Review on ASUS TUF Gaming B550-PLUS WiFi AMD Motherboard by Ojasvi Sharma (Ojo) ᠌

Name: ASUS TUF Gaming B550-PLUS WiFi AMD Motherboard
Item: ASUS TUF Gaming B550-PLUS WiFi AMD Motherboard
Rating: 5

October 22, 2022

A really necessary purchase, I'm glad I found this product.

Bought for Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. The assembly is completely hassle-free (except that it's a little pity that Asus stopped putting a block for connecting the case panel leads in the kit). Everything took off immediately without any problems, HyperX RAM at 3733 MHz - no questions at all, top-level stability, low temperatures. UEFI with a cloud of settings. In general, Asus has not dropped the bar over the years.

Pros

Reliability of elements, layout of the board - distances between slots and connectors, power phases, plenty of USB and fan connectors, two M.2 slots, one of which has a heatsink, Aura Sync - a trifle, but nice.

Cons

The microphone from the front panel did not work on the built-in sound card! I connected different ones, both headsets and just microphones, the software determined its connection, but there was silence at the input. I tried both with branded drivers and with default ones from Windows 10, the result is zero. But since I still didn’t like the sound from the integrated sound system, I bought a discrete one, and the microphone worked fine with it. The Armory Crate software is pretty dumb. It constantly refuses to work without any ates, while declaring in the "ate center" that there are none, then swears at the lack of some services . In general, it leaves much to be desired.