ASRock Phantom Gaming Z790 NOVA WIFI explodes onto the scene – PC Perspective

Written By Adarsh Shankar Jha

ASRock offers everything you could possibly need, except for a few spare strips

The ASRock Phantom Gaming Z790 NOVA WIFI motherboard has, among other things, a total of six M.2 slots, one is a Gen5 slot while the others are Gen4. This is a lot of PCIe lanes which has a small downside. If you use the Gen5 slot, it reduces the PCIe 5.0 slot to 8x, but considering how there is a 16x PCIe 4.0 slot, this should not impact your graphics performance. It’s nice to see that ASRock included heatsinks for all M.2 slots.

The power supply is 20+1+1 VRM with DrMOS SPS, Smart Power Stage mode and the board is a decent eight layers. On the backplate you’ll find 2.5 GbE networking, two antennas for WiFi 7, a single USB 3.2 Gen2x2 Type-C, four USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A ports, and five additional legacy USB ports. There’s both HDMI and DP output, and even a button to clear your CMOS.

This just scratches the surface of this PCB, The rest of the details can be found in The FPS Review.

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