Asus Motherboard TUF GAMING B650PLUS

Chose this for a recent new build with an 8400F, 32Gb of RAM and a 2Tb M2 SSD which all went together smoothly and easily. The board feels like a really quality items and comes with a couple of cables and some stickers, I didn;t use the latter but they are there if you want them to make it all look prettier. I did have to remove the two plastic 'wings' on the motherboard - as per the instructions - to fit the 8400F cooler but this was as easy as the instructions indicated it would be. I did also initially miss taking the plastic film off the underside of the heat spreader over the M2 slot I used but corrected that mistake later in the build when I read the instructions properly to check I'd built everything up correctly. I can't say I was particularly keen initially on the the single ended DIMM sockets where there a 'latch' is only provided at one end but they seem to work fine in practice. Do pay attention to where the DIMMs need to be fitted though if you are only fitting two, I needed to adjust my build slightly in the checking stage as I had assumed the wrong set of default sockets. The motherboard fitted into the case - a MSI Forge 112R - snugly and accurately and I had no issues securing the motherboard using all of the mounting holes provided. I then cabled up the various headers which all fitted as expected, including the four fan headers for the four fans in the MSI case and the LED colour interface header as well. There is however one thing to note about the fan header that is in line with the PCI-E slot that you would normally expect to put the graphics card in - the 'amoured' one. The issue being that if you have a long card - a 3 fan version say - it looks to me like that might be in line with the fan header shown in the picture and that if that header is used in the build - and mine is - there might be a clearance issue with the socket and associated cables that are plugged into that particular header. Just to be clear I am running on an older graphics card for now which doesn't get anywhere near the header but its just something that might need checking if your build requires that. I think a bit of snipping with some side cutters on the case fan header socket would probably resolve the issue by allowing the cables coming out of it to bent under a graphics card above it if need be. On first boot up it took a little time for the board to come to life - there are a series of small LEDS up on the top right hand corner of the board that indicate health checking of the CPU, memory etc and they sequence through on every boot cycle. However, the first cycle did take longer as I think the board was assessing the best configuration for the DDR RAM I had fitted. It was a one off and its certainly consistently faster now to boot, so just keep that in mind and be patient on the first boot up cycle. The 8400F CPU was fully recognised and supported by the BIOS version that the board came with so I did not need to undertake any BIOS updates but there is a nominated USB socket on the back panel with a sitch arrangement to do that if required. The BIOS iteslf seems very capable and I went in to adjust one or two settings and to have a look round, the modern presentation and fully functional HMI is a long way and a massive improvement on the old character based keyboard only type BIOS interfaces of yesteryear. There are plenty of USB ports, including a 'C' and network socket on the back panel and the available headers on the board include various USB 3 ones and also unsually I think a serial port, so connectivity is well catered for and well beyond my immediate needs. In service its been entirely reliable, I have it connected to a home network and that interface as been as good as gold, and the mobo has been a major contributor to what has been a very enjoyable experience of building a new PC for the first time in years. I look forward to using in due course the other M2 slots to expand the storage on the board and I don't expect I'll have to use the supplied SATA ports as I won't need to have any form of drive to attach to them.

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Ordered by mistake without WiFi but works good tried to install deepcool AK 400 on it but couldnt so make sure u have right cooler for amd

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