ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming II Motherboard

Finding the best quality Asus ROG Strix motherboard is very difficult to find on market at a budget price. So, if you are looking for the best Asus ROG gaming motherboard at an affordable price, then you are landing on the right page.

In addition, The Asus ROG Strix B450-F gaming is classified as the mid-range motherboard and it is a part of the republic gamers lineup as well, which places an emphasis on gaming and related premium features. This motherboard support both Crossfire and SLI multi graphics configurations.

Asus ROG Strix B450-F Gaming II Motherboard

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As we all know that, Asus is a well-known motherboard manufacturing company that delivers compact, portable, lightweight, durable, reliable, portable, high-quality, top-quality, and build-quality motherboards at affordable prices for consumers.

This gaming motherboard from Asus is a mid-range motherboard. The amazi8ng thing about this Asus motherboard is that it is specifically designed for gaming and equipped with quality features. Although, this best gaming motherboard is made up of quality of materials that make it portable for use.

Moreover, this best class Asus ROG Strix B450-F Gaming II motherboard has an amazing performance as it is equipped with a maximum storage capacity of up to64GB with a fast memory speed.

Another amazing thing about this gaming motherboard is that it also comes with four memory slots and 6 USB ports as well. However, this motherboard supports AMD Ryzen 1^st generation, 2^nd generation, and 3^rd generation processors to maximize connectivity.

It also comes with 8+2 DrMOS power stages with high-quality alloy chokes and is also equipped with durable capacitors which provide reliable power for the last AMD high-count core processors.

In addition, this best gaming motherboard from Asus has an optimized thermal solution and an extended VRM heat6sink and PCH active heatsink. M.2 heatsink, multiple hybrid fan headers, and fan speed management with fan Xpert utility as well.

Overall, the best fact about this gaming motherboard is that it has the best gaming connectivity features, which is quite exceptional and incredible.

Additionally7, this gaming motherboard also has industry-leading gaming audio and AI noise-canceling mic technology and it also has built-in DTS sound, which provides you a next-level audio experience.

Furthermore, this best-in-class gaming motherboard comes with Asus AURA Sync RGB lighting with armory crate utility including 2 x RGB headers and a Generation 2 addressable RGB headers for greater customization.

Another amazing thing about this motherboard is that it also comes with a BIOS flashback and an Asus exclusive UEFI BIOS, 256MB BIOS flash ROM, and pre-mount input or output shroud.

Best features in Asus ROG Strix B450-F Gaming II Motherboard

Design and storage:

In addition to the advantages inherent in the B450 chipset, the Asus ROG Strix B450-F gaming motherboard has a substantially improved layout compared to its CPU or predecessor.

In the older motherboard, Asus placed one of the most PCI-E x 1 slots directly below the primary PCI-E x 16 slots, which rendered it effectively useless for anyone using a graphic card.

So, the company was not able to place the PCI-E x 1 slot above the B350-F graphics card slot as this space was filled by a long M.2 key slot.

Additionally, Asus also separated SATA 3.0 ports on the Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming motherboard which results in slightly less organized looking finished build as well.

This gaming motherboard improves on all of these fronts by relocating the M.2 key slot below the B450 heatsink. Although, a second M.2 key slot is included on this motherboard above the primary PCI-E x 16 slots, but as it is the more common  2280 size and it also does not fill the entire space.

Slot support

This best Asus ROG Strix B450-F gaming II motherboard has three PCI-E x 16 slots and three PCI-E x 1 slot as well. The topmost spot is fed with data from the processor’s PCI-E controller which will typically use PCI-E 3.0 x 16 slots.

Again, you can only use the M.2 key slot, if you must otherwise, your graphics card will lose half of its bandwidth. However, the second PCI-E x 16 slots are also fed via the CPU or processor and it is capable of a maximum PCI-E  3.0 x 8 slot connection.

If the M.2 key slot is in use, then you guessed it and this’ll further be reduced to a PCI-E 3.0 x 4 slots that will probably hamper performance to some degrees. So, the last PCI-E x 16 slots as well as all three PCI-E x 1 slot, get their data via the B450 chipset.

Additionally, the PCI-E x 16 slots share their data connection with two of the PCI-E x 1 slot and they will disable them if used. So, be sure to check the specs page and your manual, if you intend to fill most of these slots to make sure you configure your hardware optimally.

Audio subsystem

The Asus ROG Strix B450-F gaming II audio subsystem is essentially unchanged from the B350-F gaming motherboards. The audio circuitry consists of the Realtek ALC 1220 DAC with an SNR of 120db and a handful of Nichicon high-end audio capacitors respectively.

So, the DAC is covered by an EMI shield, and the audio components are segmented from the rest of the motherboard that reduces EMI. In addition, a pair of OP-AMPs help to boost the outgoing signal and improve audio performance on headphones and small speakers as well.

The amazing thing about this motherboard is that it also comes with an Asus Sonic Studio III software which has some extra features for audio reverberation that Windows own sound controller.

BIOS and Software

After entering the BIOS, you are greeted by an EZ mode menu that provides the basic specifications information and operating conditions of the system as well.

Although, this menu is sufficient for adjusting your boot order and getting the system up and running and you can do some automated overclocking using the EZ tuning Wizard.

If you are more experienced with overclocking and want to learn, then there is a more sophisticated AI tweaker menu under the advanced mode menu that’ll give you access to all the controls that you may need to push your processor to its limit.

This’s also where you can adjust your RAM settings to achieve its peak performance. Moreover, it also includes an Asus AURA Sync RGB software that can adjust the colors of the motherboards and it has built-in RGB lights as well as any additional lights connected to its two AURA RGB Strips headers.

So, the most useful utility included with the motherboard is Asus Game first IV which allows the user to pull the data from multiple network connections.

Although, the usefulness of this app will be limited by other networking factors, in the right or perfect scenario it can help improve performance downloading large files.