Today, we’ll be taking a quick look at the ASRock B365 Phantom Gaming 4 Motherboard, which utilizes Intel’s latest B365 chipset and features dual M.2 slots for SSDs that come with fancy heat speaders. It supports all Intel 8th and 9th Gen Core processors LGA1151 (both 22nm and 14nm), Optane memory, AMD Quad CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™, PCIE steel slot, 8 power phase design, and of course ASRock Polychrome RGB.
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The ASRock Z390 Taichi not only looks stylish, but also offers a lot of features and can be overclocked excellently! In the review we show all details about the equipment including 360 degree view and test how high you can overclock an Intel Core i9-9900K CPU with this Intel Z390 motherboard from ASRock.
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Both the ASUS ROG Strix Z390-I Gaming and the ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ac are around the $200 mark, which is a very popular enthusiast price point for small form factor high powered motherboards. Both motherboards also share similar features, including dual M.2 slots for storage and 802.11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi modules. Nonetheless, there are differences between the two worth examining.
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ASRock’s Taichi series of motherboards has been hugely successful, offering up a lot of features, a solid VRM, and good aesthetics at a very reasonable price. The Z390 Taichi Ultimate features a 10Gbit NIC, which is one of its biggest advantages over the Taichi and even the Phantom Gaming 9. Let’s see what it has to offer.
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Sitting at the middle of ASRock’s consumer motherboard line, the Extreme4 has long offered users a cheaper way to achieve a mild overclock from high-end processors. That same concept has applied whether we were talking about the 8700K, the 7900X, or even some of its AMD offerings.
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With the Z390 chipset ASRock is offering the Z390 Extreme4 motherboard, which offers a wide range of features that any enthusiast, gamer, or normal PC user would enjoy. Some of those features include a 12 phase power design, dual Ultra M.2 slots, USB 3.1 support, 8 SATA 6GB/s ports, NVIDIA NVLink & AMD CrossFire support, and of course Polychrome Sync RGB lighting.
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The Z390 Taichi’s price tag puts it in the top tier of ASRock’s current Z390 boards. The flagship of the Taichi series is the $319 Z390 Taichi Ultimate, which sports AQuantia’s 10-gigabit Ethernet LAN chip.
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The VRM is in a 10+2 phase configuration. Each of the CPU and iGPU phases utilizes a dual N-channel SinoPower SM7341EH 25A MOSFET and a high current inductor. The main PWM controller is the UPI Semiconductor UP9521 in 5+2 phase mode.
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The ASRock X399 Phantom Gaming 6 I have here today boasts a full-coverage M.2 heatsink, dual Gigabit LAN, and ASRock Hyper BCLK Engine II. Not only are there three M.2 slots and eight SATA 6 Gb/s ports, but the feature ASRock is most excited to present, and rightfully so, is the new Phantom Gaming 2.5 Gb/s LAN.
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hose of you who have a good memory for images might be confused by the branding, since ASRock’s Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 uses the same plastic covers over its I/O panel and audio pathways as the Z390 Taichi Ultimate, to cover the same voltage regulator and sinks as that more-expensive board. It even uses the same PCB, leaving only the PCH sink and some screen printing to differentiate its “Taichi” and “Phantom Gaming” brands.
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