ASRock X870 Pro RS WiFi Motherboard Review

[magoo]

Introduction On September, 30th, 2024 AMD launched a new chipset refresh series on the AM5 socket and platform. Moving through the entire ASRock lineup, today we will review the ASRock X870 Pro RS WiFi with a retail MSRP $209. ASRock markets this motherboard as being more general purpose, content creation whereas the Steel Legend and […]

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[Grimlakin]

Seems a decently priced contender with enough features to draw my interest.

 

[Denpepe]

Is it me or do all these X870 Mob's have very limited Storage capabilities?

I'm looking for something that allows 4 x M.2 and 4 x SATA ports without gimping the GPU or other PCIe slots, do those even exists?

 

[Space_Ranger]

Is it me or do all these X870 Mob's have very limited Storage capabilities?

I'm looking for something that allows 4 x M.2 and 4 x SATA ports without gimping the GPU or other PCIe slots, do those even exists?

I'm not sure if enough PCIe lanes are available to do all that without gimping anything. You'd have to go EPYC or otherwise to get the PCIe lanes necessary.

 

[Denpepe]

I'm not sure if enough PCIe lanes are available to do all that without gimping anything. You'd have to go EPYC or otherwise to get the PCIe lanes necessary.

AMD 870X-E seems to have 44 PCIe lanes vs 48 for intel Z790 and Z890 and those can do it no problem

 

[Denpepe]

I have been doing some more research and it seems that Asrock might have what I want feature wise with the Taichi, Taichi lite and one other board so there is still hope