ASUS Prime B650-PLUS WiFi AMD B650 AM5 Ryzen™ Desktop 9000 8000 & 7000 ATX Motherboard, DDR5, PCIe 5.0 M.2, 2.5Gb LAN, WiFi 6E, HDMI™, SATA 6 Gbps, USB Type-C®, BIOS Flashback™, Thunderbolt™ 4 Header

Nice motherboard with DDR 5 support.
The motherboard is very nice. The bios has to be upgraded to support Windows 11. You should consider flashing the bios prior to installing the OS. If you do not update the bios, you will receive an unsupported error from the Windows 11 setup. This board is not WiFi enabled. The power and reset pins are at the lower edge of the board and are a little difficult to connect. This is the same with most boards. Overall the motherboard overclocking options are detailed. You are able to configure cpu settings, memory settings and etc. This is pretty standard for new Asus boards. Overall a good board for the price. The B650 may not have PCIe 5.0 support. The B650E does. The X670 will have PCIe 5.0 support and 3 M.2 drive support. However, the B650 is a lot cheaper. If you are looking for PCIe 5.0, you can use a B650 board, just make sure it has it. Also, the 650 boards do not support as many M.2 drives and USB as the 670. 650 boards are AM5 compatible. So, make sure you buy an AM5 cpu. AM4 boards are a lot cheaper and the best bang for the buck. In addition AM4 cpus are about half the price.

Is the problem a malfunction, a bug… or a feature?
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.

There were no issues installing this board in my son’s build. He loves the look with the white and his white case. There were no issues or errors, and he has been running games for over a year. He mostly plays Minecraft, Fortnite, and Forza and does school work. He does everything he wants it to.

No funciono con mi ryzen 7 7700 y rx7800xt, simplemente nunca dio video

As I have said in the headline, it didn’t work and I sent it back. I found it hard work initially registering it on the ASUS website so I could get technical support. Without registration ASUS make it impossible to get technical support. I ended up complaining on the ASUS YouTube channel but the registration problems then fixed themselves. ASUS tech support were asking me questions I had already given them information about. Then the video stopped working. To me it was clearly a motherboard failure. I had seen quite a few warnings about ASUS quality not being what it once was but I have always bought ASUS. With the failings in the motherboard together with the underwhelming technical support I decided to send it back. It is going to take some convincing for me to buy ASUS again.