Does anyone use Asrock motherboards?

Sasquach

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So trying to determine what motherboard to use in my SFF build....And the ITX selection kind of sucks...Asus and MSI costs too much, so im left with Gigabyte and Asrock. I have no issues going with Gigabyte (Used with my Phenom 2 build) and ASUS (Used Asus plenty, My "Squachbox" big tower PC is equipped with an ASUS Prime B450 A/CSM mobo...and i think my RX6600 is an Asus card) I was almost ready to pull the trigger on an Asrock B850 lightning Wifi except ive been reading some abnormally high failure rates of 9000 series CPU's linked to Asrock boards. I acquired a Ryzen 5 8600G a week ago so i dont think i have to worry, but the prospects of future CPU upgradability has me pausing a bit on Asrock (Its frying Zen5...would they fry Zen6?). Ultimately it COULD be a nothing burger in the grand scheme of things and it seems like the 9000 series chips themselves might be the culprit in some manner. I've also debated whether i only really need to get an A620 equipped board as opposed to a B650 or B850 (would save me 50 bucks at most though). Locally im kind of stuck with the B650 or B850 boards being available, so Newegg is where i'd find A620 boards. My SFF is NOT going to be equipped with the absolute top end components, im focusing this one on power efficiency and "good enough" as its purpose will be to complement my Switch2 as the TV computer (to replace my hand-me-down old parts TV computer i currently have setup)
 
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