ASUS Intros B850M AYW Gaming WiFi M-ATX Motherboard

[Nomad76]

ASUS has launched its B850M AYW GAMING WiFi motherboard worldwide giving users a small but mighty option for AMD Ryzen desktop systems. This board comes in a narrow microATX form factor measuring 24.4 cm x 22.1 cm. It sports a six-layer black PCB and silver-white heatsinks keeping a tidy look while sticking to the ASUS AYW series style. The board uses an 8+2+1 phase setup with discrete MOSFETs and has one 8-pin EPS CPU power plug. For a compact board, it offers plenty of storage choices. You'll find one PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot that can handle speeds up to 128 Gbps and another PCIe 4.0 M.2 slot with speeds up to 64 Gbps. To add extra cards, the motherboard provides one PCIe 5.0 x16 slot running at full speed plus one PCIe 4.0 x16 slot that works at x8/x4 speed.

The B850M AYW GAMING WiFi has two DIMM slots for DDR5 memory in a dual-channel setup with AEMP support (up to 8400+ MS/s OC). It comes with Wi-Fi 6 wireless networking, 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, various USB ports, including Type-C, and Realtek 7.1 channel audio CODEC. You'll find a pre-mounted shield on the rear I/O panel. This panel includes one HDMI 2.1 port, several USB ports at different speeds (10 Gbps, 5 Gbps, and 480 Mbps), one 2.5 GbE RJ45 network port, two Wi-Fi antenna connections, and three audio jacks. For those looking to customize, the board offers three Addressable RGB Gen 2 headers. Exact pricing is yet to be revealed.



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[sLowEnd]

Given how barebones this board is, hopefully it's priced like how the Asrock B650M-HDV/M.2 was priced.

 

[Chaitanya]

Hopefully its a sub $100 dollar board given how castrated IO is.

 

[Apocalypsee]

I like this board, it has all the necessities that a basic PC needs, only the bottom edge SATA ports is troublesome if you have GPU with huge 2.5 or 3+ slot cooler.

 

[PLAfiller]

Throw in USB-C on the back and optical for audio and I might think about it

 

[AleXXX666]

Throw in USB-C on the back and optical for audio and I might think about it

that's (c)Asus. They think of USB-C port like something "premium"..

Hopefully its a sub $100 dollar board given how castrated IO is.

lmfao not with Asus, ASRock is way better, Asus is just for it's, well, "good" BIOS lovers, though it's like Apple - one could survive without it lol.

I like this board, it has all the necessities that a basic PC needs, only the bottom edge SATA ports is troublesome if you have GPU with huge 2.5 or 3+ slot cooler.

I doubt this could be an issue - combo of this "gaming" board and (stupidly) "massive" GPU.
either no sata usage use case, or "normal" gpu with 1-2slot width.

 

[aQi]

AYW ?
Whats with the new naming Asus ? First Max now AYW ?