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

Used this to build AMD Ryzen 9. Nov 2025: Amazing this thing has full support of all components using latest Ubuntu (24.04). I bought an ASUS board some years ago and it didn't work well with Linux, no bluetooth and other various quirks. Also I read that this board would have Wifi and bluetooth not supported without additional hardware/drivers. Really I haven't tested the audio yet but it should be just fine. Wifi and Bluetooth fully functional right out-of-the-box without any additional drivers. What a nice surprise. The board looks great, runs great and was fun to build. Wifi speeds are now through the roof. I did have an issue with the Asus junk antenna that came with one of their older gaming boards that I bought. Because of that, I was reluctant to choose Asus this time but after reading reviews on many other boards, it seemed the only choice. The upgraded Wifi7 antenna that came with this board is impressive and not feeling like junk at all.

I've been using the ROG X870-A for some time now. Its design is excellent. The clean white and silver theme perfectly complements modern gaming setups, especially for building a white-themed PC. It looks very premium and is well-built. I like its BIOS and features. The BIOS is easy to navigate, even for non-expert users. It comes with plenty of USB ports and M.2 slots, so expanding storage or adding peripherals is not a problem.

Excellent motherboard at a great price, easy installation without any problems, I installed a Ryzen 9 9800x3D processor on it with liquid cooling and an RTX 5070 graphics card and it works great, it has enough connections for fans and ARGB connections, I am happy with the purchase

This is the fifth Asus motherboard I used to build a system. The board is pretty stable, with no problems. But, Asus has cut a lot of corners on there motherboards. The documentation is very poor. The pamphlet that came with the board is only about 4 pages. The PDF off of the website is not much better. Very little explanation on the BIOS. The board lacks a lot of features their old boards have. All and all, I am satisfied!

great board for the am5 platform. great IO ports, useful features including bios flashback, quick disconnect on the gpu pcie, and design of it is very clean. get the board when its on sale for near $200 or less as it is worth it for that price.

The mobo looks great, it is good quality. And zero compatibility issues with it. Paired with my r7 9800x3d. It worked just fine right out of the box. Yeah I need a bios update but it was just so easy and convenient. Advantage is you don't even need m.2 ssd coolers. Can have 4 m.2 ssd. And so many usb ports. I don't even see a reason to cheap out on that mobo. It was 30% off when I bought it, if it is still 30% off. Do the jump. (Had a DOA from MC and live too far from it to justify going back for an exchange and the RMA process is painful. So I am glad I pulled the trigger on this one. ) Get a better cpu bracket to prevent bent pins on any am5 mobo.

Good God this was an awful board. I may not be an IT professional, but I have built MANY computers over the last 20 years and I've never had the issues in that time that I've had with this one. Here are all the issues I've had: RAM - the set I purchased work just fine in 2 other AM5 builds I put together, and flawlessly I might add. With this MOBO, I've gotten quite a few errors and BSOD's from RAM issues. few applications I've tried to install such as Adobe Creative Suite (for video editing purposes), I get Memory errors -- same thing happens with DaVinci Resolve. After running MEMTEST a few times without any reported errors, I gave up. Driver Installations - Nearly every driver I try to install, whether it's from Windows Update, or from company websites themselves such as NVIDIA, they're all invalidated because the certificates cannot be verified and they're not trusted. Windows Update will try to update my video card drivers and they'll break. I then have to jump through all sorts of hoops by turning off secure boot, disabling driver signature enforcement (which is dangerous...), DDUing the NVIDIA driver and AMD driver. I then ATTEMPT to install the NVIDIA drivers and there's a slim chance it works -- like 1/10 shot. The only NVIDIA driver I can get to work is from the middle of 2024...big issue. My video card worked just fine in my previous build. I've never ever experienced these numbers of issues with a build, and I'm 100% sure it's not the CPU, RAM and Video card problem as they all work in other builds... Can I give this zero stars?

I'm very happy with my purchase. I was building a powerful PC. I bought an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor and G.SKILL Trident Z5 Royal DDR5-6400 CL32 RAM, 2x48 GB. Everything works perfectly together. I've been using it for about four months now and have had no problems. I'm happy with the abundance of ports in the back and the 10 GB ports. I spent a long time choosing a motherboard and chose this one, and I haven't regretted it. If you're also looking for a motherboard, get this one, you won't regret it. It has a slot for an NVMe SSD covered by a massive heatsink. I installed my system SSD there. There are also four additional SSD slots, all under one large heatsink. However, I don't recommend installing all four additional cards, as it limits the PCE. Use only three additional slots, leaving the fourth empty. Then the PCE will operate at full capacity with the graphics card. An important criterion was the presence of a second PCE slot, and everything works perfectly. I can connect a second graphics card, but only a single-layer one. I'm using a Radeon WX5100. The motherboard also has a built-in video output, which doesn't work out of the box, but can be enabled in the BIOS. GPT chat said the video output would never work, but it does. The BIOS is very user-friendly and has all the translation languages, and everything is configured simply and easily. You'll also need to enable 6400 RAM support in the BIOS because the default is 5200. I had to fiddle a bit with the Windows installation because an error popped up, but then I adjusted something in the BIOS and everything went smoothly. I think I disabled 6400 support during installation, and then turned it back on.