Finished Looks

With the board fully populated with hardware, the ASRock H370M-ITX/ac actually looks pretty darn good. I really like that the M.2 slot fits between the CPU socket and board's PCIe slot, so there is plenty of room for airflow over those hotter M.2 drives and the chipset cooler.


Even the CPU VRM cooler is well placed, right at the back, by a fan in most case installations. As you can see, I did use an AIO here to see how the board would fare under low airflow conditions, as is probably pretty likely for a board such as this.

Test System

As you may have already guessed, the ASRock H370M-ITX/ac boots with a very standard Turbo profile. Thanks to our Ballistix DIMMs supporting 2666 MHz right out of the box, we saw the first boot running with everything exactly as we wanted it. The board's chipset prevents overclocking options and support for XMP profiling above 2666 MHz, making tuning the BIOS a relatively simple task for ASRock and a boon for users, as stability and reliability are fairly easy to ensure under such conditions.