We are no longer blacklisted by Asrock BTW, they reached out at the start of the year and have started sampling us again after our 2 year break :D

Not just the VRM temp, but the features are actually quite good. Nice job, AsRock!

Asrock is doing much better at low end this generation. ASUS has now become the last place holder for low end motherboards

Finally a board worth considering for 7600/7700 builds. While historically the HDV series has been extremely barebone and barely functional, this seems like a more sensible Pro4 equivalent.

This is it chief! The only 2-RAM slot matx board with heatsinks on all chokes. I know it's very specific, but it's the one i'm looking out for because my case is SGPC K29. For real tho, how hard is it for board manufacturers to put a small heatsink for the chokes on top of the CPU socket I thought ITX was my only option. Great job Asrock.

I absolutely love these motherboard tests. It has helped me pick out 2 motherboards for my builds in the past. Thanks for all the hard work 👍

Thanks for rewieving this Board. I have ordered one and it was delivered today. Im very happy with the Price and the Quality. Only the 2X 7 segment error code display is missing... This is my first Asrock Motherboard.

finally an Asrock entry level board that doesnt suck, this really looks like a cool product, good job Steve 👍

Great follow through Steve! Been seeing your reviews for ASRock over the years and no doubt that you're a professional.

I was just looking for this Mobo and boom, there it is. Ty for the review

Another great info, never knew such mobo and cpu combo can even boot rather work for so long and such performance great vid and gold info. Please cover vrm specifications in future parts too.

Good job ASRock! Looking for a new mobo and im really considering this one, very informative video, thanks HU!

That boot was quick. Thank you for the video.

Thank you so much for reviewing this. We were discussing upgrade options, and I found this motherboard to be inside our budget. I think it's good enough for our usage which is most likely gaming.

Got one of these, i love it, installed a 7900 non-x and no issues. My only gripe about this board, no VRM temp sensors it seems, but well at least they put some sink on all of them unlike some other budget boards which always bothered me.

Hey Thanks for the work on the review. Normally I'd have avoided ASROCK mobo like the plague, will put this one in the options when its time to upgrade from my b450m mobo in a year or so.

Thank you a lot, was excited for this one!

Hell yes, I was waiting for this!

Thanks for the video, really enjoyed it! Would like to see you test MSi's motherboards again, just to see if the BIOS update did the trick.

Terrific content as usual, cheers mate!

Thank you for helping me find a reasonable mobo to pair with the 7600! I built my first AM5 PC as a secondary build for my family's living room because the platform is now affordable.

nice to see some1 testing the cheaper componants were most people want to buy keep up the good work mate

Yes @HUB you can take credit for ASROCK actually putting out a decent motherboard ! It's nice to see a company actually try and do things right once and awhile instead of just flooding the market with more e waste .

Great job, as always! Will you be able to review the non-M.2 model of this board? Ars Technica reports that board’s VRM cooling isn’t as robust as this model.

More M-ATX reviews!. Thank you for the video Steve, this review will give a lot of buyers the certainty to buy this MoBo

This board and a 7700 zen4 just might sway me to get onto the AM5 platform. I'm still on B450, 2600x, and it's been just fine for what I use my pc for. _But_ , I'm itching for a new build. Well done Asrock. This is exactly the board I am most curious about. Curious no more , thank you Steve.

That's amazing! I went in with low expectations and actually have a recommendation for budget gaming friends in a year or ao

Always nice to see a decent mid range mobo (so many are just terrible)- I appreciate the effort Asrock nice job.

Good one asrock👍.Not sure about other boards but in regards of boot times debate, gigabyte gaming x ax got 3 bios updates since your roundup testing.

1 mil sub soon, well deserved

It's really impressive that even the 7950X works quite well with a cheap B650 board, especially because AMD pushed them kinda hard with their default "out of the box" settings. It's impressive also because most people buying such a high-end CPU probably wouldn't be buying such a cheap motherboard anyway, but, it wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea. It's too bad that there weren't more boards like this being released earlier on in the Ryzen 7000 release cycle. A board like this (or maybe one slightly more expensive if it has some features you want) would be great to pair with a 7600, and will likely allow for some excellent upgrade options over the next 5 years or so.

