ASRock Z590 PG Velocita (Intel 1200)

As I said, the ASRock Z590 PG Velocita is a fantastic motherboard that’s absolutely packed with some great features. If you’re building a high-end, enthusiast gaming system based on an Intel 11th Gen rocket Lake processor, then you have to take a look at this motherboard.

ASRock Z590 PG Velocita is a definite head-turner. This board has an overwhelming number of advanced features anywhere from Hyper M.2 support to WiFi6 support to ARGB to Intel 11th Gen CPU support. And it holds itself extremely stable with all of these features available to be used at any time. Velocita has four DDR4 slots that potentially could be used to upgrade the RAM to 128Gb up to 4800MHz if needed. This board is ready to handle pretty much anything you can throw at it.

ASRock woos the gamer with the PG Velocita line of boards. The latest entrant, Z590, is great in parts and merely average in others. Let's start with the good. We like the general layout, colour scheme (surprisingly), and appreciate the attention paid to larger VGA cards through the bundled holder. Power delivery is robust, heatsinks extremely well-built, and enough onboard buttons and fans to sate enthusiasts' needs. But we'd prefer a richer I/O panel, more 20Gbps USB, full-speed AVX by default, and a dual 2.5G networking suite from Intel.

The ASRock Z590 Phantom Gaming Velocita is an attractive motherboard with a robust feature set. The black, gray, silver, and red theme strikes a good balance of flair and practicality. The RGB LEDs are bright and have good diffusion, continuing ASRock's trend of providing great RGB implementations. Additionally, ASRock's new graphics card holder is a genuinely practical inclusion that solves the increasingly common problem of GPU sag.

The ASRock Z590 PG Velocita is a proper model in that Z590 Phantom Gaming family. With an integrated I/O shield, solid RGB implementation, PCIe 4.0 compatibility with future CPU generations (both for the GPU and the NVMe drives), the ASRock Z590 PG Velocita really has the speed (Velocita) it claims. It looks good, has a solid feature set, and performs well. The Z590 PG Velocita would handle even the 8-core Intel Core i9 11900K with ease. The price is about 299 USD, so a lot for what is still essentially a mainstream to high-end chipset, but you get two ethernet solutions (one of them is 2.5 Gbit), an 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6E Module, 14-phase power, nice audio quality, as well as 3x NVMe ports and 6 SATA ports. Additionally, you get Asrock’s GPU Holder solution, which should help prevent the graphics card from sagging. RGB lovers can enjoy two regular and two addressable RGB headers for the bling. The Asrock Z590 PG Velocita surely deserves the Recommended award for all that it delivers, but you need to remember the price tag as well as the fact that the competition is very strong. Other than that, and the price, we got no other major complaints. Well, maybe there is something. No Thunderbolt port on I/O can be missed by some of you. In the end, ASRock’s Velocita is a solid mid-range option for your 10th (or better 11th) generation Intel system. It does what it's supposed to, period.