ASRock Fatal1ty X470 Gaming K4
 | Outdated Product The top motherboard of the 2018 model year for the AMD AM4 platform from ASRock. Compatible with any 1st and 2nd generation Ryzen processors (Summit Ridge, Raven Ridge and Pinnacle Ridge cores), as well as 7th generation A-series APUs and Athlon X4 with Bristol Ridge core. It features a bright design with LED backlighting, a reinforced power subsystem with large aluminium heatsinks and excellent overclocking capabilities. Positioned as a premium product, however, the cost of the board is more in line with the middle price category, which will surely please low-cost enthusiasts and gamers. Designed to create high-performance gaming configurations, including those designed for operation in the mode of reasonable overclocking of key system components. ASRock Fatal1ty X470 Gaming K4 motherboar...d supports up to 64GB DDR4-2666/2400/2133 RAM (up to 3466MHz overclocked). Storage subsystem capabilities are defined by two M.2 ports for installing high-speed NVMe SSD drives and 6 SATA3 ports for HDD and SSD drives. The audio subsystem based on the Realtek ALC S1220 chip is responsible for processing and outputting sound. A separate high-quality amplifier (NE5532) is provided for headphones connected to the front of the PC. Gigabit network connections are provided by the integrated Intel I211AT controller. |
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The top motherboard of the 2018 model year for the AMD AM4 platform from ASRock. Compatible with any 1st and 2nd generation Ryzen processors (Summit Ridge, Raven Ridge and Pinnacle Ridge cores), as well as 7th generation A-series APUs and Athlon X4 with Bristol Ridge core. It features a bright design with LED backlighting, a reinforced power subsystem with large aluminium heatsinks and excellent overclocking capabilities.
Positioned as a premium product, however, the cost of the board is more in line with the middle price category, which will surely please low-cost enthusiasts and gamers. Designed to create high-performance gaming configurations, including those designed for operation in the mode of reasonable overclocking of key system components. ASRock Fatal1ty X470 Gaming K4 motherboard supports up to 64GB DDR4-2666/2400/2133 RAM (up to 3466MHz overclocked).
Storage subsystem capabilities are defined by two M.2 ports for installing high-speed NVMe SSD drives and 6 SATA3 ports for HDD and SSD drives. The audio subsystem based on the Realtek ALC S1220 chip is responsible for processing and outputting sound. A separate high-quality amplifier (NE5532) is provided for headphones connected to the front of the PC. Gigabit network connections are provided by the integrated Intel I211AT controller.
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X470 Gaming K4 belongs to a series of products from ASRock, focused, as the name implies, on the creation of gaming machines. Positioned as a premium product, however, the cost of the board is more in line with the middle price category, which will surely please low-cost enthusiasts and gamers.
Almost perfect balance
The hallmark of ASRock boards is often a near-perfect balance of price and functionality, and the ASRock X470 Gaming K4 is a great example of this approach. The board has high-speed high-speed USB 3.1 Gen 2 interface, implemented on USB A and USB-C ports. There are six SATA ports for connecting drives, as well as a pair of M.2 format slots with personal cooling radiators and a pair of reinforced PCI-E 16x slots. It is also worth noting the excellent sound capabilities of the audio path, which uses a pumped version of the Realtek ALC1220 codec and supports Creative Sound Blaster Cinema 5 multi-channel sound technology.
Powerful power subsystem for maximum overclocking
With such a wealth of functionality, the board turned out to be a rather successful power supply system: a 12-phase power supply, an Intersil ISL95856 PWM controller, key converter transistors equipped with a pair of massive aluminium radiators. All this allows you to experiment a lot with overclocking the processor. But with the overclocking of RAM, problems may arise — the BIOS picks up the xmp profile every other time, and the RAM settings themselves are limited in comparison with other overclocker boards.
