Installation
During our tests, we used our vertical Open Chassis along with a Thermaltake ThoughLiquid Ultra 360 AIO cooler. We didn’t encounter any issues during installation and everything went as planned.
The lack of additional heatsinks on the motherboard do make it look a little bare, but after mounting the graphics card, you won’t notice it too much.
BIOS
As you enter the BIOS, the first page you’ll see is the “Easy Mode”. Here you can monitor all the system status on this page.
For overclockers, you can go in to “Advanced Mode”. Here you’ll be able to see all the other options available for tweaking your processor, memory and more. Voltages for memory and processor can also be adjusted here.
Other options in the advanced tab allows users to configure settings for the chipset, storage and NVMe, LEDs, as well as onboard devices such as LAN, audio, and Bluetooth.
Since our DDR5 ram is XMP 3.0 ready, we selected Profile 1 and ran the memory at DDR5-7200 speeds. All other BIOS settings were left on AUTO/Default.
To get the best benefits of XMP, make sure you install your memory modules on DIMM slot A2 and B2, as instructed on the user’s manual.
For memory compatibility and QVL (qualified vendors list), I recommend you check ASRock’s QVL page here.
