ASUS Prime B650M-A AX AMD B650(Ryzen 7000) Micro-ATX Motherboard(DDR5,PCIe 5.0 M.2,2.5Gb LAN,Wi-Fi 6, DP,USB 3.2 Gen 2 Ports,Front USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C®, BIOS Flashback™, CEC Tier II Ready)

I usually get the less-featured asus board and have for years. I read reviews on this one and folks said it wouldn't run memory at 6000. It's running my expo ram at 6000 cl30 just fine. I put a 7950X in it. No issues there either. The bios let me set the TDP so I dropped it to 120W. It was nice to have a granular setting for this and not a stupid "eco mode" setting. Phoronix unigine-heaven says I'm tied for the best result with my video card (7900XT) at 2K. You really can't ask for anything more than that on a system with reduced TDP. Nothing gets hot. The onboard RGB was picked up by Linux just fine and worked with OpenRGB. I don't use the wifi or blutooth but I'm sure they are fine. Plenty of room for a huge Noctua cpu cooler. Benchmarks are fantastic. I didn't even have to update the bios. It had the most recent. The only thing I had to do in bios after turning off wifi and blutooth and setting TDP was turn on Resize Bar. For some reason it wasn't on by default. Oh, and I had to turn on EXPO for my ram. But that was it. Boom, saw the ram, overclocked it. Rarely do I build a system and it's just working the first time I hit the power button. That's how it was this time. Save your money on an AM5 build. Use this board.

Runs fast, works great, looks great. Has more than plenty luxury I/O out of the box with room to expand.

Bought two of these boards from two different sellers over a years' time, both failed. The first board lasted less than a month and fried my Seasonic power supply with it. The second board lasted just under 2.5 years but was not used daily, took it to the local Micro Center who confirmed it was dead $80 later and refused to assist with RMA (thought they were a licensed Asus technician?). The first board's RMA was denied after one of the pins was bent in transit. Asus has you pay the shipping cost of RMA. Given how much the price has gone down, I think I'm ready to cut my losses and move on to a different brand, no more Asus for me!

Update. Wanna update on this board as it’s a year later and finally got this board working just recently with another build I did as a back pc while I did a custom water loop on my main pc. This board is actually pretty good haven’t had a chance to really mess with alot of its features but I can’t complain on it, think my original issues were like everyone else when with bios and memory issues but since I’ve tried it again it’s actually a good motherboard, only issue I have right now is on every other boot up pc wants to start on bios then after I just save and exit it boots to windows. I can actually give this a better star review minus the boot up which I’m sure is something on my end So I got this motherboard and the AM5 CPU because I was upgrading to the next gen, well the package arrived a day late which wasn’t really a big deal seeing as I was also waiting on my DDR5 RAM to show up which was also a day late as well. After I installed everything and tried to turn on my computer instantly the QLED light came on meaning a ram issue I switched all 4 ram sticks around and still same light comes on, after continuously switching them around I tried 1 and had the same light then tried a different ram slot and with only 1 in it fired up turned it back off and tried a second one and no issue but come to find out the board has a bad RAM slot 1 so can only use 2 which was the first issue then after everything was finally installed the pc gave me a blue screen error and rebooted itself I installed windows 5 times only for it to continuously do the same error and reboot, also one of the Ethernet ports was bad and showed no internet. It was a good investment at the time till everything was up and running then constant issues. Wasn’t a very good experience seeing as how all my products for my pc are mostly ASUS gonna try the tuff gaming bored instead maybe I’ll have better luck and no more issues otherwise I’m going back to AM4

i added the board with a ryzen 9 7900x, 32 gig memory, radeon RX5500 and a couple of m.2 2tb drives. runs well. needed to do some updates to cards and programming. does run faster than my ryzen 7 5700 - as expected.

It's was the cheapest motherboard at the time with the ports I wanted

Had this exact problem on 2 boards. RMA'd the first one back to Amazon, but 2nd board exhibited the exact same behavior. Ran 4 sticks of 8GB RAM from the compatibility list. Every time a known good stick of RAM was in the 3rd DIMM slot, Memory error and would not boot. Had to put a speaker on the motherboard to get the post codes as there are no onboard diagnostic LED's like with MSI, etc. This RAM was known good and worked fine in other systems, and any stick in the 3rd DIMM would elicit the behavior. Further, i could not get the PCIe card i was trying to use to be recognized by either board. Once again, this PCIe card worked fine in other systems. Contacted ASUS support, in the hopes that a BIOS update would fix, no avail. They didn't have a clue other than to return the board either to Amazon or them. (Their 1st tier support didn't seem to understand what a PCIe expansion card was.) The only option they offered was for me to pay to ship the board to ASUS, and i would get a known good b-stock for my trouble. That's not an option when i am paying full price for a board. So back to Amazon they all went and i am using a Asrock PG Lightning and everything just works. Too bad, ASUS' BIOS is amazing. And their in Windows tweaking utilities worked great.

