In all, not too much is missing compared to its full-size counterparts and is a well-appointed motherboard.īuy ASRock Z370 Gaming-ITX/ac on ASRock also adds a bit of flare to the board with three RGB LEDs located below the PCIe slot on the back of the board. The board also includes a single M.2 slot for highspeed storage. Storage capabilities on the SATA front shouldn't be an issue with the board making room for all six ports native to the Z370 chipset. As always with ASRock boards, DRAM support is high, and this board and can support 2x16 GB of memory, and is rated up to DDR4-4333. The high-end Realtek ALC1220 audio codec is bolstered with Nichicon Audio caps and a Texas Instruments NE5532 OpAmp for the front panel. The 7-phase power delivery is capable of handling any current Coffee Lake CPUs on the market, both at stock speeds and overclocked without breaking a sweat according to our testing. ASRock seems to have built the board with expansion in mind, with Thunderbolt 3 also featuring on the build through Intel's Alpine Ridge controller, which means it also supports USB 3.1, Displayport over Type-C, and Power Delivery 2.0 up to 36W.
We've looked at a number of small form factor motherboards of late, and this one from ASRock is firmly in the 'Gaming' pile. The board comes with a single full-length PCIe slot which is reinforced to better support heavier video cards, but it also supports bifurcation using a riser card to extend one x16 slot to two x8 slots (no other Z370 based Mini-ITX board is able to do this).
If everything else goes right, it could be a good contender for a sharp build. Despite the small size, the board includes Thunderbolt 3, HDMI 2.0, Intel-based Wi-Fi and LAN, USB 3.1 support, M.2 storage, and six SATA ports - a rarety on a small motherboard. This gaming-centric board offers users a number of features which make it highly competitive in the small-form-factor overclocking space at $180.
There's a lot of love for mini-ITX, and our next review is the ASRock Z370 Gaming-ITX/ac.
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