Best mATX AM5 Motherboard? ASUS TUF GAMING B650M-PLUS WIFI 

To note with this motherboard, Asus opted to start the PCIE slotting at slot-2, so anything wider than a 2 slot card will overhand and block your lower edge connectors. My 2.5 slot 3090 Ti on this MB, the edge squishes the connectors over a bit, so a 3-slot 4080 or 4090 wouldn't fit. The Asus GENE X670E mATX doesn't have this issue, as it locates the GPU slot up another space.

Went for this one with Ryzen 5 7500 (non K). While more expensive than DDR4 based upgrade, this seems way more future proof with DDR5 and NVMe 5.0. I'm upgrading from I5 Haswell DDR3 (2014). Soooo... should last me until 2030.

Great video, very informative. This board looking pretty good to upgrade to for sure if you have something older and needing another board. Keep up the great work CS!

Just bought this for my ryzen 7 7800x3d and rtx 3090 😊

ASUS is pretty notorious for its bloatware. My ASUS laptop, for example, has over a dozen ASUS processes in the task manager. This motherboard looks great, but I am worried, does it come with bloatware?

Thank you for the video, not enough videos out there to help choose an M-ATB board. For using this board with a 7800X3D, 7900 XTX, aio cooling, D31 mesh SC screen case, corsair SF850L, 64 GB DDR5 6k trident neo dram and the WD-Black s850nx 2TB ssd would this be the best board to go with? There are not a ton of quality m-ATX boards out there and I am torn between this, the MSI Mortar (but forces you to put GPU in 2nd slot so not sure about that with bottom fans) and I think the Aorus, and the high end ASUS ROG board. Also, do you suggest using the boards heatsink for the SSD or using an SSD with its own heatsink? Thank you.

Really great review.

Wow I found the “how it’s made channel” I’m disappointed that I didn’t learn how the sausage is made but I am happy to learn how it’s eaten. Also cool mobo love the new LGA system

The question I have is: Is the AM5 platform, almost 6 months after its release, stable enough to consider investing in this platform. Or should I wait a bit longer to avoid the headaches that might come with early adopters of new platforms. I currently run a old i5 4440 and am looking to build a new rig. I would like to go with the AM5 platform because it gives me a great path to upgrade only the cpu several years down the line when the AM5 platform reaches its end of lifespan; not having to invest in a complete new rig.

i have same case and motherboard building one now with 4070

im going to build a system for gaming with this motherboard. Which AMD processor model and CPU cooler should I choose? I think to buy AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

is this what excellent mic sounds like?

Does this already have wifi when you unbox or do you have to buy another wifi antenna? (i'm a newbie)

Are the wifi antenna magnetic?

Can we use ryzen 9 7k/8k series Processor with this mobo?

what is your memory details? thank you

Guess my rx 7800 xt wont fit this huh...

in which PCI slot should I insert the graphics card?

what is the difference between the 650M-E and the 650M-Plus? is that just a microatx version with the pcie 5.0 for example.

I got the fill size version. I am disappointed it is wifi 6 only. I'm rocking the AC1900 WiFi 5 card in a pcie slot since it it seems to upload and download faster. I wish I could replace the module in the mobo to 6e. But I can't. It works fine but I'm baffled why it's slower. Oh well, I'll keep the WiFi 5 card for now until I get a wifi 6e modem or router.

what type of case is this please

The expo doesnt Works on Mine TUF b650 :(

how many ssd does it fit?

codec? Alc1220A?

Hi this or MSI mortar

For 200 euros in europe i been trying to find good mainboard. - 174euros : AsRock B650M PG Riptide has M.2 Gen5 but no Wifi, good VRM, Pro RS Wifi has the missing wifi but has worse VRM - 171euros : MSI Pro B650M-A Wifi has Wifi but no M.2 Gen5, good VRM - 220euros : Gigabyte B650M Aorus Elite has bowth and very good vrm but costs 220 euros and is not available for delivery to my location (wierd enough Gigabyte Intel boards are only AMD ones are not from Amazon) - 199euros : Asus TUF Gaming B650M-Plus Wifi has good vrm, M.2 Gen5 and WiFI, is available for delivery to my location If AsRock board had wifi for that price i would pick it up, if MSI board had M.2 Gen5 i would pick it up and if Gigabyte board would be available for delivery to my location i would pick it instead of Asus but since Asus board has Gen5 M.2 and Wifi i'm forced again to buy Asus TUF B650M-Plus Wifi, great vrm and features for its price. Only downside in Asus board is PCIE slot layout, AsRock and Gigabyte boards have much better PCIE slot layout, you can actually use bottom slot in those boards with 3 slot GPU.

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