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

After 8 years I'm finally upgrading from my AMD FX-8320/ASRock 990FX Professional Fatal1ty. Current Specs: AMD Ryzen 5 3600Team T-Force Delta DDR4 3200 RGBSabrent 512GB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2Generic Radeon 7450Corsair RMx White Series™ RM750x 750W 80PLUS® GolddarkFlash DLM21 White Love this motherboard. Out of the box, it supports the Ryzen 5 3600, which ships with BIOS 2.90. Setup was extremely easy with the generic Radeon. It has 2 M.2 slots, but the slot closest to the SATA slots uses a SATA 3 connector, so you're using either an m.2 or an SSD connector in a SATA 3 connector can, not both. Using this m.2 will not conflict with SATA ports 0, 1, 2 etc. SATA 3 only. I love RGB so this board made sense for my build. Not only do the southbridge and back cover feature addressable RGB lighting, but there are also addressable 5V (3-pin) and 12V (4-pin) RGB connectors. ASRocj's own PolyChrome RGB software can control anything plugged into the RGB headers and can control the RGB of a specific memory, in my case a T-Force Delta Ram. Also, Polychrome can manage RGB on graphics cards, keyboards, mice, headsets, etc. My only issue is that PolyChrome doesn't seem to be syncing the RGB of the RAM and motherboard. Aesthetically, the motherboard has a digital camouflage look with white color. gray and black, which are transferred to the back panel. This color scheme goes well with the white and black montage. Overall I am very happy with this motherboard. Definitely recommend. Updated 2/4/21. I've since upgraded to 32GB of RAM and first had a GTX 1080 and now an RTX 2070. I've also added an ID-Cooling Zoomflow 240x AIO, darkFlash DR12 pro argb 120mm fan and finally a set of white cable extensions. . The board is rock hard.