Name: Pro B650M-CT-CSM
Brand: ASUS
SKU: 22579

AMD B650 Micro-ATX business motherboard with enhanced security, reliability, manageability and serviceability

AMD AM5 socket: Ready for AMD Ryzen™ 7000 Series Desktop processors
ASUS CSM program: A stable motherboard supply, end-of-life notifications, and IT software for business motherboards
ASUS Control Center Express: Integrated IT monitoring and management software that simplifies enterprise-level system administration
Enhanced system security: ASUS Boot Defender with NIST SP800-193 compliance, a self-recovering BIOS, and TPM to safeguard PCs
Consistent and reliable performance: High-quality components and rigorous testing to help ensure durability in harsh environments
Efficient management and customization: An event log and commercial BIOS kit to enable easy maintenance
Better serviceability: Q-LED Core diagnostic display and COM debug header to facilitate building and support processes
Ultrafast connectivity: M.2 PCIe 5.0, DDR5, USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports and front USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C^®

COMPARISON

ASUS Pro business motherboards provide enhanced features to smooth your IT operations, including comprehensive system protection, 24/7 stability and reliability and an improved management suite for easier customization. Known as the world's biggest and best-known motherboard brand, ASUS provides world-class after-sales service and guaranteed long-term availability to maximize your investment over the product life cycle and offers a high-quality, TCO-optimized solution for your business computing-needs.

HDMI™
2 x DP
USB 2.0
USB 3.2 Gen 2
USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C^®
USB 2.0
USB 3.2 Gen 1
TPM IC onboard
PCIe 4.0 x16 slot
M.2 slot (Key E) (support PCIe)
Mono-out header
PCIe 4.0 x16 slot (@x4)
COM Debug header
LPT header
COM header
DDR5 support
AM5 Socket for AMD
Ryzen™ 7000 Series
Desktop Processors
USB 3.2 Gen 1 header
USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C^®
M.2 2280
(PCIe 5.0 x4 mode)
AMD B650 Chipset
M.2 2280
(PCIe 4.0 x4 mode)
4 x SATA 6Gb/s ports
4 x Front USB 2.0

ASUS Corporate Stable Model

ASUS Corporate Stable Model (CSM) is a commercial program designed to provide stable and reliable motherboards. Offering up to 36-month product lifecycle support and 6-month end-of-life notice to allow sufficient lead times for your organization to get ready for product transitions. Each purchase of an ASUS CSM motherboard comes with ASUS Control Center Express - server-grade IT management software.

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ASUS Control Center Express

ASUS Control Center Express is a real-time IT monitoring and management tool designed for business that improves productivity and enhances security, helping prevent unauthorized access and data leaks. The intuitive dashboard enables easy, real-time hardware and software management across your organization. Purchase of a Pro motherboard entitles you to a copy of Control Center Express – a US$60

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Optimize IT endpoint management
Designed to assist IT staff in monitoring and controlling devices within their corporate networks, and facilitate inventory checking in multiple locations remotely
Automate IT maintenance
Allows IT staff to schedule automatic updates of the latest BIOS, software and utilities to specific or all devices at off-peak times, enhancing system stability and IT operational flexibility
Securely manage all of endpoints
Securely manage endpoint configuration, portable storage access and PC software applications by enabling them to create grouping rules on individual devices

* ASUS Control Center Express is only available for CSM motherboards. Please consult your local sales representative for more information.

Internationally Certified Business Motherboard

ASUS Business motherboards are enterprise proven with leading quality that exceeds industry standards. Certified by multiple international safety and environmental organizations, ASUS Business motherboards provide a safe, secure and sustainable solution, making them the ideal choice for your business.

International safety and environmental certifications

ASUS Shield

Enhances system security from bottom to top
ASUS Reliant

Ensures consistent performance with the finest components and rigorous reliability testing
Management Suite

Makes customization and management more efficient
ASUS Serviceability

Facilitate the assembly process and enable efficient troubleshooting

DDR5 Support

This business motherboard is a DDR5-compatible motherboard that optimizes memory module speeds and stability, while providing an advanced voltage delivery architecture for greater energy efficiency.

PCIe 5.0 M.2 Support

This business motherboard offers a total of two M.2 slots, the first one supports data-transfer speeds of up to 128Gbps via PCIe 5.0, enabling quicker boot-up and app load times with OS or application drives.

ASUS Shield

Enhances system security from bottom to top

ASUS Boot Defender

ASUS Boot Defender on ASUS Business motherboards is designed to automatically protect, detect and recover the boot environment against any intrusions and attacks.
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ASUS Self-recovering BIOS

ASUS-exclusive BIOS protection technology automatically recovers the system BIOS with a verified backup in the event of an update failure, preventing the need to replace or reinstall hardware.
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Trusted Platform Module(TPM)

Hardware-based security offers better data protection, enhances network security, protects digital identities and ensures platform integrity.

NIST SP 800-193 Compliant

ASUS Business motherboard with ASUS Boot Defender adheres to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Platform Firmware Resiliency guidelines to protect against potentially destructive attacks.
Certified NIST SP 800-147

ASUS Business motherboard is certified by the national computer security standards.
ASUS Secure Boot

ASUS business motherboard is set to check the firmware and signature of each piece of boot software.

ASUS Boot Defender

ASUS Boot Defender ensures your PC is secure even before you boot up the OS and offers additional protection beyond the OS environment. On start-up, it verifies the BIOS code to detect attacks or corrupted firmware. It’s designed to automatically protect and repair the compromised BIOS code to safeguard PCs from intrusions and attacks.

