ASRock B450M Steel Legend Socket AM4/ AMD 3rd Generation Ryzen B450/ DDR4/ Quad CrossFireX/ SATA3&USB3.1/ M.2/ A&GbE/MicroATX Motherboard

Bought this motherboard as a replacement for a old asus a320m-k and I am impressed at the quality and looks for the price. It's definitely worth it. The VRM have large heatsinks and has every essential placed sensibly. Can't say much about it but everything is as expected or better.

ASROCK Steel Legend. (Amazon) Ryzen 5 3500 (Other Vendor) RAM 16gb 3000Mhz (Amazon) Inno3d Geforce GTX 1060 6gb (Amazon) Cooler Master 600V Power Supply(Must for the GPU and all RGB Fans) *Inform seller to update BIOS and also specify your processor model. Using Amazon Chat Support. The packaging was excellent, delivery guy opened and checked the package before handing over. He maintained distance. The Motherboard was as promised, beautiful and the RGB looks superb. I was worried as this is my assembled Desktop after 12 years, last one was AMD phenom, and could not understand why the display didn't show bios boot up. I did notice the keyboard and mouse light up so there was nothing wrong with the motherboards. Turns out for My model of processor you need a graphics card for display, and voila.. once the graphics card was installed i saw the beautiful ASROCK logo boot up on the screen. Windows installation took ten minutes. I was playing games in an hour. Note : Make sure to get a good UPS for the CPU.

Product received on time. I'm no "The greatest technician that's ever lived" but the Installation was easy. Board quality is also good. mATX with 4 RAM slots for Dual Channel. Setting up boot device was a hassle as you have to manually set which drive has to be used to boot windows from. And if you ever get BSOD, you'll have to repeat it again. Most important thing: The M.2_2 slot (located at the bottom) is SATA M.2 SSD slot. If you have PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD, it'll not work. It won't show up in BIOS as well as in Disk Management. You'll need to purchase SATA M.2 (the one with M+B key) for that. Or you'll need the PCIe NVMe Adaptor to use PCIe x16 or x4 slot. If you are going to use M.2_2 slot, do not connect any HDD or SSD into SATA3_3. Currently giving 4 star for it. It deserves 3.5 at least. Not giving 5 because things were not mentioned clearly about the bottom M.2 Slot. Took two days to figure that out. I had to buy a separate SATA M.2 SSD and a PCIe x16 to M.2 Adaptor later.

I’ve been using this ASRock B450M motherboard for around 3 months, and my experience has been very positive so far. The board has been stable and reliable for daily use. I’m currently running two different RAM sticks, one 8GB and another 16GB from different brands and the motherboard handled this without any issues. After enabling XMP, both RAMs are running smoothly at 3000 MHz, which shows good memory compatibility and BIOS stability.

It is an amazing motherboard. Based on the previous reviews I was scared if it would support 3000 series ryzen processor out of the box or not. But all worked fine. May be that was for older models. But current motherboard support the 3000 series. RGB can be controlled using the asrock software.

For 10 days the motherboard worked great but not anymore today i bought another motherboard from my local shop and everything is working again.It stopped working after the return window was expired now i am stuck here with a broken motherboard now the seller is not replying to my mails and amazon is saying they can't help me in this matter I have learnt my lesson never buy electronics from online stores instead buy it from the local store. Only 12 days replacement policy on electronic product really what am i buying a clothing product there should be at least 30 days replacement policy on electronic products did not expect this from amazon.

1. Beauty of rgb is of next level. 2. Comes with updated Bios, means Ryzen 5000 series is directly supported. 3. Beast Performance. 4. No overheating. Overall it does its work well in this price segment.

Asrock provides the best value for money motherboard. I have used their B350 boards earlier and now B450. I used a 3rd gen Ryzen with it earlier which was supported out of the box when I bought it. Then upgraded to Ryzen 7 5800X in December 2020 and Asrock was one of the first boards partners to support Ryzen 5000 series in December 2020 1-2 months before other vender. With one simple 5 min BIOS update it was stable with Ryzen 5800x but you need to have Ryzen 3000 CPU for BIOS update process. Feature wise it has a good UEFI with good over clocking feature for RAM and CPU and decent RGB connectors if you are into that.