Overclocking

The ASRock Z590 Steel Legend WiFi 6E showed a fair 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. Overclocking is largely limited by temperature because 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.

Note that the ASRock Z590 Steel Legend WiFi 6E conforms strictly to Intel's power restrictions at stock settings. To get the most out of your overclock, be sure to raise all power limits to their maximum in the BIOS.


For memory overclocking, the ASRock Z590 Steel Legend WiFi 6E did well, reaching 3900 MHz stable at XMP timings and voltages on my Trident Z Neo kit.