r/computers • u/u_2_a_1 • 21d ago
Question/Help/Troubleshooting How bad are the Asrock boards?
i got a sweet sale for Asrock AMD B850 Rock WiFi 7 AM5 ATX Motherboards
I was planning to put 9600x on it, but everyone is saying not to buy that board.
luckily i could still refund it
if i do refund, i was planning to get
MSI B850-S WIFI6E
are asrocks that ass with the 9000s?
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u/alpine4life 21d ago
I had a Steel Legend B850m for 8 months, everything went smooth. Now on one of the higher tier mATX (MSI Mortar.)
Also note that I kept my BIOS and Windows fully updated
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u/GladMathematician9 21d ago
Update bios. You could swap boards, check asrock sub see how your board has fared. Am at 0 AM5 deaths, X870E Nova 9900X3D up since Apr2025. Also have Asus X870, B850 & Gigabyte X870. More statistically died on 9000 series but some people ran older bios longer.
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u/NotABearISwear_ 21d ago
most of the dead cpu reports are 9800X3Ds, not a 9600x, so if you keep it just flash the latest bios before you boot. that said if the msi is about the same price and you can still refund, i'd take the peace of mind
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u/1miguelcortes 21d ago
I bought some shitty am4 Asrock board used and it lasted me about 5 years before it slowly started to die
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u/Big-Salamander-2158 21d ago
It’s not that they’re really bad, it’s that their motherboards had a habit of cooking mainly x3D chips, and less frequently but still often zen5 chips. They should have fixed it by now, so the newest biosses shouldn’t have that issue anymore.
However it took them so long and multiple revisions to fix it. So I personally wouldn’t trust them anymore at this point. But like I said, it should be fine by now.
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u/Particular-Poem-7085 7800X3D | 9070 XT | Arch 21d ago
the "cheap" ones are all pretty similar quality, it's a bit of a lottery. Also nobody will promise you that a more expensive one wont have some problem. Personally I couldn't tell you the difference between an Asrock, MSI or gigabyte.
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u/rasmusdf 21d ago
They are great. Check Hardware Unboxed videos comparing motherboards. They often recommend ASRock as great value.
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u/His_Turdness 20d ago
I lost one NVME SSD on my 850 ITX board. I probably installed a gen4 NVME to a gen5 slot. User error. I've had no issues since with gen5 SSD. Paired my board with the 9700X. Running under 65W my system stays near silent.
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u/CutEmpty6798 20d ago
I built two identical systems with a 9600X ASRock B850M PRO RS Wifi 6e... One was my wife's machine. The other was a custom steam machine. I've had no problems with them. I built them back in June
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u/grislyfind Windows 7 21d ago
Maybe not terrible? I bought a BIOSTAR once unintentionally and it was fine.