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matthew m.

matthew m.

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Most Favorable Review

New budget king

ASRock A320M AM4 AMD Promontory A320 USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
ASRock A320M AM4 AMD Promontory A320 USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Got it for less than $35 on sale. Does everything you could ask for except support on chip VGA as there are no monitor/vga ports.

Cons: none so far

Overall Review: People need to be objective w reviews. You can't compare a Vega to a Cadillac, there different price ranges. For what this board is, it does it well. I stuck a single DDR 4 stick of ram in in, a sub $40 M.2 ssd and a used video card w a X4 950. Loaded W10 w usb drive and done. Scored above 5K on cpu benchmark. Everything loaded w/o a hitch, downloaded new bios w windows platform installer and updated easy. If you want more features then upgrade to more expensive motherboard. I build of computers, Asrock is my fav flavor of motherboard.

Most Critical Review

Great till hinge froze up

Lenovo Laptop Intel Pentium B960 4GB Memory 500GB HDD Intel HD Graphics 15.6" Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit G570 (43349EU)
Lenovo Laptop Intel Pentium B960 4GB Memory 500GB HDD Intel HD Graphics 15.6" Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit G570 (43349EU)

Pros: Cheap, fast , Windows 7

Cons: Cheap, very thin plastic, glare on LCD

Overall Review: Left Hinge froze up after 4 months. $20 for part, a whole lot of work to replace! Not like my old think pad that's 6 yrs old & still going strong. Not sure if any other brands are better, I think HP sells the identical laptop under a different name.

Excellent budget CPU

AMD Ryzen 5 4500 - Ryzen 5 4000 Series Renoir (Zen 2) 6-Core 3.6 GHz Socket AM4 65W None Integrated Graphics Desktop CPU Processor - 100-100000644BOX
AMD Ryzen 5 4500 - Ryzen 5 4000 Series Renoir (Zen 2) 6-Core 3.6 GHz Socket AM4 65W None Integrated Graphics Desktop CPU Processor - 100-100000644BOX

Pros: liked it so much I bought a 2nd so all my pc's are W11 ready

Overall Review: I'm benching like 17-18k. Compared to like 8k on R3 1200. My R5 3400g gets like 10k.

Best ram EVER

Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model TLZGD416G3600HC18JDC01
Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model TLZGD416G3600HC18JDC01

Pros: Put this in and benchmarked w Passmark 2008, scored like 3600. Most reg ram runs 14-1800 at least in all my builds which is around 50.

Cons: zero

Overall Review: Team is very good ram, excellent product.

12/20/2022

It worked in 1 of 2 systems, did not like Biostar A320 mb

G.SKILL Aegis 8GB (2 x 4GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Desktop Memory Model F4-2400C17D-8GIS
G.SKILL Aegis 8GB (2 x 4GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Desktop Memory Model F4-2400C17D-8GIS

Pros: The Biostar mb is picky with ram so no surprise it wouldn't post. Put in Gigabyte B450M and it worked. Low ram benchmarks and not stable for cpu over clocking. I would spend a little bit more and better specs.

Cons: The ram fit tight in both motherboards I tried. It took some force to seat the ram.

Overall Review: I do not recommend unless it's a business computer.