To be clear, the mobo is perfect for what I needed and technically works perfectly fine. However, any amount of research will show you that loading times on the AM5 platform seems to be an issue currently. The delay in a bios to rectify this by ASUS is the reason for the 4* review.

Runs perfectly well with my Ryzen 5 7600x and rog strix loki 750w. Fantastic service as always. Need to change GPU next

Good for a small form factor build. Plenty of I/O

I have paired this motherboard with a 7600X and I love its performance and features so far. The motherboard layout is good with everything on the sides, its got a separate chassis fan, cpu fan and aio pump headers. The ssd heatsink is not too high and so i was able to build it with a noctua l12s without it touching the cooler. The audio jacks have little colured leds in them so its easier to plug stuff into, no more using a flashlight to see the colour of the jacks! This is my first board with bluetooth and wifi and these work really well, the wifi connection speed is excellent at 800+ mbps. The bluetooth also works nicely. The BIOS is easy to use and detected my keyboard and mouse even though its connected via a usb hub via a usb switch and I did not expect it to work, but it did. The only thing I found confusing in the Bios is that there is an easy and advanced CPU tuning option and I am not sure how they differ. But when you do tune it, it does seem to work, I have a limitation due to my cooler, but I can get my CPU upto 5.4ghz and when stressed out, it comes down to 4.8 ghz at 95 degrees. My only complaint is that the system takes 2-3 seconds to power up and start booting. But since this is my first board in a while, I dont know if this is normal behavior. I am hoping the board is durable and lasts long.

Good product and have no issues so far. If you install your first Windows 11 then you need to somehow install LAN and WIFI drivers to allow for Windows 11 to get installed (a bit frustrating but worth googling to resolve it). I've underclocked my ITX build which means temperatures and power went down, but still getting the same performance. I was looking at Asrock and MSI ITX motherboards but picked Asus as slightly cheaper than Asrock and probably a brand sentiment plat apart.

Very pricy but has all the features you could ask for on an itx platform. I do get very slight coil whine by the chipset area, that's only noticeable when there's no background noise.