Would love to see a complete roundup of every series.. every company.. all out sligfest.

i got the gigabyte DS3H per your recommendation a few weeks ago. overall i'm very pleased with it. using it with a 7700x, cheers!

Love the inclusion of the flashback button on a board that is going to see many generations of Ryzen CPUs.

*Excellent content* since expensive motherboards seems to be the factor why many PC builders tent to use a AM4 platform a bit longer or considering Intels 13 Gen, although there are both no longer upgrade paths to foreseen in the future! *One question* I still do have +Hardware Unboxed : How does these m.2 PCI "limitations" translate to real life? Let's say I wanna use a m.2 SSD like a Crucial P3 with 3500 MB/s speed. Would that be a problem? Or faster ones with 5000/ 6000 MB/s? Or let's say I use an external HDD via USB 3.0 for backup purposes and plug in another USB 3.0/ 3.1 Stick in the front of my PC: *Does anything slow down with these sub 200 USD boards?* I simply could not "translate" those theoretical speed and m.2 PCI gen 4/5 specs to a "real life scenario" where a more expensive board would make a difference. Maybe you have a scenario at hand to explain that! Otherwise I would have a *suggestion for better categorizing these boards:* How about you come up with like 3 - 4 use cases for a PC like a family multimedia system, an enthusiast gamer system, an HTPC or a budget system for students and younger gamers just entering PC gaming. You could think about a configuration which you think would fit to these types of use cases. From that it is possible to make a "must have" and "could have" list of features a hardware piece should have. For example 4 USB ports are maybe to few for a HTPC. Or an enthusiast system should support the latest and upcoming standards in speed. Or for an entry level budget system maybe 4 SATA ports are enough. *With such a categorization or at least list of "must haves" and "could haves" it could be easier to explain when a board or component doesn't meet the anticipated buyers group with that price point it does come with.* Also down the road it could be a *fine project "recommended PC for a common use case"* for you viewers to actually build one of these PCs for that categorized use case (like an entry level AM5 PC) to show what you can get these days for your money, to suggest a well balanced system and to see how the market evolves with that. Because now we have the transition from AM4 to AM5. And many buyers ask themselves: how much more expensive is a good balanced PC build. Should I still go AM4 (with like a B550 and a Ryzen 5600) or should I invest in a AM5 with DDR 5 (B 650, Ryzen 7600). With a recommended configuration you can easily track when AM4 is getting too expensive (and has no advantage anymore) or when AM5 is more attraktive. And same goes with Intels transition from a 12./ 13. Gen 1x600K with maybe still DDR4 to an upcoming Gen 14. system with DDR5. Maybe only one year and Intel buyers also ask the question to still go 13 Gen or to invest in more expensive 14. Gen. And since you already did something like that with generation comparison when Ryzen 7000 launched, it would simply be a logical step to develop this into 3 - 4 highly recommended configurations which development in price you could track over time to give your viewers a hinge what to expect when considering buying a new PC. Such a "optimal configuration" can also be a benchmark for new parts (mobo, GPU) to see if they meet the requirement or not. For me the situation is the following: I have a midrange system in mind (something like a Ryzen 7600/ 7700 with 32 Gigs RAM and a GPU with at least 16 Gigs or VRAM) and I follow reviews and prices. But when maybe now is not the best time to enter AM5 and still go with AM4 or Intel 13. Gen when a new PC is really needed, *it's getting suddenly very interesting when finally motherboard prices normalize more, maybe some new GPU enter the market and CPU prices adjust as well* I think you got the idea. Sorry for the wall of text. But I think it was necessary because after covid I noticed *many discussion in twitch chats and comments about these topics when and what to buy.* And a recommended configuration in a specific price range summarized in a video would make *a fine base line for any discussion!* Not because of companies and preferred brands but because of necessary features and a price. Greetings from Germany! p.s. Inspired by MKBHDs best smartphone awards as a compass what to aspect in a certain category with often one or two follow up recommendations.

