Yes, I've seen it being touted as one of the better ones for the B class mobos on OCN.

 

Does this board features P-state overclocking?

 

Buildzoid didn't think it was a good board.

We suspected it was 6+3 via doublers with PK616 lowside mosfets (26Apackage limit , not great). However it turns out buildzoid got an alternate version with SM4336 and SM4337 and he states that it is actually 3 phases with 2 sets of mosfets per a phase.

 

You've saved my day from buying this mobo

I've going through the motion of going back to atx. Having a mid-tower on my desk is not my preference but I can deal with it at the end of the day. I will just have to pick out a real nice case for aesthetics

EDIT:

I've decided to wait & see how many Ryzen itx mobos will be released by fall 2017. If the right itx is released that matches the performance of the ASUS Impact or Gigabyte G5 itx, I will move forward with Ryzen. Until then, I'm gonna stick with Intel a bit longer.

 

I have this board on the way with a 1700.. I'll report back with results in about a weeks time I hope

Will be running water on cpu, so guess those poor liar vrms will get a run for their money

My money, that is...

 

I have a Asrock AB350 Pro4 with a Ryzen 1700 with a 32 GB DDR4 3000 Ripjaws GVK set at 2666 Mhz. I haven't overclocked it as I rather have the 3742 Mhz boost clock working on the my 3D CAD and occasional KeyShot rendering at stock all cores 3194 Mhz . I tried using the Wraith Spire cooler and it is ok, but I put in the Be Quiet Pure Rock as I already have it from my previous FX8370 set up. There is the AMD Ryzen CBS that you can modify the p states to over clock on the bios. My current bios is the latest 2.50 So far no issues with the board, running it almost 18 hours a day for about 5 weeks already and very stable.

 

ASRock can be hit or miss. I have an AM2+ ASrock board and I'm still rocking that ASS board for a HTPC.

I got my parents a 1155 one and the onboard sound died but its still a decent board and its working. Overall I think its better than the low end ASUS boards for sure.

Plus you have to love the name. ASS ROCK.

 

I have it as well.

I overclocked 4 generic Crucial (rated for 2133) RAM sticks to 2666Hz with no hassle whatsoever. P-state overclocking is possible, BCLK is not.
I've been running the CPU (1700 with stock cooler) on 3700MHz across all cores on a 100% load (BOINC) since the 26th and it's been stable.

For a B350, I cannot say I am disappointed.

 

Hey

I have this board with a R5 1600X. I run my G.Skill memory at 3200MT. It works, I haven't done any overclocking on the cpu yet but from what I can see it is pretty limited. You can change the frequency and voltage, that's it.
No offset, just manual voltage control.

Happy enough with the layout of the board, I like that the graphics card is at slot nr 2 so that there is more space between it and the cpucooler.

/Jakob

 

I paired this board with a 1600 for the wife's build. It overclocked nicely to 3.8 Ghz and was stable. However we noticed it still had plenty of headroom left at stock and ran substantially cooler (used stock cooler in both cases), so we just backed it down to stock. Good to know that if we ever want to- we can crank it back up to 3.8 Ghz without issues. Paired it with Corsair LPX 3200 2 x 8Gb and have them running 2933 Mhz without any problems.

The board has a nice layout, and for those into the RGB LED thing, there is a header for that. Wife wanted the fancy colors- so we spent 14$ on a magnetically attached pair of LED strips and now it goes through a rainbow of color when its being used and its completely dark and quiet when in sleep-mode.

I would definitely recommend this board.

 

I just got the AB350M a few days ago along with a r7 1700.

Pretty nice board, but there is one thing that needs to be fixed, or added I should say.. Load Line Calibration in the bios.
The vdroop under load is insane. I set 1.375vcore and idle it reads 1.41v, then when I put load on it, it drops to 1.31v!

That is fu*kin ridiculous! To get 1.375v load , or even 1.35v I probably have to set over 1.4vcore and that means it will idle waaay above that, probably close to 1.5v.
Of course, this is only problematic when overclocking the cpu to its potential.. on lower speeds most runs fine well under 1.3v.

Ram I haven't tested much yet, only have a 2400mhz kit for now anyway.

Other than this it isn't much bad to say, board has a great layout.

