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Review on ASRock B450M STEEL LEGEND: AM4 Socket, AMD Promontory B450, DDR4, CrossFireX Support, M.2, SATA3, USB3.1, A&GbE - MicroATX Motherboard by Trish Edens

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Pretty good with a few caveats.

Edit: Bios settings are not saved properly, probably need updating. The UI does not display correctly on a 4k screen. Also, based on the power phase design, I'm assuming the step voltage for RAM is a pretty measly 0.05V spikes. I usually go higher with more phases, so I probably should have expected that in this case. . But without a doubt a disadvantage. Nice matte board with everything you need. Bought to plug in 2600x, works great with no issues. Supports 3200Mhz Ballistix Sport, haven't tried it but it works at XMP speed. There was an issue with the argb polychrome utility, but after uninstalling and reinstalling via the App Center it worked fine. Lots of fan headers along with 2rgb and arbg headers. A big plus on the math board. Many of the others I looked at only had 2 fan heads. The two m.2 drives are a big plus since I'm installing them in a case with limited space. A NOTICE. The bottom m.2 is sata only and the top one is nve only (almost sent the board back before it was detected). I won't be using any of the other important features of this board, so I won't try to talk to them. Otherwise it looks great, meets my requirements. I actually bought it from stock as there weren't any new ones available at the time. I was a little worried but didn't see anything wrong with it. I will say that the user interface is a bit cheesy, but other than that it's pretty hard for me to say anything negative. I'm happy with that, if you're looking for a decent B450 this is it.

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