5 Things to Know About the ASUS ROG STRIX B650-A Motherboard
- It uses the AM5 socket (LGA 1718), AMD’s upgrade from the AM4 platform.
- It only supports Ryzen 7000 series processors with Zen 4 architecture.
- There is no backward compatibility with older AM4 chips.
- The trade-off for the new socket is support for DDR5 memory.
- It also supports PCIe 5.0 for faster storage and graphics.