Why paying MORE for motherboard is worth it!? | ASRock Phantom Gaming Z790 Nova WiFi

Its a no go because it doesn't have bios flashback. If your bios flash gets corrupted there's no way to flash it again, you have to RMA the whole board. Bios flashback is almost standard across other vendors' motherboards by now.

The technical and essential difference between AMD X and B motherboards, is that the X boards have (2) onboard chipsets while the B boards have (1) onboard chipset (and the "E" simply means that the board has Gen5 PCIe lanes available instead of just Gen4). The second chip doesn't really affect performance per se - it just changes the configuration of the PCIe lanes and allows for additional lanes coming off the chips. But keep this in mind: THE ADDITIONAL LANES DO NO MATTER unless you actually plan to use all of them. For example if you buy a Gigabyte X670E Aeorus Master with 40 useable PCIe lanes instead of a B650E Aeorus Master with 32 useable PCIe lanes, but you don't use the 8 extra lanes for anything, then you are basically paying $100 extra for no particular reason. Always look at the motherboard block diagrams in the board manual, available on the manufacturer website. In fact that is probably the number one most common way that people waste money on motherboards: paying for features they don't use. The only "Construction Quality" features I always check are the PCB layer count for running RAM (8+ is excellent, 6 or less is average), and the Power Stages (12-14 is good, 16+ is great, <12 is meh). But other than that, MB shopping is 80% just finding the minimum combination of features that you will actually use on a regular basis. List the features you want first before you look at any boards and start your search there. "I want (2) m.2 Gen5 slots, minimum 6 SATA ports, Post Code, minimum 8 USB A ports, and a 8x/8x/0x slot configuration. Ok that narrows my search, now I can compare the quality of boards within these parameters."

Excellent review! Thank you very much! I am considering this mobo.

I really needed this video!

Found your channel last week and we love it. Decided to play a drinking game off your chipset explainer video and although we still haven't finished it a whole day later, the only things we can't find are our keys and phones, but like who loses clothes in a drinking game cause we absolutely didn't brrrrr. Thanks to you we've dialed in on the 32-Core Threadripper and are looking at merely upgrading to the 13900K from the i7 same gen cause someone splurged on a motherboard last year. That's worth losing a little dignity over-I mean keys right lol. Seriously though we suspected a few things but your channel really helped to eliminate one build and scale another down.

It's the sense of humor for me 🤣 thanks for an informative guide!

Thanks for the review. FYI, you missed that the back panel also has thermal pads sandwiched between it and the m/board (visible through the cpu cutout) which acts as an additional heatsink. ;-)

The hard part is always the price increase. I feel that most people don't get the $500+ board, especially when the CPU often doesn't cost nearly that much. My next upgrade will be thinking "am I willing to pay $100 more" and that's the hard question. It shocked me when a freaking BIOSTAR board was $500 ish

I looked at higher end motherboards. I kept coming back to this one. I saved $200.00 by not going with the Z790 AORUS MASTER. I picked up this motherboard from Microcenter for $379.00 what a steal. I'm using a 14700k and G Skill 32GB 7200 in a Corsair 5000X RGB. The only issue I have know is which GPU I should get. Thanks for the overview of this motherboard. 01/06/2024 0741

normally i dont mind other motherboards than mine even i know alot about it. But your videos are so interesting to watch andi learned a lot from your video. Because of you i bought the proart b760 wifi . Amazing mainboard. But the asrock looks amazing aswell. I remember asrock as having really high quality mainboards for a lower price! But im still confuse about the numbers and letters of motherboards. Need to watch the video again.

I'm a composer and music producer, I've been following your work and it's really the most honest I've seen. By the way I live in Portugal, you're reaching the whole world! Thank you for your work!

@9:11 I noticed they put a pci-e x1 slot at the bottom of the mobo with the end of the slot cut out for cards with longer connectors to still use the 1x lanes but they put 2 capacitors there so you cant use anything that would stick out of the slot anyway...

For Intel, "Z" references Enthusiast focus. "H" is home user focus. "B" is business grade focus. "Q" tends to be qualification platforms as is chipsets that were sent to manufacturers as qualifying sample chipsets but are free to distribute on a motherboard after platform release. "X" is for extreme users

Hey nice video very informative for motherboard.

From a technical point of view I would cut four or five of the m.2 slots, add some pci-e slots and put some pcie-to-m2 adapter cards into the box. Much more flexible.

I have an ASRock Z690 C/D5 ATX that has 4 NVME SSD slots. Plus a B/M key for WiFi/Bluetooth. The 4th NVME is pcie 3.0 though

Nova is by far the best offering on Z790 for enthusiast without deep pockets, really hope AsRock continues to release Nova line in Arrow lake.

Love your content man, but this video begs the question: Is this board better than the ASUS ProArt Z790-Creator for the kind of work you do?

Can you help with my motherboard selection ? I am having a 5900x CPU and need to upgrade my motherboard. I am confused between ASUS Proart b550 creator motherboard and Gigabyte X570S Aero G Which one would be good for a heavy GPU, gen 4 M.2 SSD FOR 3D work ? Kindly suggest

It's not the first time they call “gaming” a mobo suitable also for a little 2-channel workstation: I remember that you had already addressed the issue with the MSI X570S Ace Max, which I then bought and it gave me a thousand joys (I have main nvme and chipset water cooled too). Certainly this new Z790 is very very beautiful. Quality motherboards are always wonderful, I love them, and are necessary in PCs built to last, and in general in all high-end builds. The best VRMs are very useful with the most demanding overclocks and large RAMs; the numerous nvme slots are useful over time, and numerous additional attacks leave room for maneuver and the possibility of precisely distributing the not many lines that a two-channel socket makes available. 🙂