And yet we can’t quite forgive the Asus TUF Gaming B550M-Plus Wi-Fi it’s mediocre stock clocked performance. In truth, we’ve yet to see the ideal B550 board.

TUF Gaming B550-Plus (Wi-Fi) features next-generation connectivity with a PCIe 4.0 M.2 slot with speeds of up to 64 Gbps, as well as USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A and USB Type-C® support.

The ASUS TUF Gaming B550M-Plus is a brilliant mid-tier motherboard with extended functionality. You get 2.5Gb LAN, Wi-Fi 6, PCIe 4.0, and the ability to overclock even a Ryzen 9 3900X processor.

The Asus TUF Gaming B550M-Plus (Wi-Fi) delivers a strong feature set for AMD Ryzen upgraders and builders that shows the dollar-saving strengths of the B550 chipset versus the X570.

That doesn't stop industry heavyweight Asus from plying the B550 with a few offerings including an interesting micro-ATX solution in the form of the TUF Gaming B550M-Plus WiFi.

With AMD recently announcing that 400-series chipsets would support 4th Gen Ryzen CPUs, the B550 chipset has no longer been seen as merely a more affordable way than X570 to get PCIe 4.0 support ...