When I built my gaming rig, the only thing was getting the right Ram for this board. So I saw a video on YouTube about the only Fast sticks of Ram that fitted this board perfectly at that time were G.Skill 16 GB DDR4-3200 CL16 G.Skill RipJaws V Noir Series, these little wonders saved my life and it is my new build that I'm writing this review on and have had this build for a couple of months now. I cannot believe the power of this motherboard, easy to setup and if like me you have a really nice case to put it in? You'll be rockin' along. The AI shield can be cumbersome, but if you trim off the sticky outty metal bits you'll have no problem slotting in the motherboard.
On my build I have Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, 16GB of G.Skill Rip-Jaws Ram, make sure you put the ram in the right slots, for two 8GB sticks they should go into slot 2 and slot 4. Also on my build is 650What Watt even semi modular Power Supply and for graphics a Nvidia 1050ti. The operating system is Peppermint OS 10 Linux, many people will be asking as to why? As Linux has not got very many games. On the contrary, we now have Steam Play which is also called Proton and the wonderful people at Valve who gave us all Steam, worked with the wonderful people at Code-Weavers, who gave us WINE which stands for Wine Is Not A Emulator. WINE enables us to run Microsoft stuff in Linux, with the help of some very clever programmers, we are able to play Windows games in Linux. I will never ever own a Windows machine ever again for gaming, simply because I get better performance here in Linux and I know that I won't have to start paying for using a Operating System, like Windows will be in the next year or two. Windows or Microsoft want you stream their OS for a weekly or monthly fee, Linux is yours to own and do whatever you want with, plus it's free.
End of speech, glad I got that off my chest, back to the review. Inside the bios of this, set your ram up to read fastest speeds as Ryzen processors like the Ryzen 5 2600 like fast Ram, the faster the better. I also bought a Icy Dock to house four SSD drives, though this motherboard only has four Sata inputs, I have had to give up one Sata input for my DVD drive, which came out of a build that the motherboard itself had given up the ghost.
Building your own desktop has never been so easy, this board I can highly recommend as I'm going to build another to use as a streaming PC, through a onboard capture card. Using the same motherboard, Case, Ram, Power Supply, below is the parts I highly recommend to go with this build.
RAM https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B015FXXBW0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
ICY DOCK https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00V5JHOXQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
MODULAR HYBRID PSU https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06WVWXPVZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
CASE https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LW3YN1I/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Choice of Ryzen Processors https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07B41WS48/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Choice Of SSD Drives https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B073SBZ8YH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Fans I recommend https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B078JW73WF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
These are all the things I have in my case and of course the choice is yours, you don't have to copy me, but I just wanted to give you an idea of the quality stuff there is here on Amazon.
Unfortunately I don't do overclocking so no point in me recommending a water cooler, as never use them. This board is a pleasure to build with and the speed of this is just spectacular. Highly Recommend to new and advanced PC builders.
| Brand | ASRock |
|---|---|
| Product Dimensions | 24.4 x 24.4 x 4 cm; 500 Grams |
| Batteries | 1 Lithium Metal batteries required. (included) |
| Item model number | B450M PRO4 |
| Manufacturer | ASRock |
| Series | B450M PRO4 |
| Color | Black |
| Form Factor | Micro ATX |
| Processor Socket | Socket AM4 |
| Processor Count | 1 |
| Memory Technology | DDR4 |
| Computer Memory Type | DDR4 SDRAM |
| Maximum Memory Supported | 64 GB |
| Memory Clock Speed | 2400 MHz |
| Graphics Chipset Brand | AMD |
| Graphics Card Description | AMD |
| Graphics Card Interface | PCI-E |
| Wireless Type | 802.11a |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
| Number of HDMI Ports | 1 |
| Number of Ethernet Ports | 1 |
| Number of VGA Ports | 1 |
| Power Source | Hand-operated |
| Are Batteries Included | Yes |
| Lithium Battery Energy Content | 210 Milliamp Hours (mAh) |
| Lithium Battery Packaging | Batteries contained in equipment |
| Lithium Battery Weight | 0.11 Grams |
| Number Of Lithium Ion Cells | 1 |
| Number of Lithium Metal Cells | 1 |
| Item Weight | 500 g |
