Question ASUS Motherboards

[Angel Fernandez]

Anyone that is familiar with GamersNexus knows that Stephen Burke calls out ASUS on their BS. Insane charges, downright grimy business practices and Technical support that would be laughable if it didn't cost us buyers money.
If you are thinking of buying an ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus wifi motherboard, get a CPU with integrated graphics. This board has NO BIOS Flashback. The original BIOS will generate a VGA error code on the board LED indicator, the same exact error happened with Two of these boards. Using a video card, I tried Two, with this board is only possible with the following workaround. Please be my guest and look up the horror stories users have posted online. Install your video card into the secondary PCIEX16_2 slot, Flash BIOS, Enter correct BIOS settings, Save, Unplug power and move video card back to the first PCIEX16 slot. Oh BTW, yes, this method was approved by ASUS, before I tried it. Momma didn't raise no fool.
Now onto the Tuf Gaming X870-Plus Wifi, because I'm a glutton for punishment.
My advice is DON'T! At least not yet.
This board has extremely limited upgradability if you want to maintain blazing speed with a NVME Gen 5 SSD drive. Download the user manual and see for yourself. As you populate anything more than NVME slot one you lose lanes, Bifurcation is the term. Here is the upgrade path available.
One NVME Gen 5 drive in NVME slot one.
One PCIEX16 slot for that killer video card you sold a kidney for.
One PCIe slot.
Two SATA 3 ports on board.
My board bricked after flashing. Replacement board arrived the same day a New BIOS and TWO firmware upgrades were released on the ASUS website, 12/27/2024. The Hilarious part is that the tech support agent told me to use the Bios Renamer utility on the EXE files, which is only made for use with cap files.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
I'll update with full specs once I can proceed.

 

[CountMike]

Anyone that is familiar with GamersNexus knows that Stephen Burke calls out ASUS on their BS. Insane charges, downright grimy business practices and Technical support that would be laughable if it didn't cost us buyers money.
If you are thinking of buying an ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus wifi motherboard, get a CPU with integrated graphics. This board has NO BIOS Flashback. The original BIOS will generate a VGA error code on the board LED indicator, the same exact error happened with Two of these boards. Using a video card, I tried Two, with this board is only possible with the following workaround. Please be my guest and look up the horror stories users have posted online. Install your video card into the secondary PCIEX16_2 slot, Flash BIOS, Enter correct BIOS settings, Save, Unplug power and move video card back to the first PCIEX16 slot. Oh BTW, yes, this method was approved by ASUS, before I tried it. Momma didn't raise no fool.
Now onto the Tuf Gaming X870-Plus Wifi, because I'm a glutton for punishment.
My advice is DON'T! At least not yet.
This board has extremely limited upgradability if you want to maintain blazing speed with a NVME Gen 5 SSD drive. Download the user manual and see for yourself. As you populate anything more than NVME slot one you lose lanes, Bifurcation is the term. Here is the upgrade path available.
One NVME Gen 5 drive in NVME slot one.
One PCIEX16 slot for that killer video card you sold a kidney for.
One PCIe slot.
Two SATA 3 ports on board.
My board bricked after flashing. Replacement board arrived the same day a New BIOS and TWO firmware upgrades were released on the ASUS website, 12/27/2024. The Hilarious part is that the tech support agent told me to use the Bios Renamer utility on the EXE files, which is only made for use with cap files.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
I'll update with full specs once I can proceed.

Asus generally dropped the ball with latest AM4 and specially AM5 boards. My Asus Prime x470 pro was wonderful with 5800x and 5800x3D, about 500 chipset series all I hear is complaints.
For AM5 i switched to present ASrock MB which even being a micro it has everything "Big sisters" have for half the price.