ASROCK Z590 Phantom Gaming Velocita

[Black Haru]

The Phantom Gaming Velocita from ASRock targets the gamer market with Killer Networking for both wired and wireless connectivity and a dependable 14-phase VRM. Thanks to the integrated low-noise fan, VRM temperatures reached only 50°C, so no problem at all, even with a power-hungry Core i9-11900K.

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[Tom Sunday]

I never owned a ASRock motherboard. Or known anybody who actually had one except the dealers at the local computer shows offering ASRock's at fantastic prices. But the word on the street has always been that ASRock mobos are not in many respects close to Asus performance (quality) territory. When I read this review I thought for a minute that ASRock may have a continued public relations or marketing problem? Now I here see that The "Gaming Velocita "did very well in VRM torture tests, barely exceeding 51°C with the VRM fan enabled.

WOW...and that with an Intel Core i9-11900K running super hot just looking at? Thus with the expected favorable pricing of the Velocita, the fantastic VRM performance, I may save even more money by going with air-cooler instead of buying an expensive blinky AOI? From now on I will be keeping my eye on ASRock and especially since they will be introducing a slew of brand new LGA 1700 boards in the coming months ahead. We live in interesting times.

 

[CiTay]

Overclocking the RAM beyond DDR4-3600 is pointless with Rocket Lake.

You can see the reason in the screenshot here:

The mainboard has had to switch into "Gear 2" more, meaning, a divider for the IMC-vs-RAM frequency. The memory controller now runs at half the frequency of the RAM, with a big drop in performance. Several publications have done testing on this already, you need way over DDR4-4000 to make up for the performance loss when you go from Gear 1 to Gear 2.

Gear 1 (1:1, no divider) is only possible up to ~3600 MHz. which makes DDR4-3600 the new sweet spot, just like on AMD.

 

[micropage7]

2021 -> ASROCK Z590 Phantom Gaming Velocita

2022 -> ASROCK Z590 Phantom Gaming Velocita Ultra Wings Deluxe 2 Gold Next Generation Of Overclocking Madness With Illusion RGB Ver 400

 

[Deleted member 205776]

Overclocking the RAM beyond DDR4-3600 is pointless with Rocket Lake.

You can see the reason in the screenshot here:

The mainboard has had to switch into "Gear 2" more, meaning, a divider for the IMC-vs-RAM frequency. The memory controller now runs at half the frequency of the RAM, with a big drop in performance. Several publications have done testing on this already, you need way over DDR4-4000 to make up for the performance loss when you go from Gear 1 to Gear 2.

Gear 1 (1:1, no divider) is only possible up to ~3600 MHz. which makes DDR4-3600 the new sweet spot, just like on AMD.

Oh nice they managed to make the IMC for Rocket Lake worse than my Zen 2 IMC

 

[Tom Sunday]

The mainboard has had to switch...a divider for the IMC-vs-RAM frequency? 1:1, no divider possible up to ~3600 MHz.

This is news to me and my limited knowledge. How is this done in a Asus BIOS setting? Where exactly does someone enable this setting in the BIOS? Does this mean if I buy 3200 MHZ memory later it's year I will be handicapped right out of the box and should be buying 3600 MHZ instead and reset the Bios accordingly?

 

[CiTay]

This is news to me and my limited knowledge. How is this done in a Asus BIOS setting? Where exactly does someone enable this setting in the BIOS? Does this mean if I buy 3200 MHZ memory later it's year I will be handicapped right out of the box and should be buying 3600 MHZ instead and reset the Bios accordingly?

You would have to look for a Gear setting for the Memory. Gear 1 is 1:1 mode (no divider, best performance), Gear 2 is with a divider for the memory controller.

If you want the best performance, you may wanna use DDR4-3600 in Gear 1 mode. But DDR4-3200 in Gear 1 mode is also pretty good, and you might save a bit of money, so it depends on your priorities.