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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Zap - Friday, June 4, 2010 - link
How is the RMA process for ASRock, anyways? ASRock's site says to obtain RMA through your vendor, but what if the vendor has only a 30 day policy (like Newegg)?Nimiz99 - Thursday, June 3, 2010 - link
Great review and I loved your OC push on this board. Thank you.I was hoping to see a graph that shows 5 MoBo's (the top 2 or 3 with 1 or 2 boards in the same market segment as the one being reviewed) and what OC they achieved on the same D0 stepping chip that you have to see which MoBo performs best for the $ or in absolute. I know on a previous review for one of the Elite boards (300 to 500 dollar category) y'all actually compared the OC of three boards. To see that comparison is quite refreshing and putting in graphical form would be a welcome addition to an other-wise superb review.
I could envision the graph (or table for compactness) as such:
MoBo | Price (Bar with possible Label)
Name1 |$325 ----- 4.21 GHz
Name2 |$175 ---- 4.15 GHz
Name3 |$225 --- 4.12 GHz
ThisBoard|$190 ---4.10 GHz
SameMrkt |$180 -- 3.95 GHz
thanks - great review
jonup - Thursday, June 3, 2010 - link
I like your thinking!WRI - Sunday, June 6, 2010 - link
Active fan on the board is trash. Those cheeseball threepenny fans make noise, collect dust and quit before any other component. Start a collection of replacements to add to your junk drawer.howmoney - Friday, June 11, 2010 - link
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