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In many motherboards, WiFi isn't soldered on, it's a mini-PCIe card wrapped up in a metal tin. I replaced mine on my ASRock b550 itx board, and it only took a few minutes.
There don't seem to be many guides out there for it, so if that's something you may want to do, check it before you put everything together.
Good advice, but if you're buying a new motherboard, why would you care for replacing it's components? Choose the one that works properly out of the box.
Then we should all buy prebuilts then, right?
I didn't buy my motherboard expecting to replace the WiFi, I only replaced it after failing to get it working properly. It's apparently a common issue with this chip (and I have the same chip in another machine without the issue), which is a shame because Intel usually does well on their hardware and drivers. But $20 and 15 min or so of effort fixed an otherwise fantastic motherboard.
I'm interested in small form factors, and there aren't a ton of options in mini-ITX, especially for new launches. So I look for the things that really matter, and compromise on the things I can either service myself or outside work around. WiFi is one of those things.
Ah, faulty hardware.
I got more open to prebuilt PCs when I could not upgrade any single component of my home PC, the motherboard still had AGP slot. It is also an option when you are buying a PC-in-a-monitor build, upgrading anything there is a fool's errand. But for regular PCs it was considerably cheaper ten years ago to buy every component separately, and then they just click in place like LEGOs. The chances of burning your custom-built PC are like, you need serious crab hands to mount it that poorly.