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Those numbers look good to my (inexperienced) eyes. My Ryzen build with the NH-L9a seems to run a little louder at idle than the Intel build with an LP53 and the same Noctua fan ( ~1950 RPM vs. ~1750 RPM). The CPU side of the Sentry case feels a little warmer than the Intel as well, maybe 2-3 degrees Celsius more. I'm assuming this is due to Ryzen chips generally running warmer than comparable Intel chips?As for the motherboard itself, I am very impressed with how well-built and designed everything is on the ASRock B350 ITX compared to the Z170 ITX board. Everything seems like a step-up, from the smaller and tighter packaging with no wasted space, to the I/O shield design and fit, to the improved M.2 WiFi module and housing, to the clean layout of the board itself. I especially preferred the portable antennas for the WiFi module, and to be honest it's the main reason I picked it over the X370 board. The UEFI software is nothing special, but it's the same as the Intel version so I felt very comfortable navigating around. I found it interesting that it boots right into the "advanced mode", without first using a "basic mode" like the Intel board did. Overall I'm impressed with ASRock taking an already good design and making it even better.
Those numbers look good to my (inexperienced) eyes. My Ryzen build with the NH-L9a seems to run a little louder at idle than the Intel build with an LP53 and the same Noctua fan ( ~1950 RPM vs. ~1750 RPM). The CPU side of the Sentry case feels a little warmer than the Intel as well, maybe 2-3 degrees Celsius more. I'm assuming this is due to Ryzen chips generally running warmer than comparable Intel chips?
As for the motherboard itself, I am very impressed with how well-built and designed everything is on the ASRock B350 ITX compared to the Z170 ITX board. Everything seems like a step-up, from the smaller and tighter packaging with no wasted space, to the I/O shield design and fit, to the improved M.2 WiFi module and housing, to the clean layout of the board itself. I especially preferred the portable antennas for the WiFi module, and to be honest it's the main reason I picked it over the X370 board. The UEFI software is nothing special, but it's the same as the Intel version so I felt very comfortable navigating around. I found it interesting that it boots right into the "advanced mode", without first using a "basic mode" like the Intel board did. Overall I'm impressed with ASRock taking an already good design and making it even better.
