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ASRock Z87 Extreme9/ac Motherboard Review

HandBrake is a fantastic free program that can be used to convert video files to many common formats for portable devices. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

We used the latest V 0.9.9 version.

For our testing today we are converting a 4.4GB 720p MKV file (1h:58mins) to MP4 format, using HandBrake's ‘Normal' profile, for playback on High-Resolution devices. This is a common procedure for many people and will give a good indication of system power.

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Using Handbrake as the media encoding program, the stock-clocked ASRock Z87 Extreme9/ac and MSI Z87 XPower both show almost identical performance.

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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.