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ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell October 18, 2011 Featured Tech News, Motherboard

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We ripped our BluRay disc of Sniper Reloaded to 1080P MKV and use Windows Media Player to playback the file.

MKV contained media can place a heavy load on hardware, but there are no performance related concerns with this system build, averaging 25 percent overall.

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12 comments

  1. Davis
    October 18, 2011 at 2:11 pm

    Very nice indeed, looks great. I need a system upgrade, it kills me everytime I read a review of a new mobo 🙁

  2. Freak show
    October 18, 2011 at 2:15 pm

    Yeah they are really good now, I hate however how some forums have idiots who are ‘experts’ who say they still suck. I have a P67 board of theirs (B3) and it is brilliant, never a problem. hits 4.6ghz with my 2500k no problem too.

  3. Iran
    October 18, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    x16/x16 is quite rare on these systems. good job ASROCK. bit expensive though isnt it?

  4. Luay
    October 18, 2011 at 3:31 pm

    This $275 board is meant for triple card multi-monitor setups, and is in direct competition with the $350 Maximus IV Extreme-Z, $360 UD7, $370 G1. Sniper2 budget and $310 FTW.

    IMO, if a current triple-CF/SLI setup is the priority and you already own a dedicated SSD, sacrificing the Z68 futures for the $235 P67 WS Revolution is a better deal.

  5. Ramon
    October 18, 2011 at 11:08 pm

    AFAIK, the NF200 bridge/switch is PCIe 2.0. If it is to handle the traffic from 3 PCIe slots to the CPU, then how will do it at PCIe 3.0 speed with PCIe 3.0 video cards and CPU??

    Ramon

  6. Carl
    October 20, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    Why are the first two pci-e slots so close together?

  7. Gilbert
    October 20, 2011 at 12:41 pm

    @ Carl. The second slot is the PCIE 3.0 compatible one. If you use SLI etc, I think you are meant to use slot 1 and 3.

  8. moeloo
    December 28, 2011 at 9:14 am

    Wich setting in the bios do have you change in the bios to achieve 4,6ghz?

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