MSI’s new Zen 5-powered X870 mobo supports “True Wi-Fi 7” with 320MHz 5.8GHz support

MSI’s X870 motherboard fleet will feature “True Wi-Fi 7” with 320MHz 5.8G support on all X870 and X870E motherboards, “unlike any other,” as the company points out (and by others MSI stands for GIGABYTE and ASUS).

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The company is pushing a new marketing strategy that shows off the benefits of using “True Wi-Fi 7” with our friends at Uniko’s Hardware, teasing that MSI will support an ATX 3.1 165W design with an additional 8-pin power connector, full-fledged Wi-Fi 7 with 320MHz 5.8GHz support.

This will be combined with MSI features such as the removal of the “EZ” GPU and SSD, an all-new BIOS, and MSI looking to step into the spotlight with next-gen GPU support for its upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080 graphics cards NVIDIA with processor additional PCIe power connector on X870 and X870E motherboards.

Wi-Fi 7, or 802.11be, supports a bandwidth of 360 MHz, but not all devices will run on this faster standard, even Apple’s new iPhone 16 smartphone is limited to just 160 MHz. However, MSI’s new X870 series motherboards with “True Wi-Fi 7” support can use the extra frequency to create meshes, improve throughput and connectivity, and more.

ASUS and GIGABYTE do not have many motherboards that support True Wi-Fi 7, and MSI motherboards with lists such as ASUS TUF GAMING X870-PLUS WIFI, PRIME X870-P WIFI and ROG STRIX X870-A GAMING that do not have True Wi-Fi functionality -Fi 7. The upcoming GIGABYTE X870E AORUS ELITE WIFI7, X870 GAMING X WIFI 7 and X870 EAGLE WIFI 7 motherboards are the same: they do not have True Wi-Fi 7.

However, the X870E AORUS MASTER supports the true Wi-Fi 7 frequency of 320MHz 5.8GHz.