Finished Looks

The ASRock Z690 Phantom Gaming Velocita aesthetic shares the same black, silver, and red colors the ASRock Phantom line is known for. The motherboard also has a small amount of onboard RGB lighting over the VRM and PCH heatsinks. It can be turned off in the BIOS or software.


ASRock was also gracious enough to send over the Cooler Master MasterLiquid PL360 FLUX AIO and 32 GB (2x 16 GB) of Kingston Fury DDR5-5200 (KF552C40BBK2-32) memory. First off, I would like to point out that I certainly am not the correct person to give an official review of the AIO. However, from my short time with the cooler, it did provides ample cooling for daily operations. A 360 mm AIO should be sufficient for most users and any modest overclocking adventures.

Test System

Supporting Hardware

Testing is performed with the newest available version of the BIOS at the time. All BIOS settings related to the CPU are left untouched. XMP is enabled for the memory. However, if the primary, secondary or tertiary memory timings are incorrectly set by the BIOS, it is tested as-is to mimic a standard user. The same goes for the CPU. Unless it is a bug in the current BIOS—i.e., not present in other versions—any and all CPU boost parameters are left alone.