- This motherboard right here marks
the first Z490 review on the channel
and we're taking a 10900K today to 5.2 gigahertz
all 10 cores 20 threads overclock at 1.45 volt.
Now this puts out around about 260 watts.
So you will need a good VRM to handle those temperatures
as well as the CPU itself is getting quite hot
going up to 98 degrees maximum
versus 4.9 gigahertz
where it goes up to around 75 degrees
and this is around 22 to 23 degrees ambient,
so, this motherboard right here is 13 phase VRM
with direct drive MOSFET 50 amps on those 60 amp chokes
and also 12 gauge capacitors
with an intercept 69269 PWM controller.
To review these results more in depth
with a thermal imaging camera
and also looping Cinebench 20 for over 10 minutes.
We can see here that we've got the temperatures on the VRM
are very well controlled.
Surface temperatures went up to 82 degrees
but the heatsink itself only went up to 51 degrees
and then 55 and 53 degrees in the VR loop,
one and two sensors on board.
This means that the three active fan cooling solution
they've put on board this heatsink for the VRM
is doing a phenomenal job of cooling down
all those 260 watts.
I've also thrown in the 4.9 gigahertz out of the box,
which goes up to around 185 watts.
And of course you're going to get even better temperatures.
So phenomenal design on the VRM and the heatsink included,
where you've got 10 phases dedicated towards the CPU itself
is also to eight pin connectors supporting
up to 460 watts officially in terms of VRM input.
Then with that aside, let's go through all the features
on this 250 USD motherboard.
And if you're in Australia 480 Aussie dollars.
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You've got seven ports on the back here one of those
being USB type C ports with a 2.5g lan
as well as a one gigabit Intel solution,
the speeds on those checkouts absolutely fine.
And there's an integrated IO shield
that doesn't need to be pre-installed into a motherboard.
It's already installed on the motherboard itself.
Going through the audio we've got realtek 1220 onboard
to the Texas Instruments NE5532 headphone amp
and checking out the frequency response go virtually
a flatline all the way through with only 10 hertz
and under showing a minus two decibel drop off,
which means that this has really good onboard audio to boot
though is a little bit marred
with the minus 73 decibels crosstalk.
I have seen better numbers for crosstalk here.
Before it's worth this will be great cover
with mid range cans,
especially if you wanna get good audio
out of your onboard solution.
Speaking of the mic input,
the volume levels go all the way up to plus 30 Db 100.
And we witness no noise coming through
which means that they are using noise suppression
on the mic input.
So you will be able to use this on discord
and talk to your friends
without getting any of those annoying
(buzzing)
sounds coming through your mic
but that being said it will reduce your voice quality
so if you want to do professional recording solutions,
then you will want to get a better onboard mic solution.
Now for M.2
have done something really interesting here
and that is they've integrated PCIe 4.0X for support.
However, with this CPU,
it doesn't support this slot just yet.
So they put this with upgradability in mind,
where if you use this slot with an NVMe,
it just won't work at all with a 10900K
or any 10th Gen CPU for that matter,
but there is one right beside it that is PCI 3.0.
And then one at the bottom that is the same
and that was supporting speeds over three gigabytes
per second both read and write
and the temperatures went up to 50 degrees
with the heatsink on
and then with the heatsink off it got a lot hotter
so the heatsink is doing a really good job
of keeping your M.2 cool.
There's also seven PWM fan controllers on board
which can be controlled individually
each header on the BIOS itself.
And speaking of the BIOS,
it's really good to see that they've implemented
the simplicity on overclocking too.
Where all you have to do to overclock.
Widen that auto speed bump the voltage change into OC mode
and you're good to go.
Now speaking of memory speeds and XMP profiles
I tested in my original review
4400 megahertz memory worked absolutely fine on this board.
And there's also another option in there,
which is I really liked seeing
this from motherboard manufacturers
and that is they've got the ability
to tune your XMP profiles to make it a stable boot.
So if you ever come into an XMP profile
that just didn't work from the get go properly,
you can enable this setting.
Say for instance, you got 416 gigabyte sticks
of 4000 megahertz that might not work with your CPU,
where you're playing that CPU silicon lottery on the IMC.
And if it doesn't work,
then this will churn it to the highest speeds
that it will work at.
So nice to see that implemented too.
