ASUS Launches Budget-Friendly “TUF Gaming B850I WIFI NEO” Mini-ITX AM5 Motherboard

ASUS has prepared a new Mini-ITX AM5 motherboard, the TUF Gaming B850I WIFI NEO, for budget-tier Ryzen PC builds.

ASUS's TUF Gaming B850I WIFI NEO Motherboard Is Catered Towards Budget Mini-ITX Ryzen Builders

Motherboard makers have been making some really impressive, cost-effective motherboards based on the AM5 socket for budget-tier Ryzen PC builders. We have seen and tested a lot of these designs over the past few months, and it looks like ASUS has a new product for SFF PC builders.

The company has just introduced its latest addition, the ASUS TUF Gaming B850I WIFI NEO, which is a Mini-ITX motherboard with solid specifications. The motherboard houses the AM5 socket with support across all AM5 Ryzen CPUs, including Ryzen 7000, Ryzen 8000G, Ryzen 9000, and the latest X3D options.

The motherboard offers an 8+2+1 (80A) VRM design with a 10-layer PCB design, and features a single 8-pin connector to boot up CPUs. The motherboard has a simple yet effective heatsink on top of the VRMs, and talking about the design in general, the motherboard goes for the TUF Gaming aesthetics with a Black and Gray color scheme.

There are two DDR5 DIMM slots that support up to 128 GB capacities and up to 9600 MT/s speeds with ASUS's AEMP technology. Other than that, you are getting a single PCIe Gen5 x16 slot for discrete GPUs, and two M.2 slots, with one rated at Gen5 x4 speeds and the other running on the chipset lanes at Gen4 x4 speeds. There are also two SATA III ports on board.

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Coming to the interesting features, the motherboard has solid IO with WIFI 6E capabilities, a 2.5GbE LAN port, a pre-mounted I/O shield, and dual USB Type-C ports, with one on the rear operating at 20 Gbps and one for the front IO operating at 10 Gbps speeds. There are a total of 12 USB ports that the board is offering to PC builders. The audio is powered by Realtek in a 7.1 channel configuration, & you also get a decent amount of internal IO connectors with the full list as below:

• Fan and Cooling Related
• 1 x 4-pin CPU Fan header
• 1 x 4-pin AIO Pump header
• 2 x 4-pin Chassis Fan headers
• Power Related
• 1 x 24-pin Main Power connector
• 1 x 8-pin +12V CPU Power connector
• Storage Related
• 2 x M.2 slots (Key M)
• 2 x SATA 6Gb/s ports
• USB
• 1 x USB 10Gbps connector (supports USB Type-C )
• 1 x USB 5Gbps header supports 2 additional USB 5Gbps ports
• 1 x USB 2.0 header supports 2 additional USB 2.0 ports
• Miscellaneous
• 2 x Addressable RGB Gen 2 headers
• 1 x Chassis Intrusion header
• 1 x Front Panel Audio header (F_AUDIO)
• 1 x 10-1 pin Front Panel System header
• 1 x RTC Battery header

Meanwhile, ASUS's own special features for the TUF Gaming B850I WIFI NEO motherboard include:

• ASUS TUF PROTECTION
• DIGI+ VRM (- Digital power design with DrMOS)
• ESD Guards
• TUF LANGuard
• Overvoltage protection
• SafeSlot
• Stainless-steel back I/O
• ASUS Q-Design
• Q-Antenna
• Q-Dashboard
• Q-DIMM
• Q-LED (CPU [red], DRAM [yellow], VGA [white], Boot Device [yellow green])
• Q-Slot
• ASUS Thermal Solution
• M.2 heatsink
• VRM heatsink design
• ASUS EZ DIY
• BIOS FlashBack button
• BIOS FlashBack LED
• ProCool
• Clear CMOS button
• Pre-mounted I/O shield
• SafeDIMM
• Aura Sync
• Addressable RGB Gen 2 headers

While the pricing of the ASUS TUF Gaming B850I WIFI NEO motherboard isn't confirmed yet, we expect it to be in the $200-$300 US range, which will be very good for budget SFF PC builders.

News Source: @harukaze5719

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