ASUS Prime B350M-A B350 Motherboard review

ASUS Prime B350M-A B350 Motherboard review

ASUS Prime B350M-A B350 Motherboard review

welcome to this quick look at Asus prime beef 350 M - a motherhood the new horizon a m4 platform now if like me you are dead set on building a rising systems on day one and you probably came across the same issues the motherboards fly has been absolutely abysmal I did not have this issue scored on pre-order it was an MSI bearing but after being told by my

supplier that it was not actually going to be here until April at airless I decided to take a punt on this Asus board I've never really used any other Eastern product but from what I've read on previous boards the quality has generally been very good and it's fairly free charged so I had no hesitation and going for this and switching it from the MSI open up the box you can see a very familiar partridge in books it's got the motherboard itself in the Sunnyside bug and a little

compartment within the box which houses the two included SATA cables if we remove the motherboard on the cardboard coverin will then create with some additional extras with God there are you shielding bulk which is just the same as any other i/o shield to simply cut the end and you're good to go a small box containing the m-dot mm yes that's like the a m4 platform that supports MDOT to unusual paperwork on pointless driver installation three news it was

know in the interview by an import platform at the moment don't use the drivers that come on the CD that are changing it's such a rapid rate specialist BIOS or a motherboard that you want to be downloading the latest however you can and to try and update by USB stick don't use the CD at all the motherboard itself is called feature retrospective buggy ago this is a low up end of the be price range we've got a good power delivery system and I've got space for four six at

ddr4 often at the moment only speed to 2400 are combos for you can't overclock it slightly but there's no guarantee that or what the cost later on I'm using at the moment is rated up to three gigahertz I could only run it at 2.4 gigahertz moving on to the other features of the board we've got one PCI Express 3.0 slot and compare some other words I really like the mechanism at the

box for removing the GPU is really easy even with a massive GPU in there you have no problem it also comes with four USB 3.0 ports on two USB 3.1 if I integrate Iran and audio and you've also got video out or when AMD released the latest line of DP use at the bottom of the board we've got space for two front USB headers and also six SATA 6 a gigabit a second port as a

previously mentioned the results to support for m dot 2 cards the board also has something that I didn't realize when a boy and its occupant of LED illumination on it orange and not enable change along should be gone there is a nice feature find on such a loose board so there you have a really quick overview of this board or speeches are and I can honestly say that a new trouble building with the airs on the bigger side of the micro ATX boards even in mycourses EE our

case fits in perfectly and the rear is really beautiful components that are overlapping are hard to get with not a Titan seeker BIOS today but is really feature part I've actually really impressed by the BIOS on a surprising platform so science a lot folks have taken a look at this AC speed because the M - a motherboard if you're on the fence about buying one is absolutely spot-on a really high quality boards and I've got absolutely no regrets about buying it

personally I would have liked to have seen a couple more fan headers on the board itself but it's not really a deal-breaker like I said issues are still working tirelessly on bringing this BIOS up a date and things are only going to get better for this board as time goes on the functionalities but increase the compatibility is going to increase and if you're an early adopter like me things are still only go to get bail .

the Asus Prime a 350 m - K cheap or trash find out after this ,okay so this is the Aizu spring a 350 m - k this is a micro ATX form factor motherboard this is basically the entry board for a m4 processors and AP use this at the moment on Amazon's it is a

completely cheap budget M board but it doesn't have all the frills and things that you expect from these higher end boards such as addressable RGB RGB multiple fan headers all that kind of stuff this is a basic board for basic systems so if you're building maybe an office PC or a very low-end gaming PC or maybe a media center PC with pretty modest hardware this is gonna be

pretty much right up your street and also the money you save on your motherboard you can spend on other peripherals such as RAM storage or dico stuff or maybe even a slightly faster processor so let's take it out the box and see what works you get for the money so you get enjoy our DVD you get a user guide which because this is such a limited chipset there is literally

hardly anything in there that could be almost on a piece of a4 paper you get an i/o shield which is silver you get to Santa cables get the motherboard itself you got an MDOT to drive maintenance screw and bracket know it's pretty much it there's a wiring diagram and some other paperwork but nothing of any real interest so this is completely no frills no value-added stuff this literally is a motherboard a pretty low-end one at that but like I said this is the perfect

thing for low-end pcs you can save a ton of money this effectively is a third of the price of a high end or mid-range board so you can save that money and put it towards other things so in let's look at the board itself so the board itself pretty much a stock affair you've got actually quite a nice PCB in black with some white highlights so typical for the Asus Prine range very similar in fact to the X 370 boards have gotten the PC behind me and also my video medicine PC both of

which are Asus boards I find a Z was forced to be super stable very reliable and the BIOS updates are pretty much thick and fast these days certainly on to this board so let's start off with the i/o so IO is a pretty standard stock affair you've got keyboard and mouse ports which are the ps2 type which actually if you're a business user a ps2 keyboard and mouse is probably

the way to go young gory about USB drivers all that kind of stuff just plug it in forget about it it's done you've got a VGA output which will be handy if you're using some kind of APU on this you've also got an HDMI output so if you're maybe using this as a media center fantastic four outputs in via the HDMI port you've got four USB 3.1 gem one two USB 2.0 you've got a