And in the BIOS itself, you've got polychrome RGB control,
so you don't have to install any software after the fact
which can hit your CPU performance.
Even possibly inducing stutter,
you can just control from the BIOS from a separate chip
and you've got 13 profiles to select from
with RGB on the top heating and bottom heatsinks
as well as having two five volt addressable outs,
and two 12 volts for RGB headers in total.
Lastly, you've got eight SATA ports,
six of those being Intel two
of those being as media
and then you've got two USB three front outs
one of those being right-angled,
and then above that a USB type C out.
At the bottom of the board you get
your manual parent reset switches
as well as your doctor debug LED,
which I personally love using this as a benchmark system
to test out graphics cards.
And if they're faulty,
this will give you a B2 error straight away.
There's also five PCIe slots three of those being one speed,
the bottom 16 slots actually at full speed
then the one at the top is a hybrid x16
which will support PCIe 4
with the upcoming 11th Gen Intel CPUs.
Also I'll check out all the USB three speeds on the back.
You've also got Display Port HDMI out
and you've got a 2.5g NIC for realtek
and also 1g from Intel.
Then finally below that you've got an M.2 Wi-Fi slot there
it doesn't come included with Wi-Fi
though I think that's actually a good thing
where we can see what the price tag.
We're gonna talk about that soon.
It is bringing down the price of this motherboard.
So if you need Wi-Fi,
you can add it in
there's also holes in the IO shield
to bring out those Wi-Fi extenders or the antennas
and with all that out of the way
it is now conclusion time with the Z490 velocita PG.
And what do I think of this board?
And to be frank, this is the first board I've reviewed here
but I've already reviewed
tons of motherboards here on the channel
and I can tell you,
this thing is going to be a value king
for people wanting to overclock 10th Gen CPUs.
We saw all those VRM temperatures
and also the fan noise itself.
I'll give you guys a quick listen
and test on those fan noises.
Usually my voice is right near the microphone,
but it's about 60 to 70 centimeters away.
We are running Cinebench R20
looping at one while I'm doing this test,
this is how the fans will sound
and this mic is right next to those fans.
(wheezing)
And we could just see with those fans
that they bring down the temps
and doing a phenomenal job
even at 260 watts output from the CPU
that is keeping this thing under control
and there's nothing to worry about.
So phenomenal job of the VRM solution
and the implementation of that.
The onboard audio, they've nailed that on the head.
Expandability for USB ports
and everything in between,
they've also hit that really well.
That there is one thing
and that is if you want to put
say for instance 2 20 ADTIs in SLI,
you might wanna look at another motherboard
where that bottom 16x slot is actually only a PCIe4 speed.
So basically for a single high end GPU,
this motherboard is going to be hard hitting
in terms of value for money.
The only real cutting point for me personally
would be there's no clear CMOS button onboard
the rear of this motherboard.
However that being said,
I found with ASRock BIOS
and also everything they've been doing lately,
is rock stable in that if you come into a faulty overclock,
it automatically detects it pretty much straightaway,
and it will reset the BIOS so you can go back in
without even having to hit that clear CMOS button.
We've also seen the bias themselves being proactive
with those XMP profiles.
Also offering all the features you would want
to overclock and not install any bloatware
after the fact with these boards themselves.
So ASRock have really come to the table
with this board in 2020 in 10th Gen
and I can't help but really not fault this thing at all.
I just think it's a really good buy
if you wanna get a 10th Gen motherboard
that will overclock extremely well.
Though that being said,
this motherboard right here is going to set a benchmark
for the other motherboard manufacturers to live up to.
And we will be adding those numbers into the charts
as we go through more of these motherboard reviews
on the channel here.
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what you think of this board right here.
I wanna see them apply this exact same formula
to an X570 motherboard
or even an upcoming X670 motherboard.
That would just be awesome.
With that aside,
we got the question of the day
which comes from Daniel.Power,
and they ask, "Are these comparisons with stock coolers?"
And there are 30 video I did two days ago
on the 10400F.
I'll put the link up here
where we compare the 10400F with its stock cooler
and the rise and 530600 with its stock cooler.
So yes, was done on the stock coolers
and for what it's worth both those CPUs
really good value for money plays at the moment.
They're two of my top pick CPUs
as well as horizon 530500X
and you can't unfortunately, really get
that where I'm at at the moment.
So hope that answers that question.
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