ASRock MicroATX DDR4 LGA 1151 Motherboard Z170M EXTREME4

Used this for a 3D modeling and video editing PC, built with an i7-6700K. Needed an mATX board that could SLI with the hot current video cards, and there are fewer of these than I would have thought. With 64GB of RAM and a single GTX1070, It has been absolutely solid, I have not even touched the BIOS yet. But it is nice to know I can drop in an additional 1070 and double my Blender rendering speed. Also working great on Cyberlink PowerDirector 15 editing 4K. This machine is a powerhouse, and nary a hickup. I have a feeling 32 gigs of RAM would have been more than sufficient . . . but what the hey. Future proof.I guess I should try running some games - I'm just not a gamer (though with this machine I may be soon, and it's perfectly set up for VR.) It just so happens that for my design work, a hot gaming pc is better than a cad-workstation style box, as well as being a bit less expensive.The back ports are a bit on the light side, I would love to see two more USB 3.1 plugs and at least one more USB-C, there is only one. And they are all too close together leaving a lot of blank space on the rear port area. The rest of the board looks so first rate, until you look at the port panel.I have one warning - the vid card slot was shipped with the rear plastic slider closed. And it's an unusual sliding design. Make sure you slide it back before you try to put a card in. Else you may break the plastic.

I had some issues with ASRock boards in the past and was a bit cautious about this purchase, but for the features the price point was awesome (on sale for $99). I have been extremely happy with this board - the layout is good, setup was easy, BIOS updates were super easy as soon as it was connected, etc. I did have some trouble with memory speed and timing using G. Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 (2x8GB modules) and it appears ASRock has a very specific compatibility list, but with some forum searching and minor voltage tweaks it's all set now. I've had the overclock settings and memory settings change until I updated to the latest BIOS, but otherwise no complaints. Extremely happy with the MicroATX decision, as well, and have actually had some better temperatures in a smaller case so I would absolutely recommend this MicroATX board if form factor is a big part of the decision. For the price, I would easily buy this again over similar Gigabyte G1 and even ASUS Maximus Gene boards that cost more.For reference, my build was:Silverstone Temjin TJ08B-E mATX CaseEVGA SuperNOVA P2 850W platinum PSUASRock Z170M Extreme4 mATX motherboardIntel Core i7-6700KEVGA GTX 1070 Founders Edition2x 8GB G. Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 (F4-3200C16-8GVK)2x Intel 730 Series 240GB SSD1x Hitachi Ultrastar 2TB HDD

Great micro ATX motherboard! I have trusted ASRock and will continue to use their boards for years to come. The bios is super easy to use but be prepared if you are installing windows 7. The bios on these new boards are not set with the usb 3.0 drivers so you will need to enable the ps/2 simulation in the bios settings if you want to have keyboard and mouse using a usb 3.0 slot. After some research I found the support thread from ASRock and saw a video on how to do it. Very easy and straight forward. I would use this motherboard or any other ASRock motherboard again in the future. I currently have a Z97 ASRock extreme 4 and plan on getting a Z270 board when they come out to support the new Kaby Lake processors.

I run a full Linux installation on one of these, with the ext4 file system. It performs very well, even when installing and upgrading a lot of packages. The read and write speeds on this drive are as advertised, and the random reads and writes seem to be very good as well. I haven't seen any slow-down due to overheating or anything like that. The drive does get pretty warm when doing lots of writes though, but that is to be expected when you cram a fast drive into a form factor like this. The model I use is the 256GB version. In an age where large companies lie to us about product specifications like with the NVidia GTX970, it is nice to get a product that lives up to the performance specified by the manufacturer.To Visiontek, the only suggestion I would like to make is for the rubber end cap to fit more snugly. It comes off quite easily, and so I am afraid that it will one day wonder away from me.

Linux Mint 18.1 With Samsung M.2 960 Evo SSD. Asrock 7170M Extreme4 motherboard. No problems installing with default live UEFI session and either default Ext4 files system or BTRFS (set up 512Mb FAT32 flagged for boot/esp with Gparted.) Had to use newest version of Clonezilla to make a system image. Only problem was HDD Activity light flashing way excessively while surfing internet. I did research including calling Asrock and Samsung. Neither had heard of this. I tried it with Window 10 Home and had same behavior with Edge browser. I RMA everything. A mystery.

This motherboard is great. The UEFI is super easy to use. Go into advanced for overclock... Pulled down predetermined overclocks. I could choose from 4.2, 4.4 and 4.6 and in Red Text (meaning unstable) 4.8 Ghz. Its been over 5 weeks since I had this board. Running at 4.6 (i5-6600K) NO PROBLEM! . I cranked it up to 4.8 and it also Runs fine. with my M.2 Drive, there really isn't any reason to run at 4.8. Pulled down to 4.6. Great board all around. Love mATX.

Executive getting paid 200k a year for doing a half shotty job. The instructions booklet is like almost as thick as the New testament Bible but does not have any instructions what so ever on how to install the video card in the PCI Express slot. It doesn't even have a mention on the PCI Express slot.I wanted to know if I can use a dedicated graphics card on any of the PCI Express slot, the instruction booklet doesn't even mention that it has a PCI slot. Thank you overpaid executive.

