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welcome back to tech yeah City and if you haven't already you might want to take a look at that thumbs up button which might even be scuffed nowadays but right here on the table we certainly don't have a scuffed motherboard this is the z3 90 phantom gaming 6 from Azra coming in a little over 200 USD and in Australia a bit over 300 ozzie dollars it does represent in my opinion that value for option premium choice when it comes to a z3 90 motherboard now I know the 9900 K is not the best value for money option when it comes to CPUs but it is an option that is best in slot and it certainly does use up a lot of power so we get straight into the testing here they've got a 12 phase vrm design 10+2 using Sinnoh power 7 3 4 1 eh MOSFETs these are rated at 25 amps and then for the chokes they're using 60 amp solutions as well as using niche at con 12 K capacitors so the VRM is definitely a good design by asrock this enabled me to overclock the 9900 K to 5 gigahertz stable and the temperatures of course getting pretty high we had to use a custom water loop the wattage is going up to around 200 watts and I know people say look Brian you're putting in way too much voltage on this 99 hundred K the sample we have here actually only really does 5 gigahertz at one point 3 5 volt we go any lower Cinebench for instance will crash out I can't get anywhere near this sub one point three volts some other testers are reporting but needless to say 200 watts on this vrm is actually a good thing because this is a motherboard review and I'm glad to report this survived 10 minutes on I 264 using over 200 watts with the 9900 k getting in some temperatures on the heat sinks going just a little bit over 40 degrees then on the vrm itself with the MOSFETs coming in just a little bit over 70 degrees with the IR camera so really solid scores before the vrm there's also an 8 + 4 pin CPU connector if you need more wattage that we just use an 8 pin for this test and it was absolutely fine I don't see many people going above 5 gigahertz of course if you get a really good sample may be able to go to 5.2 gigahertz or 5.1 we can certainly boot up at 5.1 but again those temperatures just get the better of the 99 hundred K this was tested in 25 degree ambient environments to but we'll quickly roll the intro and after that we'll find out what else the Phantom has to offer you for the money so we've covered the vrm but of course when you're overclocking you do want to go into the bias and tweak things and have all the options they're readily available so we had memory being overclocked easily to thirty six hundred megahertz locked in the XMP profiles this board had no trouble handling that as well as the CPU we had they're moving through some of the other options you've got your CPU settings which we did have to extend manually on this board in the BIOS the power limits to actually get a stable 5 gigahertz overclock as well as the profiles there which you can easily save and then load up after you're done tweaking and moving through some of the other options you got the ability to tune your fans manually as well as set different profiles for those and update the Basques even from an internet connection within itself and as well as saving profiles for overclocking and also controlling your RGB polychrome settings which is as rocks implementation of their RGB headers which also on this board get a 5 and 12 volt out for easing control of different RGB controllers so the boss checks out and the nvme support works from the get-go absolutely no problems I did however have to update the boss in order to get my memory working so I needed an update from one point one to one point two so it seems like asrock are quickly tackling any memory compatibility issues on the z 390 which is good to see but going through the nvme solutions themselves you get three 2.0 slots with the bottom having an included heatsink we did manage to test this 4-speed slot and the speeds were really good but also the temperatures with the heatsink on we're happy to report we're very good as well 56 Idol with an MP 500 Drive and then going up to 72 degrees from the sensor itself with the heatsink on and then with the heatsink off we got 87 degrees so that heatsink is making a difference and the main purpose so the his things definitely doing its job and this is great for extended read and write transfers especially on an nvme where you will arguably need those extended transfers for video editing for example they'll moving through the bigger PCIe slots you get three of these the top one being 16 speed the one below that eight and then the one below that four so if you are getting to RTX 28 et is then you won't be able to link them up in to 16 speed or in total 32x configuration so that is something to keep weary I haven't actually tested if this will be an actual problem yet on the Z 390 boards but maybe that's food for thought something I might test for you guys anyway getting back on topic nvme checks out but what about the onboard