The ASRock Z590 Phantom Gaming Velocita is an attractive motherboard with a robust feature set. The black, gray, silver, and red theme strikes a good balance of flair and practicality. The RGB LEDs are bright and have good diffusion, continuing ASRock's trend of providing great RGB implementations. Additionally, ASRock's new graphics card holder is a genuinely practical inclusion that solves the increasingly common problem of GPU sag.

Out of the box, performance was great for the ASRock Z590 Phantom Gaming Velocita. Memory overclocking was about average, reaching 3900 MHz CL16 stable on my i9-10900K sample, and 3800 MHz on my i9-11900k sample. For CPU overclocking, I was able to achieve 5.2 GHz on all cores with my i9-10900K and 5.3 GHz on my i9-11900K. The largest limitation to overclocking with Z590 came down to dealing with the heat produced by the incredibly dense Intel Core i9-10900K and i9-11900K. VRM thermals were excellent as well, peaking at just 51°C with the VRM fan enabled, and just 73°C with the fan disabled. Given how quiet the fan is, I would recommend leaving it on.

The ASRock Z590 Phantom Gaming Velocita offers a lot of practical performance in an affordable package, from the dual LAN with a 2.5 Gb/s option from Killer to the stable performance and overclocking, or the graphics card holder. If you are in the market for a mid-range Z590 motherboard, the ASRock Z590 Phantom Gaming Velocita is a great pick for the price.