Protection
Provide advanced BIOS protection and resiliency through ASUS Defender controller
Detection
Identifies corrupted or tampered BIOS codes at start up
Recovery
Automatically repairs corrupted BIOS with a backup copy of the ASUS BIOS

The ASUS Defender controller uses hardware-based Root-of-Trust (ROT) with immutable and non-bypassable boot firmware to form a chain of trust (COT) with integrity for a secure computing system.

* The system with ASUS Boot Defender will be automatically shut down after BIOS update via ASUS EZ Flash. Please press the power button to turn it on.

ASUS Self-recovering BIOS

With ASUS Self-recovering BIOS

The user simply needs to reboot the system and ASUS Self-recovering BIOS will restore the latest BIOS update.

Ensures safe BIOS updates
Reduces maintenance frequency and costs
Requires no extra software
Provides automatic update failure detection and recovery

Standard process for BIOS update crash recovery

The user must go through the following steps to reinstall the BIOS update:

ASUS Reliant

Ensures consistent performance with the finest components and rigorous reliability testing

24/7 Reliability test

Anti-moisture Coating

Protection against moisture and corrosion

An innovative moisture-resistant coating protects the motherboard in humid environments, such as factories, libraries, data centers and internet cafes. It also minimizes internal corrosion by preventing adhesion and migration of moisture, prolonging the life of the motherboard.

Anti-sulfur Resistors

Consider long-term reliability of commercial product, ASUS Business motherboard is equipped with anti-sulfur resistors. The resistors provide excellent resistance to sulfuration by constructed in a high grade ceramic body (aluminum oxide). With anti-sulfur resistors, ASUS Business motherboard can be operated under the harsh environments.

Stainless-Steel Back I/O

3X corrosion-resistance for greater durability

Corrosion-resistant stainless steel back I/O panels bonded with chromium oxide have a lifespan that's three times longer than ordinary panels.

Overvoltage Protection

World-class circuit-protecting power design

An exclusive circuit design with built-in voltage regulators to protect your chipset, connectivity ports, and audio codecs from damage caused by unexpected high-level voltages from unstable or inferior power supplies.

* Specifications and features vary by model, and all images are illustrative. Please refer to specification and gallery pages for full details.

ESD Guards

Electrostatic discharge protection

ASUS ESD Guards prevent damage from electrostatic discharge, up to +/- 10kV for air discharge and +/-15kV for contact discharge, arranged in an active-protective-circuit design that prolongs the life of components.

* Specifications and features vary by model, and all images are illustrative. Please refer to specification and gallery pages for full details.

LANGuard

Pumped-up throughput. 2.5X higher surge tolerance.

ASUS LANGuard is hardware-level networking protection that employs signal-coupling technology and premium anti-EMI surface-mounted capacitors ensuring a more reliable connection and better throughput, plus electrostatically guarded and surge-protected components for greater tolerance to static electricity and improved protection against surges.

24/7 Reliability Test

Optimized for twenty-four seven operations, the motherboard is tested under temperature up to 45°C and relative humidity up to 80% to ensure it can handle diverse temperature and humidity range of different location.

ASUS Management Suite

Make IT work more efficiency!

Event Log

A built-in event log enables easier troubleshooting by capturing useful system information

BIOS updates
Update status, latest version and update time
AC power loss
Abnormal power loss events
RTC reset
Time of real-time-clock (RTC) reset
Chassis intrusion
Record of when chassis is opened
Hardware changes
Modifications to CPU, memory or HDDs
Hardware status
USB over current, CPU over temperature, and CPU over voltage events

ASUS Commercial BIOS Kit

ASUS understands how important a customized product impacts users' mind share, experience the brand new Commercial BIOS Kit for partial BIOS update solution!

BIOS Value Edit Tool
Customize the BIOS options
BIOS Boot Logo Tool
Brand your builds with a customized boot logo
OEM Activation (OA) Tools
Add or remove the OEM Activation key
Desktop Management Interface (DMI)
Easily add customer information, such as company name, to the BIOS

* Please contact with local FAE for commercial BIOS kit.

Remote IT Management

The onboard SMBUS header connects to a DASH LAN card* for remote IT management. DASH is a desktop and mobile architecture system hardware that allows the motherboard to be managed via the network.

* ASUS DASH LAN card sold separately. For more information, please contact your local ASUS sales representative.
** Specifications and features vary by model, and all images are illustrative. Please refer to specification and gallery pages for full details.

ASUS Serviceability

Facilitate the assembly process and enable efficient troubleshooting

Q-LED Core

The Q-LED Core display produces light patterns by power LED during the Power-On Self-Test (POST) that can help users troubleshoot potential issues.

No CPU Detected

Fast blinking

4 Hz (0.25s)

No VGA Detected

Slow blinking

1/2 Hz (2s)

No Boot Device Detected

Very slow blinking

1/8 Hz (8s)

Installation Completed

Solid light

ASUS COM Debug Header

This 6-1 pin COM debug header allows for faster and more efficient motherboard troubleshooting. IT administrators can view error and debugging codes to get a better idea of initialization and recovery processes when connecting to a debug card*.

*Third-party debug card sold separately.
** Specifications and features vary by model, and all images are illustrative. Please refer to specification and gallery pages for full details.

Box Headers

All USB headers are box style, enabling fast connector installation and preventing pin damage.

* Specifications and features vary by model, and all images are illustrative. Please refer to specification and gallery pages for full details.

Fixed-position Connectors

Connector positions on ASUS Business motherboards remain consistent across product generations, protecting training, manufacturing and investments in supporting hardware.