Installation
We used our open-frame vertical chassis to build the test rig, and installed the ASRock B860 Steel Legend WiFi motherboard with no issues at all.
We also installed 32GB of Patriot Viper Xtreme 5 DDR5-7600 ram, Crucial T700 1TB PCIE Gen5 SSD, and the GeForce RTX 4080 Super.
To cool the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor, we used the Thermaltake 360 Ultra AIO cooler mounted with 3 x Corsair RX120 RGB cooling fans.
BIOS
There are two BIOS modes on the ASRock B860 Steel Legend WiFi motherboard … Easy Mode and Advanced Mode. The Easy Mode allows you to monitor all the system status on this page such as fan speeds, CPU temperatures, memory and processor speeds, as well as voltages.
In the Advanced Mode, there are a lot of options available for tweaking your processor, memory speeds and more. Voltages for memory and processor can also be adjusted here.
Users can also configure other settings for CPU, chipset, storage and NVMe, as well as onboard devices such as USB, TPM, Thunberbolt 4 port, and more.
During our tests, we left everything on AUTO/Default. Although the motherboard was able to support both EXPO and XMPO memory modules, at the time of testing we didn’t have any EXPO memory on hand, so we decided to use XMP memory for our tests. We used 32GB of Patriot Viper Xtreme 5 DDR5-7600 ram at default XMP Profile 1. You can check out ASRock’s QVL/download page for more information.
