Friday, May 1st 2020
ASRock Launches Intel 400-Series Motherboards
ASRock, proudly announces its latest range of motherboards featuring Intel 400-series chipsets and supporting the latest Intel 10th Generation processors with up to 10-cores using the LGA1200 socket.
Whatever the build requirements, with over 30 models available, ASRock has the right motherboard to meet your needs. This includes the flagship Z490 Taichi and Z490 PG Velocita for performance and overclocking enthusiasts, and extreme gamers; popular Z490 Steel Legend, Pro and Phantom Gaming series'; comprehensive mini-ITX options for SFF builds; plus H470, B460 mainstream and H410 entry options.
TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 30 2020 -The leading global motherboard, graphics card and mini PC manufacturer, ASRock, proudly announces its latest range of motherboards featuring Intel 400-series chipsets and supporting the latest Intel 10th Generation processors with up to 10-cores using the LGA1200 socket.
Whatever the build requirements, with over 30 models available, ASRock has the right motherboard to meet your needs. This includes the flagship Z490 Taichi and Z490 PG Velocita for performance and overclocking enthusiasts, and extreme gamers; popular Z490 Steel Legend, Pro and Phantom Gaming series'; comprehensive mini-ITX options for SFF builds; plus H470, B460 mainstream and H410 entry options.
Fully Featured or Enthusiasts, Gamers and Extreme PC Builders
Designed expressly for the latest 10-core K-series processors, the ASRock Z490 Taichi and ASRock Z490 PG Velocita are dedicated to overclockers and PC build enthusiasts who want to get the most out of their rigs. Using the latest Dr.MOS & 2oz Copper PCBs, they deliver up to 95% VRM efficiency. Still, to ensure the motherboard VRMs stay cool even when using 10-core processors in sustained heavy loads, when liquid-cooled or even overclocked, both motherboards feature temperature-reactive active cooling heatsink on the CPU VRMs to reduce VRM temps dramatically, ensuring stability even in the most extreme conditions.
Buy smart! Popular ASRock motherboard such as Z490 Taichi, PG Velocita, Steel Legend, Extreme4 and even H470 Steel Legend are prepped and the hardware is ready with PCI-Express Gen-4 support. By uniquely adding an external base clock generator, also PCIe 4.0 components such as slots and M.2 socket were used to ensure the motherboard is ready to accommodate the next generation CPU.
Premium audio quality is a highlight for the ASRock 400 series motherboards. Using Nahimic Audio, ASRock has upgraded almost all its 400-series motherboards with best-in-class sound. Whether you are using headphones, a headset, or a set of speakers via USB, analog or even HDMI, Nahimic Audio offers you the most engaging listening experience, that's vibrant and rich with details.
Top-end ASRock 400-series motherboards also feature the highest quality ESS 9218 SABRE DAC and specifically tailored WIMA Audio Capacitors that together create a supremely high-end audio solution with crystal-clear sound quality that audiophiles with love. With support for up to 600 ohm headphones, they're perfect for listening to music, movies or when gaming..
Boost CPU Performance with ASRock's Rock-Solid Mid-Range Choices
The ASRock B460 Steel Legend and ASRock B460 Pro series motherboard feature a robust VRM design, with large, styled heatsinks and best-in-class component selection. Both motherboards include RGB LED headers and support for the ASRock Polychrome RGB utility allowing users to sync their RGB lighting within their PCs.
Featured on many ASRock 400-series motherboards, the Base Frequency Boost (BFB) technology increases the base frequency of non-K CPUs beyond the default standard, allowing users to enjoy an immediate performance uplift even on non-Z series motherboards, ASRock has installed a rock-solid VRM design and ultra-large heatsinks for great cooling on both its Pro4 and Steel Legend motherboard series' and even waterfall this feature to the value segment motherboards to unlock this performance reliably.
Something for Everyone
With tons of motherboards available including everything from entry to flagship, mini-ITX to EATX, look no further because the ASRock 400-series motherboards showcase the most comprehensive range of options and features available.
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Whatever the build requirements, with over 30 models available, ASRock has the right motherboard to meet your needs. This includes the flagship Z490 Taichi and Z490 PG Velocita for performance and overclocking enthusiasts, and extreme gamers; popular Z490 Steel Legend, Pro and Phantom Gaming series'; comprehensive mini-ITX options for SFF builds; plus H470, B460 mainstream and H410 entry options.
