ASRock X58 Extreme3: An Enthusiast X58 Motherboard at a Budget Price?
by Ian Cutress on June 2, 2010 4:10 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Intel
- ASRock
- X58
A clean OS and application install was performed on the WD Velociraptor before benchmarking each motherboard. For SLI comparisons, dual XFX HD 5850s were used at stock clock timings. Benchmarks were also run at overclocked settings of 4.1Ghz, using 1.275V on the CPU and memory timings of 1580Mhz 6-7-6-20 1T.
Applications
- Far Cry 2, 1680x1050, High Quality, 2x AA, DX10, built in benchmark tool.
- Unigine Heaven v2.0, 1920x1080 and 1680x1050, 4x Anisotropy, Normal Tesselation, DX11.
- Sorenson Squeeze 6, 8 AVCHD files encoded in Flash 8, FLV format, 1MBps.
- WinRAR 3.9 x64, 954MB over 28 files, default settings.
- Bibble 5 - Transform 50 RAW images to full size JPEG images.
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529th - Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - link
See, that's what I like about the Asrock Bios, very simple. The EVGA bios on the 760 classified needs to be modeled after a better bios.529th - Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - link
correction, BIOSRajinder Gill - Thursday, June 3, 2010 - link
Not sure that ASRock would be the brand for EVGA to follow. ASUS would make more sense.dingetje - Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - link
I would not call $190 a budget price. That's a FAIL title if I've ever seen one.jonup - Thursday, June 3, 2010 - link
There is only four cheaper ATX X58 MB on newegg.com. Except for the Foxconn one the others are priced between $170 and 190. The median price of X58 is arround $240 and the mean price is not much off that mark. Keep in mind that the ASrock comes with lots of bells and whistles.So for everyone complaining about the term budget in the title, it is a budget X58 board.Taft12 - Thursday, June 3, 2010 - link
As the poster above me has shown, the only FAIL here is your understanding of this market segment.dingetje - Friday, June 4, 2010 - link
oh, I understand it's as low as it goes for an X58 mobo.calling 190 bucks a budget price however is ridiculous imo.
jonup - Friday, June 4, 2010 - link
In absolute terms you are right. In relative terms it is a budget solution period. There are socket 1366 people with more expensive cooling solutions for 24/7 use than this MB. And I am not talking about the record setting freaks.LoneWolf15 - Thursday, June 3, 2010 - link
on the VRMs will get noisy and/or die within a year to a year and a half.Better to skip it as unnecessary and lower the price.
zero2dash - Thursday, June 3, 2010 - link
Why in the world would you mention the old X58-UD3R when the X58A-UD3R is available for $199-$219 depending on retailer, has USB3, SATA3, 6ram slots, a 4 PCIe slots?I bought 2 of them at Micro Center to replace the ASRock X58 Extreme that died on me after 2 months of use folding@home. First ASRock board, last ASRock board I will ever buy. One day it refused to power on for no reason. Once I got the RMA back, I sold it used because I didn't want to bother with ASRock anymore.
Now that Abit is out of the business, it's Gigabyte or nothing for me (Asus in a last ditch pinch if I had to have a board, otherwise GB beats Asus on bang for the buck). 2x X58A-UD3R and 1 EP45-UD3P all f@h 24/7, high oc's - no problems on any of them. Love GB.