ASRock Announces X570 Phantom Gaming ITX/TB3 Motherboard with Intel LGA 115X Heatsink Mounting Holes

Robert Sole August 4, 2019

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Presented by ASRock the X570 Phantom Gaming ITX / TB3 motherboard with anchor holes for Intel LGA 115X type heatsink.

X570 motherboards for processors AMD Ryzen 3000 present a major problem. The chipset needs to be fan cooled due to the implementation of PCIe 4.0. It is for this reason that it is so rare to see mini-ITX motherboards, although there are micro-ATX models. For those who want a compact system, ASRock has developed the X570 Phantom Gaming ITX / TB3.

The design is quite interesting and it does not seem to have been an easy task to create such a motherboard. The first difficulty for ASRock has been to properly cool the chipset. The second to properly cool the VRM phases. From what we can see, this motherboard is more designed for the Ryzen 5 than for the Ryzen 7 and putting a Ryzen 9 seems crazy. But he has an interesting curiosity.

ASRock creates a mini-ITX motherboard for the AMD Ryzen 3000

The more compact a motherboard is, the more difficult it is to design. Normally there is not much problem, because the chipset with a passive heatsink, already pulls. But the X570 chipset needs a fan and that makes the job very difficult. Increase the height and width of the heatsink and of course, that can cause problems with the cooler.

To solve the problem, the ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming ITX / TB3 motherboard makes use of the LGA 115X anchor holes. This means that the heatsink must be compatible with the Intel LGA 115X socket, due to the anchoring holes. This is not a major problem, because most of the heatsinks on the market are compatible. The downside is that we will not be able to install the AMD heatsink, for compatibility.

Regarding the rest of the features, it has Thunderbolt 3 Type-C support in the I / O area of the motherboard. It has one PCIe 4.0 x16 slot and one vertical M.4.0 PCIe 4 x2 slot. It integrates WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0.

The availability and final price of this ASRock motherboard has not been revealed.

Source: OC3D