Description
The ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 motherboard is a powerful Mini-ITX motherboard based on the Intel Z490 chipset and supports 10th and 11th generation Intel Core processors with the LGA1200 socket. With two dual-channel DDR4 memory slots, the motherboard supports up to 64GB DDR4 RAM, making it an excellent choice for compact gaming PCs and powerful Mini-ITX systems.
The ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 features one PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot for a graphics card and offers fast storage options via M.2 NVMe and SATA. For wireless connectivity, the motherboard is equipped with Intel Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and Bluetooth, while the 2.5 Gigabit LAN connection provides a fast and stable wired network connection.
One of the main advantages of this model is the integrated Thunderbolt 3 connection, providing high-speed data transfer and extensive connectivity options. In addition, the ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 LGA1200 motherboard offers a wide range of modern connections, including HDMI, DisplayPort 1.4, Thunderbolt 3 USB Type-C, USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A, USB 3.2 Gen1 and USB 2.0.
Thanks to its compact Mini-ITX form factor, extensive connectivity and support for powerful Intel processors, the ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 is an excellent choice for a powerful gaming PC, workstation or compact high-performance computer.
ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3
Type: Motherboard
Socket: LGA1200 (supports 10th and 11th generation processors)
Brand: ASRock
Condition: Refurbished, latest BIOS version installed
Warranty: 6 months
EAN: 4710483931192
Manufacturer code: 90-MXBC40-A0UAYZ, Z490 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3
Drivers for the ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3
Supported processors for the ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3
Package Contents
- ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 motherboard
- I/O Shield
- 2 antennas
- Manual, driver CD and cables not included
Specifications
Gaming Armor
Power
– Hi-Density Power Connectors (24 pin and 8 pin)
Memory
– 15μ Gold Contact in DIMM Slots
VGA Card
– 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE1)
Internet
– 2.5G LAN
Audio
– Nahimic Audio
Unique Feature
ASRock USB 3.2 Gen2
– ASRock USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A Ports (10 Gb/s)
– ASRock Thunderbolt™ 3 Type C USB 3.2 Gen2 Port (40Gb/s for Thunderbolt™ protocol; 10 Gb/s for USB3.2 protocol)
ASRock Super Alloy
– Premium 90A Power Choke
– 90A Dr.MOS
– Nichicon 12K Black Caps (100% Japan made high quality conductive polymer capacitors)
– I/O Armor
– Matte Black PCB
– High Density Glass Fabric PCB
– 8 Layer PCB
– 2oz Copper PCB
ASRock Phantom Gaming 2.5G LAN
Intel® 802.11ax WiFi
ASRock Steel Slots
ASRock Full Coverage M.2 Heatsink
ASRock Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA3)
ASRock POST Status Checker (PSC)
ASRock Full Spike Protection (for all USB, Audio, LAN Ports)
ASRock Live Update & APP Shop
CPU
– Supports 10th Gen and future generation Intel® Core™ Processors (Socket 1200)
– Digi Power design
– 9 Power Phase design
– Supports Intel® Turbo Boost Max 3.0 Technology
– Supports Intel® K-Series unlocked CPUs
– Supports ASRock BCLK Full-range Overclocking
Chipset
– Intel® Z490
Memory
– Dual Channel DDR4 Memory Technology
– 2 x DDR4 DIMM Slots
– Supports DDR4 4666+(OC)* / 4600 / 4500 / 4400 / 4333/4266(OC) / 4133(OC) / 4000(OC) / 3866(OC) / 3800(OC) / 3733(OC) / 3600(OC) / 3200(OC) / 2933 / 2800 / 2666 / 2400 / 2133 non-ECC, un-buffered memory
– Supports ECC UDIMM memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode)
– Max. capacity of system memory: 64GB**
– Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 2.0
– 15μ Gold Contact in DIMM Slots
*Please refer to Memory Support List on ASRock’s website for more information.
Core™ (i9/i7) support DDR4 up to 2933; Core™ (i5/i3), Pentium® and Celeron® support DDR4 up to 2666.
**Due to the operating system limitation, the actual memory size may be less than 4GB for the reservation for system usage under Windows® 32-bit OS. For Windows® 64-bit OS with 64-bit CPU, there is no such limitation.
BIOS
– 128Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with multilingual GUI support
– ACPI 6.0 Compliant wake up events
– SMBIOS 2.7 Support
– CPU Core/Cache, DRAM, VPPM,VTTDDR, VCCSFR, VCCPLL_OC, PCH Voltage, VCCIO, VCCST, VCCSA, CPU Internal PLL, GT PLL, Ring PLL, System Agent PLL, Memory Controller PLL Voltage Multi-adjustment
Graphics
– Hardware Accelerated Codecs: AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265 8bit, HEVC/H.265 10bit, VP8, VP9 8bit, VP9 10bit, MPEG 2, MJPEG, VC-1*
– Graphics, Media & Compute: Microsoft DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.5, Intel® Built In Visuals, Intel® Quick Sync Video, Hybrid / Switchable Graphics, OpenCL 2.1
– Display & Content Security: Rec. 2020 (Wide Color Gamut), Microsoft PlayReady 3.0, Intel® SGX Content Protection, UHD/HDR Blu-ray Disc
– Three graphics output options: HDMI, DisplayPort 1.4 and Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3
– Supports Triple Monitor
– Supports Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3 with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096×2304) @ 60Hz
– Supports HDMI 2.0 with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096×2160) @ 60Hz
– Supports DisplayPort 1.4 with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096×2304) @ 60Hz
– Supports Auto Lip Sync, Deep Color (12bpc), xvYCC and HBR (High Bit Rate Audio) with HDMI 2.0 Port (Compliant HDMI monitor is required)
– Supports HDR (High Dynamic Range) with HDMI 2.0
– Supports HDCP 2.3 with HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.4 and Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3
– Supports 4K Ultra HD (UHD) playback with HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.4 and Intel® Thunderbolt™ 3
*Intel® UHD Graphics Built-in Visuals and the graphics outputs can be supported only with processors with integrated GPU.
