Full story here Couple of compromises naturally, only dual channel memory, but really, who actually cares about that?
Ohh, looks good - at first glance. Probably best to stick to a 4790K maximum for an ITX build though, right? Then you have comparatively more overclocking headroom.
I'm assuming the fact that it uses the narrow version of the LGA2011-3 socket means that you're going to be boned if you wanted to use a AIO cooler? If so, that's a big shame. Other than that, it looks awesome. DO WANT.
I want one, for no reason other than the fact that it exists. Otis I think ASRock is on if the big boys these days, last I checked it was only behind Asus and Gigabyte. I was an early adopter of ASRock boards back in the early 2000s, and although they've got it wrong a few times I reckon they've nailed the innovation and pricing strategies over the years. I'm surprised they haven't moved into GPUs yet.
What is with the dual Intel Nics? I mean, yeah, I'm sold... I'd buy one if I had the spare cash. **** yeah. U is a mod these days? Thumb up
At least the bungle a cooler with it. I never thought I would see this but it's pretty awesome and I doubt anyone else will do similar.
I love ASRock, but there still an underdog in my opionon. Just not quite on the level of Asus ect in terms of super high end boards. But ASRock mainly target people with my price range anyway (£100-150) and id be happy have one of there boards if they got there dam colour schemes right lol.
Honestly AsRock's boards have been pretty solid once they broke past the P35 era. Their P67 boards were excellent for the price and performed admirably, the X58 stuff wasn't bad and their recent Z77-Z97 boards have been so far excellent in terms of price/performance.
Nah they've not been an underdog in a longtime, they're quality and performance are first class - ASUS whilst great boards aren't the be all and end all, they just tend to hold the premium price tag. I'd take an AsRock or Gigabyte board over an Asus or MSI board any day (that comes from hands on experience). With reference to Colour Schemes remember the Asus mustard yellow and gold???
I love black white shemes which are very very rare!. MSI did a krait edition which looked stunning for £90 with great overclocking for the money but had massive performance problems overall. Asus ROG's all look sexy in there red/black which start at £135 with there Ranger z97 and there new all white board. I with they would have snap off bits that can be swapped to suit your own scheme. Dont understand why brands wont do a all black... everything blacked out. It would fit with everyone's setup then and look badass.
I hate my decision to buy X99 DELUXE, pretty much all ASUS X99 boards are horrible when it comes to booting (nearly all cold boots ends with freezing durring POST/boot, and not just for me - just look around for the ASUS X99 threads).
Wish intel was still doing there motherboards they may of not looked like much but they where ultra solid, intels testing far surpasses anyone else.
ASRock always seem to have interesting boards. Years ago I had their K8 Combo-Z: a board with a Socket 754 AND Socket 939, so you could upgrade your mobo without buying a new CPU, then buy a new CPU without upgrading your mobo, right across a socket transition. This is tempting, but I'll probably wait until Broadwell/Skylake get some more details. If there is a noticeable IPC boost it'll probably be worth going for that over Haswell-E. At least mounting an AIO on the Narrow-ILM socket is easy with a basic mounting plate.
