ASRock Z170 Extreme 7+

[Steve N. Mavronis]

I just came across this while searching Z170 motherboards. Interesting it comes with a USB 3.1 front panel to populate an optical drive bay with. How do you rate this? It looks good and full featured to me. Normally $240 but selling right now on Newegg for $180 after 17% off and $40 rebate.

 

• ASRock Super Alloy
• Supports 6th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors (Socket 1151)
• Digi Power, 12 Power Phase Design
• Supports DDR4 3866+(OC) memory modules
• 4 PCIe 3.0 x16, 1 PCIe 3.0 x1, 1 PCIe 2.0 x1, 1 Half-size Mini-PCIe
• NVIDIA® Quad SLI™, AMD 3-Way CrossFireX™
• Graphics Output Options: DVI-D, HDMI, DisplayPort 1.2
• Supports Triple Monitor
• 7.1 CH HD Audio (Realtek ALC1150 Audio Codec), Supports Purity Sound™ 3 & DTS Connect
• 3 SATA Express, 10 SATA3, 3 Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA3)
• 4 USB 3.1 (2 Type-C & 2 Type-A), 8 USB 3.0 (4 Front, 4 Rear)
• Free Bundled ASRock Front USB 3.1 Panel
• Supports Full Spike Protection, ASRock Live Update & APP Shop

1. USB 3.1 Type-A + C
2. Dual Intel LAN
3. Mini PCIe
4. 4 x PCIe 3.1 x 16 Slots
5. Purity Sound™ 3 - Nichicon Fine Gold Series Audio Caps 115dB SNR DAC with Differential Amplifier TI® NE5532 Premium Headset Amplifier (Supports up to 600 Ohm headsets) Pure Power-In Direct Drive Technology PCB Isolate Shielding
6. 3 x SATA Express
7. 10 x SATA 6Gb/s
8. 3 x Ultra M.2 32Gb/s (PCIe Gen3 x 4 & SATA3)
9. DDR4 3600+ (OC)
10. 12 Power Phase Digi Power
11. Premium Memory Alloy Choke
12. Nichicon 12K Platinum Caps
13. Premium 60A Power Choke Dual-Stack MOSFET (DSM) Combo Caps

 

[Guest]

9.5/10 imo

edit: Only thing that could be better is price

Looks amazing, functionality amazing, Lots of power phases, good for Overclocking and plenty of RAM overclockability / you can have it at almost whatever speed you want

[colinreay]

Dude this is sweet. Sounds great for the money.

[Gofspar]

9.5/10 imo

edit: Only thing that could be better is price

Looks amazing, functionality amazing, Lots of power phases, good for Overclocking and plenty of RAM overclockability / you can have it at almost whatever speed you want

Anything past 8 CPU phases it's using doublers.

I'd get the OC Formula and say yolo.

 

[Steve N. Mavronis]

I just read this Hardware Zone comparison article from October 2015 called "Battle of the high-end Intel Z170 motherboards"