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

Name: ASRock B450M STEEL LEGEND: AM4 Socket, AMD Promontory B450, DDR4, CrossFireX Support, M.2, SATA3, USB3.1, A&GbE - MicroATX Motherboard
Item: ASRock B450M STEEL LEGEND: AM4 Socket, AMD Promontory B450, DDR4, CrossFireX Support, M.2, SATA3, USB3.1, A&GbE - MicroATX Motherboard
Rating: 5

July 04, 2023

The quality is at the highest level, be sure to try it.

I chose the motherboard for ating at the lowest prices, not the top, but there is overclocking and will last a long time. R5 3500x took 4.4GHz at 1244mV (maybe more than 4.5 at 1350, but not yet critical), A-Data XPG GAMMIX D20 [AX4U32022G16A-DCBK20] 16 GB RAM was able to run on the XMP profile at 3533 MHz instead stock 3200 without increasing timings and voltage over XMP.

Pros

A decent motherboard among inexpensive ones (the same asrok on b550 is already twice as expensive). Main advantages: - 6 power phases, stable voltage during overclocking; - good cooling of power circuits; - decent overclocking potential for simple motherboards (not top, but also inexpensive); - excellent price/quality ratio; - when you turn on FastBoot, the initialization of the bios user part is completely disabled, which speeds up the boot, but almost all manufacturers have it (there is a small drawback, see below)

Cons

- When you turn on FastBoot, you can get into the BIOS settings only with the help of a special utility from the manufacturer's website. - Someone may be annoyed by the backlight, but it is not visible from my system unit.