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I haven't tried a asrock ProSeries motherboard and actually quite a long time they sent their ex 370 Pro for ever because they wanted me to test it with the new risin 2400 G and they pacifically asked me to overclock it as high as they could so today I'm going to be getting the Corsair H 110 i GT I'm gonna be throwing the 2400 G on this thing and seeing just how high I can indeed overclock it now one thing I will say about the pro 4 you don't have any of the fancy steel slots or steel slots on the memory you've just got these heat sinks which looked like they'll do a really good job and we will be testing that later here with a fan on to see how much air they can actually dissipate once we actually start calling them properly but another thing about the pro series is that lightweight motherboard that just has the essentials especially if you're an overclocker there's nothing really fancy there's no RGB lighting again there's those steel slots they've gone away with that they're just giving you straight motherboard for your money so if I had to pick a motherboard personally I would go for the tai chi series though for some reason they just keep sending me the fatality motherboards and the fidelity motherboards they're good if you need an onboard 10 gig NIC but a lot of people don't need a 10 gig NIC and even if you are looking for more valued orientated options you'd probably get a Tai Chi and go out and buy your own tanking NIC that way you could port it over to builds in the future with having a 10 gig NIC plastered onto the board I mean you might have to just de solder it and try and plug it on to another motherboard that's just not happening at all so things that I typically like about this board on the back here you've got your input and outputs if you wish to use the Rison apu you've also got 7 USB ports plus a type c so 8 in total at the front of the board you've got 6 SATA 3 ports as well as dual nvme m dot 2 now one thing i will be looking out for today is I do hope I do have the options to overclock the Rison 2400 G from the BIOS I already did it in the MSI Mini ITX board but when I use the fatality x3 70 board I actually couldn't do anything in terms of overloading the GPU from the boss itself as I personally like overclocking the boss as opposed to using the Rison master software but then we will put this thing on the test bench and take it for a test drive and see what can do so now booted this up and I've restarted it and we're in the BIOS and my expectations went from being hopeful to actually being a little bit disappointed and the reason being there is actually no system on chip voltage control here and that's actually really important setting for overclocking your memory manually though it has locked in this XMP profile and that is confirmed so that actually means that the system on chip voltage is there and it's more of a shadow voltage just can't see it and it is actually controlled automatically so not a good thing if you're buying a budget kit of memory and you're hoping to get the max speeds possible out of that kiddo memory and I imagine that's gonna be a lot of people who would think thinking of buying the pro 4 since it's a budget motherboard so I was disappointed in that I was also disappointed to see that there's no load line calibration setting here as well it's a pretty important setting especially for maximizing your overclocks for 24/7 air or water overclock so it is running at 4 gigahertz and here's at 1.4 2 though keep in mind when I do stress this this I'd imagine it will be dropping down to 1.3 something so we do have to check that there's also no setting here in the BIOS to overclock the GPU portion as well so I would like to see our ROK implement that into their boss though other than that there is the settings of course to customize your fan profiles if you need to so it's good to see that on the X 370 board though one thing I thought with the X 370 boards is you did have that full control over your overclocking I thought that was part of the X 370 license so let's go boot this up and see what we can do with it and see how well it can overclock with the Rison master software so now we're in the riser master software and we do actually have system-on-chip voltage control here so that is actually good to see we've also got the apu we've got full control of that with its clock speeds and its voltage control so this motherboard looks like it does have a chance of redemption but you'll notice here the CPU voltage is actually quite high this is at 1.4 5 volt that's what it's reading at and so this is the problem here's a talking about without load line calibration I've got it running a stability test at 100% load and we've got a CPU vcore with its current value at one point three seven or one point three six so that's like a quite you know 90 millivolts below what we had had at before on this setting one point four five and even there it dipped even more so that's why load line calibration is a really important setting because when we back off the throttle here when we stop this we will see that the voltage should go up now and so it did but then it went into a slumber State so now here we are back at the test bench where I'm gonna be talking about this motherboard and of course where they can get it right this motherboard can be fixed if azrael overhauled the BIOS implement things like system-on-chip voltage control implement load line calibration which I'd love to see on this motherboard but furthermore implement things like PLL voltage which I feel should exist on an X 370 motherboard nvme is good on this motherboard there's also support for a solder m dot 2 for memory slots as well for 64 gigabytes of compatibility got a heap of USB ports on the back you've also got really good onboard audio now the funny thing about the included onboard audio is as the first board in a long