ASUSAMD B450 mATX gaming motherboard with Aura Sync RGB LED lighting, DDR4 3466MHz support, 32Gbps M.2, HDMI 2.0b, Type C and native USB 3.1 Gen 2. (TUF B450M-PLUS GAMING)

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Acheté pour monter une config gaming, cette carte mère est parfaite. Monté avec un Ryzen 5 3600, reconnu sans problème. La carte fait ce qu'on lui demande et elle respire la qualité et la solidité!Je la recommande si vous avez le budget :)Ma config:- Carte graphique ASUS DUAL GTX 1660S- Carte mère ASUS TUF B450M-PLUS GAMING- Processeur AMD Ryzen 5 3600- RAM Corsair Vengeance LPX 16Go (2x8Go) DDR4 3000MHz- SSD CORSAIR Force MP510 240 GB NVMe- Alimentation Corsair TX550M- Boitier Corsair 275R AirflowPs: Si mon commentaire vous a aidé, remerciez moi grâce au bouton "Utile" en dessous de mon commentaire! Merci :)

It’s ok. Runs Ryzen 5 3600 out of the box with no BIOS update required.Good quality design but was confused by pre-fixed cooler bolts. Had to review two manuals to eventually figure out I had a different stock cooler to one shown in diagrams. Think it’s set up for X Ryzen models?Then discovered my RX 580 blocks the PCIe X slot. Luckily new wifi adapter seems to be working in standard PCIe lane...although I took a chance on that!Shame new RAM module heat sinks face towards cooler and are not visible. Just the bland back plates. Luckily not a problem as I don’t have a case window but the satisfaction of looking at it after assembled was diminished.Apparently it’s an ‘old’ or ‘cheap’ board but I’m happy with it.

It works superbly and allows for plenty of overclocking, but has some layout issues:M.2 is covered by graphics card. You can use an M.2 but dont expect favourable temperatures or space to add an M.2 heatsink.USB3 header is on lower edge, cant be used in some micro-ATX cases (Corsair 280X for example)Lack of fan headers, and one fan header is (rather stupidly) placed next to the I/O cover.On a plus side, it does have an I/O cover.My particular unit will have to be returned though; two of the SATA ports are dead. Whcih happens to be the two on the right hand edge I want to use :|

As my entire PC needed a new overhaul including motherboard I did my research and this was the best Motherboard for my budget - for under £800 using this as your template you cannot go wrong, would highly recommend this with a Ryzen 5 3600 CPU as those together make it a gaming PC for 4K gaming without breaking the bank.HIGHLY RECCOMEND!

This is a nice relatively cheap board (even better if ASUS is running a promo's). It has all the things you would expect from a decent b450 board including NVME, USB 3.1 / USB-C + PCIe 3.0 x16, SATA etc. I wont list all the specs as you can see them above.It was easy to fit and the board components look well put together. It also comes with an affixed plastic I/O cover for the rear sockets & separate metal I/O shield (although the metal backplate is still a separate fitting vs some of the more premium ASUS offerings where it is a single unit). This keeps the board clean looking and tidy.There is a panel of LED lights on the lower right of the board - but that is the only RGB part, but they are fully controllable via aura sync. I use this with the Corsair Vengeance 3200Mhz RGB and so prefer the iCue software to control it, which works fine. The clean & tidy board make this ideal for PC cases with a window.UEFI Bios is very nice and can update directly without having to run separate programs. It also seems to have lots of overclocking/voltage options. I plan to leave these alone so will let someone more familiar comment on those. Ryzen 3000 was supported out of the box without an update, the only thing I had to adjust is to set the D.O.C.P to get my RAM to run at 3200Mhz, else it defaults to 2133Mhz. Oddly it also seems to prefer the first ram stick in A2/B2 slots for dual channel.There are a couple of point I would raise, that stop it getting 5 stars - these seem to be common with other vendors as well so may be a common b450 series thing:1. Most gaming graphics cards are dual slot now. As the top slot is the PCIe 3.0 x16, the GPU blocks the small PCIe 2.0 x1 slot which is still useful for slower things like Wifi Cards. You do still have another full length PCIE 2.0 (x16 size, but run at x4) but it seems a bit of a waste for that. If the 3rd slot had of been the PCie 3.0 x16 then that would have given more options and removed this issue.2. Mounting the stock Ryzen Wraith heatsink and fan to the mounting bracket was tough trying to get it to bite. Its the first time I did it and was scared would would break the board or the chip. Go slow, eventually it will bite and is perfectly secure.3. There is only one M2. / NVME slot and it is right under the GPU. A single slot isn't abnormal and the PRO model has 2 slots if you need that. However the positioning is probably not great if you have an super hot AMD card sitting right above it. .And so things bring me to my final point.. yes it is a last gen board. - however the price reflects that.So no it doesn't have PCIE 4.0 (but no GPU currently is bottlenecked by that, and NVME real world is only visible in some edge cases), and who knows if this with support the 4000's series. If you want that surety then get the B550 / X570 for more £££.However for the price and the fact I wont be upgrading for at least another year this is an ideal purchase.