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you guys are not going to believe what asrock have done with this B 365 and motherboard they've put RGB LEDs underneath the board I'm pretty sure that alone is going to drop the RM temperatures and also flatten out any mishaps in the frequency response curves with the audio hope you're doing well out there wherever you are in the world right here we've got the b-36 5m phantom gaming for motherboard from asrock now straight away you probably wondering what are the differences between B 360 and b-36 5 well the first one is this one uses the Cabul 8 platform chipset hub just like the z3 70 they're using 22 nanometer here the B 360 actually uses the 14 nanometer chipset hub the main difference being USB 3.1 gen2 be 365 versus the B 360 which has USB 3.1 gen2 but that out of the way we've got here this board which I'm going to be testing putting a 9900 K through it which who even knows if it's intended to have a 9900 k run through it stressing this vrm giving you guys the whole circle tour of a tech yet city motherboard review we may be testing this heatsink out we're gonna be testing the USB 3 speeds out can be testing the onboard audio and of course seeing if this VRM can handle the heat let's get on with the show so running through this motherboards physical attributes we have what asrock claims is a 10 phase vrm which I'm guessing is six plus two plus one plus one with six phases being dedicated towards the CPU now for the chokes they're using magic 45 amp chokes them for the caps we've got 12 K nichkhun caps and then for the MOSFETs so high side first we've got the PZ 0 9 0 3 BK and then for the low side we got the PK 6 1 8 a now I can't find any details on these MOSFETs there's nothing out there in the wild before the PWM controller they're using the UPI u p9 5 - 1 P and then move through the rest of this board we've got 3 m dot 2 slots one of those being dedicated for Wi-Fi the other two being dedicated for nvme drives which they both individually have PCIe gen3 x4 speeds but together in raid 0 1 they do drop down to PCIe gen 2 moving over to the back of the board we've got USB 3.1 type-a for connections a USB type-c and then at the top we've got USB 2 2 of those and a ps2 port as well as a HDMI IN a DisplayPort 1.2 and then for the NIC we've got an Intel I - 1 9 V 1 gigabit per second solution and then below that we've got manual 5.1 analog surround out as well as an optical out powered by the realtek 1200 so not the real tech 12:20 that you may be used to seeing going back to the board however I've got three PCIe standard slots the top one being a 16x slot below that we've got a 1x then below that we've got a 16x style but this actually truly only supports x4 speeds and then lastly we've got 6 SATA 3 native ports four dimm slots as well as a 12 volt single RGB out header and 2 5 volt addressable RGB headers on the side here one of those being tall one of those being sideways right beside the smooth cutout on the PCB here which has an invert and says phantom gaming on it with RGB underneath as well as getting RGB underneath the top heatsink here but with all that aside let's whack this thing on the test bench and see if we can make it flip out with the 9900 kay this is the first time booting it up without going into the BIOS and we can see here that the CPU initially started out going out to about a hundred and fifty-five whites with the auto default four point seven gigahertz I think on all cores and then it drops down to ninety five watts and essentially there's no throttling going on so the CPU is under control but the actual board itself did throttle down to around four to four point one gigahertz here so we're gonna go into the BIOS and see if we can change some of the power limit settings see if we can alleviate this because I do want to run it for a good ten minutes and see if it can pass the stress test with out-of-the-box settings for the ninety nine hundred K so now in the asrock boss and we're gonna try and change a few settings to keep that limit up there on the ninety nine hundred K and so basically what we do is we hit f6 and we go into the Advanced Settings here and the as work settings are really good for basic or advanced on this B 365 it looks like you get all the Advanced Options - a couple of limitations on the B 360 chipset we'll talk about that pretty soon the first thing we want to go into is the overclocking tweaking tab and into CPU configuration here just to up those power limits that you may have seen plaguing some of the reviews when the 9,900 k was first released so if we hit in 5000 on all those it should just max them out as well as the long power duration limit so that should essentially up the limits on the CPU here so we don't throttle then we move into DRAM configuration and we have no option for XMP profiles which I'm not sure if that's a limitation on the be 365 chipset but regardless asrock do have a great feature here called the DRAM tweak and now we go in here and we can suddenly see that all our XMP profiles and all the profiles saved into this memory are essentially available and so what we can do is we can select the memory up here and then go over here to the XMP and select them all and that will essentially lock in all the settings for that stick and then we can go to the next stick in the slot and do the exact same thing and lock all those XMP settings in manually sort of bypassing any limitations on the board itself and so we click OK and that will lock all our settings in some other useful features on this motherboard include the ability to control RGB it's called the polychrome RGB and you control this from the BIOS as well as all the options connected to the actual motherboard itself and then you've also got one thing that I really like about the al-zahraa boards in the bass is the ability to flash the BIOS through internet flash now I did have a pre-release boss here and it didn't support the Corsair memory but after quickly using the internet flash I updated to the retail release and now my vengeance Pro memory is working fine you've also got hardware monitor fantastic tuning we can control all the different fan headers on the board where in this case there is five fan headers included on this motherboard which is good for a mid-range motherboard and you can set them custom if you wish to or you can just have them full blast if your fans are quiet so after that we can just go to either back to easy mode or back to advanced