Box and Packaging
Inside the box, you’ll find the usual I/O shield, SATA cables, drivers disc, instruction manual, software setup guide, 3 x M.2 screws and an ASRock post card.
The Motherboard
The build quality pretty is solid. You can see high quality components used on this motherboard such as the solid capacitors, premium power chokes and a large Aluminum alloy heastsink.
You’ll also find the PCIE steel slot, another Aluminum alloy heastsink for the chipset (with Polychrome RGB), and a nice shroud for your I/O panel.
A Closer Look
You get a total of 6 SATA ports, 3 x M2. slots – 2 for SSDs and 1 for M.2 Wifi, and loads of headers for fans and RGB.
For connectivity, the I/O panel features 2 x USB 2.0 ports, PS/2 keyboard & mouse, 15-pin VGA, DisplayPort, HDMI out, 2 x USB 3.0, Intel Gigabit LAN, USB 3.1 Gen 2 (Type-A and Type-C) and an array of audio connectors.
Installation
No issues with installation, we managed to mount all of our components for testing, including the very large Noctua D15 CPU cooler and our GeForce GTX 1080 with the recently reviewed Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme IV CPU cooler (which takes up 3 PCIE slots!)
BIOS
The ASRock EZ mode BIOS is easy to use. You can check the status of the motherboard and CPU temperatures right on this page.
Going in to the advanced BIOS page, you can adjust a variety of options including memory timings and XMP profiles, voltages, onboard devices, Polychome RGB, SATA and M.2 configurations and more.
Looking at the CPU configuration page … I couldn’t seem to find the option for adjusting CPU multipliers, which means that overclocking on the H370 chipset is not possible … unless ASRock releases a BIOS that could possibly do it.
The Latest P3.0 BIOS
We downloaded the latest BIOS version P3.0 … and it shows the support for the up-coming 8-Core (9th Gen) processor from Intel 🙂
