++++ The ASRock Z890 Lightning WiFi motherboard is available in stores for approx. 280 Euro (01/2025) and is therefore in the lower to medium price segment of Intel LGA 1851 motherboards.
The Intel LGA 1851 DDR5 ATX motherboard operates current Intel LGA1851 processors of the Core Ultra series and offers excellent overclocking functions and has extremely good basic equipment with a fast PCIe Gen5 slot as well as ASRock Blazing 128Gb/s M.2 slot for PCIe Gen5 x4 SSDs and 2.5 Gigabit LAN on the I/O panel. Addressable aRGB lighting has also been considered, which can be connected extensively and is even integrated under the M.2 cooler.
As basic equipment, the Z890 Lightning WiFi motherboard offers a total of three PCI Express slots, four SATA3 ports, three fast Hyper M.2 64Gb/s slots and one Blazing M.2 128Gb/s slot, one M.2 2230 slot with pre-installed WiFi/BT module, 2x Thunderbolt 4 Type-C, 1x USB 3.2 Gen2x2 Type-C, 2x USB-3.2-Gen2-Type-A, 8x USB-3.2-Gen1, 6x USB 2.0, one 2.5 Gigabit LAN port, 7.1 sound output via 5 jacks, four DDR5 slots, ASRock A-Tuning software also for controlling the fans in Windows, ASRock Polychrome Sync RGB for addressable RGB LED lighting and much more.
The ASRock Z890 Lightning WiFi motherboard is an excellent choice with really extensive features thanks to the Intel Z890 chipset and has a powerful PLC power supply that is very well suited for overclocking. In addition, the stylish ASRock Z890 Lightning WiFi motherboard has a great basic equipment and convinces with an above-average number of USB ports up to the fast 2.5 Gigabit LAN port, WiFi7, Bluetooth and lots of fast M.2 slots. With two USB-C Thunderbolt connections and eight additional USB ports, you are sure to have everything connected and even a digital SPDIF sound output has been included.
With this strong overall package, we would like to award the ASRock Z890 Lightning WiFi motherboard from the Phantom Gaming series our OCinside.de Purchase Tip Award 01/2025.
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