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ASRock Fatal1ty X470 Gaming-ITX/ac Motherboard Review

Performance: Part 2 and ASRock Software

As we could see on the previous page, results in some benchmarks are higher on the X470 chipset. It clearly looks like these motherboards are keeping high frequency on single cores for longer. In 3D benchmarks like 3DMark or VRMark, we can see that less demanding tests are giving us higher scores on the X470 chipset. Results of both motherboards, so the X470 Taichi and the X470 Gaming ITX/ac are almost the same.

On the other hand, more demanding tests which are using more CPU cores at higher load are showing similar results, regardless of used chipset or motherboard. What does it mean? Gamers will see high performance regardless of used chipset but can count on a bit higher maximum FPS in games that are using fewer CPU cores.

Of course, we can overclock the CPU. Our not the best sample could make 4.17GHz while overclocked manually. It’s not much but the frequency is constant. If we use automatic setting or ASRock default profile then the CPU will boost up to 4.2GHz so exactly as specified by AMD.
Our results are similar to what we can expect on most top X470 motherboards, what is related to CPU’s overclocking potential and AMD Ryzen architecture.
 
 
 
ASRock is adding multiple applications which are making life easier. I recommend F-stream for anyone who wishes to play with overclocking.
 

One more application is ASRock Polychrome RGB which let us manage LED lighting of our components and whatever we connect to the RGB headers onboard.

Since the X470 Gaming-ITX/ac has no RGB LEDs on the PCB then this application is not required as long as we won’t connect additional devices with LED lighting. Once we do, then we will be able to pick various modes. One example with a list is on the picture above. Depends on the component, there are available other options.
 

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