ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac Review: Small Wonder

[Crashman]

With all of the overclocking and less of the cost, can ASRock’s little Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac stand up to its X-series rivals?

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[Onus]

I've been eyeing this board for months now; it looks like a real winner. If I build another AM4 system (hey, I DO have a 1600X on a shelf right now...), this one is on the [very] Short List.

 

[TCA_ChinChin]

Looks like a cheap but still good ITX option. Thanks for review.

 

[stdragon]

A real Intel I211 Gigabit Ethernet controller. Very NICE! Much better than Realtek

 

[Onus]

Historically, the only expansion cards I have used are video cards, [fax]modems, and wireless NICs. Ok, I can add a video card to this board. I don't need a standard modem, and my Brother MFC all-in-one can fax (yes, I've done it quite a few times); and this board has wireless built-in. It's marginally low on SATA ports, but the M.2 takes care of that, so I can have: Data drive, Backup drive, optical drive, and external SATA dock, in addition to the M.2 boot drive.
So, it checks all the boxes. Well, all except current need...

 

[adamdbz]

I have it paired with an r5 2600 and UV Vega 56, 4 sata ssd's and one nvme drive boots in 5-6 secs in a cooler master elite 130..
great board, but for the past 3 weeks the Bluetooth started to disconnect every second so i had to disable it in device manger.. ill get to fix it when I have time..

 

[hamoo]

i can't believe that this board is already six years old
the one thing about asrock is its excellent tech and customer support
that is the bare botkin right there
i have never had an issue with this board, and i built several builds with it, at least 4. some of the builds i rebuilt over and over. always had great tech support.
so, the only thing, i was using a non compliant case - a fractal design. the housing for the power supply is not where it is suppose to be. so when i purchased a 3060ti, there was no way to make it fit. i ended up gutting my mini pc and transitioning to a gateway tower. well, there are four usb 2 connectors - two of them 9 pin motherboard connectors. and this b450 has only one. i don't think this will be a problem for most people, however, i've seen a few posts on how to solve this issue since i first encountered it. this is the only issue with this board. and i'm sure there's a workaround; i haven't come across a solution yet