PCIe slot, obviously – of M.2 options. Even though this Strix is the X870 rather than X870E Chipset doesn’t mean you’re bereft of storage options.