Pcie 1x on top, then 16x, then a 4x full slot with an extra exp slot in between the 16x, this is perfect for me.
It has both m2 ultra and m2 slots, 4 sata ports and lots of usb3 ports.

Lets hope they're adding a load line option in the bios soon, so we can make our cpu's and vrm's sweat a little

 

Hi. first time posting

Just wanted to chime in on this board
I have it paired with a R7 1700 and it's running great so far.
OC to 3.65 with 1.225 Volts. Maximum temp (IBT, Prime95) is pretty low at about 55 with my old Scythe Kama Angle cooler mounted on the AM2/3 Clips with AC MX-2 paste.
32 Gb (2x16) DR Vengeance LPX 2400 14-16-16-32 1.2v overclocked to 2666 16.16.16.38 1.25V (1.28V in HWiNFO)
Had trouble booting with XMP, dont use that. Always set the timings manually
I read about the alleged substandard power delivery, so i'm keeping the CPU volts down - 1.35V max

Latest BIOS 2.50
The BIOS is great, some OC related options are hidden in the "Advanced" menu (eg. RAM termination Ohms). Love the custom Fan speed curve setting - it reacts to the MB socket temp. probe, not the one in the CPU. That is good because it does not spike and avoids distubing fan spin-ups. The temperature delta is constant (lower with 5-6 degrees), so adjust with that in mind.
The only setting i'm missing is the SOC voltage, its stuck at 0.9. Hope the next update adds that.

a solid 8/10, recommended

 

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Originally Posted by tamw

I just got the AB350M a few days ago along with a r7 1700.

Pretty nice board, but there is one thing that needs to be fixed, or added I should say.. Load Line Calibration in the bios.
The vdroop under load is insane. I set 1.375vcore and idle it reads 1.41v, then when I put load on it, it drops to 1.31v!

That is fu*kin ridiculous! To get 1.375v load , or even 1.35v I probably have to set over 1.4vcore and that means it will idle waaay above that, probably close to 1.5v.
Of course, this is only problematic when overclocking the cpu to its potential.. on lower speeds most runs fine well under 1.3v.

Ram I haven't tested much yet, only have a 2400mhz kit for now anyway.

Other than this it isn't much bad to say, board has a great layout.

Pcie 1x on top, then 16x, then a 4x full slot with an extra exp slot in between the 16x, this is perfect for me.
It has both m2 ultra and m2 slots, 4 sata ports and lots of usb3 ports.

Lets hope they're adding a load line option in the bios soon, so we can make our cpu's and vrm's sweat a little

not sure what the issue is there, but I did not have any such Vdroop issues on my 1600.

 

What voltage did you use?

 

Quote:

Originally Posted by tamw

I just got the AB350M a few days ago along with a r7 1700.

Pretty nice board, but there is one thing that needs to be fixed, or added I should say.. Load Line Calibration in the bios.
The vdroop under load is insane. I set 1.375vcore and idle it reads 1.41v, then when I put load on it, it drops to 1.31v!

That is fu*kin ridiculous! To get 1.375v load , or even 1.35v I probably have to set over 1.4vcore and that means it will idle waaay above that, probably close to 1.5v.
Of course, this is only problematic when overclocking the cpu to its potential.. on lower speeds most runs fine well under 1.3v.

Ram I haven't tested much yet, only have a 2400mhz kit for now anyway.

Other than this it isn't much bad to say, board has a great layout.

Pcie 1x on top, then 16x, then a 4x full slot with an extra exp slot in between the 16x, this is perfect for me.
It has both m2 ultra and m2 slots, 4 sata ports and lots of usb3 ports.

Lets hope they're adding a load line option in the bios soon, so we can make our cpu's and vrm's sweat a little

I am having even worse vdroop with my 1700x. Currently the voltage is set to 1.35v by default, but running a x.265 encode with handbrake it is dropping into the into 1.17~v territory without any overclock. When the chip is idle the vcore will hit 1.5v, thankfully it does not stay there. It is frustrating since I was hoping to overclock the 1700x to 3.8 or 3.9 and I have had good luck with Asrock boards in the past

LLC cannot come soon enough!

 

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Originally Posted by Zatarra09

not sure what the issue is there, but I did not have any such Vdroop issues on my 1600.

