ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming ITX/TB3 review

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The motherboard follows a standard ITX form factor (17 cm x 17cm). The motherboard is located in a high-end range of the Ryzen Gen 3 desktop processor product stack. 

 

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Size ITX
Chipset AMD 570
Memory 2 x DDR4 up to 4533 (OC with Zen2) Original Ryzen up to 3200 MHz
Multi-GPU -
Expansion

AMD Ryzen series CPUs (Matisse)
- 1 x PCI Express 4.0 x16 Slot (PCIE1: x16 mode)*
AMD Ryzen series CPUs (Pinnacle Ridge)
- 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slot (PCIE1: x16 mode)*
AMD Ryzen series CPUs (Picasso)
- 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slot (PCIE1: x8 mode)*

- 1 x Vertical M.2 Socket (Key E) with the bundled WiFi-802.11ax module (on the rear I/O)
- 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE1)

Storage - 4 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug
- 1 x Hyper M.2 Socket, supports M Key type 2280 M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen4x4 (64 Gb/s) (with Matisse) or Gen3x4 (32 Gb/s) (with Pinnacle Ridge and Picasso)*
Networking Intel I211-AT
Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200
2 x 2 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) with MU-MIMO supports dual-frequency band 2.4/5GHz
Audio ALC1220
USB 3 USB 3.2 Gen2 (2 Rear Type A), 4 USB 3.2 Gen1 (2 Front, 2 Rear)

With the 570X board ASRock outs a high-end class product, it has plentiful enough features to keep you busy for a while. The primary graphics slots have metal shielding, there is plenty of cooling and overall it is just a nice looking board.

  

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The motherboard includes all of the standardized X570 chipset options with a full-speed PCIe Gen 4.0 M.2 SSD slot at the backside, one x16 slot (configured as Gen 4 x16 ). 

 

 

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The I/O back panel reveals USB 3.2 Gen 1 and 2 ports. The audio unit has a few noise-reducing capacitors and shielding on top of that Realtek chip. You will spot one 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet jack. Surprisingly included is a PS/2 keyboard/mouse combo port. Included are optical S/PDIF out port and five gold-plated audio jacks. Two WIFI antennas can be spotted for AX wifi and Bluetooth. The motherboard is even APU ready with a DP in and HDMI port. 

- 2 x Antenna Ports (on I/O Panel Shield)
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port
- 1 x HDMI Port
- 1 x DisplayPort 1.4 Input
- 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
- 1 x USB 3.2 Gen2 Thunderbolt Type-C Port (40Gb/s for Thunderbolt protocol; 10 Gb/s for USB3.2 protocol) (Supports ESD Protection)
- 2 x USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A Ports (Supports ESD Protection)
- 2 x USB 3.2 Gen1 Ports (Supports ESD Protection)
- 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)
- 1 x Clear CMOS Button
- HD Audio Jacks: Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone (Gold Audio Jacks)

You read it right, ASRock planted a Thunderbolt 3 chip onto the motherboard the USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C Port is connected through Thunderbolt and offers 40Gb/s on that Thunderbolt protocol.

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The board comes with one 8-pin power connectors. There's also all kinds of LED enablement on (and under) the board as well as RGB LED strip connectors you can configure with software. You'll get two DIMM slots that can be used for up-to 64 GB of dual-channel memory on Ryzen 3000. With regular Ryzen procs, up-to 3200 MHz is supported in OC mode, with the new Ryzen 3000 models 4566 MHz, however something at 3200 to 3600 we recommend. Please do check compatible memory and thus the QVL (Qualified Vendors Lists)

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