ASUS TUF B450M-PLUS GAMING AMD B450 mATX Gaming Motherboard - Black

Updated from an older 2500K Intel CPU and motherboard and the difference between feature set of that and this new motherboard are night and day. Excellent product and feels more of a premium product, perfect for a mid-range micro-atx build, has everything you should need. Feature-rich board with 4 memory slots and can take the 3000 series Ryzen processors out of the box, so there is some future-proofing which is good to see!

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.

I had a great deal on this board. I have been Intel for many years and this is the first time I have created a Ryzen build. The instructions were straight forward and everything worked out of the box. Happy with the purchase and the quality which you would expect from Asus.

Very impressed with this motherboard for the price, has good bios options, good compatibility with old and new tech, the m2 slot is awesome, all in all for the price this packs so much, definitely recommended!

Very happy. A well made and nicely designed gaming board. 4 memory slots and apparently compatible with the next generation of Ryzen processors, so there is some future proofing here which is good to see! What more could you ask for? :-)

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 :|

Opening up the possibility for the future upgrade of CPU with Ryzen 4th gen, plus it offers stable OC for both Ryzen and RAM. RGB enhance the quality of the product!

Die Lieferung und die Verpacken waren top 👍 Das Mainbord hat alle Anschlüsse die ein RGB PC (4Pin) braucht. Optisch ist es ein Highlight in jedem PC. Auch der Einbau ist kinderleicht. (9schrauben) Selbst beim Benchmark merk man den Unterschied;-) schnell schneller TUF 😉 Klare Kauf Empfehlungen!

Kargo hızlı geldi ve ürün güzel paketlenmişti. Ryzen 5 3600x ile sorunsuz çalışıyor gönül rahatlığıyla alışveriş yapabilirsiniz. Teşekkürler Amazon.

Facile à installer, 4 slot de ram pour de l'upgrade futur. Petit RGB qui fait toujours plaisir (juste le texte "TUF gaming" en bas à droite). Je n'ai pas essayé d'overclockage donc je ne peux pas donner d'avis sur la thermique des composants si on pousse les perfs. De façon général, ça fait 4 mois que j'ai cette MB et je recommande sans problèmes.

Great motherboard, lights up too which is a nice touch to any rig.

Llego a tiempo de acorde a la fecha citada, bien empacada con sus respectivos instructivos, manuales, estampas, tornillos y cables, se las recomiendo unaexcelente mother calidad precio y además ya biene actualizada a la 3ra generación de ryzen