Whatever the build requirements, with over 30 models available, ASRock has the right motherboard to meet your needs. This includes the flagship Z490 Taichi and Z490 PG Velocita for performance and overclocking enthusiasts, and extreme gamers; popular Z490 Steel Legend, Pro and Phantom Gaming series'; comprehensive mini-ITX options for SFF builds; plus H470, B460 mainstream and H410 entry options.
Fully Featured or Enthusiasts, Gamers and Extreme PC Builders
Designed expressly for the latest 10-core K-series processors, the ASRock Z490 Taichi and ASRock Z490 PG Velocita are dedicated to overclockers and PC build enthusiasts who want to get the most out of their rigs. Using the latest Dr.MOS & 2oz Copper PCBs, they deliver up to 95% VRM efficiency. Still, to ensure the motherboard VRMs stay cool even when using 10-core processors in sustained heavy loads, when liquid-cooled or even overclocked, both motherboards feature temperature-reactive active cooling heatsink on the CPU VRMs to reduce VRM temps dramatically, ensuring stability even in the most extreme conditions.
Buy smart! Popular ASRock motherboard such as Z490 Taichi, PG Velocita, Steel Legend, Extreme4 and even H470 Steel Legend are prepped and the hardware is ready with PCI-Express Gen-4 support. By uniquely adding an external base clock generator, also PCIe 4.0 components such as slots and M.2 socket were used to ensure the motherboard is ready to accommodate the next generation CPU.
Premium audio quality is a highlight for the ASRock 400 series motherboards. Using Nahimic Audio, ASRock has upgraded almost all its 400-series motherboards with best-in-class sound. Whether you are using headphones, a headset, or a set of speakers via USB, analog or even HDMI, Nahimic Audio offers you the most engaging listening experience, that's vibrant and rich with details.
Top-end ASRock 400-series motherboards also feature the highest quality ESS 9218 SABRE DAC and specifically tailored WIMA Audio Capacitors that together create a supremely high-end audio solution with crystal-clear sound quality that audiophiles with love. With support for up to 600 ohm headphones, they're perfect for listening to music, movies or when gaming..
Boost CPU Performance with ASRock's Rock-Solid Mid-Range Choices
The ASRock B460 Steel Legend and ASRock B460 Pro series motherboard feature a robust VRM design, with large, styled heatsinks and best-in-class component selection. Both motherboards include RGB LED headers and support for the ASRock Polychrome RGB utility allowing users to sync their RGB lighting within their PCs.
Featured on many ASRock 400-series motherboards, the Base Frequency Boost (BFB) technology increases the base frequency of non-K CPUs beyond the default standard, allowing users to enjoy an immediate performance uplift even on non-Z series motherboards, ASRock has installed a rock-solid VRM design and ultra-large heatsinks for great cooling on both its Pro4 and Steel Legend motherboard series' and even waterfall this feature to the value segment motherboards to unlock this performance reliably.
Something for Everyone
With tons of motherboards available including everything from entry to flagship, mini-ITX to EATX, look no further because the ASRock 400-series motherboards showcase the most comprehensive range of options and features available.
3 Comments on ASRock Launches Intel 400-Series Motherboards
Intel has released a new socket for underwhelming Skylake rehashes. Outside of OEMs who will blindly buy what is current because they have to stay in the race, there is little incentive to buy into 400-series for end users. Anyone wanting gaming performance will stick with their 9th-Gen K series which basically offers exactly the same performance for lightly-threaded workloads. Anyone wanting heavily-threaded HEDT moved away from Intel years ago.
What does the 400 series give? A forced socket change for no benefits. Sure, it may support CPUs with PCIe Gen 4 in the future but right now it's just another $200 premium to tack onto 10-core CPUs. Intel's track record for supporting old motherboards with new CPU generations is borderline criminal and anyone expecting their 11th Gen CPU to just plop into their 10th-gen 400-series board without some kind of compromise is ignoring a decade of evidence that says otherwise.
I'm sure there will be a few, but anyone starved for PCIe lanes/bandwidth already moved to HEDT, most likely an AMD one in the last year. I mean - our HEDT farm jumped on Threadripper as soon as it was available and most of those have been replaced* by AM4 now since UMA/NUMA is an issue for a lot of software still.
* we're still using all the 1950X nodes ofc, but there's no reason for us to buy new Threadrippers them when a 3950X is faster, cheaper, easier, and avoids NUMA.