ASRock X570 Extreme4

The ASRock X570 Extreme4 is another model which strafes itself away from the more gaming-oriented models from its product stack. Very similar in design and feature set to to the ASRock X570 Steel Legend, the X570 Extreme4 uses a black PCB with darker gunmetal grey colored heatsinks. It also has addressable RGB integrated into the rear panel cover and chipset heatsink, with support for ASRock's Polychrome Sync software.

Looking at the expansion slots available on the ASRock X570 Extreme4, there are two full-length PCIe 4.0 slots with support for x16, and x16/x4 which means up to two way AMD CrossFire is supported; the top full-length slot includes a coating of ASRock's Steel armor for better durability. In addition to this are three PCIe 4.0 x1 slots, and located underneath each of the full-length PCIe 4.0 slots are two PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 slots, each with an individual heatsink which links into the actively cooled X570 chipset heatsink; also featured is eight SATA ports with RAID 0, 1 and 10 arrays all supported. Underneath the rear panel cover and the heatsinks is a 10-phase power delivery with an 8-pin and 4-pin 12 V ATX CPU power input to power the processor. At the top right-hand corner is four memory slots with support for up to DDR4-4666 and users can install up to a maximum of 64 GB of RAM.

On the rear panel is one USB 3.1 G2 Type-A, one USB 3.1 G2 Type-C and six USB 3.1 G1 Type-A ports, as well as an HDMI video output. While the ASRock X570 Extreme4 doesn't come with Wi-Fi enabled, there is an M.2 Key E 2230 slot for users to install their own wireless interface, and there are mounting holes located on the rear IO shield for this. Also located on the rear panel is a PS/2 combo port, a single Ethernet port controlled by an Intel I211-AT Gigabit NIC, and there are also five 3.5 mm color coded audio jacks and a S/DPIF optical output which are powered by a Realtek ALC1220 HD audio codec.

With a very similar feature set and overall aesthetic to the ASRock X570 Steel Legend model, the X570 Extreme4 features a more modest design with less of a focus on gaming, and more on performance whilst keeping a good quality core feature set. The ASRock X570 Extreme4 has an MSRP of $240, but users in the US can purchase a Wi-Fi 6 enabled version for the slightly higher cost of $250.

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  • piroroadkill - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link

    The way i see it, there are only two boards that interest me here: ASRock's mATX board (mATX should be the standard, default motherboard size, in my opinion), and Gigabyte's Aourus Extreme. The latter because it actually cools the chipset passively, which, after seeing De8auer's video - is more than possible. The buzzy little fans are a terrible idea.
  • Arbie - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link

    So many people have pointed out for weeks now that these fans will probably rarely even spin up, much less be buzzy, much less wear out soon. But complaining about them seems to be an obsession. Before ruling out whole lines of mobos you might want to at least wait for a test.
  • haukionkannel - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link

    The problem is that some boards keep those fans running even when They idle... we need information how these boards manage that fan!
  • mikato - Thursday, July 11, 2019 - link

    So why don’t they just put a bigger heatsink on them then? They have plenty of space. Motherboards have had far better heatsinks on those in the past.
  • JNHagis - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link

    I tough the following mb's has 4+2 phase desing.

    ASUS X570 Strix-F Gaming
    ASUS Prime X570-Pro
    ASUS TUF X570-Plus

    source: Actually Hardcore Overclocking - https://youtu.be/CtvAd7y9B9o?t=359
  • gavbon - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link

    You are correct, we just used the information provided by ASUS. I trust Libors analyis
  • Jackbender - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link

    The workstation-grade ASUS Pro WS X570-Ace not having 10GbE is a mystery to me.
    It would have been a clear buy choice for me otherwise.
  • mjz_5 - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link

    I also wonder why they don’t have windows 2016 drivers
  • lenghui - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link

    Thanks for putting this together, Gavin. A complete x570 motherboard information is hard to find and I am glad that AT has gathered them all in one article. This is going on my bookmarks for sure. I would love to see reviews of some of the ITX boards and the only mATX board.
  • gavbon - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link

    Never a problem :D

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