Asrock Professional gaming motherboard?

[Ezkamoz.]

I was wondering if the asrock professional gaming i7 z170 motherboard is a good overclocker and is reliable?

[deleted_member_030719]

They're all likely to get the exact same overclock.

[atavax]

the only thing that i'm really aware of that you want to look for overclocking is VRMs. A higher number means more stable power, and when overclocking, you typically have the power closer to a dangerous amount, so the more stable you want your power. You want at least 8 VRMs for overclocking, and unfortunately usually they don't list how many the motherboard has in its specs, you have to visually look at the board and count. They're usually both above and to the left of the cpu, when you have the motherboard oriented so the rear ports are to the left.  Looking at the asrock professional gaming i7 z170, there appears to be 13. So should be fine for overclocking.

[paddy-stone]

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[Ezkamoz.]

6 hours ago, atavax said:

the only thing that i'm really aware of that you want to look for overclocking is VRMs. A higher number means more stable power, and when overclocking, you typically have the power closer to a dangerous amount, so the more stable you want your power. You want at least 8 VRMs for overclocking, and unfortunately usually they don't list how many the motherboard has in its specs, you have to visually look at the board and count. They're usually both above and to the left of the cpu, when you have the motherboard oriented so the rear ports are to the left.  Looking at the asrock professional gaming i7 z170, there appears to be 13. So should be fine for overclocking.

Is it a reliable board though?

[phongle123]

8 hours ago, Ezkamoz. said:

I was wondering if the asrock professional gaming i7 z170 motherboard is a good overclocker and is reliable?

With any Z or X board they can all overclock. Overclocking potential depends on your CPU. A motherboard just allows for overclocking, overclocking doesn't hurt the motherboard. Also get a Z270 newer technology.

[Ezkamoz.]

9 hours ago, phongle123 said:

With any Z or X board they can all overclock. Overclocking potential depends on your CPU. A motherboard just allows for overclocking, overclocking doesn't hurt the motherboard. Also get a Z270 newer technology.

I've already got a 6700k so I'll stay with z170

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

I'd just go with the popular ones on hwbot honestly 

[paddy-stone]

I really like ASrock boards, and IMO the one you have chosen is a great one if you don't mind the full ATX standard of it. The 12 power phase should be excellent for overclocking and provise a nice stable power. I only have an 8 phase on mine and it's awesome for overclocking... if I had more headroom with temps I would crank this up more for sure. Currently running at 4.7Ghz across all cores and 1.25Vcore, peaks into the low 80s when benchmarking, during normal usage it rarely goes above 64-ish.

I haven't run into any problems with my ASrock board at all. The software is great, and has some useful functions from within the UEFI, such as easy driver installer among others. I used to like the main 3 ASUS/Gigabyte/MSI, but have run into problems so often with them on builds I have made for friends/family/clients that I decided to give ASrock a chance for my latest personal build... I was not disappointed in the least. So am now a huge fan of theirs and for my latest builds for people have been using ASrock boards.

[Ezkamoz.]

3 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

I really like ASrock boards, and IMO the one you have chosen is a great one if you don't mind the full ATX standard of it. The 12 power phase should be excellent for overclocking and provise a nice stable power. I only have an 8 phase on mine and it's awesome for overclocking... if I had more headroom with temps I would crank this up more for sure. Currently running at 4.7Ghz across all cores and 1.25Vcore, peaks into the low 80s when benchmarking, during normal usage it rarely goes above 64-ish.

I haven't run into any problems with my ASrock board at all. The software is great, and has some useful functions from within the UEFI, such as easy driver installer among others. I used to like the main 3 ASUS/Gigabyte/MSI, but have run into problems so often with them on builds I have made for friends/family/clients that I decided to give ASrock a chance for my latest personal build... I was not disappointed in the least. So am now a huge fan of theirs and for my latest builds for people have been using ASrock boards.

What's your cpu and cooler. Just wondering

[Nena Trinity]

ASRock is a good brand!

[paddy-stone]

1 hour ago, Ezkamoz. said:

What's your cpu and cooler. Just wondering

i7 6700k and only using a 120mm AIO seidon v2, fairly cheap cooler. I only used it as an experiment at first as I got it cheap, and wondered how it would stand up to a noctua D15 air cooler, as that was my cooler of choice previously. It's not as silent as the Noctua, but not that bad, only have the fans on low and still cools suprisingly well. It was around half the price of the Noctua too. The only downside is the pump noise, but I'm used to it now and just is a buzzing/ticking sound that's only just above the sound of the fans. Only cost me £30 as it was on sale, so very slightly above the price of a 212 evo.