Great little board for the money
This board is packed with features for the price. Paired with an i5-11400 the ASRock autoboost profiles have really impressed me. Only 1 m.2 slot is a slight drawback but it runs at PCIe 4.0 and has no trouble keeping up with top end drives. The USB-C header means you aren't wasting the ports on most modern cases unlike some motherboards in this price point.
This is a good budget option for low-end CPUs, having all the functionality you would expect from a mini ITX board. However, it can only sustain 100 watts of continuous CPU power, which may bottleneck your system under certain circumstances, especially with more power-hungry CPUs.
I guess this can't really be a negative and is more of a broad change with 10th gen than with the motherboard itself; no bios/legacy boot mode... Except if you have a GPU in slot 1 and use CSM. Internet BIOS update is nice. Wish the m.2 slot was tooless, I lost the screw in the packaging then didn't have a magnetic screwdriver and kept not being able to screw it in. Paired this with a core i5 10400, a LSI HBA, 32GB of Corsair Vengeance ram, Node 304 case for an absolute beast of a VM Host (Using proxmox, NAS is a VM Guest and PCI Passthrough works nicely too).
I bought this board everything is fine except for the wifi if u need an itx board with wifi save up abit more my wifi speeds on this was worse than ky mobile data and my 4 yr old motherboard the ethernet port is alright tho i get 400 on it and on the wifi i get 21, like literally unusable.
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