ASRock X570 STEEL LEGEND AM4 AMD X570 ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: - It's X570
- It has a Thunderbolt 3, and its the only one .
- 115x mounting hole, allows you to rotate your cooler freely for the desired orientation.
- 60A DrMOS and 4+4 power phase( with multiphase controller), good for its size, and will power an Ryzen 9 processor without problem.
- Not Too expensive, compared with other X570 motherboards.
- You can turn that RGB lightning off right in bios, no need to install a software.
- Native support for PCIe bifurcation, you can split the x16 to x8x8, if you have the adapter.

Cons: - Made in Vietnam, I can see excessive flux not cleaned on the board and even on the Audio chip.
- The space for CPU cooler is extremely limited, Cryorig C7, Noctua L9i/L9x65 BEARLY fits.
- Chipset fan running at 5000rpm.( Like most of the X570 motherboards)
- The BIOS defaults to use an "FHD display" mode, which renders bios setting in 1080p, this is a good feature, but that makes my UHD monitor unhappy and outputs a black screen. I have to connect to another FHD monitor every time I clear the CMOS to change bios settings and turn the FHD mode off. Be aware if you have a monitor with high resolution, you may need a low resolution one to change the bios setting.
- Side mounted SATA connector is easily blocked in lots of SFF cases.
- Only one m2 and both m2 and Thunderbolts connects to the X570 chipset (if HWinfo is correct). I know the space is limited and cannot ask for more, but this is a con.
- Only 4 USBA in the back, enough for me, but not for many.

Overall Review: All in all, I'm satisfied with this board. It has a Thunderbolt and it works. Very happy to see that we can use Thunderbolt on AMD platform, for an SFF pc, internal space is limited thus opportunity of external expansion means a lot, and Thunderbolt provides such opportunity. There are some small problems of this motherboard, but most of them are bearable, except the default on "FHD mode" one. Hope Asrock will fix this in future bios updates.

Pros: easy to install. all the ports are well labeled. feels pretty sturdy.

Cons: BIGGEST ISSUE, be careful buying this board if you are running a ryzen 9. fortunately for me i got a ryzen 7, however i did my windows install, installed all drivers ect. and also grabbed the latest bios from the asrock website. windows would not load and also would not re-install with the latest bios. (windows error code came back saying hardware/software not supported by this operating system). lucky for me it looks like the latest bios was fixed for the ryzen 9. i installed 1.7 and everything runs fine.

The release lever for the video card is a nightmare to get to. kind of hides very close to the ram and the huge m.2 shroud. for me it required using a screw driver to release my card and the whole time i was just saying "Don't slip, Don't slip."
Similar issue with fan plugs around the cpu. there isnt much room in this thing.

runs very hot, but from my research this seems typical for all x570 boards out right now.

I dont run m.2 but it looks like if you ever want to install or swap drives you have to remove the video card and that shroud to get them in, seems like not the best design.

Overall Review: good board for the price. nice overclock features and it runs stable. make sure you download multiple bios on a flash drive so you can swap back to factory or try others that work.