ASRock Z790 Riptide WiFi

ASRock Z790 Riptide WiFi is a massive advanced ATX motherboard with an excellent balance between price, features and performance. Equipped with an LGA 1700 processor socket and running the advanced Z790 system logic. It belongs to the middle price segment, is positioned as a reliable solution of a near-top level, capable of satisfying the needs of 90% of gamers. The remaining 10% are reserved for ASRock's elite Taichi models.

Although the board is part of the new Riptide gaming series that ASRock launched in 2022, the emphasis is not on the abundance of lighting or bold design, but on the quality, reliability and durability of the device. It uses densified copper conductors and densified PCB board, which improves the stability of electrical signal transmission and helps reduce the operating temperature of the device.

All M.2 slots and the VRM area are covered by massive heatsinks with a dense fin arrangement, helping to avoid unnecessary overheating during intensive work. And the built-in 18-phase power converter, built on the basis of DrMOS chips, will easily supply energy to a rather voracious multi-core processor of the Intel Core i5/i7/i9 level. The manufacturer guarantees full support for 12th, 13th and 14th generation Intel processors from the Alder Lake, Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh families.

The layout of the device includes 4 slots for DDR5-8000 RAM with support for XMP profiles (maximum capacity 192 GB) and five M.2 ports, where one operates on the PCIe 5.0 bus, and the other four on the PCIe 4.0 bus. As an alternative, there are 4 classic SATA3 connectors with a bandwidth of 6 Gbit/s. There is also an integrated RAID controller on board, which allows you to combine all installed drives into a single disk array.

There are 2 PCIe slots with Crossfire mode support for installing video cards. The gaming nature of the device is emphasized by numerous connectors for water cooling systems and LED strips. Other features include a modern network interface with a 2.5 Gbps LAN port, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 wireless connectivity, a high-quality Realtek ALC1220 audio chip, as well as HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4 video outputs for directly connecting the monitor to a PC without discrete video cards. The combination of these factors allows us to recommend this model as an advanced solution for gaming PCs equipped with 2K and 4K monitors.