Nice looking board but crippled with poor VRM design and inherent NVME problems
by marcbought the B450M-DS3H board before searching for online reviews ....oh dear I had many problems with Ryzen master telling me it had exceeded power limits and the Vcore voltages showing considerable droop when the CPU is under any significant load.. which meant my R5 2600 was constantly being downclocked to under 3.4GHZ even when only 2 cores where being loaded (temps always under 60C via AIO water cooling) ...so no chance of any overclocking.Also the NVME drive support is shady at best and the board will often spontaneously reboot if an NVME drive is installed on the onboard slot ... search google you'll find I'm not alone in experiencing these problems ...and watching and reading tech review seems to confirm the VRM is very weak on these boards... Also there is NO SOC VRM cooling at all !!!! so dont install a 2200G or other chip with an on chip video 'card'If how ever you install an NVME drive in a PCIE slot adapter the Board will work fine ...or also if you use a Sata ssd (via sata cable) it'll work fine as well....but still suffers from lack of available current for the Vcore.I've now bought a MSI tomahawk B450 board which has allowed me to run my R5 2600 at its max boost clock of 3.9ghz and with this board I can now over clock the R5 2600 and its currently running at 4.1ghz stable...I cant recomend this board at all.
