Stefan Mileschin

The Phantom Gaming series, debuted recently, has been an interesting development from ASRock. Going for a more sleek look, the range offers additional functionality above the norm different to its other gaming brands. The first X399 motherboard with the PG naming scheme is the new X399 Phantom Gaming 6, with support for both AMD's first and second generation Ryzen Threadripper HEDT processors.

Earlier on in the year, ASRock replaced its Fatal1ty branded boards with the new and more visually neutral aesthetic. The new X399 Phantom Gaming 6 is one of the new iteration with silver and black heatsinks. The chipset heatsink and the PCB has red accents too. The matte black power delivery heatsink covers the majority of the rear panel and stretches with a heat pipe across the entirety of the power delivery, going by dual 8-pin 12 V ATX CPU power inputs. There are also a further two RGB headers and a single addressable RGB header with support for ASRock's Polychrome RGB. Other headers include five 4-pin fan headers with support for PWM, two USB 2.0 and two USB 3.1 Gen1 headers, as well as including a single Key E PCIe slot for support to allow users to install a compatible Wi-Fi adapter.

For PCIe, three full-length PCIe 3.0 slots allow for up to three-way SLI and CrossFire setups to be installed. The ASRock X399 Phantom Gaming 6 has eight SATA ports fed directly from the chipset and has support for RAID 0, 1 and 10 arrays. Also implemented are three M.2 slots, one of which comes with an M.2 heatshield. On the memory front, the new ASRock X399 Phantom Gaming 6 has eight DDR4 slots with quad channel support for up to DDR4-3400 and a total capacity up to 128 GB. There is also a slot for M.2 Wi-Fi.

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