ASUS Launches the TUF Gaming B850I WiFi Neo Mini-ITX AM5 Motherboard

ASUS’s TUF sub-brand is usually identified for a extra industrial aesthetic and decrease costs (and have set) in comparison with the ROG household. With right now’s value to construct a brand new PC skyrocketing, something even barely cheaper is welcome. ASUS has now launched the TUF Gaming B850I WiFi Neo Mini-ITX motherboard, primarily based on AMD’s AM5 platform.

With the B850 chipset and AM5 socket the brand new board helps Ryzen 7000, 8000 and 9000 sequence CPUs, which will likely be powered by an 8 + 2 + 1 VRM loadout on this occasion, with a capability for 80A of spicy pixies. As is common for the Mini-ITX kind issue, a pair of DIMM slots feed the CPU, with as much as 128GB of DDR5-8200 relying on the processor you put in. On the growth slot entrance, a PCIEx16 slot is current, working at Gen 5 speeds if a 8000 or 9000 sequence CPU is put in, or Gen 4 for one within the 8000 household.

A pair of SATA ports, in addition to a pair of M.2 slots kind the storage functionality of the board – however as per TechPowerup:

Price noting that ASUS labels each M.2 slots as PCIe 5.0, however the spec sheet tells a special story: the primary slot is CPU-attached PCIe 5.0 x4 on Ryzen 7000 and 9000, whereas the second is chipset-attached PCIe 4.0 x4 no matter CPU.

The rear IO is housed within the now anticipated built-in IO protect, and features a BIOS Flashback button and a Clear CMOS button for ease of use when overclocking… or in any other case messing with settings. On the USB entrance, we see a USB 20 Gbps Kind-C port, two USB 10 Gbps Kind-A, one USB 5 Gbps Kind-A, and two USB 2.0 ports.

For fundamental show outputs, a DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.1 port are included. On the networking aspect, we now have wired ethernet within the 2.5 GbE Realtek flavour, in addition to Wi-Fi 6E. Audio output is obtainable by the same old 3x 3.5mm jacks, powered by a Realtek 7.1 HD Codec with as much as 24-bit/192kHz playback.

On the within aspect of the board (heh), there are two ARGB Gen 2 headers, and the same old entrance panel USB headers and fan connectors together with an AIO pump header.

Pricing has not been introduced on the time of writing, however the increased tier ROG Strix B850-I sells for round US$470 within the USA, so we’d anticipate the TUF board to be barely cheaper than it.

Sources: ASUS, Videocardz, TechPowerup