Keep in mind current and power demand for a hexcore is about 20% less.



http://www.anandtech.com/show/11244/the-amd-ryzen-5-1600x-vs-core-i5-review-twelve-threads-vs-four/2

 

Quote:

Originally Posted by DisgruntldTek37

I am having even worse vdroop with my 1700x. Currently the voltage is set to 1.35v by default, but running a x.265 encode with handbrake it is dropping into the into 1.17~v territory without any overclock. When the chip is idle the vcore will hit 1.5v, thankfully it does not stay there. It is frustrating since I was hoping to overclock the 1700x to 3.8 or 3.9 and I have had good luck with Asrock boards in the past

LLC cannot come soon enough!

Well the agesa 1006 bios update is hopefully right around the corner, hopefully it solves the memory issues and adds LLC

 

I just got this board. It's pretty simple, but seems to work fine. Windows 7, Ryzen 5 1600 (currently working on 3.85Ghz stability). Used Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000 2x8GB and it runs 2933Mhz w/o issue. I can't get this MyDigitalSSD BPX 240GB NVMe drive to work properly... board keeps dropping it seemingly at random. It's not on the approved list, of course, but not many current drives are! Anybody have a decent NVMe on theirs that works well?

I do wish it had just 1 more fan header, that would have made a difference for me, but I'll get by. Only using this board as a stepping stone until the next Ryzen comes out and hopefully more boards.

 

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nissejacke

Hey

I have this board with a R5 1600X. I run my G.Skill memory at 3200MT. It works, I haven't done any overclocking on the cpu yet but from what I can see it is pretty limited. You can change the frequency and voltage, that's it.
No offset, just manual voltage control.

Happy enough with the layout of the board, I like that the graphics card is at slot nr 2 so that there is more space between it and the cpucooler.

/Jakob

Just wondering what G.Skill memory you have specifically that is running at 3200? And did it work with the XMP profile?

I took a gamble on some 3200 EVGA RAM from Microcenter and I can't get it past 2666 even with the AGESA update. Thinking about returning it entirely, or exchanging for some Corsair.

I would also like to say that my initial impression after owning for a day, and playing around with OC for around 6 hours, via Ryzen Master, is definitely positive. The board layout is well planned, it has RGB headers if you're into that, dual m.2 slots, heatsinks on the VRMs, feels solid, and I agree it is nice to have the GPU down a space with that pCI slot there, and I was able to update BIOS before even booting into Windows....can't really complain about too much even at retail of $80.

Then take into consideration that the board only cost $30 with a CPU bundle deal at Microcenter...and the value really shines. If I had one gripe it would be fan headers...just one more, even if it was another 3-pin, would have been nice.

I've got my 1700 running at 3.7GHz with a mere 1.1875V on the stock cooler without any hassles whatsoever so far. Super impressed with the utter lack of noise the Spire emits chugging away under full load. While temperatures certainly aren't the best, it is still impressive to apply a slight voltage bump, ~0.1V, and get a 15% overclock on the stock cooler. I have a Cryorig M9 coming to compliment the CPU, which should be more than enough to bring temps down to a more reasonable level without any noise...despite its minute stature and 92mm fan, this little bugger performs about as well as a CM 212 EVO...If that holds true it should work out quite well.

I'm about to play around with the BIOS for overclock and will see how that goes.

 

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Originally Posted by Roboyto

Just wondering what G.Skill memory you have specifically that is running at 3200? And did it work with the XMP profile?

I took a gamble on some 3200 EVGA RAM from Microcenter and I can't get it past 2666 even with the AGESA update. Thinking about returning it entirely, or exchanging for some Corsair.

I would also like to say that my initial impression after owning for a day, and playing around with OC for around 6 hours, via Ryzen Master, is definitely positive. The board layout is well planned, it has RGB headers if you're into that, dual m.2 slots, heatsinks on the VRMs, feels solid, and I agree it is nice to have the GPU down a space with that pCI slot there, and I was able to update BIOS before even booting into Windows....can't really complain about too much even at retail of $80.

Then take into consideration that the board only cost $30 with a CPU bundle deal at Microcenter...and the value really shines. If I had one gripe it would be fan headers...just one more, even if it was another 3-pin, would have been nice.

