Installation
As with any mini-ITX or micro-ATX motherboards, installation could be a challenge if you have a small or a compact size chassis. I tend to install all the smaller components such as SSDs, ram and CPU on to the motherboard before place it in to the chassis.
For cooling, we used a Thermaltake ToughLiquid 360 Ultra AIO cooler which mounted without any issues. After installing the AIO cooler, there seem to be some room in and around the LGA 1700 processor socket.
Interestingly, inside the I/O hood ASRock have included a cooling fan for the XXL VRM heatsink. You’ll also notice there’s a heatpipe which runs along the VRM heatsink on top of the motherboard to the I/O hood.
BIOS
The first page you’ll see in the BIOS is the default Easy Mode. This page shows you the BIOS version, the processor type, the speed of the CPU and the total memory, including the default speed of the ram.
Interestingly, ASRock Phantom Gaming B760I Lightning WiFi is able to support both AMD’s EXPO and Intel’s XMP. During our test, we used the Lexar ARES RGB DDR5-7200, which is fully XMP 3.0 certified. All we had to do was to enable XMP profile in the BIOS and that’s it!
If you select “Advanced Mode”, you’ll then see even more options available for tweaking your processor, memory and more. For overclockers, the BIOS allows CPU and memory overclocking, and you can also set the CPU frequency and voltages too.
The other options allows users to configure settings for CPU, chipset, storage and NVMe, as well as onboard devices such as LAN, audio, and Bluetooth.
For storage/memory compatibility and QVL (qualified vendors list), I recommend you check ASRock’s QVL page here.
