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ASRock Z87 Extreme9/ac Motherboard Review

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Heaven benchmark shows a slight preference to MSI's Z87 XPower motherboard, although the difference is negligible.

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8 comments

  1. excellent review Luke. ive been looking at a few of their boards recently and they seem to be improving their bioses in the last year. good looking board too.

  2. excellent review Luke. ive been looking at a few of their boards recently and they seem to be improving their bioses in the last year. good looking board too.

  3. What is their warranty like in Germany? I tend to stick with gigabyte as its very good here locally.

  4. how much that montherboard

  5. I ‘ve got one of these bad boys and the first impression that falls into my mind is this:
    BADASS…!!! It worths every Euro i paid…
    Excellent review as always…
    Greetings from Greece…!!!

  6. Nice review but you miss one important point about the exclusive DP-In (the gamer alternative to Virtu MVP).

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  8. Hi Luke Hill. Need to see the main.jpg picture of the Z87 Extreme9/ac motherboard’s UEFI BIOS main page. I’m wondering which bios version is that. I’ve tried all versions found in the net and none can get me to set PCI’s other than PCI2 to gen1. Thanks.