ASUSTUF Gaming B450M-PRO S AMD AM4 (3rd Gen Ryzen™) Micro ATX Gaming Motherboard (8+2 Power Stages, 2.5Gb LAN, BIOS Flashback, AI Noise-Canceling Mic, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A and Type-C, Aura Sync RGB)

Great motherboard for the price . Paired it with i7 11700. I also paired it with a rx580 and old GPU . At first it would just restart and go straight to bios. You need to change the boot from UEFI to legacy since I was using rx 580. Once I did that it booted up fine . Does have xmp option to enable or disable. Also have oc options in the bios . But a board this cheap you don't want to push it . It works great the way it is .

I was due for a motherboard upgrade and wanted to use an old AMD Ryzen 7 5700G I had. This board arrived super fast, installed in minutes, and has been rock solid stable with Windows 11 24H2 for several weeks now. I did have to do a BIOS update when it arrived but everything I needed was on ASUS’s site

I returned this because the computer it was going into self destructed, but I swear by Asus, so I bought the Asus ROG maximus extreme so a modern build!

The motherboard is pretty great, i only have three issues. One, ASUS has an odd RGB connector, and uses 12v power, and a 4 pin connector. Most RGB fans, lights, etc, are for a 3 pin, 5v connector. You will need a pretty pricy converter to run any type of RGB fan. It also only has two fan 4 pin fan connectors, that's a down side, but splitters are cheap. Lastly, it has no usb 3.2 (usb-c) connector. Having a quest 3, it would be very nice to have that native c to c connector, but nothing I cant live without for the price. So far it has been very reliable, and no update to the bios was needed (i5-11400f, 1660 super). It was a very simple plug up and go after the part install. They make it very easy with the detailed manual that comes with it.