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)

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

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.

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 endSo 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

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

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

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.

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.