Non sto a soffermarmi sulle specifiche che son leggibili un po ovunque. Non do 5 stelle al prodotto per i motivi che elenco qui:Comprata per overcloccare tramite BCLK un i5 6400, flashando il bios beta 1.35, devo purtroppo comprare un cavo vga perché tramite hdmi la tv non suporta, a quanto pare, la risoluzione dello uefi (1280*1024 standard) e vedo tutto tagliato. La cosa strana è con la GB 78lmt non ho avuto questo problema, né con altre schede madri, che però avevano il normale bios e non lo uefi.Il secondo difetto è che non ha il backplate nero xD. Le vecchie z97 e z87 extreme lo avevano.Il terzo è il tanto decantato DAC alc1150 con l'amp per cuffie texas instrument, che dovrebbe essere attivo (ispezionando il pcb è montato doppio) su entrambe le uscite ( frontale e posteriore ). Pensavo di sentire differenza reale tra la vecchia integrata VIA e questa. Invece le differenze son davvero minime ( ho diverse cuffie, delle Superlux abbastanza flat, le 669, delle Sony abbastanza tendenti ai bassi e delle Koss ) in più il pannello di controllo Realtek lascia davvero a desiderare. Quello vecchio della Asus P5K era addirittura più completo. Per assurdo le stesse tracce in flac dallo Zenfone2 ze551ml risultano più dinamiche e dettagliate. Tant'è che mi viene il dubbio che l'amp stia effettivamente funzionando, viste le carenze di opzioni del pannello di controllo. Appena avrò tempo mi metterò a cercare driver ad hoc.Detto questo, una Xonar DG con amp per cuffie dedicato suona sicuramente meglio di questo.Per il resto, la scheda madre è perfetta e soddisfa le aspettative, ottimo il software di controllo delle ventole a-tuning, bellissimo il pcb nero con gli heatsink arancioni, e le temperature dei vrm sembrano abbastanza basse quindi spero di avere un discreto margine di overclock. Per il resto la scheda madre ha tutte le caratteristiche, ottime, visibili sul datasheet. Sicuramente è una delle migliori m-atx z170 per qualità prezzo, la MSI Mortar, che è sulla stessa fascia di prezzo, ad esempio, non è così completa. Idem la Asus z170m plus.eDit: comprato cavo VGA e problema upscaling risolto. Ho settato il BCLK a 141 per i 4GHz e il vCore a 1.3 con le ram a 2440MHz (non ricordo il ratio inserito) ... Perfetta. Ma confermo le 4 stelle.

Acquistata per fare un upgrade al mio RIG da gaming per sostituire un'Asus H110M-A. La scheda è stata scelta per l'ottimo compromesso qualità/prezzo rispetto anche alla quasi gemella MSI z170m Mortar, primo tra tutti il connettore full m.2 pci-e per gli ssd di nuova generazione e la possibilità di poter collegare in SLI le GPU Nvidia (la MSI permette solo il Crossfire AMD) e per il formato m-ATX che ho scelto per la mia configurazione. Per farvi capire avrei dovuto acquistare una z170 sempre m-ATX da gaming con 2-3 funzioni in più a oltre 300 euro! Questa offre tutto il necessario e ad un prezzo quasi ridicolo (125 euro al mio acquisto).Pessimo il software Asrock per windows, il Bios invece è ben fatto anche se consiglio di non aggiornarlo a v1,6 e successive se non volete perdere l'ottima feauture di poter overclockare i processori Skylake non-K tipo il 6500 che possiedo (portato facilmente a 4200 mhz stabilissimi). Ripeto se amate i software di gestione lato sistema operativo passate ad MSI od ASUS, Asrock fa pena.Consigliato per chi come me cerca un buon prodotto per una configurazione di tutto rispetto. Non ve ne pentirete!

Das Board läuft bei mir schön stabil. Das BIOS ist vielseitig konfigurierbar. Praktisch ist auch das zugehörige Windows Tool, in dem sich sowohl wesentliche Werte wie Temperaturen, Lüfterdrehzahlen oder Spannungswerte ablesen lassen, als auch Overclocker die Performance anpassen können (wenn auch nicht so umfangreich wie im BIOS).Mit der neuen BIOS Version 7 sollte das Board auch für Kaby Lake Prozessoren kompatibel sein.Das Board verfügt über 3 Fullsize PCIe 3.0 Slots. Die ersten beiden Slots sind direkt an die CPU angebunden, und teilen sich dabei eine 16x Verbindung. Der erste Slot einzeln genutzt bietet die vollen 16x, bei Nutzung beider Slots stehen jeweils 8x zur Verfügung (was aber auch bei modernen Grafikkarten im SLI noch völlig ausreicht). Der zweite Slot bietet auch bei alleiniger Nutzung nur 8x.Der dritte Slot ist 4x über den Board-Chipsatz angebunden.Zusätzlich stehen auch noch ein kleiner 1x PCIe Slot sowie ein M.2 Slot (NVMe & SATA) zur Verfügung.Praktisch ist auch, dass 2x USB 3.1 Anschlüsse vorhanden sind, von denen einer auch als USB-C ausgeführt ist. Damit sollte man bei den Anschlüssen auch für die kommenden Jahre gerüstet sein.

il marchio ormai lo conosciamo , molto affidabile e performante probabilmente non sfrutto nemmeno tutte le funzionalità di cui dispone questa scheda madre

Scheda madre perfetta, l'unica pecca sono gli slot della ram un pó troppo vicini al socket della cpu e gli ultimi due slot pci express per le schede video sono attaccati.**AGGIORNAMENTODopo 3 mesi di onorata carriera, un fulmine l'ha fritta, ora compreró un Asus Maximus VIII GENE.