X870 motherboard support

[scottd34]

I have the AsRock x870 Steel Legend (different board, I know), running Opensuse Tumbleweed which is on kernel 6.12.8 and the only issues I have run across is the Bluetooth isnt supported. I have the wifi disabled in the bios so I havent tried it yet although I suspect it might not work based on the note on the specs page saying its win 11 only.
The nic is a 2.5g Dragon RTL8125BG.

[creative]

Unfortunately I only have one X870 motherboard and that's why I haven't written any broad articles on X870 support for lack of different motherboards to be able to make any general statements on the support. But for the X870 board I do have the only real issue I ran into was the Ethernet on older kernels I believe.

Thanks for the reply was just curious.

[Michael]

Unfortunately I only have one X870 motherboard and that's why I haven't written any broad articles on X870 support for lack of different motherboards to be able to make any general statements on the support. But for the X870 board I do have the only real issue I ran into was the Ethernet on older kernels I believe.

[creative]

phoronix

Would rather not bother you but thought, "Maybe Michael might find it an interesting subject." Your experiences with X870? Do X670 boards have as good of higher speed DDR 5 kit's support after UEFI updates? What you have found supported and not supported in terms of on board built-ins?

As of now I've had to use a DKMS driver for Realtek RTL8125D LAN. Have plenty of ethernet alternatives on hand for the future now since running this Asus Prime X870-P WIFI, two USB to Ethernet devices just to test and check them out and an Intel PCIe NIC. Nice to have extra stuff on hand.

[creative]

blkspade
Some of those boards are either no longer available or at super high prices or not what I wanted. X870 easily does DDR5 6000CL30 kits, don't know if those X670 boards have the memory support that much improved through UEFI updates-doubt it, that was the biggest thing about X870 in case everyone missed the point of it, much better memory support.

As I said other boards that were X670 or whatever, supply was limited for the ones I wanted or the price was exactly the same and even more common more expensive!
Proof----->>https://www.amazon.com/Prime-X670-P-...0BF5H5Y3K?th=1
Further proof----->>https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-X870-P-M...0DDZY6HTW?th=1 $50 cheaper for the newest board with beter memory support.

vfonov

If you want to free up a PCIe slot here is this, https://github.com/awesometic/realte...tag/9.014.01-1
I'm actually running it myself, should be just a matter of time I would think before this gets in the kernel. At least I would think.

Doing a lspci -v it shows up as Realtek RTL8125D LAN. So it may be some time before it makes it into the kernel. As of right now I'm willing to say X870 is still fairly bleeding edge. Luckily there are plenty of people out there making drivers outside the kernel tree.

[blkspade]

No, I don't actually need WiFi at all , ended up getting a PCIE Intel I210 card.

I wish there was a simple X870 motherboard without all the modern bells and whistles (like WiFI7 and USB4) , but with integrated intel network chip.

The point in X870 is literally all the bells and whistles. You could get a X670, or B650 and have exactly what you want.

[creative]

Ok, I actually got the BIOS flashed, I ended up having to boot a Windows 10 drive and download the My Asus application and download and rename the file from there. The BIOS finally took it. Pretty strange but ok I'll take it.

[vfonov]

You tried to flash the BIOS with any luck? I will be contacting Asus fairly soon to tell them whats going on on my end. Me personally I think it's a really nice board so far except for the few things mentioned in my first post on here.

No, I don't actually need WiFi at all , ended up getting a PCIE Intel I210 card.

I wish there was a simple X870 motherboard without all the modern bells and whistles (like WiFI7 and USB4) , but with integrated intel network chip.

[creative]

SO, to answer my own question, I got a chance to play a little with ASUS PRIME X870-P motherboard with AMD 9950x CPU, and here is what I found out:

Ubuntu 20.04.6 - onboard NIC ( RTL8125 ) does not work, onbard wifi doesn't work, onboard USB4 does not work, sound seem to be working.
Ubuntu 24.04.1 - onboard NIC does not work, onboard WiFi seem to be semi working - able to associates with the hotspot but no connectivity after, onboard USB4 seem to work, sound seem to be working.

You tried to flash the BIOS with any luck? I will be contacting Asus fairly soon to tell them whats going on on my end. Me personally I think it's a really nice board so far except for the few things mentioned in my first post on here.

[creative]

I recently rebuilt with the same board, I ended up going to best buy and getting a J5Create USB 3.0 to Ethernet adapter model JUE130. USB-C works on 6.12, running Slackware current and Slackware stable with this board. My biggest issues with it is I can't update the BIOS. I have had this issue with a previous Asus Prime Z270-P intel board, I had to contact support, if I remember correctly it was a bit before they uploaded a bios to their site that that board would accept as a update file.

I did everything following the instructions exactly, keeps saying not a valid BIOS .CAP file.

I have an Intel PCIe Nic, plus another USB Ethernet adapter to checkout coming in the mail soon and a SATA PCIe expansion card, good stuff to have on hand anyway, inexpensive.