Great motherboard. Paired it with a Ryzen 16 core processor, 64 gig ram, & SSD hard drive.

Let’s start with the positives – somewhat of a mixed bag this time around: Data Processing – Being a ProArt, it’s a motherboard attuned to different software meant for artwork – Photoshop, Blender, Krita, Procreate, Corel Painter, GIMP, Fresco, and so on. Despite its purpose, you could probably settle with it pretty comfortably for gaming and basic editing as well. It’s a bit confusing, the way it’s advertised. 7000 MHz is perhaps a little higher than my 32GB RAM, so I don’t quite get all that I can out of it – being that my RAM can take about 6000 MHz at full capacity. Regardless, it’s advertised as PCIe 5.0, and that’s correct – I get about 192 GB out of the 24 lanes it has. Yet, it’s incorrectly labelled PCIe 4.0 in the specifications of the product – a small error, but hopefully this clears things up for people. Artificial Intelligence – This motherboard has two features based on artificial intelligence: AI Noise Cancellation and AI Overclocking – one that works well, and the other that works too well. So far as AI Overclocking, it’s pretty measured as to when it feels is necessary to overclock the PC for the sake of performance, so it’s not likely to overheat your PC because you lost a couple of frames – certainly no complaints there. My issues arise concerning the AI Noise Cancellation features, which – for the most part – tend to be pretty accurate. However, it’s quite sensitive at times and often cuts me off mid-sentence, regardless of how average or quiet the volume – it just seems to get confused more often than not, and it makes conversation sometimes a bit difficult. Support – There’s a wide variety of handy support options with regards to this motherboard. It’s fitted with both a 1GB and a 2.5GB Ethernet port – though admittedly, either only averages about 400MB – three medium PCIe 5.0 ports – which are interlinked, so if you plan to use more than one port, the lanes will be split – one small PCIe 5.0 port, USB 3.0, USB 4.0, Display Port, and USB C. All pretty useful for different devices and extra bits, but with the way in which the motherboard acts, adding devices means separating its processing power evenly – so if you’re planning to push what you can out of multiple devices, you’ll only ever get a fraction of what you’d expect. Overall, the motherboard can support a variety of devices but lacks the ability to hold them all. For the negatives, I’ve only really had one issue thus far: Dispersion – It’s only ever happened twice so far, but this motherboard isn’t very good at dispersing electricity. During busy periods, it can get gridlocked and retain energy. Not enough to cause sparks or anything, but what it will do is put pressure on the display and cause the monitor to black out. It doesn’t cut the audio – so I know it's still on – but while things happen in the background, nothing feeds to display, and you’ll have to shut it off. The best method I’ve found so far is: Shutting off the monitor, pushing the power button, flipping the PSU, and then turning everything off at the wall. Give it a while and repeat everything in the reverse order. It should fix the issue without bricking or burning your PC. Overall, pretty decent motherboard for the money with a lot of value in the PCIe ports - you'd be hard pressed to find one that isn't as practical as this one. Though I'd wait for it to go on sale again - I saved about £80 and kept my budget under £1,500.

I used to run high end MB but decided to go lower this time since the new Ryzen chips are so efficient and the power delivery so overkill on everything. I like the value proposition of this board, it looks great without the RGB gamer aesthetic. you get the boot status LEDs which is not as handy as 7-segment but it looks a lot better and sufficient for daily use. I wish it was B650E chipset instead, but PCIE 4.0 16x should still be plenty for the lifetime of this board, even for top end graphics. It's a shame they don't give you a third heatsink for the third M.2 slot There's also some usual AMD jank, this time I have a problem where my system cannot reboot only, it can boot, everything rock stable all normal, but if I reboot it just gets stuck in post. AMD is just not as polished and stable as Intel.

Motherboard has multiple m.2 slots but comes with no anchors or screws to mount them. I bought m.2 drives and cannot even install them so I cant even build the PC. It has spots for the hardware but you have to buy 3rd party risers and hope they fit the non-standard holes.

Please not that it will take you an pcie slot to install a separate wifi/Bluetooth adapter, as this board doesn't have either integrated

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