ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4AM4/USB3.2/HDMI/RJ45 Motherboard

Works as expected. Nice layout with connectors placement well thought out.Two minor minor nits:Rear IO plate is a little on the flimsy side and ever so slightly undersized. Since this isn't an "extreme" or one of ASRock's named motherboard lines, not surprising. Worst that can be said about it is "it's very generic but works".The spacing of the connector block for the front buttons and LEDs just a bit cramped so they abbreviated the stenciling of the markings. Not a problem if you have the manual handy, but might cause a delay if/when you are troubleshooting it later on (ie. you have to go get the manual).Neither of these warrant a star deduction.As a note for installers - make sure you mount the CPU before you put the motherboard in the case - if you are using the AMD cooler solutions you will find that the mounting plate will drop out of position when installed in a case as you go to mount the fan. So CPU on MB first, then MB+CPU goes into the case. Every other fan solution I've seen the order you do this doesn't really matter.

I built a new system from scratch, only reusing the CPU as I didn't think I needed more processing power. After installing everything, it wouldn't post. I took everything out and painstakingly reinstalled 1 item at a time to determine what the issue was. It still wouldn't post. I finally looked up the specs and my old Ryzen 1800x was not supported.Purchased a new Ryzen 5600G, reassembled everything and everything ran flawlessly afterwards. Windows 10 installed smoothly and I was up and running in 10 minutes.Good board, no conflicts. Had I not insisted on reusing the old CPU, I would have been done in about 3 hours from installation to finalizing OS installation. Not considering troubleshooting time, the next item that took the most time was installing and wiring up the RGB case fans.

So first the good. The price. This is an inexpensive motherboard and it has a lot of what some other motherboards have that are far more expensive. It has 3 M.2 Slots and 8 SATA slots so you will never be short of being able to connect storage to it. The board also has built in DP and HDMI ports so if you dont have a dedicated video card, you can still connect modern monitors. The board doesn't come with WiFi built in, but it does have the option to install an M.2 wifi card onto it which is a nice feature if you are looking to add onboard WiFi or Bluetooth. The BIOS is easy to work with and navigate and includes the option to enable an XMP profile for RAM. I bought 3200 mhz RAM and out of the box it only reads 2666 on the MB, but with a few quick clicks in the BIOS, I was able to get to 3200. I haven't OC'd yet, but it looks like it is pretty strait forward to do in the BIOS.So my complaints, first, this only has a single USB 2.0 port. I was able to work around it (I needed two) by purchasing a Corsair Commander Pro, but you may need to consider purchasing the NZXT Internal USB Hub depending on what you are attaching. The board does have multiple USB 3.0 slots, however, one is unusable due to its location as a large GPU will interfere with plugging anything into it. I am not sure why they decided to put it where they did, but luckily there is another one at the bottom of the board I was able to use for my cases built in USB 3.0 cable. I am using a rather large GPU (ASUS ROG 2080 Super), so maybe a smaller GPU wouldn't interfere. However, if you are using a GPU (of any size), it will cover one of the M.2 slots. This probably isn't a big deal though if you install there first, but if you ever want to add in another M.2 device in that particular slot, you will need to remove the GPU first and install. My biggest complaint with the board though is the drivers. One of the first things I did after installing Windows was updating all the drivers. However, when updating the PCI drivers, the board would no longer POST. I had to completely reinstall Windows. I didn't realize this is what it was the first time, so after installing the drivers a second time, I had to wipe the drive and start over a second time. This may be due to the BIOS version its running and perhaps if I flashed a new BIOS, the drivers would be fine, but for now, I decided to just keep the PCIe drivers as is for now because they work, but be cautious of the drivers you install.If I were to buy another motherboard today, this would not be the one I would go with, but if you are looking for a cheaper board with a lot of nice features that works well out of the box, this may work for you.Edit: After I installed the chipset drivers from AMD's website, the PCIe driver issue was resolved. I raised the rating 1 star, but still think I would go with another board if I were going to build another machine.

Purchased an ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming WiFi for over $200 but that board was a horrible mess and after 2 weeks of installing windows trying to get the board to work, back it went.I am replacing my old x58 ASRock board that has worked flawlessly from the day I bought it new, now running a Xeon.All i can say this board is great, as all I did was replace this board/processor/ram in the same case as the ASRock x58 Board was in, just plugged the drives in (drives include new m.2, 5 different sata drives including old C drive 120 ssd, another ssd and 2 (1 tb) spinning rust laptop drives in dynamic mode) and the system booted like normal but faster, I did reinstall win 10 to the m.2 drive and never had one issue, and its fast!Only possible thing wrong is they give you drivers on a shiny round plastic thing called a cd, I'm almost 60 years old and know cd/dvd on a computer is a thing of the past.All in all this board simply works!

Worst most unstable motherboard I have ever used it was fine for about a month and now i cant return it and asrock won't RMA it, for context I built my gf a pc and decided I was getting an upgrade, I shaped my msi b550 for this trash, nothing in my build changed but the board and now it randomly black screens and ramps the fans up, it will stay like that till I pull the power cord, don't waste your money on this trash you will regret it

This motherboard has a lot going for it. It has 8 SATA ports, 2 M.2 for Storage and a Key E for Bluetooth/WiFi. It has a heat sink and fan over the south bridge and a heat sink over the connect ports in the back of the board. I wish it has one more 3 pin for Argb but its has 2 5 pin 12v RGB instead. Even though I like the fan heat sink on the board, it will most likely be one of the first things to go bad on this board. All in all a great board for the price.