ASUS launches new 'MAX' series budget motherboard: X870 MAX Gaming WiFi 7 in black, and white

ASUS has just launched its new X870 MAX Gaming motherboards that will slot in between the TUF and PRIME series motherboards, acting as new budget-focused X870 mobos.

ASUS motherboards are usually priced higher apart from their PRIME series motherboards, which has allowed ASRock, GIGABYTE, and MSI to position themselves more competitively in the market, but that all changes with ASUS's introduction of the new MAX series motherboards.

TUF is positioned as higher-end than PRIME, while acting as lower than ROG, while offering features that are great for the price point in its mid-range market. ASUS's new MAX series motherboards will be an alternative to TUF with some compromises of course, but it'll be better featured than the PRIME series.

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The first of which is the ASUS X870 MAX Gaming Wi-Fi 7 motherboard, with an AMD AM5 socket and native compatibility with the Ryzen 9000 series "Granite Ridge" CPUs. It'll arrive in two different color schemes: black and white, with the black variant offering a sleek all-black design with a black PCB and heatsinks, while the white version is the opposite.

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We have 4 x PCIe x16 slots -- the first of which is a native PCIe 5.0 x16 slot -- and the same standard applies to the primary Gen5 SSD slot. ASUS includes 4 x DIMMs but we don't know which memory speed it'll support up to, while the X870 MAX Gaming Wi-Fi 7 will feature 3 x M.2 SSD slots, 4 x SATA slots, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, and a few USB-A and USB-C ports for your peripherals.

ASUS hasn't revealed pricing just yet, but we should expect the new X870 MAX Gaming Wi-Fi 7 motherboard to be priced somewhere between $200 and $250.