Review on 🔧 MSI B450M PRO-VDH Max Micro-ATX Motherboard - AMD Ryzen 2nd and 3rd Gen AM4, M.2, USB 3.0, DDR4, D-Sub, DVI, HDMI by Michael Boyce

At first I didn't know which board is compatible with Ryzen 3rd generation, buy. After reading the specs, I found out that it was. The following is NOT on this board: - no RAID - multiple slots for PCIe x16 graphics cards (i.e. no Crossfire with multiple cards) The following is on it: - BIOS updated for Ryzen 3rd Gen (note you want to update to something newer: mine came with BIOS from August, I updated it to October) - 4 SATA ports - 1 PCIe x16 slot - 1 M.2 slot - 4 DDR4 slots (3866MHz max) up to 64 Giga memory - Onboard- Video with VGA, DVI and HDMI ports on the back of the USB My operating system is Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The onboard video didn't work at first, so I tried the GeForce GT 1030 and it worked great. I haven't tried the onboard video again. I had to make some updates to Ubuntu to fix some weird crashes (see the howtogeek article on installing kernel version 5 and the linuxconfig article on getting the latest nvidia drivers). After I updated my BIOS and set the memory to 3200MHz (it mistakenly recognized 2400MHz), the multi-core Geekbench showed a 10% higher than normal score for my processor (without overclocking), so MSI is doing something right . The BIOS menu is graphical and easy to navigate. Here are the rest of the components I used to build my system: Ryzen 5 3600 Timetec 2x16GB DDR4 3200MHz GIGABYTE GeForce GT 1030 Thermaltake Smart 430W 80+