B450M-HDV R4.0 AMD B450 AM4 Socket Ryzen 2000 - 5000 Processors DDR4 3200 64GB HDMI DVI-D D-Sub Motherboard SATA 6Gb/s Micro ATX M.2

Purchased to replace a blown motherboard for a friend on a Ryzen 1700 system. Pros: - Worked perfectly out of the box with no firmware updates needed - Full support for 1st gen Ryzen CPUs without any messing around - Had all the I/O needed for the build - Solid value for a reliable B450 board Cons: - None noted This was a great easy replacement that got the system back up and running quickly. Highly recommended if you need a drop-in board for older Ryzen CPUs. Would I recommend? Yes, 5 stars.

I had a prior build since early 2020, with an Antec PSU that shorted out recently and died with a bang, and in the process killed the motherboard (MSI). Fortunately, my M.2 NVMe Intel disc (with Windows 11 Pro) was intact, and I did not know then about the CPU (Ryzen 5 3400G Picasso) or RAM (16GB Crucial Ballistix 8GBx2). Typically, a PSU outputs first to the MOBO and CPU, and next to the RAM. Older memories were notoriously susceptible to current and used to die with the MOBO. Fortunately, things have gotten better. Antec was great in sending me a new replacement PSU under warranty. I needed a new replacement MOBO and wanted to stick with AM4 chipset without spending a lot. I found this board on Amazon at a great price, and the several positive reviews were encouraging. Throughout the years, I had always used MSI boards for my builds, except once (ASUS). This was my first experience with ASRock, and I am very pleased so far. The box I received states "AMD Ryzen Desktop 2000 Ready" and had an added sticker "AMD Ryzen 5000 Desktop Ready", and another "Windows 11 Ready". I imagine some (older) stock did not have the added (Ryzen 5000) sticker, which would explain some reviewers who had to update the Bios using an earlier generation CPU. When I received it, I did a minimal basic build outside the case, with the new PSU and tested my old CPU and RAM. It booted into BIOS and I was so relieved that the CPU and RAM were fine. I then put the Intel NVMe disc, placed the board in the case, hooked my old Plextor DVDRW, case fans and all the headers. Windows 11 Pro loaded up and all is good. The Bios/set up on this ASRock board is very easy to navigate and has a lot of 'AUTO' settings in the default parameters, and I only had to change few things. For the technically savvy, there are several settings you can adjust, but for most people, you will only need the boot menu, particularly for Win 11, and very few advanced configurations. I did not even use the included support CD. The box contains the MOBO, CD, Installation guide, 2 SATA cables, a small M.2 screw and the I/O shield. The guide and illustrations are very adequate. It has 2 DIMM slots (288 pin) and supports up to 64GB, 32GBx2, per ASRock. I bought new 32GB RAM (16GBx2) which was easily recognized. ASRock states for Picasso, the frequency is 2667/2933, but the new memory is 3200 and runs as such, with or without XMP. I am not a gamer and never overclock a CPU and don't use a discrete GPU anymore. It has on board USB2 (x2) and USB3 headers. The CPU connector is only 4 pin and if you have an 8-pin cable (4+4), you just split it. The MOBO is the standard 24 pin. There are 2 chassis fan connectors (4 pin and 3 pin), 4 SATA connectors, HD audio and a standard front panel system header. There is one M.2 and 2 PCI slots. The I/O shield is as shown (Single PS2, but supports Y-splitter, 2 USB2, 4 USB3, Gigabit LAN, rear audio, VGA, DVI and HDMI). It is a basic board (No WIFI, BT, M-Flash, USB C) and is very well priced. As such, I would recommend as a budget motherboard. Even though I am biased toward MSI boards (I guess force of habit), I will definitely keep this motherboard in mind. Thank you. I bought a second one to upgrade an older computer (Athlon A6 APU and FM2+ socket MOBO). It also had the Ryzen 5000 and Windows 11 ready stickers. Very satisfied, just like the first time. Recommend. Thank you.