Gigabit LAN which is the realtor eight one one one chip and next that you've got your real tech audio now there's only three ports on there but it will support eight point one audio or a channel audio or whatever it is but it will take into account the front I airports so coming from the IO or the advanced front panel connector down the bottom here not the nicest of solutions it would be better to have the six ports on the back or maybe even a optical output again if it's for

a media center but like I said this is a trim down no frills board so for most people a simple microphone port and a headphone port there could be more than adequate so what were the bottom let's look at the other connections we've got four IO so we've got the front panel audio connector next thing is a comport if you still want to use a comp or again if this is gonna be use an office pc cohn ports can actually be useful for older technologies such as hand scanners

printing devices all that kind of thing even digital signage moving on then you've got a pair of USB 2.0 ports a USB 3.0 port you've got your front panel connector for your hard drive LED power LED reset switch on your power switch also is a speaker connector next to the front panel connectors you've got four SATA connectors four SATA drives so that is SATA 3 six gigabit per second you've also got the option for a socket 3m2 so that supports the PCI Express

version three times for connection and will so support satyr type drives on the same slot there's a very small heatsink over the i/o bridge there and moving on round you've got your 24 pin power connector and only a pair of memory slots so ideally it would be nice to see four slots especially if Brown prices were dearer by the moment being that brown prices are so cheap

then populates in that with 32 gigs which is the maximum on this board with 216 gig slots is probably going to be wave or kill for this kind of board and setup anyway so realistically I would imagine most people are going to put two eight gigs in there to give you 16 gigs around which is more than adequate for office tasks or for having an absolute ton of Google Chrome tabs open so at the top we've got a CPU fan header there is another fan header which is this one here the sash a/c fan header in the kind of regular place but that is it for char C fan headers

that is it just the two so again this is a limited chipset and it's a limited board so if cooling is your thing really you probably shouldn't be looking at this board anyway but for move set up like I said office use for media center a couple of fans it's going to be absolutely fine moving right into the top we've got our V RMS now as you can see from the V RMS there is not a lot going on here so we've not got a lot of power phases but again this is a budget board you would

expect to see a budget CPU in here even though it will support a Verizon 720 700 X I would say that is a bad choice on this particular board realistically I would say this is going to max out on a rising 5 Roizen 7 1700 push but I think that would be the limit of what you want to put on this type of board in the top you've got the power connector and again to reflect the kind of pretty

unhealthy state of the V RMS you've only got a four pin supplementary power connector not the usual 8 pin that were used to and definitely not an 8 + 4 which is what we get on some of the newer boards so all in all a very basic set up but everything you need is actually there this will run a set up very nicely you don't have the advanced features such as overclocking because of

the limitations of the a350 chip but again if you're using this in the office environment or you just want to be a rock-solid 24/7 machine as a media server or something like that this is going to be a solid and dependable board but without all the fur so there we go there is the a to s Prime a 350 M - K motherboard micro ATX form factor I think it's a budget board this pretty much is the one to go for and in this end of the market there isn't a lot of other choice you can

go for a slightly cheaper makes such as the bio star but even things I generally do tend to come out a little bit more expensive at least with this board you've got the ages brand-name and you've got the reliability of a Zeus which makes this stand out above the others in my opinion now I will be putting links in the description below so you can see the latest BIOS updates and also the other details about this board both from amazon.com and also from Asus themselves so

let me know what do you think of this board I know it's a cheap board it's a budget board and this is definitely definitely not for everyone and it's probably gonna be one of those love it or loathe it types of things for me personally I'd love to do things it's cost-effectively as possible but without cutting corners as in reliability and all that kind of stuff so for me this is great

bugging I'd love to know what your comments are on this board please put them in the section below but there we go this is the Asus a350 Mk I've been white this is my unboxing reviews in how to and hopefully we'll see you in the very next review.

