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ASUS ROG Strix B860-A Gaming WiFi Motherboard Spied

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Ahead of their January 2025 launch, Socket LGA1851 motherboards based on Intel's mid-range B860 chipset are making their way to retailers. One such board was snapped by Polish tech site PCEkspert. The ASUS ROG Strix B860-A Gaming WiFi, as with all Strix-A branded motherboards in the past two generations, comes with a white PCB, and white or silver/chrome components, with some contrasting black bits.

The Intel B860 chipset, in all likelihood, is differentiated from the Z890 by a lack of CPU overclocking support, while retaining memory overclocking capabilities; fewer downstream PCIe lanes, and a narrower 4-lane DMI 4.0 chipset bus, compared to the 8 lanes of the Z890 and H870. The box art reveals that the board features a 14-phase CPU VRM, one M.2 NVMe Gen 5 slot wired to the CPU that doesn't eat into the x16 PEG, and at least three additional M.2 Gen 4 NVMe slots, two of which come from the PCH, and the third one from the CPU. Networking includes a 2.5 GbE and Wi-Fi 7 wireless networking, while the onboard audio solution could feature at least a mid-range codec such as the ALC1200 or ALC4080.



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I really wonder if "white" color system builder would like to buy that mainboard.

A lot of connectors, including for the power supply and DRAM are black on a white mainboard.
 
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