ASUS TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS (WiFi 6) AMD AM4 (3rd Gen Ryzen™) microATX gaming motherboard (PCIe 4.0, 2.5Gb LAN, BIOS FlashBack, HDMI 2.1, USB 3.2 Gen 2, Addressable Gen 2 RGB header and AURA Sync)

This mobo was initially in my personal gaming PC for a couple years, and then I finally convinced my partner to let me build him a custom PC instead of trying to buy a PS5. Took the opportunity to upgrade my PCs mobo to an ROG equivalent of this, and put this into his "new" PC. I dont typically play games or do anything that ever really stresses my systems out TOO much, mostly Paradox Interacive games like Crusader Kings III or Hearts of Iron 4, stuff like that. But I do like to fool around with overclocking mostly as a hobby, and with it handling OC'd CPUs and GPUs every day, and then actually stressed with the games my partner plays, its still going strong. No bending, no cracking, no issues.Lets be real, its a mobo, we kind of forget it compared to CPUs and GPUs and flashy RAM sticks and AIO coolers...but it is the foundation of every PC, and I can say this foundation is SOLID.

I’ve been really wanting to get a ryzen computer for at least the last couple of years, I just been waiting for the right opportunity, I ended up jumping early during during April 2021 during the worst time to buy PC hardware. I overspent on a ryzen 5 3600 but I paid 150 for this motherboard. And I’m calling that a win because a year ago to find an MATX motherboard with all the features, you were getting an X570 and spending over 220$I’m running a thermaltake S100 all white case and decided to go with a white theme and no RGB. And then I discovered this motherboard has RGB, on the right side where the yellow and black warning tape looking thing is, there is a RGB under there, but under the bios I have it disabled. I may put RGB in here later, but right now I’m happy with it.The WiFi is awesome. I live in a two story house running a netgear R6700v2 and on 5ghz AC channel I get the full 115mbps spectrum connection despite being so far away.The 2.5G Ethernet port is really cool, I don’t have that capability yet but it’s nice to have it.It’s got Several RGB fan headers including an aura sync RGB header. So it’s good for your RGB needs.4 memory dim slots for a micro atx board yes! Some motherboards only have 2.2 m.2 expansion slots. I installed an SK Hynix S31 gold NVMe drive under the heat sink slot under the GPU. Be sure to follow the instructions on how to install it. The drive is super fast and responsive and the system is handling it great.Speaking of instructions. The instruction manual is a lot less to be desired. ASUS just assumes you know computers and will figure it out on your own. Case in point, I’m used to motherboards that either have an obvious color system or number system for dual channel memory modes. Although this one is color coded it didn’t make sense as to which one to install and the manual didn’t make sense either. I had to scour the internet and look for pictures of people who had this and see how they had theirs installed to know where to put the memory lol. This is not my first computer build FYI.I haven’t done much tweaking of the ryzen CPU. All I did was turn on DOCP (XMP) and that was basically it. Of course changing boot orders because I transferred from my old computer.There is one little thing this motherboard does and I don’t know why. When the computer is off, if I nudge or move my Logitech g203 mouse the RGB turns on inside the mouse but the computer is off. So I have to turn the computer on and then turn it off to make the mouse turn off, I don’t know if that’s because I’m hooked up to a UPS or there is some USB wake setting on the bios. I tried looking for one of those and couldn’t find that setting.All in all I’m very happy with this board. ASUS hit it out of the park with this. I think B550 is the way to go if you don’t want to spend 200+And if your looking for a micro atx form factor this is perfect. My case only fits micro atx and not the standard atx.I like the fact that the spacing of the pci express and mini pci express isn’t gonna be blocked. The nvme drive is under the GPU so that’s no big deal, instead of many motherboards, a precious pci express slot is covered by the GPU. Especially with an mATX board where you don’t have as much space to work with unlike a full atx board.I don’t know what else to say. It just works. I am not over clocking and I never will. I want stability and it has it in spades.

I’ve bought a number of ASUS TUF-line motherboards over they years, going back to the Asus Sabertooth x58 (I have one such board still running a machine 24/7, since 2010), and they’ve all been rock solid. On the AM4, platform I have this B550M-Plus(WiFi) and the TUF x570; while the x570 chipset has feature advantages, for mainstream builds, the this Micro-ATX B550M is the better choice.Most notably, this board is (IMHO) very well laid out, and I especially appreciate the full compliment of DIMM slots, two x16 PCI-E slots (though only one is electrically x16). The board has reasonable power handling facilities, an excellent UEFI environment, runs cool and (so far) is entirely stable, even under prolonged loads (it’s running 24/7).Like all TUF series boards, you get quality components, but the cost reduction comes from feature removal, so no led diagnostics, or super-fancy lighting (though I think ASUS’s approach to this line is perfect for those of us who don’t care about those features, and just want a stable, quality board with power-handling headroom).The only real negative is that the PCI-E 4.0 x4 NVME slot (the one closest to the CPU), which is the ideal primary drive m.2 slot, does not come with a heatsink cover, unlike the lower-performance chipset driven slot. This isn’t a big deal if using a PCI-E 3.0 NVME drive, but for anyone who wants 4.0 speeds with the latest drives, they’ll have to supply their own heatsink solution if they want to use that slot.

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Has all the features you could need, including WIFI and Bluetooth, and not much else. I don't care for the LEDs much though. Works out of the box with Linux but fan control and temperature monitoring is borked for now (at least until kernel version 5.16 is released, which has a patch).Using it with a Ryzen 5600G. Flashing the bios was a piece of cake and worked perfectly with an old 32GB Kingston Datatraveler (USB 2.0).

Llego en tiempo y forma, sin ningún daño.Es una excelente placa base con excelentes prestaciones, la antena wi-fi sirve a la perfección. solo tengan en cuenta que no tiene entrada para VGA.Una cosa dice que no soporta ryzen 3 3200g y 5 3400g, pero yo le puse un ryzen 3 3200g y no hubo ningún problema.

Ich habe einen PC gebaut für meinen Kumpel, er ist sehr begeistert vor allem von der Optik. Wichtig zu erwähnen ist, dass man die Blende für das Mainboard vorher ins Gehäuse einbaut. Ansonsten hat es mir eine Freude gemacht den PC zu Bauen mit dem Mainboard.