ASUS Prime B650-PLUS AMD B650 AM5 Ryzen™ Desktop 9000 8000 and 7000 ATX Motherboard, DDR5, PCIe 5.0 M.2, 2.5Gb LAN, DP, HDMI®, SATA 6Gbps, USB 3.2 Gen 2 & 1 Type-C®, BIOS Flashback™, USB4® Support

This gaming motherboard exceeded my expectations. Setup was straightforward, and the BIOS is easy to navigate, even for fine-tuning performance. It runs fast and stable, with excellent support for the latest CPUs, GPUs, and memory. The RGB lighting adds a nice touch without being over the top, and the cooling options are well thought out. Every port I need is included, and the build quality feels premium. Perfect choice for a gaming setup—I couldn’t be happier!

This thing does what a motherboard should. Looks decent and has the basic features you want out of an am5 platform. Pcie gen 4 but if run a last gen amd gpu it doesn't matter. You can run some newer cpus in it as well, it has a usb bios flashback feature that makes it super easy to install the newest bios if you are going to use a 9800x3d chip for example. Make sure you download all of your wifi drivers onto a usb if you aren't going to hardline it. And also don't make the mistake i did and get the bios and drivers for the non wifi version and have to troubleshoot why its not working for half an hour.

Love this board. Has all the features I needed, looks great as the aluminum accents reflect the RGB and performance is great with it maxed out to 192gb ram, rtx3090 and 3 SSD drives plus a SATA SSD. Will upgrade in time, but am super happy with this setup.

My old computer, which I purchased in 2012 was getting past it. So I decide to build a new system, being a 90's era Windows fanboy building a PC is a piece of cake. Normally.I selected this Asus board, the Ax2 version for the build, the reviews seemed good. I was careful to select the m.2, ram and CPU from the approved list.When I installed the board and components a couple of problems became quickly evident.The Sata SSD drive that my OS was on could not be recognized in the bios, they would appear on a list of connected devices... but they would not appear on the boot list. I say they because I also tried an older spare drive.While problem solving this a second problem became evident... my fan wasn’t working and the CPU temp reached just over 90C very quickly.I tried another spare fan and both CPU headers were non functional. However as a workaround I was able to connect my Cooler Master fan to another fan header.So I tried to call ASUS... they don't support motherboards over the phone. Period. I was turned away. Let that sink in people... you won’t get anywhere near someone you can verify as human.I tried the ASUS online chat, the support person told me that I would have to sign up for something called Just Answers to get support.Now I was frustrated when I did this and I did not read the fine print, I thought I was paying a token $2 fee. However the two dollar fee was a sign-up fee. I was also charged $70 for a couple of copy paste answers to the problem.To be clear I did try everything on the list of things to try. Some I couldn’t do however because there are settings that you can select in the bios to get it to recognize the drives... however all of those settings were grayed out, such as CSM. Even a bios update did nothing.I decided to buy a device that holds the m.2 and plugs into the USB... using a different computer I cloned my OS onto the new m.2 drive. Even that didn’t work in either slot, I couldn’t get it to recognize any drive at all.Now while I was problem solving this I found a video on YouTube that said with this board...“Ïf CSM item is not user-configurable and shows in grey, please install an add-on Graphics card and CSM item will turn configurable”To be clear... I did carefully choose the CPU based on the fact that it DID have onboard graphics, and I did have a couple of graphics cards on hand however I did some digging and found that neither of my cards were good enough, apparently “you need a dedicated video card that supports VBIOS”Now nobody from ASUS... not even the guy who took 70 bucks from me for a minutes work. None of them told me that. They had led me round in circles.This is unacceptable, expecting someone to have to buy a high priced graphics card just to make a motherboard work. Disgusting.Now I have returned the board, I will never buy ASUS again. Ever.Update 22nd April...I have replaced the Asus board with a cheaper Asrock board, the B650M PG Lightning Wifi. Thus far it is working well and has no coil whine.However when I went to select CSM I was able to select it, however when I exited BIOS it would restart and default back to CSM being off. But at least I was able to select CSM which told me it was working unlike the Asus board which support couldn't tell me if it was working or not. Who knows?So this lead me to do some research as to why my drive wasn't being recognized, it turns out for the last few years legacy support for old hard drive formats has been removed.Now what is shocking is how no one told me this. I contacted Asus several times and even paid the 70 bucks for third party support, they all knew I was using an old SSD and none of them said... "Hey Matt... the reason you can't use you existing drive is because it needs reformatting, there is a free Windows utility that does it, all you have to do is google "Convert an existing Windows 10 Installation from Legacy BIOS to UEFI" and follow the simple instructions"To be clear NO ONE told me that, even the troubleshooting video on YouTube mentioned nothing.So Asus still gets an F for their support for telling me nothing that I needed to know and only some things that I didn't need to know.

It's a great motherboard and for the price there's nothing better

No default BIOS update was needed for me. The port count meets all of my needs. Fit in my ATX case. Easy to use and install. Unsure about sound as I have an external audio interface.

Excellent 650 motherboard for AM5. Affordable but offers all the options you would expect of a decent board like this. This does not include 670 type functions, but for most users you won't need them, the WiFi is solid and the design is nice and clean.

Plenty of mounting holes and connectors, antenna is super easy and effective.