ASUS Prime X870-P WiFi (AMD AM5)

The ASUS Prime X870-P WIFI is well equipped, and while it’s not one of the flagship motherboards, it’s a good middle ground for X870, offering a lot of useful features without anything too extreme, and will likely be all most PC gaming needs if they’re using a single PCIe 5.0 drive, a single GPU, and any of the popular AMD Ryzen 7000 or 9000 gaming CPUs. Its 14+2+1 VRM configuration isn’t the most extreme, but it’s clearly more than enough to ensure your CPU can hit its boost clocks more consistently. You still get support for the latest fast DDR5 memory, and while there is only a single Gen5 M.2 mount, there are two Gen4 and a Gen3 mount included too, albeit their usage is tied to the two additional PCIe slots. It might not have the extreme connectivity of the ProArt or the Crosshair, but the PRIME still delivers the latest WiFi 7 and 2.5 GbE LAN, which again, is plenty fast for most gamers! It also has 40 Gbps USB Type-C, and a few more 10Gbps ports too, so hooking up an external drive and all your peripherals should be easy enough. Again, if you need more connectivity, models like the STRIX X870E Gaming are available, but of course, they will cost more too.