time that have seen that hasn't had the crosstalk problem even at a hundred volume and the cross thought was actually phenomenal the frequency response curve was quite good as well especially for a budget X 370 motherboard it was virtually flat the whole way through with only a -2 decibel drop off on under 10 Hertz which most users would not even notice at all the heat sinks as well phenomenal design they dissipated heat really well when we put the fan on these things we got over a 20 degree drop on the main CPU voltage supply the system-on-chip that dropped over 15 degrees as well I'd like to actually see this fin design implemented on some of the higher-end boards instead of just having a big chunk of metal so great design on the vrm heat sinks the vrm itself is decent as well so everything on this board was checking out nothing was wrong except the implementation of that bias as we said before please asrock upgrade the BIOS to give those features that I mentioned before but also unlock graphics control this is another problem I've had I'd love to see biased manufacturers update their boss to allow full control of that APU GPU solution because what I'm seeing here when I overclock with the rise and master software is I'm seeing clocks that go up to 1600 megahertz in the case of this CPU on this motherboard but what we're not seeing is those performance gains I'm literally getting like 1 or 2 percent performance gain going from the base clock on the APU which is supposedly about twelve hundred and fifty megahertz and we're meant to go up to 1600 megahertz which is a sizable boost that's like near what 25 or something percent yet we're only seeing a one or two percent increase yet when I went into the BIOS on the 2200 G and overclocked bad on the MSI board from 1100 mega that's the thirteen hundred and thirty megahertz I got a sizable increase in performance that was rivaling that of a 2400 G out of the box so please implement graphics portion control in the bus I'd love to see that then we could really get down to seeing how far this APU can go when it comes to overclocking and also with the rise of masters software was a little bit problematic there was times when I'd unlock things and I have to restart and then I'd lose control of other things another interesting thing that's kind of unrelated to this review that I found out is that if you don't have the latest update of Windows then you can't install the APU drivers so I don't know what's going on there and I don't know how this APU would work on Linux in that case but if you do want to get the 2200 or 2400 G just make sure you have your windows updated to the latest creators update anyway moving on with this motherboard you get a DVI VGA ports and also a HDMI 1.4 B it's actually not 2.0 compatible just make that said because some monitors have a 2.0 only input and if you try and put a 1.4 in you'll just get no signal at all though you may in base mode get a signal but once you install drivers for example then you could see the motherboard not giving out a signal to the monitor lastly though it's time to talk about the price for this motherboard it's actually in America of really well priced ninety USD it does work out of the box with the 2200 and 2400 G does have great onboard audio nvme support and also a pretty solid heatsink design on the VRMs however it doesn't have those features that I talked about before so this motherboard would suit someone who just wants to whack in a CPU and be good to go straight from the get-go though keep in mind the voltages on that 1.45 volt are a little bit worrisome keep in mind when you do start playing games for instance and start putting a load on the CPU they will drop around about 90 millivolts so the drop in voltage is quite big and that's because again it doesn't have load line calibration so I'd like to see asrock implement that feature in a BIOS update and this is one of the funny things I don't know what they're thinking with not giving these features on this motherboard because if they're thinking that people are going to go out and buy the more expensive taichi motherboard which is an excellent x3 70 motherboard is like literally one of the best motherboards out there then they must be mistaken because someone with a budget of $90 for a motherboard is gonna buy a $90 motherboard so if this doesn't have the features they want then they're probably going to go out and buy a motherboard from gigabyte or Zeus and the sad thing is I've tested be 350 motherboards in the past that have had more features than this x3 70 motherboard here has and they haven't even had heat sinks on their vrm now here's where things get a little bit confusing cuz in Australia PC case gear and other retailers this thing costs a hundred and eighty s strain dollars and this price I couldn't recommend this motherboard in Aulis not for anyone and I've picked up be 350 motherboards that are around about a hundred bucks and they have more features than this does except maybe - the heatsinks though if you are in the u.s. at 90 USD it is a decent buy if you're not into overclocking at all I would like to see them however update the BIOS and introduce some of those features then I could see myself recommending this motherboard however as it stands in its current state I'm not too keen on it it does have a lack of features that may as an enthusiast personally looking at it with coupled with an ex 370 license I just can't ignore for my viewers and that's the thing even though asrock is a channel sponsor they have to understand that my viewers you guys put me here behind this table recording these videos you guys are always going to come first that's not going to change that's never gonna change around turkey s city any of you guys hope you enjoyed this video if you have any comments about this motherboard let me know in the comment section below and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye