Closer Look / Product Photos
Since I mentioned package contents then we have everything we may need to install the motherboard. There are SATA data cables, M.2 screws, drivers, manuals and I/O shield. Nothing else but we don’t need anything else.
The motherboard itself looks pretty good. I could say that in reality looks better than on the photos. It’s a well-designed motherboard in micro ATX form factor. Everything is where it should be. Nothing is too tight so nothing is overheating. Power section has quite large heatsinks. Power design also looks like 6+3 phases what is more than enough for any AM4 Ryzen processor. In tests, we had no problems with Ryzen 5 2600X after overclocking. I guess that anyone will faster see limits of the processor than the motherboard.
ASRock decided to install two M.2 sockets on the B450M Pro4. One is full speed PCI-E socket and the other one is M.2 SATA. It gives us the option to install the fastest M.2 NVMe SSD and also use the second M.2 drive for backup or additional storage without the need of any cables. Why is this option so good? Probably because barely any competitive B450 motherboard offers two M.2 sockets.
The B450 Pro4 supports multi-GPU setup but I don’t think that anyone who buys motherboard like this will actually use two graphics cards. It doesn’t change fact that we can use second PCIe slot for additional SSD or another device like a WiFi card.
If we decide to use integrated graphics then we can use even three monitors. This is actually one of the key features pointed out by ASRock. Most motherboards won’t offer that.
On the motherboard, we won’t find any RGB LEDs or other flashy elements. There is, however, RGB header so we can connect LED stripes or other components with LEDs.
The most important is how the motherboard works so after a quick look at the available BIOS/UEFI options we will show a couple of tests. Let’s move to the next page of this review.
