The 2023 Readers’ Choice Award for Best Motherboard Brand goes to…ASUS. Not only has the brand been a favourite of our readers year-on-year, but this year’s results have been their highest in the last decade, surpassing their previous high of 62% in 2020’s Awards.

TUF Gaming boards do not have any special “highlights” or “baubles” for overclocking, the backlight is minimal or not at all, in general the design is simpler, well, the series simply means: “play a lot, hard, you’ll have enough normal operation of the hardware, stability is guaranteed.”

Vendor of the Year 2022 - 1st Place

The TUF Gaming X670E Plus WiFi motherboard forms an optimal basis for the AM5 socket, is opulently equipped and can convince with a high build quality. 

With that model, ASUS invests a bit more in actual functionality, for example an extra M.2 slot and faster, but fewer USB ports.

We would like at least three fast M.2 slots with four lanes of bandwidth (one of which is PCIe 5.0), at least three USB ports at 10Gbit/s or faster, and an ALC1220 audio codec or better in this segment. Then only the ASUS TUF Gaming and the ASUS Prime remain.