Love your videos guys! I’ve never been this early

Can't wait for A620 motherboard VRM roundup, this is where the real fun begins!

Excellent review. I am totally gonna get this board for a full system overhaul with a rx 7800 xt upgrade and dual boot with linux. :)

I can't wait to see the updated boot times for all those motherboards! It would be interesting to know why different manufacturers have such wildly different boot times.

Yes! Been waiting on this

Nice to see ASRock is staying true to their roots. They became big by having a seriously solid entry level lineup that made them a no-brainer for me to suggest to every casual user I've built computers for (which is north of a hundred by now). Also nice to hear that they've stopped being pouty little bitches about reviews they thoroughly deserved and have started sampling you guys again. Perhaps management has woken up to the fact that bad products get bad reviews no matter what, so the only way to avoid it is to not... make bad products. Whatever the case this is certainly a board I'll keep in mind for entry level Ryzen builds.

Good stuff Asrock, see it doesn't hurt that much taking some consumer feedback into your products!

Great review as always

thanks for that big help for making my first pc

Heading to a million subs. Great! 🙌

i cant wait to see a b650e overview and recommendations

Big 👍to having a good and affordable motherboard again. Unrelated but dual slot memory motherboards should be much more common, not a price-cut feature. Big majority of people do not use 2 sticks per channel. Single stick per channel is easier on the memory controller, allows better overclock due to topology and DDR5 compatible CPUs have plain bad memory controllers. AMD especially, I've heard trouble running 4 sticks without any memory overclock.

i have used this motherboard with a 7900X3D and 7800X3d without issues and with a 6000c30 32gb kit of ram. Excellent value. WP Asrock.

Thank you for this!

Very nice - this is what I want to see for reasonable VRM's (not insanely over built with reasonable temps) on more budget oriented B650 mobo's. Now if I could get this in an ATX form board with 6 SATA ports with (prob asking for a bit much) a single 4x connected PCIe slot (does not have to be connected to cpu) we'd have a winner for my needs.

Glad the B650M-HDV/M.2 does well despite being in the bottom-of-the-barrel territory. Hope you will get the B650M Pro RS whenever it is released!

I have build 2 Pcs with Asrock boards so far (z170 and z370). And the most notable in both cases was that they always booted extremely fast compared to my asus and Gigabyte Pcs.

best budget board i owned is a Gigabyte B550M S2H followed by a B760M Riptide from AsRock. They both are really amazing value/overclocking boards.

Can't wait to see A620 boards tested. If this can survive 7950X than maybe they will be an amazing deal for ryzen 7600

awesome B650 AM5 motherboard, hope you can make a video update for a pc build using the best price/performance pc parts with this MB.

depends on you use case. I needed a veryu cheap motherboard for a nas, so my bottom cheap a320 HDV is working excellent for the use case. It has been running Truenas 24/7 for over 1½ years now. Fully stable on been down due to a fuse blown in the master fuse box and 2 times for a major software update.. The only thing i found lacking was at this early board was no m.2 socket. Not everybody needs a fully loaded gaming capable board

I have a 7950X3D on the B650M PG Riptide and it works perfectly

Looking nice. Have one of their z boards I got on sale in my coffee lake build.

Looking forward to the A620 roundup.

I think fast boot on ASrock might be a feature, because I have a 3rd gen that boots crazy fast compared to my other 4th gen stuff.

AM5 with an 7600 for examples starts to make a lot more sense with DDR5 RAM having come down quite a bit and with boards like that ASRock.

Thanks for this review! I bought this MB with the Ryzen 5 7600 and I'm satisfied so far

I am building a computer to replace the near nine year old monstrosity I have now. I didn't keep up on an active update cycle so... yeah. time to replace the i5-6600k and RX 580 I've been sporting. Just looking at the specs on what was on offer and deciding I wasn't going to pay for more than what I felt I would need as it is primarily going to be for gaming, I selected this board. So far, I am happy with it. The last time I bought an ASRock board, it arrived DOA. The replacement also arrived DOA. Third time, I just opted for cash return and bought a Gigabyte board. I am glad I didn't run into that problem this time ;) ASRock has been doing pretty well lately.

