OPEN BOX - ASRock Pro RS AMD B650 AM5 Micro ATX DDR5 Motherboard

It has all I need to build my 1st AM5, DDR5 PC

Ok, let's start with the only real negative here, Asrock motherboard software stinks. So why haven't I taken any stars off? Simply because it's so easy to just control your fan speeds and RGB from within your BIOS, or in the case of the RGB using Windows Dynamic Lighting (on Windows 11, which given this is a Wifi 6e motherboard, you are going to be using, as older versions of Windows don't support WIFI 6..). Now that's out of the way.. This motherboard packs everything you expect from a larger, full ATX, motherboard, into an mATX motherboard. The back panel IO is comparable to other brands full ATX (not so much Asrock ones though, eg. the PG Lightning has amazing back panel IO for a B650 board). 4 DIMM slots for your ram (no paltry 2 slots here). 2 full size PCIe slots (no little x1 slots here, you get 1 PCIe 4x16 and 1 PCIe 3x16). 1 PCIe 5x4 M.2, 1 PCIe 4x4 M.2 and 1 PCIe 4x2 M.2. No shortage of headers on the board either, with a USB C, 3 5v 3 pin ARGB etc etc.. WIFI is taken care of using an M.2 card that slots into it's own M,2 E key slot, giving an upgrade path for future WIFI standards too. As to aesthetics, this board has a bit of RGB wrapping around the top right corner, by the DIMM slots, and a colour scheme that I would describe as neutral, a combination of black and a nice silver/light grey (looks white on photos), which would look at home in either black or a white case IMHO (although I used it in a mint green case here). Honestly, apart from the usual complaint of ASROCK software been so meh, there's nothing to complain about here. It's a really good, solid, AM5 motherboard. I used it in a system built for my wife, with a Ryzen 7 7700x, and it runs great. The only down side, she made me turn all of the RGB off as she hates it. ;)

The media could not be loaded. Great motherboard. Paid $20 USD more than going price. Shipping however was great, arrived 7 days earlier than advertised.

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Une très bonne carte mère en socket AM5. La connectique aussi bien externe (Port USB, WiFi,...) que interne (Port RGB, Connecteur M.2...) est complète et globalement bien positionnée. On regrettera peut-être l'absence de dissipateurs thermiques sur 2 des 3 port M2, la position d'un des 3 connecteur RGB à l'opposé des connecteurs PWM pour les ventilateurs ou le cache de la connectique du panneau arrière qui ne masque pas complètement les câbles des connecteur SMA du WiFi. Sinon le reste est parfait. Le bios est simple, mais complet. L'ensemble des port M2 sont utilisables aussi bien avec un ventirad (Noctua NH-U12A) et une carte graphique 3 slots (7900 XTX). Attention tout de même à l'épaisseur du dissipateur du SSD si vous voulez utiliser le deuxième port situé sous le connecteur PCI Express.