ASRock's X570 Phantom Gaming ITX ditches AM4 cooler support in favour of 115X mounts

[WYP]

An AMD motherboard with an Intel-style mounting system?



Read More about ASRock's X570 Phantom Gaming motherboard supporting Intel's stock cooler.

 

[g0ggles1994]

Honestly, I'm not even mad about this. My original thoughts about AM4's mounting system is that the dimensions will make it hard to build smaller boards. I honestly hope AMD ditch the retention system for AM5 and remodel the spacings to make it better for smaller boards like this.

 

[AlienALX]

Gorgeous board that makes me very happy.

Now please make your GPUs look like this, Asrock.

 

[Kleptobot]

Asrock seem to be the the best manufacturer when it comes to ITX. The X99 ITX board they produced was gloriously insane, and now they are releasing this board. I like how they are making products that are different and exciting in this space.

 

[66racer]

Asrock strikes again! I wonder if this will become a trend by other manufacturers. It is literally a genius idea.

 

[The_Governour]

M.2 at the back? That will cook nicely there.....

 

[grec]

M.2 drives just need a bit of metal in contact with them really, they get crammed into laptops in 2-3 stacked tight configs with no airflow just fine, max power consumption (7W) is roughly around DRAM levels. Issues with overheating are usually caused by an external heat source, like a 200W active heat pump(GPU) sat just above it.