We have known for a long time that, for some reason as yet unknown, the X870 Motherboards for the new generation of processors AMD It will arrive after the launch of the processors themselves. However, ASUS has gone ahead and already shown what will be its first motherboard for these processors, belonging to the family TUF Gaming. We tell you everything that is known so far.
In reality and curiously, it is an official launch, which took place this morning during the Bilibili World 2024 fair in China, according to the source IT Home. This contrasts precisely with the news that we have known for a long time, according to which motherboards equipped with this chipset would arrive on the market about a month after the launch of the new AMD Ryzen 9000 …
This is the first “official” motherboard with an X870 chipset
With a conventional design (i.e. with the connectors facing upwards and not reversed), ASUS presented its TUF Gaming X870 card, although it is true that we do not know if its final commercial name when it arrives in Europe will be exactly that.
Oddly enough, on this motherboard we find a lot of sloganssuch as “Stay tough” on the M.2 socket heatsink, “We’ve got your back” on the VRM heatsink above the socket, or “Powerful X870) between the socket and memory sockets. The iridescent TUF Gaming logo above the I/O port trim on the back also draws a lot of attention.
Taking advantage of the photo of this area, we can see that three USB 3.2 ports are included, two USB-C (which will also be 3.2 for sure), four USB 3.1, a USB 2.0, a 2.5 GbE RJ-45 located at one end, something unusual, 7.1 audio connectors, an S / PDIF video output, HDMI and the connectors for the WiFi 7 antennas. The connectivity is quite complete, as it is completed by the additional connectivity via internal headers which, as we can. see in the images, includes two USB 2.0 headers, two more USB 3.0 and a USB-C.
This motherboard also features a metal-reinforced PCIe 5.0 x16 socket with a quick release mechanism, which allows the graphics card to be easily removed once installed without having to put your fingers in it, which is very appreciated given the size of modern graphics cards. It also integrates several M.2 sockets with heat sinks that are most likely PCIe 5.0 and, in general, everything that is necessary and desirable to be able to build a high-performance PC when the new next-gen AMD Ryzen 9000 processors arrive.
There’s not much more to be said for now, until you know its full technical specifications, but we see that the board has a standard ATX format, and that its power supply includes the usual 24-pin ATX connectors and two 8-pin EPS connectors, each on the top. Oh, and we noticed that one of the M.2 sockets doesn’t have a heatsink, for some unknown reason, or maybe it’s because they removed its heatsink for the show. Anyway, now that it’s officially launched, we’ll surely have more details soon.
