ASRock Z370 Extreme4 Motherboard Review + Linux Test 

LORD RAJA go back ten years 1gb was around 70€ so it’s no that bad. After buyIng 16gb ddr4 set for 180€

+david18555 like 1.5 year ago i bought 3ghz ddr4 16GB for like 80 euro. so yea its damn expensive compared to about 2 years ago.

in '11 i bought 2x4GB DDR3-1600 for 40 USD retail so... If you compare the complexity of a CPU or GPU vs Dram at the same price point, it's ludicrous price-fixing. SK, Micron, Samsung, Elpida can go f themselves.

RAM is expensive and so are GPUs. Woe is me. Maybe next year...

It's booting!

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If you're not getting a gpu then no, this mobo can only handle a max of 60Hz. But since you are getting a 144Hz monitor, I'm assuming you're gonna get a gpu and game on it. Then, u can connect your monitor to the display port of the gpu. Isnt that how it works? Tbh, not a builder myself tho but about to build a pc using this mobo by black friday XD

@@twix1442 me too xd, what parts u getting?

@@theshinigami4209 Bro, if u getting this board, get it now in newegg... its $134 atm with a $25 rebate. I just bought mine 5 mins ago.

@@theshinigami4209 aaand, i got a seasonic focus 850W for 60 at newegg too. But the sale ended yesterday. Got Samsung 860 evo 500gb for 70 at amazon. its 1gb counterpart is at 130 if u want that. 2TB seagate barracuda for 60 at amazon. 3TB ironwolf at newegg for 70 in 5 days if u want that. Dumb i didnt see that earlier. But i havent researched on seagates ironwolf yet so u could check that out.

Sadly i have a tight budget so im really looking out on cheap deals haha! Havent gotten a cpu and gpu yet. Im considering a 1080ti on ebay tho... But im really not used to buying used ones. Scared it might be destroyed or something. Deciding 8700k or 9600k. We'll see soon. A deal might come out of nowhere

I have the same question. Idk which should I get

Likewise, I’m either extreme4 or k6 both about the same but can’t find any direct comparisons

Get the extreme 4 or the taichi

Nathan Lowery LGR does the captions manually to get the sound effects right, but he also does a lot fewer videos than these guys.

schmudge I actually have this board in my new build. I didn't experience this... the board seems very durable with plenty of flex when I installed it. Could have just gotten lucky with my board though.

I've had an ASrock board in my build for 4 years and have never experienced any issues. The board is sturdy just like any other proper board, my card is huge and I had to man handle it in there and the board held up fine. I have also overclocked and it ran fine.

halistine jenkins almost every z370 board does that. $250 boards are where you see more intelligent pci and chipset lane schemes.

yes they do. i've downloaded the spec sheet for about every z370 board worth having presently and the asus prime board has the best pcie lane distribution from the chipset imho if you're wanting to utilize all your sata ports.....but that board has garbarge power delivery. it has 2 m.2 slots and you can choose to run the second slot at 2x keeping all sata ports on which would be perfect for someone interested in intel's optane and incorporate an add on card with an m.2 connector in the bottom pcie slot, but the top m.2 slot will run at full 4x speeds without effecting the sata ports. that would give you a total of 3 m.2 options with one running at 2x or an optane memory stick. almost all the other boards kill sata ports when using m.2 or the slot that doesn't is located directly behind the gpu which is not a suitable place imho. some of them will even drop the bottom pcie slot when populating the m.2 in that area thus killing any chance of using a x4 add on card with an m.2 connector which work quite well from my experience even when booting from one. it would be nice to be able to switch lanes manually for the chipset in the bios but as you mentioned earlier it would cannibalize their higher tier boards. as far as this board (Extreme4) and the Fata1ity K6 goes, they incorporate the asmedia 1061 chipset to give you 2 additional sata ports making a total of 8. if you use both m.2 connectors you will have 4 sata ports available with 2 via the asmedia chip. i do not like using the asmedia chipset to power my hard drives because i notice different behaviors from them when driven by this controller presently and in the past, but i've learned to live with it. they will not goto sleep, they also show up as "hot swapable" drives in windows, and without tweaking the registry, you can't make them go away. it's as if they are usb drives or such. i use the native microsoft driver that comes with windows and this allows the drives to goto sleep if i so desire but they still show up as "removable". it's not perfect and torments my ocd but i've come to terms with it. the price for these two very similar boards makes it worth it to me because i've found, through my own experiences with other inexpensive z370 boards, that these have excellent power delivery for the unlocked 6 core cpus. they have excellent vrms for what i expect from them.

That music during the screen grab part of the video was horrible I paused to say this.

wezbat I'd heard the same thing about m.2, or at least NAND Flash temperature preferences. You don't want the controller to get too hot, but it'll take a bit to cause that to throttle down.

Only nvme flash

Flash is flash, whether it's on a SATA or NVME interface. The controller needs cooling, the flash doesn't (at least up to a point).

wezbat Straight from the ASROCK website: - Supports HDMI with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096x2160) @ 30Hz - Supports DVI-D with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @ 60Hz - Supports D-Sub with max. resolution up to 1920x1200 @ 60Hz So yeah, he's correct about only getting 4k30fps straight from the board. Then again, if you're targeting 4k60 (or even 4k30 for that matter) then surely you're gonna be using your GPU's outputs and not your motherboard's outputs. ;)

yeah, i have this board. i upgraded from the z97m oc formula board that did have adaptive overclocking. imo it's the best way to overclock, fixed voltage is so unnecessary when you are just watching youtube videos.but for what you get, it's a great board for the money. it's basically the gaming k6 board without a couple features missing that you can do without.

from what i've read, it's not a "real" 12 phase VRM

Its a doubled 4+2 or 5+1 You can OC the same with any of then

i had 2 x ASUS z170-A Prime boards and pushed my 8700k's with them. They both blew the caps behind the left VRM that are trapped under that white plastic heat shroud. i think there's something to Intel not allowing these chips to work in z170/270 boards. i only think the higher tier boards would've been able to handle the power hungry coffee lake chips. i'm not having these issues with the ASROCK boards and their power delivery. As i type, the Extreme4 is going on it's 40th hour of prime95 small ffts avx with youtube playing on auto play simultaneously.

Yeah it doesn't really make a difference, unless you're doing LN2 overclocking. There is no real 12 phase board made AFAIK anyway, it would be complete overkill. The ASrock Z270 aircarrier has a 2x6 VRM for VCore. :) What is more important than the number of phases (to a certain degree...) is the actual components used anyway. Are they rated for 105c or 125? How many hours at that temp? Efficiency in the 80+ or 90+ range? How many amps can the mosfets handle? How good is the heatsink? And the list goes on. Buildzoid does a lot of PCB evaluation videos on the channel "Actually Hardcore Overclocking", go take a look. :)

get buildzoid on it I swear he is the only person who can demystify VRMs in an understandable way

Too bad Asus don't make any more mainstream WS boards...just when mainstream gets 6-cores...

ASUS ' cheaper boards for the z370 chipset are garbage for the bigger chips. I've already "popped" 2 x Z370-A boards with two separate 8700k's. The caps behind the left VRM heatsink "exploded" on both boards during stress testing. they can't handle the i7 chips oc'd when maxing out the Digi-VRM like on the z270's / z1270's. hell, i think that's all those boards are. rehashed z170/z270 boards. that's why intel won't let the older boards house Coffee lake. only the top end boards would've been able to handle it.