ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 Motherboard Leaks For 9th Gen Intel Core Coffee Lake CPUs

by Brandon Hill — Thursday, September 13, 2018, 12:38 PM EDT

Intel’s 9th generation Core “Coffee Lake Refresh” processors are just around the corner, and we’ve already seen benchmark leaks for a few of the new SKUs that will be available at launch. In the past week, we’ve seen leaked benchmarks for both the flagship Core i9-9900K and the Core i7-9700K.

These new processors will be supported by Intel’s new Z390 chipset, and ASRock is the latest to have one of its enthusiast motherboards leaked. In this case, it’s the Z390 Phantom Gaming 9, which will serve as its flagship product for the new 9th generation Core processors.

What we can tell from the leaked retail box shot along with pictures of the motherboard and I/O backplate, we spy three PCIe x16 slots along with three M.2 slots. There is also a total of three Ethernet ports onboard, with one of them supporting 10Gbps transfers (it’s the red one for those wondering). There’s even what appears to be Thunderbolt 3/USB-C port out back.

Among the high-end processor SKUs that Intel has lined up – which would be a perfect fit for ASRock’s monster motherboard – are the following:

Core i9-9900K: 8 cores / 16 threads, 3.6GHz to 5GHz, 16MB L3 cache, 95W TDP
Core i7-9700K: 8 cores / 8 threads, 3,6GHz to 4.9GHz, 12MB L3 cache, 95W TDP
Core i5-9600K: 6 cores / 6 threads, 3.7GHz to 4.6GHz, 9MB L3 cache, 95W TDP

Intel Processor

For those that want to go all out, we can imagine popping in the Core i9-9900K, overclocking it to the max, and throwing in dual GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards for some real-time ray tracing in upcoming blockbuster titles like Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Battlefield V.

The ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 joins other leaked Z390 motherboards, which include the Gigabyte’s Z390 Gaming SLI and Z390 Aorus Elite.

Tags: Intel, ASRock, (NASDAQ:INTC), z390, z390 phantom gaming 9

Brandon Hill

Brandon received his first PC, an IBM Aptiva 310, in 1994 and hasn’t looked back since. He cut his teeth on computer building/repair working at a mom and pop computer shop as a plucky teen in the mid 90s and went on to join AnandTech as the Senior News Editor in 1999. Brandon would later help to form DailyTech where he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2014. Brandon is a tech geek at heart, and family members always know where to turn when they need free tech support. When he isn’t writing about the tech hardware or studying up on the latest in mobile gadgets, you’ll find him browsing forums that cater to his long-running passion: automobiles.

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