I. Introduction
AMD's new generation of X870E series motherboards has added a native USB4 interface in terms of specifications, but various manufacturers are relatively unwilling, and try to show some of the characteristics of their own motherboards on this motherboard, and pile up all kinds of small details.
ASRock belongs to the kind of more violent, directly to the X870E series motherboard on a new NOVA series, this series of motherboards, previously in M2 expandability and RGB lighting effects left a very deep impression on the mushroom.
In addition to the appearance, in many details, ASRock's X870E NOVA motherboard also performs well. The M2 slot and the main PCIe slot on the top of the motherboard both use a quick-release design, which is more convenient for daily installation.
二、华擎PHANTON GAMING X870E NOVA主板 开箱
▼The packaging of the motherboard is very beautiful, and at first glance it is full of purple, and the packaging box is also exquisite.
▼ The left side of the package is the appearance of the motherboard, the right side is the familiar PG series LOGO, and the bottom is the model of the motherboard.
▼ On the back of the box, there is a wealth of information, detailing the power supply, expandability and some details of the motherboard, and there are detailed motherboard configuration parameters at the bottom.
▼The accessories in the motherboard package are very rich, in addition to the motherboard and instruction documents, there are also some conventional accessories, such as WIFI antennas, keycaps, SATA cables and lighting effect expandability, and some unconventional accessories, three temperature sensors, which is very demonic, and it is rare to see the motherboard send this accessory.
三、华擎PHANTON GAMING X870E NOVA主板 外观
▼The appearance of the front of the motherboard is quite beautiful, with a black color scheme as a whole, and a lot of blue-purple trim on the left and bottom sides.
▼The power supply specifications on the upper part of the motherboard are super luxurious, the left and upper sides of the processor socket are densely packed with black solid capacitors, and the left power supply circuit and the upper power supply circuit are also covered with metal parts.
▼Take a closer look at the AM5 socket, there is a plastic protective cover on it, and the metal buckle part is also blackened, and the texture is good.
▼On the top of the metal heat sink on the left side of the motherboard, there are plastic decorative parts, and there is a grille design in the middle, and a cooling fan can be vaguely seen inside.
▼ At the bottom of the motherboard, the metal cover is perfectly covered, in addition to the multiple M2 slots on the left side, there seems to be an M2 slot on the right side.
▼The auxiliary power supply slot of the CPU adopts a dual 8-pin design, and the pins are solid, and the overcurrent ability is stronger.
▼In the upper right corner of the motherboard, three 4Pin fan sockets are arranged in sequence, two on the left are CPU-Fan, and one on the right is dedicated to water pumps. In the lower right corner, there is a dual 8-bit screen, followed by the power on and restart physical buttons, and two 5V three-pin ARGB lighting jacks.
▼The motherboard comes standard with four DDR5 memory slots, thanks to the hardware foundation of the 8-layer PCB, its frequency supports up to 8200MHz, which is very powerful.
▼The M2 slot at the top of the motherboard supports up to PCIe 5.0 x 4, and the main PCIe slot supports up to PCIe 5.0 x 16.
▼ The metal buckle on the right side of the M2 slot can be easily removed with a slight push.
▼It is also very easy to put it back, and it can be easily fixed by pressing it directly on the alignment position.
▼The fixed buckle part of the main PCIe slot adopts a push-pull design, and the wrench is designed on the right side of the motherboard, and the volume is very large, which will be more convenient for daily disassembly and assembly of the graphics card.
▼ A simple push and pull, it feels good, hehe.
▼ The M2 metal heatsink at the bottom of the motherboard is fixed with screws, and after removing it, you can see multiple M2 slots underneath. The 3 on the left support up to PCIe 4.0 x 4, and the one on the right supports up to PCIe 3.0 x 2 or SATA.
▼ At the bottom of the motherboard, there are a variety of interfaces, from left to right, there are audio sockets, 12V four-pin RGB lighting sockets, 5V three-pin ARGB lighting sockets, two USB 2.0 sockets, 4 4-pin fan & water pump power supply sockets, 3 temperature sensor sockets, one USB 3.2 chassis front socket and some chassis jumper sockets.
