ASUS TUF Gaming X870-Plus WIFI Motherboard Review

I love the big flagship motherboards with their ridiculous amounts of VRMs, heatsinks, armour, and even more armour, but honestly, when it comes to spending my own money on a motherboard I usually boil my choices down to a B-series board, or more often than not, the TUF-Series. Usually, they offer up every feature I actually need and will use, at a more affordable price too. However, with the TUF series, things are literally built to be “TOUGH” and you get a lot of quality and stability features that make them exceptionally good motherboards. Or at least, that’s held true in the past, but I’m hoping it’s still the case with the new ASUS TUF Gaming X870-Plus WIFI.

ASUS TUF Gaming X870-Plus WIFI

Just like many of the more high-end gaming motherboards in the X870/X870E it features a comprehensive 16+2 Power Stage design with 80A chokes, and you get four DDR5 DIMMS, with two PCIe Gen5 x4 M.2 and two PCIE Gen4 x4 M.2, PCIe 5.0 x16 for your GPU, and an additional PCIe 4.0 x16 (@x4) for an additional expansion card. That’s ticking all the right boxes for me, and while the armour isn’t covering the full board, there are robust heatsinks in all the places it matters, as well as good quality components for things like the chokes and capacitors.

Key Features

• Military-grade components
• Upgraded power solution
• Comprehensive cooling system
• Support for the latest AMD Ryzen™ processors
• PCIe 5.0 for graphics card
• WiFi 7 with ASUS WiFi Q-Antenna
• Aura Sync RGB lighting control
• 16(80A) + 2(80A) + 1(80A) power stages

For more information, please visit the official product page here.

Memory Support

Memory support is impressive, offering up incredible speeds for these new CPUs, however, which generation of CPU you use will have some impact on the memory capabilities as you might expect, but typically they’re all over 8000 MHz.

What ASUS Had to Say

ASUS TUF GAMING X870-PLUS WIFI takes all the essential elements of the latest AMD Ryzen™ processors and combines them with game-ready features and proven durability. Engineered with military-grade components, an upgraded power solution and a comprehensive cooling system, this motherboard goes beyond expectations with rock-solid and stable performance for marathon gaming. TUF GAMING motherboards also undergo rigorous endurance testing to ensure that they can handle conditions where others may fail. This platform delivers the power and connectivity that advanced AI PC applications demand.

AMD 800 Series Chipset

While this review cycle we’ll be focusing on the X870E series of motherboards, of course, there’s going to be more to this series, with the X870E being the flagship models, the X870 below that, and then the B850 and the B840 being the more affordable models below those, but with some obvious compromises on the features, giving us a range of options for normal PC users, gamers, overclockers and enthusiasts.

Ryzen 9 9950X

For these reviews, we’ll be using the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPU, and while we haven’t actually reviewed this CPU on its own, of course, we’ll be exploring the Ryzen 9 9950X performance through these motherboard reviews. We did a feature testing Windows 32H2 Vs 24H2 on YouTube recently, which you can check out here.

• 16 cores and 32 threads
• Up to 5.7 GHz max boost clock
• 64 MB of L3 cache
• Supports DDR5 memory up to 2x1R DDR5-5600 or 4x1R DDR5-3600
• Requires AM5 socket motherboard
• Includes Precision Boost Overdrive and Curve Optimizer Voltage Offsets technology
• Unlocked for overclocking
• Supports PCIe 5.0