Welcome to Sandy Bridge, with the ASRock P67 Extreme4
by Ian Cutress on January 3, 2011 7:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- ASRock
Dirt 2
Dirt 2 came to the PC in December 2009, developed by Codemasters with the EGO Engine. Resulting in favorable reviews, we use Dirt 2’s built-in benchmark under DirectX 11 to test the hardware. We test two different resolutions at two different quality settings, in single and dual GPU setups.
Metro 2033
Metro 2033 is the Crysis of the DirectX 11 world (at least until Crysis 2 is released), challenging every system that tries to run it at any high-end settings. Developed by 4A Games and released in March 2010, we use the built-in DirectX 11 benchmark to test the hardware.
Overview
Across the range of 3D benchmarks, there's not much to separate all of the boards, and even the Core i7-920 results. With so much processing power at hand, not much is needed in DirectX games without PhysX, even at 1920x1080 resolutions at very high quality. However, in single GPU mode, the ASRock board does score the best or near the best in all the benchmarks.
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gobe - Saturday, March 26, 2011 - link
I have the Asrock P67 Extreme4 motherboard and it has serious compatibility issues with USB2 devices.Devices such as webcams, USB modems, USB tuners, phones with USB connection doesn't work on the USB 3.0 ports which are built upon the low cost Etron EJ168A chip.
It is nice that on some storage devices the performance is good, but what about the usability of the USB 3.0 ports?
wheretobe - Thursday, April 21, 2011 - link
Same problem here. Fresh intall windows 7 64 bit and get random BSOD. And no problem in safe mode. Then I used system recovery to get rid of the Etron driver, the BSOD disappeared right away. Reinstall the driver and the BSOD is back again.gobe - Sunday, April 24, 2011 - link
Some of the issues are resolved by the latest Etron driver version 0.98 which is available only from the Gigabyte support site:http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Driver/mother...
I have the feeling that sometimes the mobo manufacturers consider the end users as beta testers.
Etron USB 3.0 is junk.
sky_dvr - Friday, July 29, 2011 - link
There is a label on top of my SATA connectors on my P67 Extreme4 motherboard. It reads "Connect HDD on SATA Port 0-5 as boot device."The problem is that the ports are numbered
SATA3_M1, White
SATA3_M2, White
SATA3_0, White
SATA3_1, White
SATA2_2, Blue
SATA2_3, Blue
SATA2_4, Blue
SATA2_5, Blue
So there isn't a PORT 0-5 that I can see. Does the label mean that I can hook the hard drive to any port 0 THROUGH 5 or is it specifically calling out a port named "0-5"?
Which one of these is "PORT 0-5"? I hope it is not "SATA2_5, Blue" because it is SATA2 and my SSD is SATA3.
Thank you so much,
Sam
adennehy - Monday, September 19, 2011 - link
I was hoping you would get an answer to your question. Im not sure which socket to connect my ssd to. Which of the 4 white slots are the Marvels (worst) ?