So acho tutorial gringo sobre essa placa. Excelente trabalho a equipe Hardware Unboxed

Awesome. Now test the A620-HDV/M.2 and A620-HDV/M.2+. The VRM on the non-plus looks super low end.

2.5Gb LAN on an entry level board is still a nice addition. Sure it doesn't have all the bells and whistles but I can't think of any "must haves" it is missing.

I wonder if the fast boot time is partly due to the limited I/O overall. Apart from the memory limits, there are fewer devices and drivers for Windows to load and verify. If this was a memory performance thing, it should have reflected more in the gaming benchmarks.

honestly 2 DIMM slots is not a downside. I thought to upgrade to 32GB RAM on my B450m Mortar Max just to find out it can't do 3600/16 it could handle on either kit individual (and they're perfectly matched - made sure of it and it was Ballistix on Micron Rev.E), hell it could not even do 3200/16 stable. Ended up selling both kits and buying new DJR kit 2x16 which now runs no problem 3600/16. 4 DIMM slots can quickly turn into quite a headache getting things to work.

Damn Steve! I know you missed us but relax a littlle, you got all chatty at the end. Had to put a shirt on because it was getting a little weird. 😂 Thanks for the content!!!

This is what I was looking for to pair it with 7500f. A good entry to a new platform and good jump from my old 3600

Decent VRM, somewhat decent heatsink, ok rear IO, reasonable internal connections. Imo a solid board at the price. A 125 bucks am4 board doesn't offer many more features, and you get pcie 5 and ddr5. Good job asrock. Kinda torn on the thermal limit, i kinda get it tbh. Barely any performance loss, tech savy people can easily disable it, but the non-tech savy don't panic about "OMG my CPU runs 95 degrees".

This seems super interesting, decent VRM, 2 dimm slot = generally great memory OC(see how fast it trains the memory) certainly doesn’t have the most connectivity, but ample usb port and m.2/SATA, even had front panel type C and 2.5G LAN and internal WiFi m.2. Seems to be a perfect gamers OC board. Those who have few SSD, 1 GPU, 1 WiFi and that’s it.

poked a bit around on MSI forum and it seems the boot time issue is fixed in the latest beta-bios, at least for the Tomahawk version of the B650

Any plans for a mid-end/high-end B650 motherboard roundup? I am waiting for that!

I'm interested in how well it will perform with the 7800X3D. I've got a ROG Crosshair VIII Hero Wi-Fi that I originally purchased to use with a 3950X. I'm no longer doing render work at home and have "upgraded" to a 5800X3D and it's such an amazing chip for gaming that I can't see gamers looking for the best value skipping the 7800X3D when it releases. I've heard that the X3D chips don't always play well with the cheaper chipsets, however, so if that's true then gamers looking for the most bang for their buck will still be looking at buying a mobo that costs over $200 USD.

The Asrock third PCIE slot being a 4 lane in a X16 slot makes this board better. It can take a dual NVME card with a chip and give a great 4 x NVME drive configuration. I use such a configuration on a B550M which has the same configuration. Only the boards in the top cost category of the competitors have this availability. I might even go Ryzen 7000 series now there is a cost effective board to do what I want.

thanks for the video

Seems like a good value board to dip your toes into AM5. Will work nicely with a 7600 and the option to drop in a later generation AM5 CPU a few years down the line.

2:15 Is there a review of gigabyte b650m K motherboard? Would love to hear Steve's opinion about it before i pull the trigger.

thanks for sharing

Really wish the OEMs would make some midrange mATX boards with 2 DIMM slots too. By the time I feel like getting 64GiB of RAM, it'll be just as cheap in 2x32 as 4x16.

Been buying ASRock boards for a while now, and most of the PC's in my house have ASRock boards. Generally my favorite BIOS (exception EVGA is the best) and the boards are usually the best bang for the buck.

