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ASRock hasn't tried to be particularly innovative with its software products in recent years and that's probably a smart decision given many system builders and consumers refuse to touch any motherboard software aside from driver-related products.
Nonetheless, ASRock has some software products which do the job but are certainly not as well fleshed out as software from rival motherboard companies, particularly ASUS. The primary ASRock software utility is F-Stream (called A-Tuning on its channel boards).
In short, F-Stream is ASRock's equivalent of ASUS AI Suite, Gigabyte EasyTune and MSI Command Center. It includes power profiles, live operating system overclocking, fan tuning and assisted/automated overclocking, among a few other things.
The Tools page within F-Stream lists all the available ASRock utilities for the motherboard in question. The interface is somewhat basic, but gets the job done.
When a mouse is plugged into the Fatal1ty mouse port its polling rate can be manually adjusted up to 1000Hz. In many cases gaming mice have their own software for polling rate adjustments but where they do not this offers a functional solution.
The Live Update software is intertwined with the App Shop. Once entering the BIOS & Drivers tab the utility will scan your system and inform you of which drivers or software have newer versions available. From here you can automate the downloading and installing process of these new software/driver versions.
Any idea of price?
Yes it’s discussed on the final page – around £270 in the UK and $260 in the US.
260 USD isn’t 270 GBP, even after the eu referendum bollocks.
Id more likely expect something like;
260 USD / 220 GBP
320 USD / 270 GBP
Wouldn’t make sense at all for it to be more in GBP than USD.
I know how the currency conversion (plus being British tax) works. But that’s what retailers are selling the board for. It says in the review that ASRock’s pricing is more competitive in North America than it is in the UK.
It’s 324 euros here in Belgium.
This one looks good, but if I was to go with X99 on a budget I would consider their Taichi model.
I do like the looks of Taichi. Even Fatal1ty looking good, Taichi Black and white looks really good.
I was pleasantly surprised when I got my FX990 Killer, it is one solid board with wonderful audio and I really do like the UEFI set up way more than Asus or MSi. My only complaint with mine is the rather terrible northbridge heatsink design, it’s just a stylized block of anodized aluminum with 3 grooves cut in it, I could have gone down to the 970FX board with all better heatsinks, USB 3.1 with a type C port and support for 220watt CPU’s, but I would have given up a far more superior chipset (I run multiple PCIe devices, wireless, a USB 3.1 card and 2 different graphics cards), additional power to PCIe and audio
Really good stuff coming out from them, love their mobos.