▼The IO interface on the rear of the motherboard is also very rich, from left to right, one time is the BIOS flashing button, the BIOS clear button, the WIFI 7 antenna socket, the USB 3.2 Gen1 power supply enhancement interface 2, the USB 3.2 Gen2 gaming enhancement interface 2, the USB 2.0 interface 2, the USB 3.2 Gen2 interface 3, the USB 3.2 Gen1 interface 1, the USB4 interface 2, the 5G wired Lan port 1 and the audio interface 3.
▼The rear of the motherboard is equipped with a metal backplate as standard, and the metal backplate is equipped with a transparent insulating film as standard, which is good.
四、华擎PHANTON GAMING X870E NOVA主板 拆解
▼ Mushroom is ready to disassemble it here and take a look at the detailed material performance of this motherboard.
▼The number of metal covers on the front and back of the motherboard is still very large, a lot of them, of various volumes. In particular, the metal cover on the left side of the motherboard has a very complex shape, and the interior is also equipped with a cooling fan as standard.
▼After the metal parts on the front of the motherboard are removed, the various components on the front of the motherboard are still very rich.
▼The power supply specifications of the motherboard are super luxurious, with 14 phases of power supply on the left side and 10 phases of power supply on the upper side, and the specifications are super luxurious.
▼The input interface of the power supply module is a dual 8-pin design, surrounded by multiple 20K black solid-state capacitors, which play the role of voltage stabilization and filtering.
▼The main control silk screen RAA229628 of the power supply module, I heard that it supports the maximum 18-phase PWM control signal output, and on this motherboard, there is a high probability that it is a 10+1 dual-channel PWM control signal output.
▼On the left side of the motherboard, from top to bottom, there are 14 DrMos, which is very powerful to look at.
▼Take a closer look, the 13 silk screen R2209004 on it have a maximum stable output current of about 110A, which is very powerful. There is also a DrMos at the bottom, silkscreen RAA220075, the maximum stable output current is about 75A, and in the lower right corner is a PWM controller to control this DrMos, which should be used for the peripheral power supply of the processor.
▼There are a total of 10 phases of power supply on the top of the motherboard, 7 on the left side for the core power supply, 2 on the right side for the core power supply, the silk screen is R2209004, and the maximum stable output current is 110A. The DrMos silkscreen SIC431A on the far right has a maximum stable output current of about 24A, which is most likely responsible for the power supply of the memory controller part of the processor.
▼Behind the IO interface of the motherboard, there is a largest chip, red frame, silk screen ASM4242, this is a USB4 main control chip, this chip has a special heat dissipation design, in addition, ASRock is also equipped with an active cooling fan here. The orange frame chip is BW9951E silk-screened, and this chip is most likely a USB main control chip, which provides support for the USB interface on the IO panel of the motherboard. The yellow frame chip should also be the USB master control chip, providing support for the USB interface on the rear of the motherboard.
▼The red frame chip silk screen RTL8126, which is a 5G wired Lan port main control chip.
▼On the right side of the main PCIe slot of the motherboard, there is a motherboard BIOS flashing chip, and the right side should be the BIOS memory chip of the motherboard, but it is blocked by this plastic mechanism.
▼The largest chip silk screen NCT6796D, which is an IO detection chip, is used to detect various parameter information of the motherboard. Orange frame chip silk screen, which is also a monitoring chip. The yellow frame chip is a single-chip chip with RAM architecture, which is responsible for the lighting control of the motherboard.
▼The audio part in the lower left corner of the motherboard, the main control chip is silkscreened ALC4082, and the flagship level sound card main control chip.
▼ In the lower right corner of the motherboard, in the red frame, there are two southbridge chips, providing ample PCIe lanes. The orange frame chip is silkscreened ASM1061 to provide support for the SATA interface next to it. The yellow frame chip is silkscreened ASM2480B, and this chip is likely to provide support for the M2 interface next to it, so that it can support both the M2 solid state of NVMe and the M2 solid state of SATA.
▼ Around the bottom of the motherboard, there are multiple SMD LED chips, which are responsible for the RGB lighting effect at the bottom of the motherboard.
五、华擎PHANTON GAMING X870E NOVA主板 装机
▼The weight of this motherboard is very powerful, and the standard metal backplate makes this motherboard heavy and hard.
