Asus Placa Base Rog Strix B550-a Gaming

I really don't want upgrade to AM5 this year my build is only five years old. When I saw the B550 in white I knew I had to get it for my build was, so excited.

The ASUS ROG B-550 Gaming motherboard is meeting all my expectations and is performing great so far

Reasons to buy If you're building an ordinary gaming PC, I don't think you're giving up much over not buying X570, If you're building an ordinary desktop PC, the build process won't have many surprises, if any Captive screws on M.2 heatsinks 6 SATA ports BIOS flashback 2.5G ethernet No separate IO shield Reasons not to buy If you're not building an ordinary desktop PC and have specific needs you might have some quirks with the SATA ports when you're building, or not enough PCIe lanes with the B550 chipset You can't have the 5th and 6th SATA port if you want to use the 2nd M.2 NVME slot SATA ports are right angled, which means you have to make sure your case is compatible Only four SATA cables in the box, and if you're cramped you can't use just any SATA cable because of the reduced clearance of the right angled ports. Make sure you take the sale price of this mobo and the CPU your pair with it into account because while AM4 was a great platform, AM5 is well into its lifecycle.

nice looking motherboard. but need some skills to flush bios . but nothing too difficult. i absolutely satisfied with the motherboard

I used this motherboard to replace another that stopped working. With AM4 options slim for the picking this was one of the better options available. It has the option of thunderbolt which is nice but is missing Bluetooth, wifi and built in front usb c header.