Yellow Motherboards?

[AlgaeEater]

Ive noticed that there are a few z87 1150 socket Mobos with black a yellow color schemes, such as the MPOWER z87.  But I can't seem to find a single z170 1151 socket to match a theme build. 

[maybethisnamewillwork]

ASRock Z170(M) OC Formula

[Dackzy]

ASRock Formula. That board is damn good and well yellow

[AlgaeEater]

1 minute ago, Dackzy said:

ASRock Formula. That board is damn good and well yellow

I currently have an MSI z170 Krait gaming from my first ever build from when I was learning about building a pc and all the parts.  And from what I've learned in a year is that most boards are better than what I currently have haha.  I'll look at the specs

[HKZeroFive]

I will also suggest the ASRock OC Formula... basically one of the best LGA1151 motherboards you can buy.

[Dackzy]

3 minutes ago, AlgaeEater said:

I currently have an MSI z170 Krait gaming from my first ever build from when I was learning about building a pc and all the parts.  And from what I've learned in a year is that most boards are better than what I currently have haha.  I'll look at the specs

well ASRock boards are just damn good right now.

[manikyath]

11 minutes ago, AlgaeEater said:

I currently have an MSI z170 Krait gaming from my first ever build from when I was learning about building a pc and all the parts.  And from what I've learned in a year is that most boards are better than what I currently have haha.  I'll look at the specs

tbh there's very little difference between a good board, and a less good board. it's the horrible ones best to stay away from

 

and from recently having bought multiple mobo's, i'll say this:

asrock is cheap, but it's cheap because beyond a motheroard they dont bother with overly fancy packaging, "high end" sata cables, and BS like that. it's *just a good motherboard*

[AlgaeEater]

Thanks for all the responses guys :).  One more noob question though, just to get a perspective on what to look for exactly.  What makes this Asrock blow away everything else related to it?

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, AlgaeEater said:

Thanks for all the responses guys :).  One more noob question though, just to get a perspective on what to look for exactly.  What makes this Asrock blow away everything else related to it?

tbh, it's more personal preference than "blowing the competition away"

- asus is a very proud company that wants to do the best they can, even at the low end, which reflects in price sadly.

- asrock is amazing in terms of "features per dollar" and they like their crazy stuff like the x99 mini itx boards

- MSI.. has their moments, those moments are usually the krait or pc mate boards

- gigabyte.. i have very little experience with, they kinda put me off because they're kinda cheap looking

- EVGA.. i couldnt tell you, they basicly dont exist here

[HKZeroFive]

32 minutes ago, AlgaeEater said:

Thanks for all the responses guys :).  One more noob question though, just to get a perspective on what to look for exactly.  What makes this Asrock blow away everything else related to it?

To put it in very basic terms, it's one of the best motherboards when it comes to hardcore overclocking, especially memory overclocking... many records have been obtained using the OC Formula. It has a good number of BIOS and general overclocking features to say the least.

 

But something tells me that you're not that concerned with that calibre of overclocking... either way, it's a very good motherboard that happens to be black and yellow.

[AlgaeEater]

27 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

To put it in very basic terms, it's one of the best motherboards when it comes to hardcore overclocking, especially memory overclocking... many records have been obtained using the OC Formula. It has a good number of BIOS and general overclocking features to say the least.

 

But something tells me that you're not that concerned with that calibre of overclocking... either way, it's a very good motherboard that happens to be black and yellow.

At the moment I don't know much about OC. But I have been researching it and very interesting into getting into it in the future. 

I've slowly been getting into PC building since about a year ago. I knew nothing then but now have my own custom built!

 

ill do more research on the board (:. 

Anyone have any recommendations on pure white boards?

[lukart]

1 hour ago, Dackzy said:

ASRock Formula. That board is damn good and well yellow

Personally I love red, but I couldn't help myself to get one.

One of the best mobos I had so far..

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

1 hour ago, AlgaeEater said:

Thanks for all the responses guys :).  One more noob question though, just to get a perspective on what to look for exactly.  What makes this Asrock blow away everything else related to it?

