Novice builder - seems good to me!
by Joe
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As someone who hasn't looked at PC building for over 10 years I found it very easy to build with this board. I'd also heard about some AM5 issues but found it easy to flash the BIOs following the instructions in the manual. Some negatives I'd heard about were in regards to coil whine, but either I can't hear it or don't know what I'm listening for. Only reason for not 5 stars was I had to return my first board, as unfortunately there was a bent pin. Super easy to return/RMA though, and very happy with how Overclockers handled my quest.
Great so far - but one major concern
by Rob
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Considering the AM5 ITX options available and disregarding the standard ITX tax, this board is fantastic on paper. PCIE5 support for both GPU and M.2, lots of I/O, heatsinks all over the board, good audio and DDR5 up to 6400MHz. It's also black with no RGB which oddly seems to be a rare occurrence these days. It's certainly not the cheapest but it's definitely not the most expensive.
No coil whine or stability issues after 3 days of use.
In terms of compatibility, I only ran into one problem so far - it's not possible to add a second fan to the Noctua U9S, as the heatsink to the left blocks it.
My only major concern with this board is the AM5 melting issue and how ASUS are going to deal with it. I updated the BIOS to version 1413 and manually set the SoC voltage to 1.24v, which should hopefully mitigate the issue. However, this isn't the latest BIOS as the next two releases are betas. This issue is still on-going so will reserve proper judgement until it's over and done with. Also worth noting that other board manufacturers are also experiencing the same melting issue, but it's more common with ASUS boards apparently.
Coil whine and potential meltdown
by Andy
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The coil whine is an annoyance, what is more worrying is all the news coming out about CPUs and sockets being fried due to SoC voltages being too high. I'm not sure exactly what's going on and encourage you to do your own research. At the moment there is only a beta firmware update for the 7900 series chips and I would encourage you to read carefully what ASUS is saying about your warranty before flashing the UEFI (bios).
For the price I expected better.