ASUS ROG Strix B650-A Gaming WiFi 6E AM5 (LGA1718) Ryzen 7000 Motherboard(12+2 Power Stages,DDR5,3xM.2 Slots,PCIe® 4.0, 2.5G LAN,WiFi 6E,USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C® Port)

This is a great MOBO. The modern Type-C buses are super nice to have, multiple NVME slots. If you plan to run multiple GPUs make sure your case is large enough. Only beef I have with ASUS is that the Armory Crate software is hot garbage. Seriously. They moved Aura Sync into Armory Crate so just to run the LED drivers you need almost 3 GB of SDKs and frameworks to use it with the native app. It requests multiple admin permissions on startup. Why? The software hogs resources during runtime. Needs updates otherwise it breaks. Won’t download and apply updates correctly due to tight system permissions, no debugging. Utterly ridiculous. I guess they spent the entire budget on UI R&D

Looking for a good motherboard for your mid range setup? Not ready to fork over the money for that X870E? Need lots of USB ports? Here, my friend, is your motherboard.Now, is it a tad expensive? A little. But it's worth it. It's quality is absolutely amazing, and you can feel just how well made this thing before you take it out of the static bag. The pins are all labeled and easy to identify. And for all you storage lovers out there -- 4 SATA/HDD ports and three SSD ports, with one handling your Samsung Gen 5!There's also a ridiculous amount of RGB headers. I forgot how many there were exactly, but I think there's like four or five. Don't quote me on that one. Anyway, plentiful for your case fan needs. Also, integrated IO shield. No tearing apart your shiny new build to pop it in after you forgot!Of course, there's gonna be cons: Yes, the other reviews aren't lying. Booting up takes a hot second, around 20 seconds, give or take. For me personally, it also started throwing codes when I installed my AIO, but that was fixed with some BIOS settings that took a bit to find. Personally, I think it should change that automatically when detecting an AIO, but who am I to tell ROG what to shove into their motherboards?Now, what about overclocking? I don't know. Being honest, I'm no overclocker and baby my computers. That's for you to take the journey to discover!Overall? It's a solid motherboard. Are there better ones out there? Of course there are! But if you're looking to build a mid-range computer, this one right here is a good pick. Happy building!

I bought this just to deal with the impending Windows 11 updates and went for the wifi features more as a gimmick than anything else. The board itself was solid and could support everything I was putting into it, but the wifi came in clutch a few months later after having a small house fire. After living in a hotel for 2 months, I'm glad I had it as that would eb the only way I was connecting to the hotel's slow internet. Thing performed like a champ and it allowed me to imaging I was still at home.

I wanted the new 670 chipsets but saw so many bad reviews for them. I decided to go with this beautiful board instead and am happy I did. I needed somethign that was going to supply stable voltage for the long run and give me enough feature options for expansion of m.2 drives. This was a great option to cover all my needs.

UPDATE: 07/29/23 - Asus released a beta BIOS update 1634 with “improved memory capability”. I downloaded and installed it and what do you know… it works! My 6000MT kit works without issues. I played for about an hour with zero BSODs, crashes, or resets! This is how it should have worked from the start Asus. I’m glad that they are focusing on improving ram compatibility. I don’t normally install beta versions of bios so I’ll be eagerly awaiting the regular release. Btw I upgraded to a 7900XTX recently with no issues on this board. I’ll bump up the rating to 4 stars.PREVIOUS REVIEW:I bought this board towards the end of Nov 2022 for a 7600X/3070Ti/Corsair white gaming build so I've had this for a few months now.Previously (AM4), I bought Asus boards and didn't have any issues. So I thought I'd go with Asus again. The price was quite steep for a new socket (AM5/DDR5) as expected but again I trusted Asus and liked the way this board looks with is silver heatsinks for my white build so I bought it anyway.My issue with this board is that RAM compatibility is quite bad, especially if you are going for white build with Corsair RAM. At the time of this review (06/2023) according to the Asus website the ONLY Corsair kit on their QVL list for this motherboard at 6000MT (which according to AMD is the "sweet spot") is the CMT32GX5M2D6000C36. Which is only available in a black colorway. I guess I should have done more research on this but if I had known this prior to purchase I would not have bought this board.This board is advertised right here on Amazon as "Strix B650-A is primed and ready for enthusiast-grade kits courtesy of vast AMD EXtended Profiles for Overclocking (EXPO) support." I would hardly call one 6000 Corsair kit (which is actually XMP) and 4 actual EXPO kits at any speed/timings (see screenshot) as "vast". Maybe this will improve in the future, and Corsair can do more to get on Asus' QVL list or release more Expo kits in a white colorway, but only time will tell.I ended up purchasing a 6000MT CL36 white Corsair kit, CMH32GX5M2D6000C36W. Which from the start gave me BSODs and all kinds of crashes and errors using the DOCP profile. I thought I had a bad stick of RAM so I ran memtest at stock speeds (as recommended by Corsair for RMA) but the tests, which took forever BTW, all passed. I updated to the latest bios, version 1616 at the time of writing and the board refuses to boot at anything other than "Auto". So I tweaked the settings manually setting the speed to 5600 with 36 36 36 76 timings. No issues.If you are thinking of going past 6000MT then I also wouldn't recommend this board only 3 6200 kits (XMP) from TeamGroup are on the QVL list and 5 6400MT kits from other brands that I can't find for sale on Amazon or NewEgg.This board supports a decent amount of 5600MT kits. So if you are fine sticking with 5600MT then this is a fine board.Overall, the board is great if you plan on building out a black colorway PC, are fine with mostly 5600MT ram support, or don't mind mixing and matching brands (and their RGB software).But for me it's just "OK". I wanted a white build where iCue handled all the RGB and it's mostly there with a few sacrifices.

Great mobo for 7800X3D no issues at all. Just remember to flash bios as I had to because the motherboard didnt have the up to date bios.

Looks clean, works well. Bought it as a replacement for a defective NZXT mobo.Some minor complaints. Only 2 USB 2.0 slots on the mobo so if you have a lot of RGB/fans so you might need to buy a splitter in that case. My fans and CPU cooler came with its own splitters and my case had a splitter pre installed so wasn't a problem for me but might want to take that I to consideration.Also needs to install WiFi driver for WiFi to work FYI.