ASUS Intros ROG Strix X870-H Gaming WiFi7 S Motherboard

[btarunr]

ASUS today introduced its first ROG Strix-H branded AMD platform motherboard. ASUS differentiates its ROG Strix line of motherboards with brand extensions resembling their main ROG brands, with E denoting "extreme," F denoting "formula," G denoting "gene" (microATX), I denoting "impact" (Mini-ITX), A denoting "apex," and H denoting "hero." The H extension is positioned below F, just like Hero is positioned below Formula; however ROG Strix-H motherboard SKUs tend to be rare as that price-point tends to be occupied by TUF Gaming Plus SKUs. The new ROG Strix X870-H Gaming WiFi7 S is exclusive to China, and comes co-branded. The board pulls power from a combination of 24-pin ATX and dual 8-pin EPS connectors, using a 16+2+1 phase VRM, which uses 80 A DrMOS on all phases. The board uses an 8-layer PCB.

The board is based on the AMD X870 chipset, which ensures USB4 connectivity, besides some premium networking features such as Wi-Fi 7. The AMD Socket AM5 is wired to four DDR5 DIMM slots, a PCI-Express 5.0 x16 slot, and two M.2 Gen 5 NVMe slots—the second slot shares its Gen 5 x4 lanes with the PEG slot. There are two additional Gen 4 NVMe slots, one of these is wired to the X870 FCH, while the other shares its lanes with the CPU-attached discrete USB4 host controller. The topmost Gen 5 NVMe slot comes with a tall heatsink, while the other three slots come with a flatter common heatsink-shroud.



Network connectivity includes Wi-Fi 7 from a MediaTek-sourced WLAN controller; and 2.5 GbE from a Realtek controller. USB connectivity includes two 40 Gbps USB4 ports with DisplayPort passthrough, two additional 20 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 type-C ports (one on the rear I/O, one via header), four 5 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1 on the rear I/O and four additional ones via headers; two 10 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 type-A, and two USB 2.0. The onboard audio solution uses a Realtek ALC1220P CODEC with Savitech SC3H712 amp and Dolby Atmos support. Other features include a graphics card easy-release lever.

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[FreedomEclipse]

Finally. some nice artwork.

 

[AGlezB]

ROG Strix Waifu

The mobo 10 people are going to buy and install in very visible cases so others can enjoy the art.
The rest is going to use it buids where the art is never to be seen again except later by the tired workers of an e-waste recycling point or maybe a hopefull landfill diver.

 

[Hereticbar]

ROG Strix Waifu

The mobo 10 people are going to buy and install in very visible cases so others can enjoy the art.
The rest is going to use it buids where the art is never to be seen again except later by the tired workers of an e-waste recycling point or maybe a hopefull landfill diver.

It will not be visible most of the time in a normal layout build.

I almost bought the white B850 version of this. I really like the overall aesthetic of the motherboard, then I realized 90% of the time I would not be able to see the unique art on the PCH heatsink because it will be blocked off by my 3.5 slot graphics card.

I ended up going with a different and more classy minimalist design motherboard instead.

 

[axiumone]

History is a circle. What's old is new. We're back to the old school black and red rog colorways.

 

[Kafka]

ROG Strix Waifu

The mobo 10 people are going to buy and install in very visible cases so others can enjoy the art.
The rest is going to use it buids where the art is never to be seen again except later by the tired workers of an e-waste recycling point or maybe a hopefull landfill diver.

Gotta get that RTX 4000 SFF Ada or whatever so you could really show it off. Truly a tragedy

I think the B850 one that was shared here looks a bit more classe but this is not bad.

 

[Chrisy]

'H' standing for エッチedition here or what?

 

[warrior420]

Holy IO ports! Love to see this.

 

[overclockedamd]

It lacks waifu for weebs It needs more. Think of how much waifu is needed. Add 13000% more then add more waifu. That is the proper ratio.

 

[saphire]

Finally. some nice artwork.

Only for China

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Only for China

 

[_roman_]

Looks nice. Too bad I'll not be a ASUS customer most likely anymore.

 

[freeagent]

Looks nice. Too bad I'll not be a ASUS customer most likely anymore.

Quite buying that Prime and TUF stuff. Get a real board.

 

[Hecate91]

Looks nice. Too bad I'll not be a ASUS customer most likely anymore.

I haven't touched Asus stuff, their warranty support is atrocious, they've also been caught recently with some really bad security vulnerabilities. IMO too expensive for what you get because of the asus tax.

 

[_roman_]

Sadly I have to agree on that point. My DRAM CPU combo clocks better on the MSI board im comparision with the previous ASUS Prime X670-P Mainboard. I admit i was not considering my DRAM overclock addiction. Of course compiler stable the extra timings the MSI boards allows. the ASUS porart monitor PA278QV monitor is very nice. For a few weeks it seems i had a stuck green pixel sometimes. It's gone. That monitor costs has cost me twice as much as other WHQD screens. -- TUF and Prime seems to get less uefi updates. This here is a proper board and most likely is a decent product.

Nice board box and design.

edit: Security: Do not keep MSI ... / ASUS armory crate by default enabled after every uefi-bios update. There is no need for such software for basic mainboard firmware-uefi-bios updates. There were many CVE numbers = security issues for these software. Not only ASUS related.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Quite buying that Prime and TUF stuff. Get a real board.

The TUF and Prime boards are "real" in the literal sense, and more importantly, just because they are lower cost does not mean they should malfunction regularly. I really dont like this idea that just because a part is low cost it must suck and break constantly, with the only recourse to spend exorbitant amounts on fancy high end models.

My original high school build with a $60 ECS motherboard and intel i3 still works perfectly fine today.

 

[freeagent]

The TUF and Prime boards are "real" in the literal sense, and more importantly, just because they are lower cost does not mean they should malfunction regularly. I really dont like this idea that just because a part is low cost it must suck and break constantly, with the only recourse to spend exorbitant amounts on fancy high end models.

My original high school build with a $60 ECS motherboard and intel i3 still works perfectly fine today.

He said himself that he likes to tune and tweak. I wouldn't call an i3 ancient.

 

[AGlezB]

It will not be visible most of the time in a normal layout build.

I wouldn't buy that kind of mobo unless I was going to OLLC the crap out of it, taking a lot of care on tube placement to avoid obstucting the art. Not saying someone with cash on hand should'n buy it if they like it and want to place it on a dark corner, but it makes no sense to me.

Gotta get that RTX 4000 SFF Ada or whatever so you could really show it off. Truly a tragedy

I'd likely use a raiser and maybe some custom 3D-printed supports to get the GPU out of the way, probably hide it completely.
There's a lot you can get away with if you have the right chasis, a long enough raiser cable and big budget for OLLC tubing.

I wouldn't call an i3 ancient.

@TheinsanegamerN didn't mention what gen it was. 1st gen is nearly old enough to vote in some countries and in my mind that's old enough to be called ancient.

 

[freeagent]

1st gen is nearly old enough to vote in some countries

Get off my lawn!

Maybe it is me who is getting old

 

[Ruru]

Looks visually nice, reminds me of their Intel platforms' Pro Gamer/Gaming Pro boards from ~decade ago.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

Looks good, but shame the nice pic o the bottom will be covered by that honking great GPU you have in there.