audio here they're implemented the Sound Blaster cinema 5 solution which at the core actually uses the realtek LC 1220 solution and running this through the courses the crosstalk was phenomenal getting less than 80 decibels on both channels however when you do load the volume up with 91 level or over up to a hundred there is some slight leaking in the right channel coming across to the left channel this hasn't been fixed yet so if you are using headphones or speakers using this audio out I do recommend a volume level of 90 or below the balance of the left and right channels themselves were phenomenal within 0 2.1 decibels of each other and then running through a frequency response curve doing a full sweep here we saw that we were getting from seven Hertz to zero Hertz literally less than like two decibels drop off and then after that we've got a pretty much perfectly flat line going the whole way through so these are phenomenal numbers this will give you a balanced and great listening experience especially for Kansas support 20 Hertz to 20 kilohertz you'll definitely get that sub bass coming through which is a really good thing and the last thing the chest on audio is the mic import itself using a quick noise test here we loaded it up to maximum of plus 30 DB 100 volume and we see here they're using noise suppression it is obvious and this is a good thing if you want to play games and have your friends listen to you clearly but it isn't great for professional audio recordings because essentially what will happen is it will cancel out a line of frequency which will cut through your voice essentially degrading the quality of your voice so not recommended for professional recordings they're really good for gaming where you just want to get a conversation across to you friends so now moving on with the extra features and connectors available in this board you get at the rear five USB ports plus a Type C so six in total however the extra options to connect for front out headers is numerous two USB three is also a three point one as well as down the bottom an extra two USB two headers so an extra of nine total ports extended from the six which is a lot of connectivity as well as having five PWM fan header outs and a power and reset button on the board's themselves and then there's a dual bias included - I couldn't find the clear CMOS button oddly enough and it is a feature that I do like to have especially when manually overclocking on a board like a z3 90 so I would like to see that implemented perhaps maybe I just can't see it but I usually like to have this on the rear of the board which I can't find it anywhere however speaking of the rear of the board you get to Nick's included than I 2-1 180 from Intel as well as a real tech 2.5 g solution which will extend your speeds from the typical one gigabit per second and it is interesting to see that this kind of is a gaming approach from real tech apparently prioritizing your packets if you're on a congested network so great for uni students who live in a dorm that share internet with other people so definitely nice to see this solution included on this motherboard also there's a d-sub DisplayPort and HDMI outs as well which can run off the CPU use integrated graphics and the main heatsink going over the vrm weighs in at roughly 250 grams and then the heatsink on the M 2 weighing in about 20 grams and here we are now a conclusion time with the phantom gaming 6 Z 390 from asrock I've got to say I'm pretty impressed with this board it checks all the boxes I'd want it to check I know there's been some controversy about vrm debates on z3 90s but when it comes to me and doing my testing I just do real-world testing grabbed a 9,900 cake closer to 5 gigahertz and mediocre ambient temperatures with no case airflow which arguably on a z3 nighty you're probably going to go out and purchase a good case to keep the airflow down and the board checked out the onboard audio is phenomenal it's got those extra neck options as well as a lot of connectivity as well and the price point is pretty good coming in just over 200 USD and then if you're in a strategist over 300 AUD so it's definitely in my opinion a pretty solid pick for someone who's looking to get it all from z3 90 but doesn't want to break the bank too much because I know there are some boards that will definitely start costing a lot more as you go up the tier and whether they're gonna do any extra for you is debatable and they even give you some RGB bling at the top and the bottom as well as some steel slots on the PCIe ports so yeah I like this board it's good and I can recommend it and my phone just went off it went off again and also let us know in the comment section below what you think of the fan of gaming 6 do you like the design or you think it's a bit quirky or there's things you'd like to see added on it this one here doesn't have Wi-Fi included but I'm pretty sure they do have an option to include Wi-Fi but anyway I'm gonna get on out of here I'll catch another tech video very soon peace out for now bye you