With the lovely things you've said about Asrock in the past, it's really nice to see that they are sending you a Board for testing.

I use an Asrock B450 HDV Rel 4.0 and in April 2019 I paid Newegg $59.99 for it! I see a B650 for $140 as price gauging. I'm not interested in power stuff, since I'm only using and intend to use APUs with 65W TDP. I'm not interested in Gen5 M2 stuff, since I perfectly happy with my 2019 Silicon Power M2 SSD running at 3400/2300MB/s. I'm happy with boot time of 6.5 secs of my daily used Xubuntu Virtual Machine and I only boot the Host OS after power fails. I will stay on AM4 at least till 2030.

I've used the B450M and B550M HDV boards and they've been just fine. No overclocking on them.

We so lucky to have top tech channels on yt review motherboards. All the other top tech channels do GPU reviews every other week...

Windows starts faster on it, because there are only 2 places for RAM, not 4. This allows you to overclock the memory much better, because the 2-slot architecture improves the operation of the RAM.

great entry board for sure awesome

-8 phase vrm -8-layer pcb with 1DPC memory topology -pcie 5.0 m.2 slot -decent io with intregrated io shield This is a decent board with great overclocking "features" (more of the lack of omissions that hurt overclocking), and not many useless features -like rgb- It's probably the sole reason that makes the 7800x3d compete at all with the 13600k. There should be more 2-dimm motherboards; they overclock so much better than 4-dimm ones, and the people that are looking to "fill the gaps" don't need to pay as much.

I kind of like the previous HDV boards. They are very small, often shorter than DTX but a little bit wider. They are also cheap and power efficient. I have a H370M-HDV (7.5-in x 7.4-in, 19.1 cm x 18.8 cm) with only a bare 3+1 VRM and no M.2 slot. But for a small server its perfect, and you can use the PCIe x16 slot with a 2$ M.2 card adapter from Ali. The best thing is that the 3+1 VRM is very power efficient, so you can have a game server running, like ARK or 7D2D ,that idles under 20w when nobody's on and still have plenty of cpu power for Boss fights and 64+ hordenights, with an old I7-8700 CPU and no airflow over the "no heatsink" VRM! I use to think that big expensive VRMs were also more power efficient, but when you think about it, it's obviously not. If you need big heatsinks and airflow, to keep them from overheating, they can't be very efficient. So I have no problem with the weak VRM on my B450-f Strix, because it works perfectly, even without airflow, and is probably the reason why that board can idle under 40W with a 3060ti and 3 M.2's. I don't overclock CPU's anymore, because they are already pressed far beound there efficiency curve at stock, and I see no reason to up the power consumption with a third, to gain 5% in performance. To me, It's much more fun to down the power consumption with a third, without loosing more than 5% performance. It also have the added advantage, that you can make the PC completely silent ...

bought the board because of this video :D thank you Hardware Unboxed!

As expected - sic654 are quite good VRMs. Please chech if a620 b650 low end are suitable for gaming and productivity. Especially mising PBO, CO in a series's

Thanks Steve

Actually when I first saw this board I don't believe it's HDV......but great to know Asrock AMD team did a great job in making this a good budget option, ALSO great to know Asrock did not blacklisted you guys now. BTW are you going to test A620 version of this board? just wondering will it be as good as this one

What camera do you use ? the image quality is amazing its like your sat in my living room.

Haven't watched this fully, still at sponsor spot, but I am really eager to see how this compares to the Gigabyte B650M DS3H edit: never thought it would be exciting to see motherboard companies fighting to gain market share, but ASRock and Gigabyte are killing it now!

You should also include the x670 testings so its easier to check the comparison.

I'm impressed. If I go 7800X3D this will be my choice. 2dimm layout makes ram tuning easier vs 4dimm. Easier to get gdm off running, usually allows for a bit hocger oc etc.

Good timing for the 7800X. Most wouldn't need a fancier board than this for even a high performance gaming build. Even though I remain a sucker for more M.2 slots.

It's great that VRM get better on cheap boards. Which should never be a problem...