▼The motherboard is easily fixed in the FLUX chassis, and there are corresponding cable cutouts around it.
▼ The processor is AMD 9700X, which is easily installed on the motherboard here.
▼The radiator is PURE LOOP2 FX 280 all-in-one water cooler, which adopts an external water pump design, which makes the water block thinner and lighter, and can also be specially silentized for the water pump, making the daily operation quieter.
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▼The memory is ZADAK's SPARK memory, 16GB*2 6000MHz, the metal vest of this memory is very beautiful, using two different surface treatments to match each other, and at the same time with multi-segment RGB light strips, which is very designed.
▼ Memory is easy to install on the motherboard, dual-channel memory, 2 and 4 slots are preferred. With the memory installed by default, what is seen at the top is a silver metal vest with a full RGB strip in the middle.
▼The graphics card uses ShadowDash's RTX4080 Super Xingyao OC, which uses a white color scheme as a whole, and has ARGB lighting effects on the front and sides.
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▼ The graphics card is installed horizontally by default, and an original graphics card bracket is propped up at the tail of the graphics card.
▼The power supply is MSI's MPG A850G PCIE5 Gold fully modular power supply, which supports ATX 3.0, comes standard with PCIe 5.0 power supply interface, uses all-Japanese capacitors, and has a 10-year warranty.
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▼The heat dissipation grille on the side of the power supply is integrated with the power supply shell, which makes the compatibility performance of daily installation better. Inside, a 135mm cooling fan is equipped as standard, and this fan uses dynamic hydraulic bearings for quieter daily operation.
▼The power supply is easily fixed, and the power supply interfaces of each part are plugged in.
▼ Wipe the electricity, turn it on, light it up at one time, and the whole machine effect is very beautiful. The wooden frame on the front of the ANTEK FLUX chassis is really good, and the metal perforated mesh grid in the middle is also molded.
▼The case comes standard with 5 case fans, 3 fans in the front for air intake, 1 fan in the rear for air outlet, and a fan in the upper part of the power compartment to take care of the heat dissipation of the graphics card.
▼ASRock X870E NOVA motherboard has a beautiful RGB lighting design inside, with the surface design, the visual appearance is very beautiful.
▼ Take a closer look, the internal cooling fan blades are clearly visible, and it will stop in daily standby situations, and there will be no noise.
▼ At the bottom of the motherboard, the SMD LED with a circle around the motherboard has a good effect.
▼ This water-cooled head cover of Deshang Dejingjie is made of metal, the surface is brushed, and the middle is the familiar be quiet! There is a circle of RGB light strips around it, milky white, and the soft light effect is good.
▼The water cooling radiator is equipped with two 140mm cooling fans as standard, with a silent design, and the fan blades have a signature water ripple treatment, which is very quiet in daily operation.
▼ APACER's SPARK memory, with an RGB light strip on the top, with metal vests on both sides, the overall visual perception is good.
▼The side of the memory is a multi-segment RGB light strip, which itself has a beautiful shape design, and at the same time, it can also be well matched with the memory metal vest, which is not monotonous at all, and has a sense of design.
▼ This RTX4080 Super OC graphics card of Yinglax, the ARGB lighting effect of the graphics card supports motherboard synchronization, which can be better matched with other hardware inside the case, and the effect of the whole machine is more outstanding.
▼ There is a circle of wood material on the front of the ANTEK FLUX case, the wood grain is clear, and the texture is very good. In the middle is a large area of metal perforated mesh, and there is a special stamping shape.
▼ In the lower right corner of the wooden shape, there is the familiar LOGO of Antek.
▼The internal space performance of the case is also very good, the horizontal width is very sufficient, and in the face of the RTX4080 Super OC of Yingla, it can be easily installed, and the power supply wiring of the graphics card is also very easy.
六、华擎PHANTON GAMING X870E NOVA主板 测试
▼ List of configurations of the whole machine, the processor is 9700X, the motherboard is ASRock's X870E NOVA, and the graphics card is Shadowrac's RTX4080 Super OC. By the way, the processor unlocks the power limit here.
