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ASRock Z690 Steel Legend WiFi 6E Motherboard Review

Test Setup

For our tests, we will be using a test rig which is comprised of the ASRock Z690 Steel Legend WiFi 6e Motherboard, along with an Intel Core i9-12900KF @ 3.9 GHz / Boost @ 5.2 GHz, as well as 16GB of Adata XPG Spectrix D60G DDR4-3600 in dual channel mode.

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

 

CPU Intel Core i9-12900KF (Alderlake) 12th Gen 10nm
Cooling Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240 AIO 240mm
Motherboard ASRock Z690 Steel Legend WiFi 6e
Ram 16GB of Adata XPG Spectrix D60G DDR4-3600
XMP profiles Yes
SSD/HDD Gigabyte Aorus NVMe Gen4 500GB SSD (PCIE Gen4x4)
PSU Thermaltake ToughPower 1275W
VGA card Zotac GeForce RTX 2080 AMP
Drivers Latest Game Ready Drivers from Nvidia
OS Windows 10

 

AIDA64 Info

 

CPU-Z Info

 

Load Temps

Using the the Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML 240 (fitted with the LGA1700 brackets), the processor produced a full load temperature of 103 degrees Celsius, which is shockingly high! I’ve never seen anything reached that high before. A few weeks ago, when rumors were circulating about Alder Lake’s extremely high load temperatures, I thought they were just nonsense rumors … but boy! I was wrong. The things is … the processor wasn’t even overclocked, it just run Intel’s native Turbo Boost.

There’s a simple explanation for this … Intel’s Alder Lake processors has a TDP of 125W (241W with Turbo Boost enabled).  I highly recommend you get a decent AIO Liquid cooler for your Alder Lake processors. 

 

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