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Review on 🎮 ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/AX: High-Performance Motherboard for 3rd Gen AMD AM4 Ryzen and Future Ryzen Processors by Cool Martin

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Two dead MOBOS for motherboards

1st death in less than 6 months, RMA received. As a replacement, I did a rebuild around the new APU 5700G. The board I received last week on 8/1/2021 came with the original bios, luckily it had a different APU and updated bios and the board wouldn't boot after that. I've built a lot of PCs over the last 10 years so I'm pretty sure I did it right, but now the new APU and the OLD APU aren't working. I usually buy Asrock because I got a good price, but after that I ended up. Previous generations of other boards were fine and I really like the BIOS UI, but it's crazy how 'tricky' a BIOS update can be and end up with a dead board.

Pros
  • Useful not only for its intended purpose
Cons
  • Low maintainability