▼ A simple test of the whole machine, the score of the whole machine is 244W, of which the processor scores 98.6W alone, and the graphics card scores 105W alone, and the scores are very high.
▼ A brief look at the hardware specifications of the 9700X, this processor has 8 cores, 16 threads, 32MB L3 cache, and a maximum turbo frequency of about 5.5GHz.
▼ A simple CPU-Z test, the single-core score is 822.8, and the multi-core score is 8468.1, which is a good performance.
▼ Run CineBench R23 again, with a single-thread score of 2163 and a multi-threaded score of 22825, which is a very good performance.
▼ Next is the CPU test of 3Dmark, with a score of 1268 for 1 thread, 8692 for 8 threads, and 10332 for the largest thread.
▼ When the memory is turned on EXPO, the frequency can be easily stabilized at 6000MHz, and the timing is 40-40-40-96, which is good.
▼简单跑个内存读写测试，内存读取速度在58559MB/s、写入速度在78022MB/s、复制速度55342MB/s，延迟78.7ns，表现不错。
▼ Run a 3DMark FSE test, the graphics card score is 34787, and the physics score is 39020.
▼ Run another TS test, the graphics card score is 28499, and the CPU score is 14109.
▼ Game measurement,LOL Smash Bros. mode,2K resolution,All extremely high image quality,The frame rate of the spring game is about 939 frames,9700X's single-core performance is indeed very strong。
▼In the case of daily team battles, the frame rate of the game can also be kept at about 542 frames, which is very smooth.
▼ PUBG, 2K resolution, full high image quality, outdoor game frame rate is about 278 frames, and the performance is okay.
▼The performance of indoor game frame rate is about the same, and it can also be maintained at about 281 frames, which is also very smooth.
▼ Equality of All Living Beings Odyssey, 2K resolution, full extremely high image quality, the lowest volume cloud, the frame rate of the corridor game is about 134 frames, and the processor occupies about 40%, which is very smooth.
▼In large outdoor scenes, the frame rate of the game can also be maintained at about 100 frames, and the processor occupation is also about 40%, and the performance of the 9700X is really good.
▼ Finally, the overall average game frame rate is around 108 frames, so you can play smoothly on weekdays.
▼ Cyberpunk 2077, 2K resolution, ray tracing super quality, Popeye DLSS auto.
▼The lighting effect of the bar counter is very dreamy, the game frame rate is about 109 frames, which is very smooth, and the processor occupies about 56%.
▼The light and shadow effects at the outdoor beach are also very realistic, and various reflections in the beach are clearly visible.
▼The overall average game frame rate is around 112 frames, which is a good performance.
▼ In the daily standby situation, the temperature of the processor is around 44°C, which is a good performance.
▼ Simply run a CPU-Z stress test, the processor power consumption is about 145W, the all-core turbo frequency is 5.3GHz, and the temperature is about 84°C.
▼ Single-baked FPU test, the processor power consumption is about 155W, the all-core turbo frequency is about 4.7GHz, and the temperature is stable at 95°C.
7. Summary
ASRock's X870E NOVA motherboard has a very good overall performance, the power supply part is super luxurious, using 20+2+1+1 power supply specifications, of which the core power supply is 20 phases, the core power supply is 2 phases, and the core display power supply is 2 phases, all of which are 110A DrMos, the internal resistance is smaller, and the power supply circuit is covered with a large volume of metal heat sink, and an active cooling fan is standard inside the metal heat sink on the left side, so that the power supply system runs at a lower temperature and always maintains high efficiency.
In terms of expandability, this motherboard comes standard with 5 M2 slots and 4 SATA 3.0 ports, which can easily meet the needs of users for high-speed and large-capacity storage expansion. In addition, in terms of details, the top M2 slot supports quick assembly, and the fixed buckle of the main PCIe slot also uses a special mechanical structure design, which pulls the lever to the side, and it will be more comfortable to disassemble and assemble the graphics card on a daily basis.
In terms of appearance, the front of this motherboard is covered with a large area of metal panels, and its surface treatment is more exquisite, and the power supply and heat sink on the left side of the motherboard and the M2 metal panel on the lower part of the motherboard are designed with RGB lighting effects to support motherboard synchronization.
Thank you!
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