Review on 💻 ASRock Z490M-ITX/ac: A High-Performance Motherboard for 10th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors (Socket 1200) by Wiktor Getka ᠌

Name: 💻 ASRock Z490M-ITX/ac: A High-Performance Motherboard for 10th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors (Socket 1200)
Item: 💻 ASRock Z490M-ITX/ac: A High-Performance Motherboard for 10th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors (Socket 1200)
Rating: 4

May 03, 2023

It was a reasonable purchase, I will order more.

The jamb of my board does not drive memory, although I bought it specifically for this
bought in , handed over under warranty
PS: I will add a review later about the warranty, etc.
PPS: 44 days of waiting, I didn’t believe that the mother would be changed, because the often refuses to guarantee judging by the reviews, but they still changed it, the memory is chasing, the processor began to warm up noticeably less, it seems that on that mother there was also an overclocked processor some kind of joint, the mother of norms (it was about 80 under load, and now it does not rise above 50-60)

Pros

There is no choice, under the z490 mini-itx there are no boards now except for biostar and asrok but I chose asrok because there is support for two m2 ssd, biostar has only one at the time of the comment on 08/19/20 there is nothing better for 13k

Cons

a weak memory subsystem, but for such an amount it is logical It’s better not to drive percents on this mother, it is designed mainly for overclocking memory and for processors without the K 10400,10700 prefix, although even with 10700, the motherboard’s VRM zone can overheat, as soon as the temperatures reach 100%, Thermal Throttling will occur and the frequencies will be reset . The reason is the Chinese MOS transistors, the SemI PWM controller of the VRM power phases on doublers, which are able to hold the processor power pack up to 65 W pl1, which is equal to 3 GHz for all 8 cores at 100% load. And in order to have 4.6 GHz as at 10700 at 100% load, you need a VRM capable of holding up to 200 W pl1, and here you already need at least 10 real phases from Vishay with normal radiators, even biostar, which has always produced poor boards, managed to put a stronger system food and also my quibble, but the bios is in broken Ukrainian-2022 when you set the 2022 language, it would be better if it was just English without a choice and that's it and some places (comments to the settings) are not translated at all