I’ve had this for about 6 months and I originally bought it to hold me over until I get a better board but this thing is actually really nice, I enjoy it being so cheap and also being a good size that would possibly fit a smaller build. It’s easy to use as well and it has a very simple and comfortable bios menu. I suggest that anyone looking for a budget motherboard that won’t break the bank but also provides a reliable build should buy this. There are a few small things I wish it had like Bluetooth and WiFi but thankfully the router is in my room so I can just connect my Ethernet. Another thing is that there’s only 2 Slot for RAM but keep in mind that you can always buy more powerful ram at a decent price so it’s honestly not a big deal. The board is great on power consumption and it’s fast so like I said. If you want that budget build that’s still going to hand you some good speed then this board is a good buy

I noticed this motherboard was the cheapest on Amazon, so as per usual, people fling to that. And honestly it works most of the time. I will say however there are a very steep curve balls thrown with this board. 1. Out of the box it did not POST. And I do not know why, took several tries to get it booting, and when it did, it has a horrendous 15 second delay from pressing the power button to actually seeing the ASRock logo on the screen. Now i say "horrendous" but i only say this because most, if not..ALL motherboards tend to actually post relatively quickly, or do something. This motherboard legitimately sits there in the dark for a bit and then finally it'll boot. now this could be a defect with my unit as i've noticed that it has like a 1 in 3 chance to not boot from cold booting (which would be ram) but i can't tell to be honest. I've had 3 motherboards, and so far, this is by far the slowest one. Even my older asrocks from AM3 or FM2 didn't have this issue. 2. The UEFI BIOS on this board was outdated, and for some reason did not detect -any- M.2 SSDs, SATA or PCIe for me until the bios was updated. 3. This board has DDR4 3200Mhz support, however INTERESTINGLY enough it does not like 3200mhz ram, I hae Corsair 3200Mhz Samsung B die memory, that it did not like whatsoever however it did not mind Crucial Ballistix 2400Mhz memory, even with a hefty 600mhz OC to 3000 CL16. 4. Ryzen 3000 support is there out the box and my 3600 seems to work perfectly fine, in line with other benchmarks on the net, and XFR is available, though using that feature seems silly, and draws unnecessary amounts of extra power for little to no gain. Under normal use, HWinfo shows my 3600 consuming easily 65w like its supposed to be doing between gaming and doing light streaming. Video editing or stressing the chip brought power consumption to about 90w, which is still acceptable, especially with temps only hitting about 70c on the cores, 100c on the VRMs 5. This is a basic motherboard, it gets you from point A to point B. and does it as it should, the only bad thing i'd say is you have to do a little workaround to get any non windows OS systems to not lock up, and secondly the bios boot taking an absurdly long time is really the only issue i have. Other than that I'd buy several of these motherboards so long as i can have it reliable for booting successfully as it doesn't seem like that is the case, though it is better with newer BIOS revisions so theres that.

Want a motherboard that will support a wide variety of CPU's? Like the 2600 or the 3600 or even the Ryzen 5000 (5600 5800 ect.) series? Well then this is a great choice. THOUGH you will need a CPU of a previous generation to use the 5000 series. And yes you will need to preform the BIOS update. It will not provide great overclocking nor would I recommend it for such. Though doing so may cause it to spike the temperature greatly. We know this is just Precision Boost Overdrive. This the motherboard doesn't really handle it that well. I have seen spikes up to 4200 clock speed on this 3600 and the system gets glitchy or jagging does occur. Not all the time but in certain situations but there is no real worry here. SOMETIMES with Ryzen its spiking to max all core overdrive can cause this. Though if it does concern you -then just do the following: Underclock the system. HOWEVER not the way you have heard from so many: Go into Windows power options manager and just set the min and max to 99% of the CPU utilization. This may seem erroneous but believe me when I say the system is faster... Not to mention as a side bonus it is consistently more stable. With alot less stuttering than with PBO So this method so far alleviates that. For example the default Cinebench R20 score for a 3600 is 2802 or so. This system following the above gets a 3152 rating. On the subject of the RAM it also seems to have the widest unofficial ram support. Currently using TeamGroup Elite Plus RAM And though it is not listed as supported for the 3600 it seems to work just fine. This board does have a bad caveat though: Only two RAM slots. If your wanting more than 16/32 GB of RAM. You may be hard pressed to not shell out alot on the memory.

