Saturday, May 23rd 2020
ASRock Z490 AQUA Helps Set Four 10th Gen Core Records
Being the latest flagship and limited motherboard, the Z490 AQUA has been pleased all gamers and PC enthusiasts since its announcement. The cutting edge performance and design of Z490 AQUA push Intel 10th Gen Core CPU to 4 global first place benchmark results. The well-known overclocker, Splave achieves four Global First Places with Z490 AQUA and Intel Core i9-10900KF CPU. Our platform completed the wPrime 1024M benchmark in 35.562 seconds, which wins the Global First Place. Find the HWBot submission here.
On the GPUPI for CPU benchmark, best record is one minute and 25.015 seconds, made by using Z490 AQUA with Intel Core i9-10900KF. (Check new record here on HWBot). Splave takes a huge lead by scoring 9108 marks on Intel Core i9-10900KF with the ASRock Z490 AQUA, and captured the 1st place in the Intel 10th Gen Core CPU category (HWBot submission). In conjunction with Intel Core i9-10900KF with the ASRock Z490 AQUA, Splave creates a new record of 42.17 points on Cinebench-R11.5 and wins the Global First Place (submission).
Winning a total of 4 Global First Place is not an easy task. Thanks and congratulations to Splave, he has managed extremely well to overclock i9-10900KF on Z490 AQUA. These achievements are attributed by the hard work and ASRock's key esprit - pursuing innovation. The Z490 AQUA is no doubt the right choice for PC enthusiasts.
Update May 28th: As you can see from the comments of this news post, the motherboard that achieved the records is slightly different to the actual Z490 Aqua. Whereas the Z490 Aqua has four memory slots, the version that broke the records has only two memory slots, which is mandatory to achieve the highest memory speeds. We talked to ASRock and they confirmed that "that Z490 AQUA is a special version of Z490 AQUA, we will focus more on providing clear info in the future and apologize for any misunderstanding this caused".
Now that doesn't mean that the Z490 Aqua with four memory slots is bad, it actually seems to be a very capable board. Also looking at who actually buys these halo products, I suspect most of them will actually prefer a four-DIMM version because "more is better", and they won't be doing nearly as much memory OC. It would be interesting to see if ASRock could create a special two-DIMM SKU, optimized for memory overclocking.
On the GPUPI for CPU benchmark, best record is one minute and 25.015 seconds, made by using Z490 AQUA with Intel Core i9-10900KF. (Check new record here on HWBot). Splave takes a huge lead by scoring 9108 marks on Intel Core i9-10900KF with the ASRock Z490 AQUA, and captured the 1st place in the Intel 10th Gen Core CPU category (HWBot submission). In conjunction with Intel Core i9-10900KF with the ASRock Z490 AQUA, Splave creates a new record of 42.17 points on Cinebench-R11.5 and wins the Global First Place (submission).
Update May 28th: As you can see from the comments of this news post, the motherboard that achieved the records is slightly different to the actual Z490 Aqua. Whereas the Z490 Aqua has four memory slots, the version that broke the records has only two memory slots, which is mandatory to achieve the highest memory speeds. We talked to ASRock and they confirmed that "that Z490 AQUA is a special version of Z490 AQUA, we will focus more on providing clear info in the future and apologize for any misunderstanding this caused".
Now that doesn't mean that the Z490 Aqua with four memory slots is bad, it actually seems to be a very capable board. Also looking at who actually buys these halo products, I suspect most of them will actually prefer a four-DIMM version because "more is better", and they won't be doing nearly as much memory OC. It would be interesting to see if ASRock could create a special two-DIMM SKU, optimized for memory overclocking.
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