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

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BrandASRockCPUSocketSocket940CompatibleDevicesGamingConsole,PersonalComputerRAMMemoryTechnologyDDR4ChipsetTypeIntelZ490MemorySpeed4400MHzPlatformWindowsMemoryStorageCapacity64GBGraphicsCardInterfacePCIExpressMemorySlotsAvailable4

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

Supports 10 th Gen Intel Core processors (Socket 1200). Supports DDR4 4400MHz+ (OC). 1 PCIe 3.0 x16. Graphics Output Options: HDMI, DisplayPort. 7.1 CH HD Audio (Realtek ALC1200 Audio Codec), Nahimic Audio.

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Revainrating 5 out of 5

Best product I have ever reviewed, I recommend it to everyone!

In general, from the use of this motherboard positive emotions. Great for processors without the K index to use in stock. The power supply is not the worst, although 5 phases per processor, but on DrMOS Vishay SiC654. High quality Nichicon 12K capacitors. The memory drives well, the Crucial Ballistix BL2K8G36C16U4WL kit works without problems both on XMP and in overclocking. I am attaching screenshots of Aida especially for comrade Vagan, who "did not receive support for new ballistics" and…

Pros
  • 1. The most affordable Mini-ITX motherboard on the Z490. 2. Two M.2 slots in the front, convenient to change. 3. Clear and simple bios. 4. Not the most sky sound (ALC1200). 5. Wi-Fi module is cheap, but works flawlessly. 6. No problem drives memory. 7. In general, decent workmanship.
Cons
  • 1. The location of the M.2 slots is both a plus and a minus. With this arrangement, it is convenient to install or change SSDs, but since SSDs are located above the chipset heatsink, they receive additional heating. 2. A shared heatsink for M.2 drives is not a good idea (installing two separate heatsinks for each SSD partially solved the heating problem).

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Best thing I have ever used, highly recommended!

I assembled a computer in the IN WIN A1 case, so mini-itx was required. The first thing that attracted me to this board was the price (14200). It is not much more than the price of asus (13600), but on the B chipset, so I took ASRock. Other options (at the time of purchase) on B and Z chipsets were more expensive (H did not consider) I recommend buying this board for i5, in extreme cases i7, but without overclocking, because. radiator is not too big Of the features: There is no backlight (and…

Pros
  • - As of 08/15/20, the cheapest board based on a mini-itx z chipset - Wifi module is good enough, better than what is in my laptop - 2 ports for case fans - Additional protection for pci express port - Good sound module for the average user - Large cooling on the m.2 slot (if you install only one drive)
Cons
  • - simple bios - Inconvenient setting of the case fans speed.

Revainrating 4 out of 5

I'm satisfied, it's a good purchase.

Pros: 2 m2, wi-fi and Z chipset. In fact, one of the cheapest itx boards compatible with Hackintosh on the Z490. Got cons: radiator on M2 - decorative cap. If you put 2 m2 of disk from Samsung, then after an hour of PC operation you will not touch the radiator.

Revainrating 4 out of 5

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

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