ASRock B650 PG Lightning AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Processors Motherboard

Item returned, showing red led fault lights

The first one would run for 2 minutes and then shut down. i replaced the memory, PS (went from 750W to 850W), the GPU and the Processor. Sent it back to ASROCK and received a replacement a month later. The replacement has crushed pins on the CPU connector.

So this is just not worth the headache. I don't know if it just does a terrible job at seating the cpu consistently, or if it's seating the ram, or both. If I add new ram, it makes zero sense that when I unseat the new ram to return to the previous setup that was booting, I would need to reseat the cpu. This has happened multiple times with the most recent one causing the power supply to start clicking like it's trying to turn on. This is when I'm pulling the lever down to seat the cpu. That makes ZERO sense. When I bought this, I also had to flash the bios to even get it to boot. It's just not worth the headache. Get a different motherboard.

I purchased this as my start into the new AM5 boards and I have to say it's been great. The bios was easy update. Had a bit of a annoyance finding RAM speed settings but other than that good price and good product.

Fairly sturdy board, came packaged with some excellent protective foam, and relatively easy to identify what goes where. I recommend this if you have a somewhat complex wiring build or need a lot of fan, light, etc power points.