**VP9 10bit and VC-1 are for decode only.
VP8 and VP9 encode are not supported by Windows® OS.
Audio
– 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec)
– Premium Blu-ray Audio support
– Supports Surge Protection
– 120dB SNR DAC with Differential Amplifier
– NE5532 Premium Headset Amplifier for Front Panel Audio Connector (Supports up to 600 Ohm headsets)
– Pure Power-In
– Direct Drive Technology
– PCB Isolate Shielding
– Impedance Sensing on Rear Out port
– Individual PCB Layers for R/L Audio Channel
– Gold Audio Jacks
– 15μ Gold Audio Connector
– Nahimic Audio
LAN
– 2.5 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000/2500 Mb/s
– Dragon RTL8125BG
– Supports Phantom Gaming LAN Software
– Smart Auto Adjust Bandwidth Control
– Visual User Friendly UI
– Visual Network Usage Statistics
– Optimized Default Setting for Game, Browser, and Streaming Modes
– User Customized Priority Control
– Supports Wake-On-LAN
– Supports Lightning/ESD Protection
– Supports Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az
– Supports PXE
Wireless LAN
– Intel® 802.11ax WiFi Module
– Supports IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ax
– Supports Dual-Band (2.4/5 GHz)
– Supports WiFi6 802.11ax (2.4Gbps)
– 2 antennas to support 2 (Transmit) x 2 (Receive) diversity technology
– Supports Bluetooth 5.1 + High speed class II
– Supports MU-MIMO
Slots
– 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slot*
– 1 x Vertical M.2 Socket (Key E) with the bundled WiFi-802.11ax PCIe WiFi module (on the rear I/O)
– 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE1)
*Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks
Supports PCIe riser cards to extend x16, x8/x8 or x8/x4/x4 slots
Storage
– 4 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Intel® Rapid Storage Technology 17), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug*
– 1 x Ultra M.2 Socket (M2_1), supports M Key type 2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4 (32 Gb/s)**
– 1 x Ultra M.2 Socket (M2_2), supports M Key type 2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4 (32 Gb/s)**
*If M2_1 is occupied by a SATA-type M.2 device, SATA_1 will be disabled.
**Supports Intel® Optane™ Technology
Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks
Connector
– 1 x Chassis Intrusion Header
– 1 x RGB LED Header*
– 1 x Addressable LED Header**
– 1 x CPU Fan Connector (4-pin)***
– 1 x CPU/Water Pump Fan Connector (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)****
– 1 x Chassis Fan Connector (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)
– 1 x 24 pin ATX Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector)
– 1 x 8 pin 12V Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector)
– 1 x Front Panel Audio Connector (15μ Gold Audio Connector)
– 1 x USB 2.0 Headers (Support 2 USB 2.0 port) (Supports ESD Protection)
– 1 x USB 3.2 Gen1 Header (Supports 2 USB 3.2 Gen1 ports) (Supports ESD Protection)
*Supports in total up to 12V/3A, 36W LED Strip
**Supports in total up to 5V/3A, 15W LED Strip
***The CPU Fan Connector supports the CPU fan of maximum 1A (12W) fan power.
****CPU_OPT/W_PUMP can auto detect if 3-pin or 4-pin fan is in use.
Rear Panel I/O
– 2 x Antenna Ports
– 1 x HDMI Port
– 1 x DisplayPort 1.4
– 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
– 3 x USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A Ports (10 Gb/s) (Supports ESD Protection)
– 1 x USB 3.2 Gen2 Thunderbolt™ 3 Type-C Port (40Gb/s for Thunderbolt™ protocol; 10 Gb/s for USB3.2 protocol) (Supports ESD Protection)*
– 2 x USB 3.2 Gen1 Ports (Supports ESD Protection)
– 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)
– 1 x Clear CMOS Button
– HD Audio Jacks: Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone (Gold Audio Jacks)
*Supports USB PD 2.0 charging up to 5V@3A (15W)
Software and UEFI
Software
– ASRock Motherboard Utility (Phantom Gaming Tuning)
– ASRock Phantom Gaming LAN Software
– ASRock Polychrome SYNC
– ASRock Key Master*
UEFI
– ASRock EZ Mode
– ASRock Full HD UEFI
– ASRock My Favorites in UEFI
– ASRock Instant Flash
– ASRock Internet Flash
– ASRock Easy RAID Installer
*These utilities can be downloaded from ASRock Live Update & APP Shop.
Accessories
– 2 x Antenna
Hardware Monitor
– Temperature Sensing: CPU, CPU_OPT/Water Pump, Chassis Fans
– Fan Tachometer: CPU, CPU_OPT/Water Pump, Chassis Fans
– Quiet Fan (Auto adjust chassis fan speed by CPU temperature): CPU_OPT/Water Pump
– Fan Multi-Speed Control: CPU, CPU_OPT/Water Pump, Chassis Fans
– CASE OPEN detection
– Voltage monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, CPU Vcore, DRAM, VPPM, PCH, VCCSA, VCCST, VCCIO, VCCPLL_OC, VCCSFR
Form Factor
– Mini-ITX Form Factor: 6.7-in x 6.7-in, 17.0 cm x 17.0 cm
– 8 Layer PCB
– 2oz Copper PCB
OS
– Microsoft Windows® 10 64-bit / 11 64-bit
Certifications
– FCC, CE
– ErP/EuP ready (ErP/EuP ready power supply is required)




