ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 Review: The 2.5GbE Value Play

[Crashman]

The middle ground between ASRock’s Taichi and Taichi Ultimate isn’t a Taichi at all! We put its Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 to the test!

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[Dark Lord of Tech]

Excellent thanks for the review!

 

[derekullo]

Do you need to buy a special 2.5 gigabit router/switch for this to work?

Even something as crazy looking as the ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 makes no mention of it supporting 2.5 gigabit wired.

 

[Crashman]

Do you need to buy a special 2.5 gigabit router/switch for this to work?

Even something as crazy looking as the ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 makes no mention of it supporting 2.5 gigabit wired.

5GbE switches should all be wired for it, but I don't know which 10GbE switches will support it.

 

[hassanergene]

You need a switch that supports it yes, 2.5G and 5G are part of the N-Base-T standard. Some 10G switches will also support these speeds, now or in the near future.

 

[whazzup]

Was there a section on the performance of the 2.5GbE that I missed? Or is the network speed not tested in this article?

 

[hassanergene]

I did not see benchmarks on ethernet either; however, by the nature of how copper ethernet works a PHY is a PHY, it will always transmit at line rate (e.g. 2.5Gbps always). The only way to tune it is to change packet size, e.g. enable jumbo frames you will get more data through since there is less preamble/packet info transmitted, more raw data. These PHY's need to interoperate so they follow a strict standard and data rate with one acting as a master and the other as a slave to stay in sync. So there isn't too much point in benchmarking network cards. The thing about these cards though is since their data rates are higher there is less latency on the MAC layer since they have to operate faster in order to support the faster line rates. In a way it is overclocking the PHY to MAC layer with faster ethernet standards.

 

[USAFRet]

Can someone please tell me if the Gigabyte AORUS NVMe SSD is compatible with this motherboard? It looks like the bottom-right M.2 slot has a built-in heatsink, but I wouldn't mind removing it if I need to. Or could I use a different slot for my primary M.2 SSD? Below is a link to the Newegg page of the SSD to which I am referring. Any help is appreciated!

https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-aorus-1tb/p/N82E16820009012

Please start a new thread for your question.

This one is a year old, and has nothing to do with drives and motherboards.