ASRock B450M Pro4 AM4 M-ATX D-Sub/HDMI/DVI DDR4 Retail - AMD Socket AM4 (Ryzen) - Micro/Mini/Flex-ATX Motherboard , black

Big fan of this feature-packed MATX board.Highlights for me:1. 2 NVMe drive slots along with 4 SATA ports (plenty of storage options)2. Compatibility with AMD Store MI, which allows you create your own SSD/standard drive hybrid storage solution. In short, you will be able to bring down the cost of high speed storage access by combining a small SSD with a large standard internal drive.3. Excellent overclocking bios. RAM and CPU overclocking easy to do, and VRM heatsinks are up to the task4. Future-proofed somewhat. You can flash the bios and enable the latest 3000 series Ryzen to run on this. Say you are on a 2600, you could move up to as high as a 3900X without a full motherboard transplant.5. Excellent sound chip with some high quality chokes6. Lots of USB: 2.00, 3.00 and the latest C supported.7. Nicely laid out board, and nice to look at.8. 4 RAM slotsAt this price-point it's hard to fault. I would say if you are bit more serious about overclocking, the ASROCK Mortar B450M board is better equipped, but that costs a good chunk more. For me this seems fine, although those VRM heatsinks feel like they are being worked hard when pushing component performance.Overall, a great option for a Ryzen 2000 chip. 100% satisfied.

I used this board on a budget build for my son's gaming pc and if was a pleasure to work with.it has pros an cons as amatx board's are always a compromise due to smaller size so less physical parts. Pros for me are small size .high surface area vrm heatsinks .good price . Cons were, I would have liked more fan controllers ( however I got around this by getting a 3x case fan deal with an external fan controller ) and no RGB on the board. It works fine out of the box and is now a reliable pcFinal specryZen 5 1600, 16 GB ram,gtx 1070, 120 GB SSD for Windows, 3tb HDD for games.

Great motherboard and does everything its meant to so no worries there, when I first got it I didn't know you had to put the ram in slots A2 and B2 if you have only two and it isn't very clear in the manual so I was getting blue screened restarts due to this, its only that I googled it I found out I didn't in fact have a broken motherboard and I even went as far as reinstalling windows 10 and thinking maybe my ram wasn't working due to it restarting.So if you buy this motherboard make sure you put the ram in these slots.

Good basic microATX board, looks well-built. No problems so far. Good user interface. Fan control poor though adequate. Only 4 SATA.

When I built my gaming rig, the only thing was getting the right Ram for this board. So I saw a video on YouTube about the only Fast sticks of Ram that fitted this board perfectly at that time were G.Skill 16 GB DDR4-3200 CL16 G.Skill RipJaws V Noir Series, these little wonders saved my life and it is my new build that I'm writing this review on and have had this build for a couple of months now. I cannot believe the power of this motherboard, easy to setup and if like me you have a really nice case to put it in? You'll be rockin' along. The AI shield can be cumbersome, but if you trim off the sticky outty metal bits you'll have no problem slotting in the motherboard.On my build I have Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, 16GB of G.Skill Rip-Jaws Ram, make sure you put the ram in the right slots, for two 8GB sticks they should go into slot 2 and slot 4. Also on my build is 650What Watt even semi modular Power Supply and for graphics a Nvidia 1050ti. The operating system is Peppermint OS 10 Linux, many people will be asking as to why? As Linux has not got very many games. On the contrary, we now have Steam Play which is also called Proton and the wonderful people at Valve who gave us all Steam, worked with the wonderful people at Code-Weavers, who gave us WINE which stands for Wine Is Not A Emulator. WINE enables us to run Microsoft stuff in Linux, with the help of some very clever programmers, we are able to play Windows games in Linux. I will never ever own a Windows machine ever again for gaming, simply because I get better performance here in Linux and I know that I won't have to start paying for using a Operating System, like Windows will be in the next year or two. Windows or Microsoft want you stream their OS for a weekly or monthly fee, Linux is yours to own and do whatever you want with, plus it's free.End of speech, glad I got that off my chest, back to the review. Inside the bios of this, set your ram up to read fastest speeds as Ryzen processors like the Ryzen 5 2600 like fast Ram, the faster the better. I also bought a Icy Dock to house four SSD drives, though this motherboard only has four Sata inputs, I have had to give up one Sata input for my DVD drive, which came out of a build that the motherboard itself had given up the ghost.Building your own desktop has never been so easy, this board I can highly recommend as I'm going to build another to use as a streaming PC, through a onboard capture card. Using the same motherboard, Case, Ram, Power Supply, below is the parts I highly recommend to go with this build.RAM https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B015FXXBW0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1ICY DOCK https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00V5JHOXQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1MODULAR HYBRID PSU https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06WVWXPVZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1CASE https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LW3YN1I/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1Choice of Ryzen Processors https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07B41WS48/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1Choice Of SSD Drives https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B073SBZ8YH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1Fans I recommend https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B078JW73WF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1These are all the things I have in my case and of course the choice is yours, you don't have to copy me, but I just wanted to give you an idea of the quality stuff there is here on Amazon.Unfortunately I don't do overclocking so no point in me recommending a water cooler, as never use them. This board is a pleasure to build with and the speed of this is just spectacular. Highly Recommend to new and advanced PC builders.

This is 100% worth it for Ryzen owners. It's affordable, has stuff like M.2 SSD slots, and supports basically all ryzen CPUS, even the new 5000 series (as long as you get the BIOS update). I would 100% recommend this. However, I don't know how long this will last. Since the Ryzen 5000 series requires a BIOS update to work on this, I have my doubts it will work with the next series of Ryzen CPUS. But, we will have to wait and see, and that wont be for a bit considering the Ryzen 5000 series only launched recently. This is a great motherboard and I have had no issues with it.

Had a friend show me how to build a PC as I was building one for my niece. He recommended this motherboard and I’m very happy. Everything attached correctly, I had no issues. Bios updated correctly. It was smooth for a first build. Very happy customer, will definitely use again.