ASRock Z390 Extreme4 Motherboard Review


+++ You can buy the ASRock Z390 Extreme4/A/ASRK Mainboard for a price of approx. 180 Euro (10/2018). It is in the middle price segment of the Intel LGA 1151 v2 motherboards.

The ASRock Z390 Extreme4 Intel LGA 1151-2 DDR4 ATX motherboard is excellently overclockable thanks to the new Intel Z390 and offers high-end basic equipment for current Intel Coffee Lake (Gen 8) as well as Intel Coffee Lake Refresh (Gen 9) LGA1151 v2 processors and also offers great lighting effects for showcases.

The ASRock Z390 Extreme4 Intel LGA 1151-2 DDR4 ATX motherboard is excellently overclockable thanks to the new Intel Z390 and offers high-end basic equipment for current Intel Coffee Lake (Gen 8) as well as Intel Coffee Lake Refresh (Gen 9) LGA1151 v2 processors and also offers great lighting effects for showcases.

As basic equipment, the Z390 Extreme4 motherboard offers a total of six PCI Express slots, eight SATA3 ports, two fast Ultra M.2 32Gb/s slots, another M.2 Key E slot e.g. for a WiFi module, a USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C, a USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A, up to eight possible USB 3.1 Gen1 ports (formerly USB 3.0), up to four possible USB 2.0 ports, a Gigabit LAN port, 7.1 Sound with Content Protection, 7.1 Purity 4 sound with content protection, analog sound output via five jack sockets, digital sound output via optical S/PDIF, four DDR4 slots, ASRock A-Tuning software for overclocking and fan control in Windows, ASRock RGB LED lighting as well as Polychrome RGB for addressable RGB LEDs and much more.

All in all, the new ASRock Z390 Extreme4 Mainboard thanks to the Intel Z390 chipset is again perfectly suited for overclockers, but there are no Windows 7 drivers for the native Z390 USB ports (yet?). Furthermore, the ASRock Z390 Extreme4 motherboard again has addressable RGB LED control as well as great RGB lighting under the chipset cooler, on the I/O cover and on the audio area. So if you are looking for a high-performance motherboard for Windows 10 for the new Intel LGA1151 v2 CPUs of the 8th and 9th generation and would like to overclock, this motherboard is the right choice for you.

Thanks to the powerful features and the high overclocking results the ASRock Z390 Extreme4 motherboard gets our OCinside.de Overclocking Dream Award 10/2018.

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Special thanks to ASRock for their support.

* All Intel LGA1151 v2 motherboard reviews since 01.07.2018 are based on an Intel Core i7-8700K CPU, MSI Radeon R9 280 Twin Frozr Gaming 3GB PCI Express 3.0 video card, 4x 16GB Ballistix Sport DDR4-2666 memory modules, Cooler Master Silent Pro M 600W power supply unit and the following software configuration: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro, SiSoftware Sandra, Futuremark PCMark10, 3DMark and 3DMark06 (OC software is available in the Links & Downloads section). All benchmark results only offer a comparison among themselves for a rough motherboard performance comparison.

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