I've got my 1700 running at 3.7GHz with a mere 1.1875V on the stock cooler without any hassles whatsoever so far. Super impressed with the utter lack of noise the Spire emits chugging away under full load. While temperatures certainly aren't the best, it is still impressive to apply a slight voltage bump, ~0.1V, and get a 15% overclock on the stock cooler. I have a Cryorig M9 coming to compliment the CPU, which should be more than enough to bring temps down to a more reasonable level without any noise...despite its minute stature and 92mm fan, this little bugger performs about as well as a CM 212 EVO...If that holds true it should work out quite well.

I'm about to play around with the BIOS for overclock and will see how that goes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roboyto

Just wondering what G.Skill memory you have specifically that is running at 3200? And did it work with the XMP profile?

I took a gamble on some 3200 EVGA RAM from Microcenter and I can't get it past 2666 even with the AGESA update. Thinking about returning it entirely, or exchanging for some Corsair.

I would also like to say that my initial impression after owning for a day, and playing around with OC for around 6 hours, via Ryzen Master, is definitely positive. The board layout is well planned, it has RGB headers if you're into that, dual m.2 slots, heatsinks on the VRMs, feels solid, and I agree it is nice to have the GPU down a space with that pCI slot there, and I was able to update BIOS before even booting into Windows....can't really complain about too much even at retail of $80.

Then take into consideration that the board only cost $30 with a CPU bundle deal at Microcenter...and the value really shines. If I had one gripe it would be fan headers...just one more, even if it was another 3-pin, would have been nice.

I've got my 1700 running at 3.7GHz with a mere 1.1875V on the stock cooler without any hassles whatsoever so far. Super impressed with the utter lack of noise the Spire emits chugging away under full load. While temperatures certainly aren't the best, it is still impressive to apply a slight voltage bump, ~0.1V, and get a 15% overclock on the stock cooler. I have a Cryorig M9 coming to compliment the CPU, which should be more than enough to bring temps down to a more reasonable level without any noise...despite its minute stature and 92mm fan, this little bugger performs about as well as a CM 212 EVO...If that holds true it should work out quite well.

I'm about to play around with the BIOS for overclock and will see how that goes.

Hi!
I have the G.Skill Ripjaws V 3600MT Cl16
With the latest bios I have tried both 3466MT and 3600MT with CL16 and I can boot it but I have had some crashes in PUBG and a bluescreen so I am back on 3200MT CL14.
SOC voltage is 1.1V

Good luck!

 

So you're actually running at 3200mhz on the F4-3200C14D-16GVK? Stable? If that is true, I am going to buy the same kit.

I've tried the EVGA 3000 kit at microcenter and the Trident Z RGB 3000kit from microcenter and they wont post past 2133, it's sad. They are not on the supported list memory list, but neither is the F4-3200C14D-16GVK. So if what you're saying is true I would buy them.

Can you take a screenshot for us of them running at that frequency?

 

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Originally Posted by Atomagenesis

So you're actually running at 3200mhz on the F4-3200C14D-16GVK? Stable? If that is true, I am going to buy the same kit.

I've tried the EVGA 3000 kit at microcenter and the Trident Z RGB 3000kit from microcenter and they wont post past 2133, it's sad. They are not on the supported list memory list, but neither is the F4-3200C14D-16GVK. So if what you're saying is true I would buy them.

Can you take a screenshot for us of them running at that frequency?

I've got the EVGA 3200 kit running at 2667, but am going to exchange it for some Corsair LPX 3200. Got info from a Newegg Q&A stating that stuff works with XMP no problem.

CMK16GX4M2B3200C16

I'm going to exchange tomorrow most likely...I'll let you know how that goes.

 

Yes please do, I work 5 minutes from microcenter, so I can go exchange on my lunchbreak if need be.

Edit: I saw someone on reddit claim they got 3200mhz stable on that kit CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 /u/storm_bow

 

I wonder if they will make an Extreme4 like the Z270M Extreme4. Which I have but i would like to switch to Ryzen sometime in the future.

 

Quote:

Originally Posted by ozlay

I wonder if they will make an Extreme4 like the Z270M Extreme4. Which I have but i would like to switch to Ryzen sometime in the future.

They just released the X370/B350 mini-itx...wouldn't surprise me if there was a X370 mATX coming soon.