ASRock X870 Pro RS WiFi Motherboard Review

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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

 

[Grimlakin]

So I do want to call this line out. Just built a buddy a system with this board and out of everything about it the missing additional USB 3.1 header sucks.

Honestly, all you lack on this motherboard, comparatively, is one USB Gen3.1 header and one Gen4 M.2 slot.​

 

[LazyGamer]

So I do want to call this line out. Just built a buddy a system with this board and out of everything about it the missing additional USB 3.1 header sucks.

Standard is two USB 2.0 headers (four ports), one USB 3.1 header (two ports), and one USB 3.2 20Gbps header (one port). Anything beyond that is 'extra', though I am seeing some midrange-ish boards adopt a second USB 3.1 header.

Part of that is that most cases do not have more than two USB 3 ports; some, even brand new, only have one USB 3 port and one USB 2 port. Or less, in the SFF space.

I also don't know what the compromise is to having more, i.e., more PCIe lane usage or what.

 

[Grimlakin]

Standard is two USB 2.0 headers (four ports), one USB 3.1 header (two ports), and one USB 3.2 20Gbps header (one port). Anything beyond that is 'extra', though I am seeing some midrange-ish boards adopt a second USB 3.1 header.

Part of that is that most cases do not have more than two USB 3 ports; some, even brand new, only have one USB 3 port and one USB 2 port. Or less, in the SFF space.

I also don't know what the compromise is to having more, i.e., more PCIe lane usage or what.

It's not insurmountable, already found a splitter that will solve it. BUT, the Corsair 9000d (I think) case only has USB 3 ports and 4 of them on the front. So 2 headers are needed.... or you know... that splitter.

 

[LazyGamer]

My O11-D XL has four USB 3 ports as well; I'd previously used an AIC for this, but that's not something that many board accommodate well these days. Current board has two which solves that problem for the moment.

 

[Grimlakin]

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

Good luck finding one of these. I've been keeping an eye out loosely and they are harder to find than hens teeth.

 

[LazyGamer]

Good luck finding one of these. I've been keeping an eye out loosely and they are harder to find than hens teeth.

Same with the X870E Nova Wifi, Microcenter and Newegg have been out for months

 

[Grimlakin]

Same with the X870E Nova Wifi, Microcenter and Newegg have been out for months

Doesn't seem my local MC even CARRIES the asrock motherboards.

 

[Denpepe]

Same with the X870E Nova Wifi, Microcenter and Newegg have been out for months

Yeah it's the nova that I want, the taichi lite does not have a PCIe slot trough the chipset so the second one shares bandwith with the main one.

Well I will wait and see for now, my mobo has been RMA'd, but knowing what I know now, I doubt I would have gone AMD, not saying the CPU's are bad or anything, but I find the mobo's lacking hard in features if you want to add more then a couple drives and a GPU.

Luckily the newly announced MSI X870E might also do the job.