mode and save & exit' these changes all before that if we wish to save this into a profile and overclock Tweaker and then go down to overclock Tweaker and just call it max limit 9900 K and that way I know this is ready to go so now we've been testing out the CPU the 900k good news is it goes to 4.6 gigahertz on the b-36 5m phantom gaming 4 however it does throttle without a fan over the vrm so we were getting as we can see with the lineup over here without the fan on it throttles after about a minute and 50 seconds in with the fan on it's just been going absolutely fine keeping that CPU absolutely stable and we did get the FLIR one temperatures over it and so it's about 75 degrees with the fan on there and this is in the middle of summer so we're talking 27 degrees ambient in this room right now so it does get pretty damn hot where I am at the moment so it is kind of like a worst-case scenario for this motherboard but besides that it's doing an okay job but if you do want to run a 9900 kayoed suggest getting some sort of cooling over the BRM because we saw here without the actual fan on it it does throttle pretty quickly and so things do heat up on the VR and pretty quickly and it will throttle the CPU down to about 4 gigahertz if this happens so besides the vrm there are a lot of other features that we will want to test out with this motherboard for instance the USB 3 speeds are absolutely fine giving my Kingston USB Drive over 300 megabytes per second the NIC speeds file transfer test that was fine too but what about the audio with the realtek 1200 series here we test it out with a manual sweep test and found the frequency response curve to be solid not the best i've seen but still solid nonetheless we've got a 4 decibel roll-off with 10 Hertz to 0 Hertz and then 10 to 20 Hertz we've got I think like a point one decibel roll-off so very impressive there moving through the rest of the frequency after 1k we do see a slight wave I did have to go retest this but the retest did confirm what I was seeing the first time around and that was it's slightly shaky after 1k not in a bad ways you can see the line that is pretty smooth but regardless it's not as good as what I've seen in the past looking at the crosstalk levels these are phenomenally good we're looking at negative 80 to 85 decibels on each Channel and the good thing is they've finally fixed the crosstalk problem we're over 90 it'll leak from the left channel to the right channel there was no leaking whatsoever all the way up to a volume level of 100 and then for the mic import it looks like they've gone away with noise suppression so plus 30 DB a hundred volume will introduce noise same with plus 20 DB and a hundred volume so the sweet spot for this motherboard with the mic input is plus 20 TB 50 volume level and that will give you relatively no noise your friends will be able to hear you in games really well but the breakdown with audio here is if you've got budget audio gear like a budget headphone or headset and a budget microphone this board will do absolutely fine however if you are an audiophile and you do have high quality equipment you may wish to step it up to a dedicated a cam solution now for the m2 nvme slots I tested them out the speeds were absolutely fine and the heatsink itself I am glad to say it does work properly the software reported 50 degrees and then after we put the heatsink on we got 45 degrees after about 20 minutes of stress testing on the hardware side we went from 65 degrees down to 43 degrees but it is important to note that the heatsink is blocking the actual chip that we read before and then the final test I wanted to run here was Cinebench where it looked like it was getting 4.7 gigahertz constant and then on the single core boosts they were reporting they were going up to 4.9 gigahertz during that single thread test and then running over to a game like Resident Evil 2 we could see the clock speeds fluctuating between 4.6 and 4.7 gigahertz so it does look like asrock are implementing features at the BIOS level to be able to break a 4.6 gigahertz limit and push it to 4.7 and even 4.9 on the single called boost speeds so now we're conclusion time with the be 365 M phantom gaming for motherboard what do I think of it well for starters the chipset itself be 365 I'm not impressed like at all with this chipset but I think asrock have done a good job in implementing a solid all-round motherboard the audio checks out the neck the USB 3 speeds the features PCIe gen two but the heatsink that works and then the VR M if you add a fan to it and keep in mind this is a 9900 okay it's a $500 CPU and a stray it's around 800 AUD and this motherboard is going to cost around 80 to 90 US dollars and in Australia I'm guessing around 130 Aussie and so it's going to be very budget orientated but still be able to get up and boogie if you get a couple of with an 8700 K or a 9700 K or an 8700 you're gonna have absolutely no problems whatsoever if you do for some odd reason one a couple of with a ninety nine hundred K then definitely think about getting a fan over that vrm we saw the temperatures drop from a hundred and ten degrees all the way down to 75 degrees with that fan that's a massive drop not just for keeping your CPU from throttling but also for longevity if you wish to keep your vrm cool and have it running for a very long time and the last thing that impressed me about this motherboard was the BIOS it's actually the same fully featured BIOS as their higher-end motherboards except of course you've got that ddr4 memory limitation there were two thousand six hundred and sixty-six megahertz however as well still offer the DRAM Tweaker which will enable you to get the most out of your memory in terms of sub timings and also speeds and you can still from then it may be lower the timings a little bit more to extract the best out of ddr4 memory as well as having the RGB control in the BIOS itself and that fantastic tuning for making manual fan curve profiles anyway guys let us know what you think of the b-36 5 platform or pacifically though let us know what you think of as rocks implementation I think they've done a decent job at the price point if you get a couple with a ninety nine hundred K as I said before do get a fan over that VRM but if I guess if you putting a ninety nine hundred K on any budget orientated motherboard I would suggest putting a fan over the VRM if you're going crazy on the overclocks 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