Finished Looks

Another very expensive motherboard is back on the test bench and wow does it look the part! Even without a proper case, it stands out with RGB lighting built into the EKWB Ultrablock along with RGB lighting from the underside. Those who end up buying this motherboard will need to be particular about the system memory, as not every kit looks good besides the monoblock. As seen here, the Team Group T-Force Delta memory in the photos is a distracting mess. A good substitute kit may very well be the V-Color Manta XPrism RGB SCC with its additional dummy kit filling out all the extra two DIMM slots. In retrospect V-Color should have been used instead to better show off this fantastic looking collaboration between EKWB and ASUS. Next time I guess. (Wink Wink > ASUS).

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.