Motherboard
ASRock B650M PG Riptide WiFi
Budget-plus mATX AM5 motherboard with WiFi 6E, dual M.2 (one PCIe 5.0), and a stronger 12+2+1 VRM than the bare-bones boards.
Specifications
| Brand | ASRock |
| Chipset | B650 |
| Form Factor | mATX |
| Launch Year | 2023 |
| M2 Slots | 2 |
| Max RAM Gb | 128 |
| Model | B650M PG Riptide WiFi |
| RAM Slots | 4 |
| RAM Type | DDR5 |
| Socket | AM5 |
| Wifi | true |
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The ASRock B650M PG Riptide WiFi is the budget tier’s recommended AM5 board. For roughly $40 over the bare-bones boards it adds the things a budget builder actually misses later: onboard WiFi 6E + Bluetooth 5.2, four DDR5 slots (up to 128 GB) instead of two, and two M.2 slots (one PCIe 5.0) so you can add a second SSD without giving anything up. A 12+2+1 power phase and 2.5G LAN round it out. It sidesteps the RAM-compatibility and coil-whine complaints that dog the cheapest B650M boards.