
-Very solidly built -Plenty of connectivity -Great power layout -Love the design

Arrived well packaged and undamaged. Great Asrock motherboard B550M-ITX A/C. Has a solid B550 chipset and over/under volt and XMP memory options in the bios. Has bios flash ability via external button. USB C and USB 2/3 on rear IO panel.

This micro ATX motherboard and AMD Ryzen 9 7900X with 32GB of G Skill DDR5 memory was a great combo for Black Friday. After assembling it all together with the other necessary components, it worked from first boot. The XMP profile was easy to activate and works great. I really like the 3 M.2 slots, so no more need for any SATA drives but it does have 4 connectors if I decide to add them later. Even though it's a micro ATX board it has 4 Dimm slots so plenty of room if I want to expand the memory later on.

the Z890 chips are solid the board is well built and of good quality. the look of this board is very nice. started right up like it is all automatic.. the on board display is a good addon if you run into any problems. tweaked the temp and fan speeds is the only thing i needed to do this board has changed my mind about asrock on this board. we will see. would recommend setup was intel 265k 32mg ram 3060ti gpu 750psu 360 water cooled.

Very fast paired with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D. One item of note, some BIOS changes such as disabling the onboard vid requires a full 5min pause after saving the change. This kind of threw me off thinking the BIOS had an issue. Otherwise I love it. Included paperwork only has a quick start guide not the full user guide or bios guide . Both are downloadable from the Asus website.


Solid build Simple install Easy bios set up

Works well with RDIMM memory and an Epyc 9416 CPU that I had laying around.




High Quality Parts Clean Look Loaded with Features.


Very fast response time. Very colorful. Nice quality motherboard.

Best value motherboard for a B850


MSI products have always worked well for me and this motherboard is great just like the others I have used for my builds in the past.

Plenty of fan headers placed in great spots for connecting fans, water cooling pump/radiator, etc. Wi-Fi 7 (For Windows 11 only) GPU quick release lever USB-C Front and Rear suppport Wi-Fi Antennas are slim (a clearance issue with Tower 300) NvME secure posts are clasps built into the board, a nice touch and no worrying about tiny screws being lost NvME Heat Sinks with Thermal Pads


25 assorted USB ports of varying speeds and types lots of space for expansion fantastic wifi capabilities very nice looking board