ASRock MicroATX Motherboard (B450M-HDV)

Have had no problems so far. I've had none of the problems the other reviews have alluded to. I actually managed to get a little overclock on this board too. Would definitely buy Asrock again

Great Motherboard for the price, a bit standard, but has a PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe slot.Bought it for a budget build, quite satisfied.

IO shield garbage, but everything went together and working great with Athlon 200GE.

I looked long and hard for a budget board with more than two fan headers. This wasn't it. The third "fan header" is really just a 12V power outlet - you can't control the voltage at all, either from BIOS or from software.I'm afraid it's as much use as a gallium saucepan for me - chassis fans like a lawnmower at idle. (Can't split the "real" second fan header, need it for pump which varies with CPU temp, not system temp.)That problem aside, it worked absolutely fine for the half hour it took me to realise it only had two real fan headers. Back it goes

Someone has left a negative review about this board's form factor. If you don't k ie the difference between Atx, mirco atx and mini itx. Then you shouldn't take to the Internet to rant about your consumer error. Honest review. The board is a great value option and is best paired with a ryzen 3 or an athlon GE. However, the board is not good for overclocking. The VRMs lack sufficent heat sinks and the bios isn't the most user friend. That said, it is still difficult to beat for a modern am4 platform. Given it five stars to try and off set the idiocy of the previous post.

Using it for over 1 year and it's been perfect. Started with a ryzen 3 1200. Easy to overclock in Asrok's biosJust upgraded to a Ryzen 5 3600 works a treat(after updating bios to latest version that supports 3rd gen).Cant fault it for the price.

This would have been an all star board at a bargain price if Asrock had actually employed decent quality control. This was one of three boards that I bought at around the same time, all of which were running ryzen chips. Unfortunately whilst the other two (made by Gigabyte) are still running perfectly, this one chose to start taking a sickie within a couple of weeks of delivery, and has now been replaced by another Gigabyte, which admittedly is more expensive but I guess if you want more than two weeks solid reliability you just have to pay a bit more for it.The board, when it works, is well specified and quite nicely designed. Installation was easy and when it first fired up everything looked good, however two weeks later the Audio output started crackling and then packed up entirely, and after a couple of months the PCIE GFX slot decided it couldn't be bother to turn up either... which left me with a board which only worked with the integrated Graphics on the Ryzen 3 2200g chip that I was fortunately running in it. After six months, my finances improved and with a sigh of relief I purchased another board and threw this one in the bin.Now to be fair this could have been just a rogue board, on the whole ASROCK are usually ok, but looking at some of the other reviews it does seem as if this particular model may not be their finest hour.Verdict - Nice well specified board and sole a bargain price, but from my experience you get far better reliability from other brands - which are also available on Amazon and at not much more money. So all in all I would say spend a bit more and get one of the other alternatives.

I bought this for £40 from a warehouse deal. It ostensibly seemed okay as the price for the item new was around £53. However, it didn't come with an i/o plate or any sata cables, which upped my overall cost to around £45, so scant saving. It might still be returnable...However, the first thing I did was to install a cheap CPU (200GE), RAM and Windows which went absolutely fine. It came with the earliest possible Bios installed, which I immediately updated to the latest safe release, ensuring that my drivers were up to date as well. As soon as I did this then I lost all DVI support from the motherboard as soon as windows loads; instead having to rely on either VGA or HDMI.So, I can get output from DVI on the UEFI screen so it's clearly just a driver issue between Windows & the motherboard, but so far I've found no way to fix this. I've backdated my drivers as far as they'll go and there is still no success. I just don't get this kind of problem on Gigabyte or Asus motherboards, so I'm going to stick with them in the future.I know I can get around this adding a GPU and using the output from there, but this build was a cheapy, using low-end APUs to get something together for the most minimal cost and this motherboard has been a bit of a false economy for me.On the basis of my experience, I just wouldn't recommend it to anyone without caveats.