11/14/2022 0 Comments Xfast lan review![]() ![]() During our overclocking process, we managed to get 4.6GHz out of our i7-4770K. The ASRock Z97 Extreme4 performed very well compared to the other motherboards that we have reviewed so far. Across the bottom of the motherboard, from left to right, you can see a COM Port header, a Power Fan connector, a Clear CMOS jumper, a Thunderbolt header, a pair of USB 2.0 headers, a speaker header, a front panel connector bank, a debug LED, along with Clear CMOS, Power, and Reset buttons. Formerly known as next-generation form factor (NGFF), M.2 is the replacement for the mSATA interface found on previous generation of motherboards. Next up, you will find a 10Gbps M.2 socket 3 connector sitting between the lower primary PCIe X16 slots. Above the top PCIe 2.0 x1 slot there is a 4-pin Molex power connector to aid auxiliary power for stability of multi-GPU setups. However, 3-way SLI for NVIDIA graphics cards is not supported due to the fact that SLI requires x8 PCIe lanes or greater to work, unless if the motherboard is equipped with a PLX chip. However, the top two primary slots will run at x8 both when the second slot is occupied while the PCIe lane bandwidth will turn to x8/ x4/ x4 when three AMD graphics cards are installed. The PCIe 3.0 x16 slots support up to 2-way quad-GPU SLI and 3-way Quad CrossFireX configurations. ![]() There are a total of three PCIe 3.0 x16 slots, along with three PCIe 2.0 x1 slots. The Z97 Extreme4 has a plenty of expansion slots. Will this Z97 Extreme4 motherboard continue the same trend like its predecessors? We will find it out later in this review. ![]() We have seen in the Z77 and Z87 platforms that the Extreme4 line of ASRock motherboards tend to offer a good performance at an attractive price. Besides that, it gets Full Spike Protection, Sapphire Black PCB, and other nice features from ASRock. ASRock has also decided to design the board with their exclusive Super Alloy Technology, including XXL Aluminum Alloy Heatsink, Premium Alloy Choke, Dual-Stack MOSFET, NEXFET MOSFET, and 12K Platinum Capacitors. Having a DNA of the recently launched Z97 chipset, it is equipped with the M.2 socket 3 and SATA Express ports for the lightning-fast storage drives. It will also support the upcoming 14nm-based processor codenamed Broadwell.Ĭompared to the predecessor platforms, there are some additions that have been made on this Z97 Extreme4. ![]() The Z97 Extreme4 is a mid-range socket LGA1150 motherboard targeted for the Haswell, Haswell Refresh, and Devil's Canyon processors. After the ASUS Maximus VII Gene has made a start in our reviews of Z97 motherboards, followed by the ASUS Z97 Deluxe and now we will be taking a look at a motherboard from another vendor, the ASRock Z97 Extreme4. ![]()
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