Is the Asrock B350 Pro4 any good?

[hazzerjt]

I'm going to be pairing it with a R5 1600 1600. Compared to other motherboards, it seems to offer so much more for the price. Is there any catches why you wouldn't buy it? 

[ricksteendam1]

hey I had many problems with ASRock before. and for me, it looks like a pretty standard board (inside my brothers pc we first wanted to get an a320 from Asrock which I had to return twice to the store. Mabie I had the very unlucky lottery ticket but I just want to tell you)

[King_of_Oz]

I don't know about the B350, but I have a similar board (B250M Pro4) And it's perfectly fine. Been using it for ~half a year and no problems at all.

 

Hope that helps.

[johndms]

10 minutes ago, hazzerjt said:

I'm going to be pairing it with a R5 1600 1600. Compared to other motherboards, it seems to offer so much more for the price. Is there any catches why you wouldn't buy it? 

I have the ASRock AB350 Pro4 and Ryzen 5 1600.  It's not a bad board, but don't expect any hardcore overclocks.  It has terrible vdroop.  I run at 3.8GHz at 1.35v and it's dropped to 1.275v at times during load.  That board also doesn't have LLC capabilities or the ability to adjust SoC voltage in the bios.  Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad board and I'm comfortable with my overclock, but I have to push above 1.4v to do 3.9GHz and can't touch 4GHz.

 

If I had the choice, I probably wouldn't buy it again.  I'd purchase Asus Prime B350-Plus, or the Asus ROG Strix-F Gaming.

[johndms]

VID, vCore and Loadline Calibration explained

 

[just_dave]

Easily:

Better than MSI Shittyhawk clones

Better than Gigabyte 4+3

Worse than Asus 4+4/4+2

Worse than MSI 4+2 big

[Morgan MLGman]

I built two PCs based on that motherboard today (paired with an R5 1600), it looks really decent for the price.

[Phate.exe]

I have the AB350M Pro4 paired with an R5 1600X that I haven't seen any reason to overclock.  It's been great and I'd absolutely recommend it to anyone doing an mATX build.

 

Pros:

• "Best" mATX AM4 mobo when I purchased it, probably still is.
• Keeps a stock 1600X happily boosting at 3.7/4.1
• Easy to update the bios, and Asrock is pretty good about releasing bios updates in a timely manner.
• Runs 16 gigs of Corsair LPX 3200 C16 at 2933? 2966? without any tweaking at all.  Load XMP, select speed, reboot, done
• 2 m.2 slots allow me to run my nvme boot drive and a second sata-speed m.2 drive
• Posts quickly.
• Doesn't have stupid lights built into it
• Has two RGB headers so you can add your own stupid lights!
• Looks awesome, especially for a black and white build.
• Boatloads of current delivery capability because doubled 3-phase, vrm's run pretty cool.
• Cheap AF
• Hasn't given me any of the headaches my friend's MSI board has (long post time, weird all-or-nothing fan response, refusal to run the exact same ram anywhere above 2600, etc)

Cons:

• Bios settings are somewhat limited, then again I'm used to the Crosshair board in my old machine with every setting under the sun.  I mostly just wish it had LLC.
• Bad Vdroop because doubled 3-phase
• I wish it had more power phases
• Out of the box the network adapter didn't work, had to download drivers on my laptop and install via usb drive, which isn't a big deal at all.
• Supposedly the second PCI express slot gets disabled if you use an nvme drive, but the Fury Nitro is so big I wouldn't have been able to fit the 10 gigabit NIC in there anyways.