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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[_roman_]

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.

 

[Vader]

I wonder if the non-K CPUs will be of any interest at all, given what we saw with the initial launch of core 200. I'm really surprised despite horrible sales intel is still stuck in their ways of limiting overclocking unless specific mobo +cpu is used.