ASUS TUF GAMING B650-PLUS WIFI AMD B650 AM5 Ryzen™ Desktop 9000 8000 and 7000 ATX motherboard, 14 power stages, PCIe® 5.0 M.2 , DDR5 memory, WiFi 6 and 2.5 Gb Ethernet, USB4® support Aura Sync

This ASUS B850 Plus motherboard is an excellent product and a good value. I am a home user and the complete build went well without any problems. I installed an AMD Ryzen 9 9900X CPU on it and was able to reuse my old AMD CPU fan from an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X mounted on the old AM4 socket. It worked perfectly on this new AM5 socket and cools the CPU to just under 50 degrees C. I also reused my old chassis with 3 quiet fans and a 550W power supply. I also installed a Crucial Gen5 SSD on this new board. What a major improvement. This new computer is lightning fast. I used Acronis True Image cloning software to transfer all software from my old HDD to the new SSD. It all worked without any issues and saved a lot of time. I upgraded from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 11 Pro on this and had no issues. This major upgrade cost me under $1000.

I used this board for my niece’s PC but. I have a 550-Pro, and this board is identical minus the USB-c front panel, a few of the USB ports in the back, and a couple less RGB headers. Otherwise, it is the same. This does have Wi-fi and Bluetooth built in unlike the 550-Pro. Great board to build on. Quick tip just like the 550-Pro if you use the second NVME M.2 slot Sata port 6 will not work because they share the same lane. If you do not use the second NVME you have use of all 6 sata ports, but keep in mind you will lose one if you do. 5 Sata ports is more than enough these days especially if you have a massive Gen 3 NVME in the second SSD slot. And my final tidbit, you this MOBO supports up to a Ryzen 9 5950X if you flash the bios to version 0303. So, if you have a Ryzen 3, 5, 7, you can upgrade all the way up to the Ryzen 9 5950X with this board in the future.

I purchased this board to replace an ASUS ROGX-470F motherboard that died.Pros:This board has the same number of SATA ports as the 470 (6), which was important for me, because all my games are stored in SATA SSDs.This MB boots quite a bit faster than my previous board. That’s always a plus.Built-in Wi-Fi controller. While I had a Wi-Fi expansion card for the x470 board, it was good to have it built-in to help clean up the interior of the case.Plenty of ports. Not only the above mentioned SARA ports, but plenty of USB ports, as well, including support for front-of-case ports. I have 6 USB cables plugged in and still have two free ports in the back, and 6 more on the case top.Drivers included on CD/DVD. This is a big deal to me, because newer boards don’t appear to include them. PNP picks up much of the drivers, but not all. Without included drivers, you might have to go to another machine to download them. That’s not customer-friendly.Cons:The Wi-Fi antenna is non-magnetic. This allows the antenna to slide off the case way too easily, diminishing the signal from the router, if you don’t notice it immediately.The Aura lights are not on top of the board. If you have ARGB light bars, it can flood out the boards built-in lights.DisplayPort and HDMI ports included, but so far, I have not been able to find integrated video hardware. This one has me confused.

Okay so the first one I bought from a tech store and it died. The support from AMD was subpar and the cost and wait for the product to be fixed would have been excessive to go through with. The board that I bought through Amazon is great and has been running just fine now for more than a since it was purchased.

I don't know what it is about AM5 motherboards, but with the maiden boot cycle, I never get a video out signal if I use a Graphics card in the rig. After they fail to get a signal, I boot up with the monitor plugged into the rear I/O, dGPU removed, and then I get a signal. After this, I can put the dGPU back into the rig and everything is fine.My personal system has a Ryzen 9 9950x, the Crossair X870E board, and 64GB of DDR5-6000 cl30 Hynix die RAM. I have no problems tuning the RAM and passing rounds of Karhu, Prime95, and anything else. I even have the RAM running at 6200MT/s with the lateincies below what's on the Ram's sticker. It passes everything.Now, I put together a system with the TUF B850 along with the Ryzen 9 9900x, and the exact same 64GB kit of 6000MT/s cl30 RAM. No matter what I do or have tried, I cannot get this RAM stress test stable with EXPO enabled, the U-Clk at 3000MHz, and the F-CLk at 2000MHz. I know that Dual Ranked RAM is a bit tougher to tune, but my high end X870E board is running circles around this B850 baord.Other than that, this board is a bit pricy for what you get out of it. It must be the Asus tax. The only reason I bought this board in the first place is because I was building a PC for a friend of the family and she picked an ATX sized board to go with the Thermaltake Tower 300, and this case only works with mATX boards. For the price, it would have been nice if this board came with better Audio Codec and Wifi 7.Then again, as I was thumbing through the market, I noticed that really good mATX boards are non-existent. I was hoping to find a Strix X870 mATX board, but this is the best Asus has to offer. This board at least has a M.2 slot that supports a PCIe 5.0 drive, the VRM's are good, and the primary PCIe x16 slot supports PCIe 5.0. The BIOS Flashback feature is also useful.