Finished Looks

The ASRock Z690 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB4 has no RGB lighting implementation on the motherboard itself. As it is designed for an SFF case, lighting takes a backseat as the primary focus is to cram as much as possible into a limited space. In fact, it looks a bit out of place on the test bench, being so small.

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.