Finished Looks

The ASRock Z490 AQUA features clean lines and natural colors; it will look great with a wide variety of hardware. Of course, the ASRock Z490 AQUA would look most at home with a fully custom water-cooling setup to compliment the black and silver aesthetic.


ASRock has been doing an excellent job of refining their RGB implementations over the last few generations. The ASRock Z490 AQUA is the best one yet; the lighting is vibrantly bright and diffusion is excellent. There is even a monochrome OLED screen for displaying hardware information.

Test System

G.SKILL generously provided their excellent Trident Z Neo kit. Along with the new hardware, I will be implementing a new testing standard. Moving forward, I will be testing new platforms with XMP enabled.