ASRock B550M Steel Legend questions

eccential wrote: How timely. I just built my 10th AM4 PC with similar combo (B550M Steel Legend + R7-5800X3D). That's 10th AM4 AsRock motherboard for me. Motherboard came with the latest BIOS release (2.50). But I upgraded it to the latest beta anyway (L2.62). I don't have a fancy GPU (just an RX 6600), but I don't see anything wrong with the selection you have. Fast RAM is not as important with the X3D chip, so you should be fine with the one you have. I'm using Micron's JEDEC-spec ECC UDIMMs (3200MT/s), so horrendous timings (22-22-22) (laugh). As for the GPU fit, you obviously will lose access to 2nd and 3rd PCIe slots, since the huge GPU will block their use. But who uses them anyway (laugh). Beyond that, it's a case question, not a motherboard question.

Sounds good!

Thanks to both of you :)

How timely. I just built my 10th AM4 PC with similar combo (B550M Steel Legend + R7-5800X3D). That's 10th AM4 AsRock motherboard for me. Motherboard came with the latest BIOS release (2.50). But I upgraded it to the latest beta anyway (L2.62).

I don't have a fancy GPU (just an RX 6600), but I don't see anything wrong with the selection you have. Fast RAM is not as important with the X3D chip, so you should be fine with the one you have. I'm using Micron's JEDEC-spec ECC UDIMMs (3200MT/s), so horrendous timings (22-22-22) (laugh).

As for the GPU fit, you obviously will lose access to 2nd and 3rd PCIe slots, since the huge GPU will block their use. But who uses them anyway (laugh). Beyond that, it's a case question, not a motherboard question.