Asus PRO B460M-C/CSM mATX - motherboard

Pro
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.

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.

ASUS Control Center Express
ASUS Control Center Express is an integrated IT monitoring and management software designed to deploy faster, simplify IT operations and improve productivity with comprehensive control and user-friendly functions. ASUS Control Center Express is compatible with over 100 ASUS motherboards to provide a high-quality, TCO-optimized solution for your business needs.

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

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.

ASUS Shield
Enhances system security from bottom to top
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.

Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
Hardware-based security offers better data protection, enhances network security, protects digital identities and ensures platform integrity.

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

Certified NIST SP 800-147
ASUS business motherboard is certified by the national computer security standards.

ASUS Self-recovering BIOS
With ASUS Self-recovering BIOS
The user simply needs one step to 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

ASUS Reliant
Ensures consistent performance with the finest components and rigorous reliability testing

ASUS Trouble Shooting Solution
ASUS Debug header is a 10-1 pin low pin count (LPC) header for connecting to debug cards for faster, more efficient motherboard troubleshooting. When connected to an ASUS Debug Card, administrators can view error and debugging codes on the integrated LCD display, and get better idea of initialization and recovery processes. ASUS business motherboards provide a complete troubleshooting solution, making mass production faster and more cost effective.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ASUS Management Suite
Makes customization and management more efficient

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

Intel® Management Engine (Intel® ME) Driver
Update the Management Engine without flashing the whole BIOS

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

Fixed-position Connectors
Connector positions on ASUS business motherboards remain consistent across product generations, protecting training, ma