 

Because of its ram overclocking abilities afaik. There are alot of mobos with good cpu oc. But not everyone gets memory overclocking right. Asrock has high quality components all around and is cheaper(usually) than the competition. 

 

Great board, yellow and black. You can feel proud to own one.

[Lays]

1 hour ago, manikyath said:

tbh there's very little difference between a good board, and a less good board. it's the horrible ones best to stay away from

 

and from recently having bought multiple mobo's, i'll say this:

asrock is cheap, but it's cheap because beyond a motheroard they dont bother with overly fancy packaging, "high end" sata cables, and BS like that. it's *just a good motherboard*

There's a difference between Asrock's boards though.  Their OC Formula line has been in the past and still is completely different in terms of build quality and attention to detail. Their other boards are nothing special, and somewhat cheap.  Their OC Formula line is basically like the K|NGP|N from EVGA, they work with "Nick Shih", a professional overclocker to help design them.  It's why his signature is on the board, and why he only uses their boards for setting records.

2 hours ago, AlgaeEater said:

Ive noticed that there are a few z87 1150 socket Mobos with black a yellow color schemes, such as the MPOWER z87.  But I can't seem to find a single z170 1151 socket to match a theme build. 

The OC Formula is probably the best bet for Z170 yellow & black.

 

I have the M-ATX Version, which is basically a slightly more memory-overclocking oriented version of the non ATX version. (That's why it has 2 memory slots, it's better for memory overclocking, less stress on the CPU and a few other reasons.)

 

 

I've owned both the full size and m-atx version, here's some imgur pics of both.

 

Ignore the splotches on the Plastic shroud bit on the I/O, that was me damaging it, not the boards fault. 

 

 

 

MOCF album:

 

http://imgur.com/a/xRZUS

 

 

 

Rig picture:

 

 

[Dackzy]

11 minutes ago, lukart said:

Personally I love red, but I couldn't help myself to get one.

One of the best mobos I had so far..

Well I love red, but I have enough of it in PCs, it is just a bit over used IMO

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Lays said:

There's a difference between Asrock's boards though.  Their OC Formula line has & is completely different in terms of build quality and attention to detail. Their other boards are nothing special, and somewhat cheap.  Their OC Formula line is basically like the K|NGP|N from EVGA, they work with "Nik Shih", a professional overclocker to help design them.  It's why his signature is on the board, and why he only uses their boards for setting records.

my point still stands, compare asrock's OC formula pricing with other manufacturer's offerings and you'll notice that they are still the cheaper option for similar options.

[Lays]

Just now, manikyath said:

my point still stands, compare asrock's OC formula pricing with other manufacturer's offerings and you'll notice that they are still the cheaper option for similar options.

Just because it's a 200$ board doesn't mean it's bad quality though, is what I'm trying to say. A majority of the reason it's cheaper is because they don't put 12341234 BS features that people don't need that bad, and tack on another $300 to the pricetag lol. 

[manikyath]

Just now, Lays said:

Just because it's a 200$ board doesn't mean it's bad quality though, is what I'm trying to say. A majority of the reason it's cheaper is because they don't put 12341234 BS features that people don't need that bad, and tack on another $300 to the pricetag lol. 

i never said bad quality, that's what you made of it.

 

and the second half of your post, is you basicly repeating what i actually said

[Lays]

1 hour ago, AlgaeEater said:

Thanks for all the responses guys :).  One more noob question though, just to get a perspective on what to look for exactly.  What makes this Asrock blow away everything else related to it?

Extremely strong VRM, great VRM cooling, the software they have for windows tuning is really nice, it has basically the bare essentials, and no extra frills.  Overclocks extremely well and should require slightly less voltage to achieve stability vs other boards in it's price range, due to strong VRM. 

 

The BIOS is FANTASTIC, I've owned about 5 or 6 current gen motherboards in the last few years, and it has the best BIOS I've dealt with so far. 

