* Memory Speed is the max supported by this motherboard. Actual speed also depends on your CPU's memory controller and RAM kit rated speed.
PERFORMANCE
80%
Customer Reviews★★★★★5.0 · 5 reviews
★★★★★Great looking and easy to use
Great price for a good piece of tech. Looks clean and works well with a lot of other good tech. Bios is clean and easy to go through. Ports are easy to find and not hard to install pieces onto!
Tegan Lowe · 2026-05-12 · via amazon
★★★★★Excellent motherboard with great features
This is a really nice motherboard and was an upgrade over my older & much cheaper B450 that I, by a tragic mistake, dropped (literally) and accidentally broke. Visually, this ASUS motherboard I’ve replaced it with is stunning, much nicer than my last motherboard with larger & better looking heatsinks.
For clarification, I bought the WiFi II version of this motherboard. Software-wise, well, I couldn’t get the WiFi or Bluetooth to work right away, but I found the required drivers included on a DVD. After inserting the DVD, there’s clearly marked drivers for the WiFi & Bluetooth. Unfortunately for me, the files didn’t seem to work in Windows 10 for Bluetooth, but it did for WiF, which was more important to me. Windows Troubleshooter couldn’t get the Bluetooth to work, and the drivers I tried from the ASUS website didn’t work either in getting Bluetooth to work. Anyway, it’s not worth returning over or going to great lengths to troubleshoot outside of the windows Bluetooth troubleshooter, as I had a cheap Bluetooth adapter I bought for $5 years ago, which I just plugged in and it worked right away. One of the first things I did also was disable the “armoury crate” auto-download in the BIOS. I thought that for a nearly $200 motherboard, it was strange there were even such bloatware options in the BIOS on top of included Bluetooth I couldn’t seem to get connected to anything. That was something I more expected out of a motherboard in the barely-over-$100 price range.
It’s still a 5 (or maybe 4 1/2) star motherboard to me because despite the two little complaints I have about the motherboard, it still functions very well, handling a Ryzen 7 3800X with my H100i cooler quite well while also looking great. The RGB lighting on the motherboard looks great. WiFi works very fast with the included drivers on a DVD. (Although, in 2024, I’d like to maybe see drivers located on a cool USB) I had more fan headers on the motherboard than I had fans, which was nice.
J.D. S · 2024-01-28 · via amazon
★★★★★Beautiful and Affordable Motherboard!
Love Love Love Asus Motherboards. I upgraded from a B450-F Gaming to the B550-F and the quality and ease of use are all still there. I switched because of the ARGB header that is included at the bottom of the board. It was super easy to put together, especially with the use of ChatGPT and it is a very forgiving board (throwing it around and sliding around the case). It is also such a good deal for this board, It makes sense its the Amazon Best Seller. Just be careful when you're swapping MOBO's and make sure to download it's BIOS onto a thumb-drive so you can update the bios via usb before you do your first boot. Also make sure you're downloading the right name from the support site as there are like 3 different versions of the b550-f like the just gaming and this one that says B550-F Gaming Wifi II. Otherwise beautiful motherboard, and so far its been running super smooth!
Brandon Vang · 2026-04-21 · via amazon
★★★★★great am4 motherboard
worth it over the cheaper alternatives, works great and looks great for bonus points!
mario · 2026-04-14 · via amazon
★★★★★Very well-rounded motherboard
This board replaced a dying X470 Asus Crosshair VII Hero motherboard. I would have liked to buy an X570 chipset board, but they are out of stock everywhere, overpriced, or used and as a personal rule a motherboard is the only part of a build I won't purchase used.
With a 5950x the board out of the box with PBO enabled ran TDC-156, EDC-190, PPT-230. The VRMs were warm but not out of spec or concerning so this board can handle any AM4 CPU you throw at it. It can't match the raw power output of my Hero VII board but unless you have the ultimate golden sample 5950x with a custom loop you should be able to get the clock speeds you want without burning up the VRMs assuming you have solid airflow in your case.
I run custom PBO settings that have been thoroughly tested on my old board, I put my old settings in the BIOS on this board and all benchmark scores were matched or slightly improved.
One big benefit with going to a B550 chipset from X470 is now I can run my memory at 3600MHz without any stability issues. My old board didn't like anything faster than 3200MHz. Also jumping to PCIe 4.0 for M.2 and GPU is great to have. I moved a 2TB Samsung 980Pro from my old board to this one and while the raw speed difference isn't noticeable the latency is.
I saw a lot of complaints about the onboard LAN controller and so far, I haven't had any connection drops or speed issues. I have multiple mapped network drives connected to my PC and move a large number of files back and forth daily and I haven't picked up any dropped packets while monitoring the connection. Asus and Intel just released a new driver in late September 2024 so maybe that resolved some of the issues, but I will update my review if any problems occur. The Wifi and Bluetooth seem fine with my light testing. I have the antenna on my desk in a large open room with a Unifi AP about 25ft and 1 wall away so signal is not an issue. I always use a hard-line connection over Wifi but it is nice to have anyway.
As of now my only complaint is the onboard audio, it is a step down from my Hero VII, while they share the same codec, but the Hero VII had an ESS ES9023P chip, and this board it seems does not. I'm in the process of replacing my old external DAC so that issue with resolve itself.
I got this board on sale and so far, am very happy with it. I will update my review if any issues pop up. For the price (on sale) it is very hard to beat.
Good luck with your builds!
