Supports 3rd Gen AMD AM4 Ryzen™ / Future AMD Ryzen™ Processors
16 Power Phase Design, Digi Power, Dr. MOS
Supports DDR4 5200+ (OC)
3 PCIe 4.0/3.0x16, 2 PCIe 3.0 x1
Graphics Output Options: HDMI, DisplayPort
AMD 3-Way CrossFireX™
Intel® 2.5G LAN, Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax (2.4Gbps) + BT 5.1
Does it have TPM 2.0 ? :]
This board has a 13 pin TPM header and looks to be unpopulated from the below review. So you'll need to purchase the ASRock TPM 2.0 module separately.
My MSI B450-A PRO Max has TPM. It just need enabling in BIOS, and is supported by all 2x and 3x generation RYZEN's.
I'm boycotting AsRock via HardwareUnboxed, good deal for anyone sane though.
That'll show em!
Have this one, purchased for ~$290-ish.
Thoughts:
Great motherboard, looks cool - though if you have a tinted side glass on your PC case, it essentially looks blacked out.
Once you stick a GPU in there, you really wont see much of the gearing graphics or the gold highlights or much of the led lighting.
If you are trying to go for a 'red' glow on the rgb lighting, it does not do a good job at red - looks washed out. Greens and blues and whites look great (to me!).
Goes without saying as well, if you have a big air cooler, it's not like you will see much of the lighting anyway lol.
Performance wise, I had no issues with high speed low latency ram acceptance (I had that issue on some previous motherboards). It appears most (all?) of these are selling with an updated bios to supper the latest gen AMD cpu's (you can usb flash anyway….but you don't have to so you can spend more time shopping for GPU bargains here….).''
It does have a USB C front header (Asus B550 Strix, I'm looking directly at you!).
The bios interface…i kind of like it but YMMV. Had no troubles enabling some of the features disabled by default.
Very stable with a little bit of fooling around.
I like the bootscreen - glowing white ASRock logo (not that I particularly care about asrock…just that it looks nice and minimalist).
Has great (though not amazing) VRM's but lets face it, at some point it's overkill and just means your stonking air cooler may not fit.
Lots of fan/pump/lighting headers and I felt they are well located.
The m.2 ssd's - all the covers do make it hard to go back into - once you've installed it, be done with it, stick your overpriced GPU in and never look back.
The heat shields for both m.2's are very robust.
In built Wifi and bluetooth work well but I think shark fin antennas are tacky so am using some generic antennas.
All up in hindsight, buying this motherboard made me realise how little motherboards really matter and how you can end up spending so much on it for very very marginal gains for the vast majority of users….but for $250, I'd buy this one again :).
Oh, i don't even know it has a built-in Bluetooth.
still no use without a GPU ;)
Bought it for $299 in March for my new PC.
Have everything installed except GPU