Installation
As per usual, there was no issues with installation. I seem to use less and less SATA hard drives nowadays. It’s going to have to be NVMe PCIE M.2 SSDs all the way now. Once you’ve tasted the speed … there’s no turning back!
BIOS
The BIOS is the usual UEFI one from ASRock, and it’s easy to use.and configure. Of course you can switch between EZ mode or Advanced mode for adjusting CPU and memory settings.
ASRock recently announced that their new BIOS for all 300-series motherboards now support the Intel’s new CPU stepping. . So if you plan to own one of the new CPU’s make sure flash the BIOS to the latest version.
Realtek Gaming 2.5GB/s LAN
We didn’t have any “super expensive” gaming routers in our labs that can support 2.5G/5G/10G LAN connectivity. So unfortunately, we were unable to test the onboard Realtek Gaming 2.5GB/s LAN controller fully. We will revisit once we do have a nice gaming router.
