Overclocking

The ASRock Z490 Taichi showed quite a bit of headroom for overclocking, at least for short runs of wPrime. I was able to achieve 5.3 GHz at 1.38 V core voltage. However, longer runs were not stable. Overclocking is largely limited by temperature, as the 10 core Intel Core i9-10900K will overpower any ambient cooling solution. Depending on settings, the system will either crash or severely drop frequency.




For memory overclocking, the ASRock Z490 Taichi did well, reaching 4000 MHz at XMP timings and voltages on my Trident Z Neo kit. However, to pass my MemTest 64 validation without errors, I had to reduce the frequency to 3900 MHz.