ASUS Strix X870-A Gaming WiFi Review
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. This isn’t unique to the Strix-A either as the Strix-E has a similar setup.
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. You’ve got two Gen5s and two Gen4s. Plenty for all but biggest Steam libraries.
