Has done the job since 2019 but the LEDs on the backside are very fragile, one has fallen off already and another came dead out of the box.

Pretty solid little motherboard with all the bells and whistles you'd need. Unfortunately, mine came with some damage on the back out of the box. Asus pinned it on me and charged over a $100 for the repair. Docking stars for the unacceptable customer service.

As great a value for this B-450 board is there are some issues. The board randomly stopped recognizing the top two sata ports therefore forcing me to use the two crammed in between the gpu and the ram. Might be some pathing issues. I would have gone with an M.2, but One of the reasons I bought this case was to mount an ssd on the side of the shroud. Also, there is no cmos reset button on this board although the pins are conveniently places on the edge of the board. Lastly, there is only one usb 2.0 header. Luckly, since I had the commander pro, I had two added usb 2.0 headers. Overall, the board is good quality and is aesthetically pleasing. This board has one cpu fan header and two system fan headers which is nice if your not going the Corsair route like me.

• The local price is a little high (30% premium)
• Not a fan of the Realtek wi-fi card.
• Also, this motherboard seems to run my Ryzen 5 CPU hot. I'll update this review if I find out its not the case. But at the moment, undervolting the CPU by 200mV, makes my CPU idle temp from 74c to 55c.

Man this was going to be an easy 5 star. The board is high quality (from what I can tell) and is really pretty. I wasn't aware that the board had led lights, which is a nice touch with the finished build. What makes this a 3 star was the M.2 heat sink. My build only had 1 M.2 drive for storage. When I went to install the drive into the top slot, that was when the issue happened. Of the 3 screws that are used to hold the heat sink in place and to hold the drive in place, 2 were near impossible to remove. I almost broke my motherboard trying to remove them. And the reason why I had to be to such depths to install the M.2 drive in the first slot, was that Windows would not recognize the drive when it was plugged into the second slot. So since I only had the 1 drive, I had to use the first slot. If the screws were easier to remove then it would be an easy 5 stars.