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ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ax Motherboard Review

Test Setup

For our tests, we used a test rig which includes the ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ax Motherboard, along with an AMD Ryzen 7 – 3700X at default clock speed of 3.6GHz (turbo boost 4.4GHz), as well as 16GB of Thermaltake Toughram RGB (DDR4-3200) ram in dual channel mode.

All tests were conducted at turbo clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.

 

CPU AMD Ryzen 7 – 3700X (Matisse) @ 3.6GHz / Boost @ 4.4GHz
Cooling Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240 AIO
Motherboard ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ax
Ram 16GB of Thermaltake Toughram RGB (DDR4-3200)
XMP profiles Yes
SSD/HDD Gigabyte Aorus NVMe Gen4 500GB SSD (PCIE Gen4x4)
PSU Thermaltake ToughPower 750W
VGA card Zotac GeForce RTX 2080 AMP Extreme Core 8GB GDDR6
Nvidia Drivers Latest GeForce Drivers – WHQL
OS Windows 10

 

We tested the motherboard with the latest BIOS release 1.10 (AMD AGESA Combo-AM4 v2 1.0.0.2). You can download the latest BIOS here.

ASRock Beta version BIOS are designed for the users who are seeking to achieve the best performance out of their PCs such as gamers, overclocking lovers and PC enthusiasts. However, we don’t recommend users to update BIOS while the system is running well. For any damages caused by improper operation of downloading or updating BIOS, ASRock assumes no responsibility.

Visit ASRock’s website for more information.

 

 

AIDA64 Info

 

CPU-Z Info

 

Load Temps

CPU Load temperatures reached a high of around 88 degrees Celsius, which was lower than I expected. Most of the X570 motherboard we’ve tested, including the X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX ran quite hot and thus require an active fan to cool the chipset.

As we’ve mentioned before, if you’re going to use a high-end processor like the Ryzen 7 3700X (or highert), we highly recommend you use a decent AIO cooler. In this case, we used the Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240 AIO, which did a good job of cooling the Ryzen 7 3700X with no issues.

 

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