ASUS ROG Strix B650-A Gaming WiFi AMD B650 AM5 Ryzen™ Desktop 9000 8000 & 7000 ATX motherboard, 12 + 2 power stages, DDR5, 3x M.2 slot, PCIe® 4.0, 2.5G LAN, WiFi 6E, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C®, Aura Sync

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!

Excellent motherboard. Anything over this is a total waste of money

I just finished assembling my pc, this motherboard is good enough for newest pc parts. This white design makes my entire desktop even prettier. Enough port extension, easy bios settings. I’ve been using it for 2 days and so far so good.

Great

Complete disaster! As expected with a board this cheap. Make sure you’re prepared to flash the board immediately! Before you even get the PC to boot. You can with these mobo’s which is cool. That was the first 3 hrs, I thought I’ll be able to use the PC to get the bios update. Nope! Than the Ethernet controller lan didn’t work. That was another 3hrs & a phone call to Asus. Everything needs to get updated, and those two issues update separately for some reason. Have a USB handy, once you make it through the darkness, you’l feel good about saving money over a lil extra work. 6hr shift equivalent.

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

Load of crap. Do not buy if you plan on using an AMD gpu or want a stable system. Go for another brand. There are countless reviews on forums that struggle to find stability with this board with any gpu combination. The may be a defect in the construction of memory or PCIE lanes. Long story: Been struggling with stability for over a year with my AMD 7900xtx gpu, so i swapped in a 2080super for a while since it was stable, eventually that would crash randomly too but not as freqent. The types of crashes were gpu crashes, where the screenm goes black and then fans ramp up to 100% or justm go black, and force me to restart. On the 7900xtx i couldnt play for more than a few minutes at a time. On my 2080 super it would crash only once a month, but 3-4 times that day. The work load didnt matter as its crashed at IDLE before. I put my GPU into a different motherboard and everything worked with no issues. It was the PSU, it wasnt the ram, all those test good and worked in other builds, No combination of bios updates or tuning would get my system stable. Its a sexy board but you seriously pay for the lack of stability. For example, i was even having issues were my ethernet port would randomly disable TLDR: STAY AWAY if you want a stable GPU experience.

Excelente producto y marca recomendada

Llevgo bien embalada todo llegó sin defecto aún que tarde en probarla por piezas que no tenía aún, puedo decir que aunque es mi primera vez armando una PC me agrado que tenga una guía intuitiva para realizar las conexiones, de momento funcionó todo muy bien

Onboard audio isn’t the best. Required a DAC AMP solution to get decent enough audio for gaming. Other than that flawless product

Só não consegui realizar a devolução porque a agência da DHL mais próxima fica a 400 km da minha cidade. No entanto, a Amazon foi super compreensiva e estornou o pagamento. O produto é ótimo e o atendimento da equipe foi excelente. Recomendo!

its a great motherboard its got all the feature i need the overclocking is substantial enough for most people (amd's built in OC stuff), the connectivity is great for the average person and gamer, looks are good they could be better however i understand this is the budget version so they will cut corners somewhere, now my reason for only 4 stars is firstly the asus bloatware armoury crate is useful however everything else that tried installing i hadnt found a use for so i removed them, and the second reason for my 4 stars is i believe might just be a me issue but it doesnt matter what i do if i plug a mic into either the front jack or the rear jack its extremely quiet like even yelling its barely picked up but if i use a usb adapter for my mic its perfectly fine.

Snagging the ASUS ROG Strix B650-A for just $189 CAD was an absolute steal, completely throwing the usual "ROG tax" argument out the window. For that price, it easily beats out basic entry-level boards while offering premium features. The power delivery is rock-solid, handling heavy workloads and long competitive gaming sessions without breaking a sweat. Memory stability is fantastic too, handling high-speed DDR5 tuning smoothly with zero boot issues. It handles my 8200mt/s Viper Xtreme kit perfectly at 8000mt/s. I am limited by my CPUs IMC so the board can probably push further. Plus, the clean white/silver aesthetic looks great in my b/w build, and the rear I/O has more than enough high-speed ports to handle all my high-polling peripherals and gear. At this price, it was an undeniable no-brainer. Love the ROG Keychain and stickers as well!