Built very well and it is perfect for my ryzen 5 2400g(not recommended for the ryzen 5 non apu as there is only a 4pin cpu power header) but this is perfect for my low tdp 4/8core APU and other than high core count compatibility there is nothing else to mention on the con side of this board it is more than sufficient at this form factor and has all the features expected of a b450 chipset at a very competitive price... I bought this to replace a a320m chipset mobo that was actually more expensive but less compatible that is housing a measly dual core athlon200ge now as it could not power my wiping 65watt ryzen 5 lol...update now that ryzen 3000 cpu are low cost and high performance I dont even recomend using the apus anymore u can use any cheap a320 board for those and be just fine this board is perfect for a budget high performance system with any core up to 65watts(can Handel i think 95watts but I'm not comfortable making that recommendation with only 4pin cpu power) but the ryzen 5 3600 6core at 4.2ghz is perfect and you still can use dual chanel memory i have recently upgraded the clients rig with this board in it to the 3600 and upped it to 16gb of 3600mhz ddr4 and he us super happy with the performance and price

I bought this motherboard on sale for $60 (before tax), I'm not sure if every one's motherboard will be like this, but mine was Ryzen 5000 ready out of the box, which saved me a lot of trouble since this motherboard doesn't have a way to flash the bios without a CPU like other more expensive motherboards. My only complaint is that the RAM was harder than usual to put in, you really need to push down harder to get them to click in. In the BIOS, you have the option to overlock RAM and adjust timings and voltages, I used the XMP profile to have my Silicon Power X Turbine DDR4 RAM, to have it run at 3200mhz (it was supposed to but without enabling the XMP Profile you will have 2666 MHZ). You also have the option to adjust overlock settings for cpu and gpu, and to adjust chassis fan speeds which is useful for cheaper case fans that only have 3 pins instead of 4 pins. Not including the 4 pin for cpu fan, this case has 2 ports for chassis fan, one is a 4 pin located on the middle left side, and the other is located on the lower left. Overall I am very satisfied. You can't go wrong for the price.

On paper, this looked like a great budget motherboard for my first PC build. It’s seemingly meant to be functional and affordable. It fits my case and all the parts of my build, and is compatible with all parts without the need for a BIOS update. But I have been very disappointed as the board is defective straight out of box. I’ve had to waste money on other replacement parts only to find out they were not the issue and the motherboard is. Not happy with this purchase at all.

It's bendy, like rubber. It's all DECENT with all compatible cpus and all BUT it took me a couple of weeks.. to notice that THE HEATSINK NEAR GPU BLOCKS THE CARD so i cant fit it correctly so THUS it wont work! i ordered a new PSU thinking that was the problem but no, it just cant fit. damn lousy design and cost me alot of money! never more will i buy AsRock. Nasties motherboard ive ever worked with! Next time, ill go asus!!!!!

Llevo años con esta moderboard y funciona muy bien.

Fantastic value for money ! Great starter motherboard for anyone looking to get into PC's. No mvme support but thats a trade off I was willing to take . Be careful of the size of your GPU due to it being a smaller sized board . Overall impressed with this , overclocking feature too which is rare to see at this price point.

Me encanta esta placa, es de las más baratas del mercado y tiene una calidad muy buena además de ser muy bonita, ya eh comprado 3 de estas para hacer ensambles para diferentes colegas según sus exigencias informáticas. Los procesadores que eh montado con esta placa son RYZEN 3 2200G, RYZEN 5 2400G y RYZEN 5 2400G sin ningun tipo de problema sin ninguna actualización de bios los reconoce perfectamente.

Scheda madre arrivata con l'ultimo bios ufficiale (10.10), atto a supportare tutta la serie 5000. Utilizzata per sostituire una scheda A320 che ha esalato l'ultimo respiro causa sbalzo di corrente. Economica ma più che sufficiente per tenere in vita, in attesa di un futuro upgrade, un ancora performante Ryzen 7 1800X. Do il punteggio massimo perché non ho riscontrato alcun problema nè nell'installazione nè nell'uso, tutto perfetto. Tengo a precisare una cosa: avevo anche aggiornato il bios alla versione beta 10.42 presente sul sito AsRock. Se però avete una CPU tipo Ryzen prima serie, vi sconsiglio di farlo e vi spiego il motivo. Una volta installato il nuovo bios, il Ryzen 1800X restava fisso alla frequenza di 2.2ghz mentre col bios 10.10, l'ultimo ufficiale, raggiungeva regolarmente la velocità di clock reale, cioé 3,7ghz. Sono riuscito a tornare alla versione precedente (10.10) e adesso tutto è tornato alla normalità. Ho testato la scheda col bios beta 10.42 utilizzando un Ryzen 4500 e questo funzionava da re; ma andava già bene utilizzando il bios ufficiale. Solo per integrazione, la scheda madre è ottima e funziona alla grande.