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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Today we test on OCinside.de the ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 motherboard with Intel Z390 chipset. You have to see the features and you can overclock the ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 excellently! How high you can overclock an Intel 8th Gen and the new Intel 9th Gen CPU we test on this Intel LGA1151 v2 motherboard with an Intel Core i7-8700K and very impressive with an Intel Core i9-9900K CPU.
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It comes with a ton of features such as ASRock’s Super Alloy, 8 Power Phase & Dr. MOS, as well as Phantom Gaming 2.5Gb/s LAN, PCIE steel slots, 3 x Ultra M.2 connectors, Polychrome RGB Sync, 2 x USB 3.1 Gen2 (both Type-A and Type-C) and 12 x USB 3.1 Gen1 ports. And there’s more …
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Improvements over the Z390 Taichi are worth more than the Z390 Taichi Ultimate’s price difference, and its updated firmware adds efficiency. Overclocking and VRM cooling should be better, but this board is still a good fit for value seekers who need a 10GbE connection.
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So yeah, the ASRock Z390 Taichi Ultimate has 12 IR Digital VRMs. It has been embedded with four DDR4 DIMM slots offering frequencies of 4200 MHz (OC) on the Z390 Taichi Ultimate. Storage includes no less than eight SATA III ports as well as three M2 slots. You get three Gigabit jacks (2x Gigabit and one 10 Gbps) and also WIFI has been embedded, 2×2 802.11ac connection with a possible 1.73 Gb/s throughput.
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