Review on ASRock B450M PRO4 AM4 AMD Promontory B450 Motherboard: Enhanced Performance with SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.1, HDMI, Micro ATX by Sheppard Priest

This is my first attempt at assembling a PC. The instructions were correct. All connections were in sensible places and clearly marked on the board and in the instructions. It was easy to install the APU and stock cooler (Ryzen 2200G and Wraith Stealth). Everything works as advertised. On first boot, all I had to do was enable XMP for my RAM to run at the maximum supported speed with this APU (2666MHz). I have two fans, one in the case (3-pin) in the back and one in the front (PVM). I turned on mute and it was really quiet and cool. After a few weeks I went in and adjusted the fan curves so that all my fans ran a little slower. This is an office PC so it doesn't have much load most of the time so I figured a little quieter wouldn't hurt. But the default silent mode was fine. The a-tuning software is pretty easy to use, as is the bios, so I'll stick with it. It's nice to be able to use a-Tuning to play around with the settings before going into the bios to "really" tweak things. It's a very simple system, so ymmv. I only have an m2 SSD on my mobo and no discrete graphics card. As I add things, I come back and edit if I run into problems or if everything is still going smoothly. But for now I would say that this is a good mobo for a beginner.