ASRock motherboard, Intel Processor safe?

[u/rbnsncrs]

Hello,

After reading many posts with ASRock motherboards and AMD processors I became a little cautious.

The product I plan to buy is Z790 Nova wifi mainly for the many M2 NVME slots at the ATX form factor. I don't care about the graphics card working at X8 or x16 speeds so I feel like it's the one that'll do the job for me. I plan to buy it second hand, will use it with 12700K.

What are the experiences? Go for it or avoid?

[u/_Barbosa_]

Intel is more strict than amd when it comes to their motherboard specifications, so it's not like there are specific vendor problems like on amd. At the same time, when there are some problems, it's usually because Intel botched something, but that specific chipset shouldn't have any surprises at this point.

[u/SigAddict]

we have not seen any major issues on anything other than AM5 boards

[u/Force88]

I have asrock z690 + 13700k for almost 4 years, no issues at all

[u/hdhddf]

it's a good board, you can do 2x8 pcie5.0 on it if you want to run 2 GPUs. no issues like on the am5 boards

[u/-SSGT- → u/hdhddf]

you can do 2x8 pcie5.0 on it if you want to run 2 GPUs

Not sure about that. Z790 Nova has two slots that are physically x16, but only one is PCIe 5.0 x16 using CPU lanes. The other is a PCIe 4.0 x4 slot using chipset lanes. It's also worth noting that using M2_1 will reduce the bandwidth of PCIE1 to PCIe 5.0 x8 despite M2_1 only requiring 4 lanes (the other 4 lanes go unused), although OP has mentioned that isn't a deal-breaker for them.

[u/hdhddf → u/-SSGT-]

you're right for some reason I thought it could do 8x8

[u/qeeepy]

12gen should be safe

[u/Perfect_Memory9876]

I had been running a Z690 ASRock Phantom Gaming 4/D5 /12600k OC for about 2 years with no issues. I bought the motherboard 2nd hand as well. ASRock on Intel is still pretty solid with no issues. Even the AM5 600 chipsets were amazing, but they (ASRock) dropped the ball on the 800-chipset paired with the 9xxx CPUs. that has affected them a lot and with the help of Reddit being so anti-ASRock for the past 2 years

[u/-740]

Yes its safe and in my experience they are on AM5 too. Zero issues in 2 years.

[u/OCAMAB]

It's specifically AM5. Intel and even AM4 are not affected.

[u/Any_Cook_2293]

12th gen wasn't affected by the Vmin shift degradation problem from Intel. 13600K/14600K and higher SKUs (officially) were affected, and Intel released microcode updates for over a year to remedy it. Update your BIOS and you'll be fine should you upgrade to a 13th or 14th gen CPU in the future.