ASRock B650 Steel Legend WiFi Motherboard Review

Test Setup

For our tests, we will be using a test rig which is comprised of the ASRock B650 Steel Legend WiFi motherboard, along with an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D @ default clock speed of 4.2GHz, as well as 32GB of Lexar ARES RGB DDR5-7200 in dual channel mode.

All tests were conducted at turbo clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.

CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (AM5) at default 4.2GHz
Cooling	Thermaltake ToughLiquid 360 Ultra AIO
Motherboard	ASRock B650 Steel Legend WiFimotherboard
Ram	Lexar ARES RGB DDR5-7200  32GB Memory Kit
EXPO/XMP profiles	XMP – DDR5-7200
SSD/HDD	Lexar NM800 Pro 2TB PCIE Gen4
PSU	Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W 80Plus Gold
VGA card	ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB
Drivers	Latest AMD Software Adrenalin / Drivers
OS	Windows 11

AIDA64 Info

CPU-Z Info

Load Temps

Using the Thermaltake ToughLiquid 360 Ultra AIO cooler, the processor produced a full load temperature of  66 degrees Celsius which isn’t too bad.

Since the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a fairly high TDP of 120W, we do a large 360mm AIO cooler for optimum cooling.