Packaging and Accessories
The box for the TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi has the TUF logo all across the background. They doubled and tripled up on the TUF branding with the full logo in the bottom right corner and then again above the motherboard name as well. The Asus logo is also there in the top left corner. Along the bottom edge they touch on PCIe 5.0 support and Wifi7 then in the bottom right corner you have the AMD required branding that shows that this is a Ryzen AM5 motherboard and the X870 chipset. Around on the back of the box, you get a top-down full picture of the TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi. Asus has a specification listing that fills up a majority of the rest of the back along with a line drawing that shows you what your rear I/O connections are. They do highlight a few features up at the top with icons as well. Overall though, you can see what you are getting when shopping in retail including a lot of the specifications that you don’t normally see on packaging so that is great to see.
When you open the box up, the TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi comes wrapped up in a static protective bag and is sitting in a white cardboard tray. They have a cardboard insert on top as well to keep it from bouncing around and inside of that they have the wireless antenna hidden away. For documentation, you get a quick start guide that is specific to the TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi and a paper on Asus WebStorage along with a foiled sticker sheet with a bunch of TUF Gaming logo stickers.
The TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi isn’t the cheapest X870 board from Asus but it is budget minded and you can see that difference in the amount of accessories that it comes with when you compare it to their higher-end boards (that I will also be checking out today in other reviews). You get a bag with two black SATA cables and three smaller baggies. Two of these have small rubber mounts in them and one has a small screw. All three of those are for M.2 drive installations. The only other accessory included is the wireless antenna and the TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi has the same antenna as you will see with most Asus motherboards. This antenna has two of the new snap on connections which will make plugging it in a lot easier than the old screw on antenna plugs. The antenna itself is black and flips up. It has a rubber base with magnets inside as well to let you stick it to your case if you have a steel case.