ASUS Prime B350M-A B350 Motherboard review

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ASUS PRIME B350M-A/CSM

ModelBrandASUSModelPrime B350M-A/CSM
Supported CPUCPU Socket TypeAM4CPU TypeAMD AM4 Socket Athlon II/for AMD Ryzen/7th Generation A-series/Athlon Processors
* Refer to www.asus.com for CPU support list
ChipsetsChipsetAMD B350
MemoryNumber of Memory Slots4×288pinMemory StandardAMD Ryzen Processors
4 x DIMM, Max. 64GB, DDR4 3200(O.C.)/ 2933(O.C.)/ 2666/ 2400/ 2133*
AMD 7th Generation A-series/ Athlon Processors
4 x DIMM, Max. 4GB, DDR4 2400/ 2133

* Due to the limitation of AMD Ryzen processors, memory frequencies higher than DDR4 2666 MHz are supported only when using one DIMM per channel.
** Refer to www.asus.com for the Memory QVL (Qualified Vendors Lists).
** Hyper DIMM support is subject to the physical characteristics of individual CPUs.Maximum Memory Supported64GBChannel SupportedDual Channel
Expansion SlotsPCI Express 3.0 x16Ryzen Processors
1 x PCI Express 3.0/2.0 x16 slot (max.@x16 mode)

7th Generation A-series/Athlon Processors
1 x PCI Express 3.0/2.0 x16 slot (max.@x8 mode)PCI Express x12 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots
Storage DevicesSATA 6Gb/sAMD B350 chipset: 4 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray
AMD Ryzen/ 7th Generation A-series/Athlon Processors: 2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), grayM.21 x M.2 Socket 3, with M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 storage devices support (SATA & PCIE 3.0 x4 mode)*

* The M.2 Socket shares bandwidth with the SATA6G_5/6 ports, therefore the SATA6G_5/6 ports cannot be used when a SATA/PCIE mode M.2 device is installed.SATA RAID0/1/10
Onboard VideoOnboard Video ChipsetIntegrated AMD Radeon R Series Graphics in the 7th Generation A-Series APU *
Multi-VGA output support: HDMI/DVI/RGB ports
- Supports HDMI 1.4b with max. resolution 4096 x 2160 @ 24 Hz / 2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz
- Supports DVI-D with max. resolution 1920 x 1200 @ 60 Hz
- Supports RGB with max. resolution 1920 x 1200 @ 60 Hz
Maximum shared memory of 2048MB

* AMD Ryzen Processor does not support.
Onboard AudioAudio ChipsetRealtek ALC887Audio Channels8 Channels
Onboard LANLAN ChipsetRealtek RTL8111HMax LAN Speed10/100/1000Mbps
Rear Panel PortsPS/21 x PS/2 keyboard (purple)
1 x PS/2 mouse port (green)Video Ports1 x DVI-D port
1 x D-Sub portHDMI1 x HDMIRJ451 x RJ45USB 3.12 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 (teal blue)
4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (blue)Audio Ports3 Ports
Internal I/O ConnectorsOnboard USB1 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 connector(s) support(s) additional 2 USB 3.1 Gen 1 port(s) (19-pin)
2 x USB 2.0 connector(s) support(s) additional 4 USB 2.0 port(s)Other Connectors1 x Fan RGB header
1 x COM port(s) connector(s)
1 x CPU Fan connector(s) (1 x 4-pin)
1 x Chassis Fan connector(s) (1 x 4-pin)
1 x S/PDIF out header(s)
1 x Front panel audio connector(s) (AAFP)
1 x System panel(s)
1 x Clear CMOS jumper(s)
Physical SpecForm FactorMicro ATXDimensions (W x L)9.6" x 9.5"Power Pin1 x 24-pin EATX Power connector(s)
1 x 8-pin ATX 12V Power connector(s)
FeaturesFeaturesSpecial Features:
ASUS 5X Protection III:
- ASUS SafeSlot Core: Fortified PCIe Slot prevents damage
- ASUS LANGuard: Protects against LAN surges, lightning strikes and static-electricity discharges!
- ASUS Overvoltage Protection: World-class circuit-protecting power design
- ASUS Stainless-Steel Back I/O: 3X corrosion-resistance for greater durability!
- ASUS DIGI+ VRM: 6 Phase digital power design
ASUS Exclusive Features:
- AI Suite 3
- Ai Charger
- Turbo LAN
- PC Cleaner
ASUS Quiet Thermal Solution:
- Stylish Fanless Design Heat-sink solution
- ASUS Fan Xpert
ASUS EZ DIY:
- ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3
- ASUS EZ Flash 3
- ASUS UEFI BIOS EZ Mode
- Multi-language BIOS
ASUS Q-Design:
- ASUS Q-Slot
- ASUS Q-DIMM

BIOS:
128MB Flash ROM, UEFI AMI BIOS, PnP, DMI3.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS 3.0, ACPI 6.1, Multi-language BIOS, ASUS EZ Flash 3, ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3, My Favorites, Last Modified log, F12 PrintScreen, ASUS DRAM SPD (Serial Presence Detect) memory information, F6 Qfan Control

Operating System:
Windows 10 64-bit
PackagingPackage ContentsAccessories:
User's manual
I/O Shield
2 x SATA 6Gb/s cable(s)
1 x M.2 Screw Package
1 x Supporting DVD