Review on ASUS B450M PRO Motherboard Flashback Noise Canceling by Mohd Yusri ᠌

Name: ASUS B450M PRO Motherboard Flashback Noise Canceling
Item: ASUS B450M PRO Motherboard Flashback Noise Canceling
Rating: 5

October 21, 2022

I definitely recommend buying, I didn't notice any disadvantages.

In general, I decided to assemble a computer, although before that I had been using laptops exclusively for 20 years and now I mainly use them. Apparently, due to quarantines and self-isolations, it was necessary to occupy my head and hands with something, so I decided to play around with docking iron. I bought this board, decided to assemble it initially on the RX Vega plug-in, and then, if desired, upgrade.

At the start I took:
- Thermaltake S100 case;
- PSU Thermaltake ToughpowerGrand RGB 650 Gold;
- this motherboard;
- AMD Ryzen 5 3350g processor (I wanted 3400g, but it disappeared almost everywhere);
- Memory Kingston HyperX Fury RGB DDR4-3200 2*8GB;
- SSD Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB NVMe M.2;
- cooling Cooler Master ML240L V2 RGB.

Everything immediately worked with a bang and very stable.

What did you encounter:
1. Memory first started at 2400MHz. Dancing with a tambourine in the BIOS did not help, the system stopped at startup. The casket just opened - the memory must always be put in slots A2B2 (I did not know this before). I saw this info on overclockers, and then it turned out that it was written in black and white in the instructions for the motherboard. I rearranged the bars, set the XMP profile in the BIOS, it worked at 3200. I didn’t try to drive it, there is an assumption that I won’t be able to overclock this one (HyperX Fury) at all.

2. The Cooler Master liquid cooling system comes with a Y-splitter (1-to-3) to connect the 4 pin 12V RGB lights of two fans and a pump to one header on the motherboard. So, when connected through this wire, the whole garland starts to blink and squeak synchronously. This wire is not friendly with the board in any combination, I had to organize the backlight by other means.
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Pros

A good board - made with high quality, 8 + 2 power phases, good VRM heatsinks, many modern interfaces, at the same time, VGA and DVI connectors are a thing of the past. Officially supports all ryzens of all generations for socket AM4 - from Ryzen 3 1200 to Ryzen 9 5950X. 4 connectors for fans-coolers-pumps.

Cons

So far, I haven’t found any significant ones, but there are nuances with connecting fans: I bought two Scythe Kaze Flex 140 Square RGB 300-1200 PWM fans on the top of the case - and so, about simultaneously connecting them to CHA_FAN1 or CHA_FAN2 via a Y-cable, they are incorrectly detected and work. If you connect only one fan, then through FanExpert the frequency parameters are correctly determined, I connect the second one, constant overclocking and operation at the wrong speed begin, while it is impossible to set normal settings manually. By the way, three Thermaltake Riing 120 fans are now connected to the CPU_FAN connector, they are detected and configured without problems. Why this happens to the vaunted Scythe - no idea. Perhaps there is not enough current, so I ordered a cable to take power from the PSU through MOLEX, and control the PWM speed from the board and, if it doesn’t start anyway, I’ll replace the fan with one 200-ku. So far, only one of the two Scythe fans is connected.