Review ASRock Z690 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB4 Review: Thunderbolt, but Limited Expandability

[Admin]

The ASRock Z690 PG-ITX/TB4 includes two M.2 sockets and three SATA ports, a last-gen flagship audio codec, Thunderbolt 4 and Killer-based 2.5 GbE and Wi-Fi 6E. At $349.99, it’s price lands in the middle of pack, but there are some shortcomings in rear IO USB count.

ASRock Z690 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB4 Review: Thunderbolt, but Limited Expandability : Read more

 

[tennis2]

$350...insane

Can I suggest placing the "best" metric at the top of the charts. Whether that's "lower is better" or "higher is better".

 

[Co BIY]

ITX could have an appeal to me ... if it didn't always cost more.

Even priced the same as mATX would make sense but priced higher it looses appeal for me.

Complaining about fewer SATA ports on an ITX board seems silly.

If one needed (max) for transfer of data only.

 

[tennis2]

@ AsRock, please give us mITX boards with 4 SODIMM slots. If you use a fixed peg in the middle, 2 SODIMMs will fit in the same slot length as a desktop stick

 

[ocer9999]

Asrock does solid ITX motherboards, this Z690 Phantom is a good example. The pricing is on the high side, but all Z690 are. I see B660 selling for close to 200$ which is pretty crazy, so this price for a good ITX Z690 is not out of this world.