Tom's Hardware Verdict

The ASRock B860 Challenger Wifi is a solid $149 budget motherboard that handles our Intel Core Ultra 270K Plus without issue, but its USB is capped at 5 Gbps, sports weaker power delivery, and its BIOS is behind the times.

Reasons to buy

+ Excellent price

+ No Lane/Bandwidth sharing

+ OpenClaw AI software included

Reasons to avoid

- USB ports top out at 5Gbps

- Paltry power delivery

- BIOS still needs a refresh

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Based on the mainstream B860 chipset, the ASRock B860 Challenger Wifi sits on the budget side of Intel's motherboard lineup, and costs a reasonable

$149.99 . You get a full-sized motherboard with full support for Intel’s Core Ultra and Core Ultra Series 2 (Arrow Lake and Arrow Lake refresh) processors.…