ASRock Z77 Extreme6 Review & BenchMarks
ASRock has been around for a wee bit over 10 years now, having just recently celebrated their tenth anniversary of being their own company. During those ten years, they've definitely made a name for themselves with countless requests falling into my PM box on the forums asking for reviews. After some work on W1zzard's part, we got ourselves a contact and the samples arrived shortly afterwards.
Here we have the accessories included with the Extreme6, it must be said the USB 3.0 front panel inclusion is nice but I can’t help feeling this bundle is a little bare considering the Extreme6 is supposed to be one of the top end boards Asrock sell. A point highlighted by the fact the Extreme6 has a FDD connector on the board but no FDD cable included with the accessories. There’s also no molex to SATA splitters, something which the Z68 Extreme4 had with its accessories. I’m really a little disappointed with this accessories bundle. Asrock do earn a few points back for the software they have included, the MAGIX software suite is fully featured and generally very nice to use. We’ll look at it more later.
As we are on the subject of accessories we might as well dig a little deeper. Looking through the software setup booklet there are very vague descriptions for options found within the UEFI, but the descriptions are so vague they are really of no help to anyone unfamiliar with the intel platform or haven’t kept up to speed with technology over the last 3 years The Fatal1ty X79 Champion, today's product, is very much a different animal, and is yet another high-end enthusiast offering, that has everything a high-end multi-GPU gamer needs, as well as a few things for the extreme clocker!
- Well laid out
- Easy BIOS interface.
- Achieved a very nice overclock.
- Connectivity & expandability
- Included USB 3.0 5.25” bay bracket.
- Board labelling (especially RAM slots) could be better.
