For his last motherboard top-of-the-range, Asrock has seen things big, even very big.
As its name suggests, the Asrock Z690 Aqua OC is equipped with liquid cooling and a set of advanced technologies, all for a price as massive as it is.
A beautiful motherboard sold for 1700 euros
Asrock gives birth to a beautiful baby billed 1700 euros, just that. The Z690 Aqua OC comes as a massive block with a futuristic design that comes with an Aqua Cooling Armor monoblock to cool the VRM and processor. A premium ATX form factor motherboard that was designed to push Intel Alder Lake-S processors to their limit with advanced features. To do this, it relies in particular on the Intel Z690 chipset, an LGA 1700 socket and support for DDR5 4800 MHz memory (and up to 7000 MHz).
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The Asrock Z690 Aqua OC also has three PCI-Express 16x ports, one of which is reinforced, for building a multi-GPU configuration, and three M.2 PCI-Express 4.0 4x NVMe compatible ports for connecting the latest generation SDDs. For the rest, there is a Realtek ALC1220 audio processor for quality sound, the Marvell Aquantia AQC113CS 10 Gb / s controller supported by a Killer E3100G 2.5 GB / s for minimal latency in multi games, as well as a Wi-Fi card. -Fi 6E .
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The motherboard also includes complete connectivity to connect it to all of its users’ equipment, including two USB Thunderbolt 4 Type C ports, two USB 3.1 Type A ports, a 10 Gb Ethernet port, and optical PDIF and Jack outputs. . The machine is also equipped with ASRock Polychrome RGB 16.8 million multi-zone color lighting for customization enthusiasts and a small OLED information screen.
Source: TopAchat
