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can a mini ITX motherboard overclock a 7700 K in the dead heat of the Navi salma at 5.1 gigahertz let's find out welcome back to tech yes City this is brian coming to you guys today with a look at asrock small form-factor solution for the z 270 lineup this is the Z 270 gaming ITX fatality motherboard and as we all know that gamertag tends to get thrown around a lot it is almost in every product though does this motherboard really have all the necessities that a gamer would want well in my opinion yes the vrm features Texas Instruments next step MOSFETs which are rated at 40 amps at 125 degrees the chokes features gross premium 60 amp solution and the capacitors are 12 K solid-state japanese-made which makes up an eight phase-- power delivery the six phases being dedicated for the CPU power delivery itself though although not boasting as many phases as from other boards out there it is still performing really well especially when stressing my 7700 KS 5.1 gigahertz which was the max performance I could get out of this CPU even when testing it with full-size ATX boards that I have here that are much more expensive though with that said the vrm heating was only hovering in the warm to touch region of just over 40 degrees Celsius and furthermore all this was done in the sweltering heat of a noisy summer which on this particular day was over 30 degrees so sporting the ability to overclock any Cabul eight CPU to its max potential on air and water is a really solid feat for a board this small so the goodness doesn't end here there is an nvme m2 PCIe port on the back of the board which provided native support and also allows the speeds well in excess of what you could expect on side of three there's also a USB three front out one USB 2 front out HD audio out six out of three ports and one Sadr Express connector and 3/4 pin fan headers and one additional three pin fan header for a total of four fan headers with one of those being able to provide 18 watts of dedicated power to a water pump as for memory there are only two DIMM slots which have support for up to 4,000 megahertz overclock I managed to have no problems whatsoever locking in XMP Pro volt at free with my 5.1 gig it's over block on the CPU and also managed to hit a custom profile of dropping down the timings of one tier 2600 megahertz though I will point out there was an odd compatibility issue I had with some kingston memory and more particularly the 7700 k the cpu would work fine with some corsair memory initial installed and after a BIOS update the kingston memory would then work with my g 4560 pentium though still wouldn't work with the 7700 K after the BIOS update the course their memory have a work fine on both bias reiteration though since this compatibility issue did occur on a retail bar it is something to be mindful of looking at the river board there is a dual band PCIe wireless with the signal strength being very strong with the included receiver plugged in I had no problems achieving really fast download speeds there were only a little bit behind my fixed connection just above that there is a clear CMOS button which is so easy for resetting bad over coffee at any time and below that there are six USB 3 connections left on the bolt connector DisplayPort and HDMI out an optical audio in supporting 7.1 surround sound a PSP port and 5.1 analog surround sound support plus a separate mic and line in and lastly an rj45 connections supported by an Intel I to one 9 v neck the audio itself is a very strong point of this board with having support for creative Sound Blaster cinema 3 software and also featuring the realtek ALC 12:20 codec a dedicated tetris instrument headphone amplifier and also nichkhun capacitors gave this board very low crosstalk and also when testing for bass rollover or bass roll-off there was almost none which was great to see especially all the way as low as 20 Hertz which out is can't really hear based below those frequencies anyhow besides getting that boom boom bass going on it wasn't just the audio out that was strong on this motherboard the mic import was also very impressive sporting some very low noise figures that I'll let you guys have a listen for yourself so here's what ABI motor boom pro microphone will sound like plug directly into the mic input on the asrock fatality Z 270 Mini ITX motherboard with a volume level of 60 and a microphone boost of 10 DB so there are these guys when people off and function over cosmetics as where I clearly listen this is quite simply the best mini ITX board I have reviewed hands down as rock have gone to the true heart of the formula that I consider at the asrock formula and that is to cover all bases from what I would want from a board personally that is a solid vrm amazing onboard audio and a solid onboard neck there is even a really good included dual band wireless the boot with a receiver that works really well the board is also very sturdy featuring a nice thick glass fabricated PCB those the only downside to a mini ITX chipset is that it only has two slots for ddr4 memory so besides that if you want to make an extremely solid mobile gaming machine then this is the motherboard that passes all the tests with flying colors and at 168 us it is a little pricey though it does have all the bells and whistles one would want from a mini ITX motherboard even has that still armor plating on the PCIe connection which it do a pretty good job I just left the motherboard sitting on the card itself no support and it was doing fine so it doesn't have any RGB lighting so you can add that in yourselves if you want to also if you're in Australia I don't know when or if this product will be hitting the shelves down here and if you liked this review then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below what would you want out of the Mini ITX motherboard for me personally this thing hits all the boxes though do you want RGB lighting on I mean if you want that just drop it in there and do your thing and get a jiggy with it and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye