ASRock Motherboard (Z390 PHANTOM GAMING 9)

I used this as the main board for my wife's PC build. Same quality as the Asus ROG Maximus XI that I used for my own build a few months ago, and In some ways, it's better. I selected it over the Asus for this build because It sports two USB 3.1 Gen 1 headers vs. only one on the ASUS, which was important for supporting all of the ports on her new case.Her build is perfectly stable running an i9 9900K at 5 GHz and 64 GB of G.Skill Ripjaws 3200 at XMP speed. Very pleased with the performance.

I've been using this for 5 years now it works but Asrock really drops the ball for letting their updates and letting there apps to perish and die leaving them useless. The rams they claim work most don't .

My 2nd ASRock board and love them! Upgraded from the z97 pro. which went into another rig.This one has 8 sata3 ports, 3 m.2 ports, 3 ethernet ports, overclocks my 9900k to 5ghz all cores very easily. Bios is simple and clean, subtle LED lighting, booted right up with no issues, ez-flashed to newest bios. Stays very col overclocked using Corsair h150i pro. My 3200 Corsair ram would not hold XMP until voltages tweeked a bit (see ASRock forum) now all good. Highly recommend this MB!

There are several motherboards out there. I am very impressed with this purchase. No issues here just great results. *****Only con is you have to install windows 10 first not anything lower or the USB ports dont work. *****

First out of the box, I thought it was DOA. I installed only processor/heatsink, two sticks of ram and an M.2 SSD. Wouldn't boot into bios. Would just light up LED with no diagnostic. Nothing. Looked at everything. No shorts, checked ram, re-seated processor with new thermal paste. Nothing. Read somewhere where the 24 pin mobo connector could be problematic. Disconnected and reconnected a few more times and boom, booted to bios fine about the 4th time. Not a problem since, as I have tried connecting and disconnecting and have no problems now.Next up. I would continuously get sata error on diagnostic when connected to A1 or A2 Sata connectors. I had two optical drives connected to them and they would act flakey and windows would lock up. Very frustrating; after forum searches moved to sata 5,6 and no problems. This was after all mobo drivers installed and updated and mobo firmware updated. I haven't played since with the A1 and A2 Sata connectors even though I now am maxed out with one M.2, two SSD's and two optical drives, I'll have to deal with it sooner or later if I move my external HDD to inside the case.Third issue. Suspend issues. It really doesn't like to sleep. At first, after a recommendation I exchanged my 32gb of memory for same. It is on their recommended list (Corsair Sport) and it really didn't solve the problem - I just changed my sleep time so it doesn't all day. Windows 10 pro is fully up to date and settings were generic until I got frustrated.Everything else works perfect. I'm very happy with this purchase for the features it has and the capabilities. I haven't overclocked yet but I have played with the menu and was disappointed there really is no auto easy oc settings. Everything is manual. Gad, even my $59 HTPC MSI mobo had easy OC settings just to get a little bump without researching and playing with every setting.

running a 9900kf with 2x8gb hyperx ddr4 4000,adata sx8200pro 512 nvme m.2 and a rtx 2070(placeholder for upcoming nv card). clocked the 9900 to 5.3, easy as pie. took maybe ten minutes but running daily at 5.1 for voltage sake, 1.3v with biiiig custom 3 rad loop(5.3 would burn a hole in the mb on air). still dialing it in. the memory loaded xmp speed, voltage and tighter timings at first boot! ddr4 4000 17-17-17-37 @ 1.35v stock xmp is 19-21-21-42 1.35v. runs solid as a rock with c17 timings and passed a memtest86 overnight test. ram will do 4800 c27 1.6v but cant get anymore out of it. aida latency test at c17 nets 44.4ns, with no tweaks, i didnt touch anything it set up the timings and subtimings automatically after the first boot!...couldnt be happier with this badboy. havin alot of fun ocing with it.

Powered up new build, all fans spinning, lights flashing, no video or beeps. Removed all components one by one, still no beeps. Dead board, sending back. Shame because it had all the SATA ports I was looking for.

Excellent my 5 asrok mobo excellent software disk and utilities suck my asrock z97 has better utilities for hard drive and auto boot