The ASUS ROG STRIX B650-A jumps to AM5 and Zen 4

The ASUS ROG STRIX B650-A sits on the AM5 socket (LGA 1718), AMD’s leap from the long-running AM4 platform. It only supports Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors with Zen 4 architecture — no backward compatibility with older AM4 chips, but that’s the trade-off for moving to DDR5 and PCIe 5.0.