 

If you get the M-ATX version and ever get into memory overclocking, with a good set of DDR4, you can achieve insane speeds with extremely low latencies.  The board will basically let you set nearly any setting to memory timings and it'll almost always boot.  I've had other boards where you have to do all kinds of BS to get certain timings to work, on this board it'll almost always boot first try. 

 

 

With good DDR4 and the m-atx version, you can see memory overclocks beyond 4000 mhz, and if you have "samsung's b-die" DDR4, you can see latencies extremely low as well.

 

This was a test from a while back, 4105 mhz at 12-11-11-28 1T, from the stock 3600 mhz 16-16-16-36 2T my kit is rated at:

(Keep in mind that's not a 24/7 setting, a 24/7 setting would be more like 3733 15-16-16-35 1T)

[AlgaeEater]

8 minutes ago, Lays said:

Extremely strong VRM, great VRM cooling, the software they have for windows tuning is really nice, it has basically the bare essentials, and no extra frills.  Overclocks extremely well and should require slightly less voltage to achieve stability vs other boards in it's price range, due to strong VRM. 

 

The BIOS is FANTASTIC, I've owned about 5 or 6 current gen motherboards in the last few years, and it has the best BIOS I've dealt with so far. 

 

If you get the M-ATX version and ever get into memory overclocking, with a good set of DDR4, you can achieve insane speeds with extremely low latencies.  The board will basically let you set nearly any setting to memory timings and it'll almost always boot.  I've had other boards where you have to do all kinds of BS to get certain timings to work, on this board it'll almost always boot first try. 

 

 

With good DDR4 and the m-atx version, you can see memory overclocks beyond 4000 mhz, and if you have "samsung's b-die" DDR4, you can see latencies extremely low as well.

 

This was a test from a while back, 4105 mhz at 12-11-11-28 1T, from the stock 3600 mhz 16-16-16-36 2T my kit is rated at:

(Keep in mind that's not a 24/7 setting, a 24/7 setting would be more like 3733 15-16-16-35 1T)

It does sound quality. I only wish it was as clean looking as the z97 MPower to go for a clean and powerful show off build 

[HKZeroFive]

1 hour ago, AlgaeEater said:

At the moment I don't know much about OC. But I have been researching it and very interesting into getting into it in the future. 

I've slowly been getting into PC building since about a year ago. I knew nothing then but now have my own custom built!

 

ill do more research on the board (:. 

Anyone have any recommendations on pure white boards?

The closest I can think of is the ASUS Sabertooth Z170 S... unfortunately, there's no 'clean' white Z170 motherboards I can recall.

[Lays]

32 minutes ago, AlgaeEater said:

It does sound quality. I only wish it was as clean looking as the z97 MPower to go for a clean and powerful show off build 

I had a Z97 M Power a while back as well, good board.

[Sintezza]

The Asrock Z170 OC Formula is indeed a very good board.

Its not the best board out there of course.

But its definitelly one of the best boards arround the $200,- ish price point.

And you dont have much other choice anyways if you want black yellow..

But i could highly recommend it, because the vrm implementation is really nice.

Its a very good board for overclockers.

Because this particular boards is using the IR35201 fully digital pwm.

This gives you all the bells and whissles in the bios that you would need for a decent overclocking experiance.

[DunePilot]

Good Lord @Lays 4100 cas 12.

 

I've been wanting to try an Asrock just never have, the only boards I avoid are MSI. I will never buy another, haven't had one of those since probably 2006.

 

How high have you been able to push a standard set of 2400 or 2666 for 24/7 OC?

[Lays]

4 hours ago, DunePilot said:

Good Lord @Lays 4100 cas 12.

 

I've been wanting to try an Asrock just never have, the only boards I avoid are MSI. I will never buy another, haven't had one of those since probably 2006.

 

How high have you been able to push a standard set of 2400 or 2666 for 24/7 OC?

I've only messed with my 3600 kit, and I've only tried once for a 24/7 clock but I managed to go from 3600 16-16-16-36 2T to 3733 14-15-15-35 1T I think

 

If I could be bothered maybe I could do 3866 14-14-14-32 1T perhaps, but stability testing with ram I'd annoying as heck