ASRock X58 Extreme3: An Enthusiast X58 Motherboard at a Budget Price?
by Ian Cutress on June 2, 2010 4:10 PM EST- Posted in
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- Intel
- ASRock
- X58
Far Cry 2
Featuring fantastic visuals courtesy of the Dunia Engine, this game also features one of the most impressive benchmark tools we have seen in a PC game. The built in benchmark tool runs a preset sequence of ingame action, to model real world gameplay. The tool runs the benchmark three times by default, to which the fps values are averaged for our results.
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We can see a clear loss here for the Extreme3 in both single and dual GPU setups. The overclock benefited the dual GPU setup a lot more than the single GPU setup, showing that CPU data transfer and processing eventually becomes a bottleneck in good configurations for Far Cry 2.
Unigine Heaven
Unigine Heaven is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark Unigine Corp, supporting DirectX 9, 10 and 11, OpenGL 4.0, tesselation and SSAO (screen-space ambient occlusion). The benchmark is an efficient test of DirectX 11 techniques across 24 different visual scenarios. The benchmark outputs an average and minimum fps score, however we cannot reliably look at minimum fps, as on rare occasions it would dip to around 5fps for a single frame which was not repeatable.
There is very little difference between both motherboards, although the Extreme3 does consistently score lower.
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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.