Asus ROG Strix X370-I Gaming review: A good-looking AM4 board and a solid overclocker

The best mini-ITX board for Ryzen, offering striking looks and decent overclocking, but the X370 chipset needlessly inflates the price

While we’re still mourning the loss of Asus’ ROG Impact series mini-ITX motherboards, there’s still plenty to get excited about with its new ROG Strix boards, and this mini-ITX X370 board looks particularly interesting. Aside from the premium chipset, the standout feature is a combined board for the Realtek ALC 1220 audio codec, which also provides an M.2 slot with a large heatsink on top.

The heatsink still stands shorter than low-profile memory, so there should be no issues with large CPU coolers. There’s another M.2 slot on the underside of the PCB too, although only the top slot supports SATA-based M.2 SSDs, with both slots also supporting PCI-E-based M.2 SSDs.
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