Conclusion
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| The Extreme 6 generally is a well equipped and interesting board.
You'll find everything needed in order to build a powerful and reliable
system. Meanwhile ASRock is one of the manufacturers which have their
own and unique design, that is really nice and differs substantially
from their competitors. |
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- Design |
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| Layout |
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Generally the ASRock Extreme 6s layout is very well thought. Once more very practical are the angled SATA connectors.
There are also practical power/reset buttons onboard as well as a debug LED.
Unfortunately the last expansion slots is a full size PCI Express port, which means
that if you choose to install a dual slots graphics card at this place you're
going to cover the connectors at the bottom edge of the board. On the other hand there are two slots between the PCIe-x16 slots which means that an SLI or CrossFire setup will get a perfect environment when it comes to cooling.
We also liked that ASRock chose to equip this motherboard with no less then six
fan headers. Like this every setup can be cooled adequately and the fan headers
are furthermore well positioned and therefore easy accessible.
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- Angled SATA connectors
- Two slots between first two PCIe-x16 slots
- Power/Reset/Clr-CMOS Button
- 6 fan headers |
- Full-Size PCI-Express as last
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| Performance |
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the Extreme 6, ASRock has a motherboard in its portfolio which lacks a
bit behind, when it comes to performance. Nevertheless the board has
been able to score very well in wPrime and 3D Mark 2001. On the other
hand there were Crysis, Street Fighter and 3D Mark 2011 where the board
can be found on the very last places of our comparison tables. A closer
look at energy efficiency shows that the Extreme 6 is the most efficient
ATX board we've tested so far. It has one been beaten by mATX or even
smaller mini ITX motherboards. |
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wPrime
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- Crysis
- Street Fighter
- 3D Mark 2011 |
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| BIOS / Overclocking |
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| Also in the overclocking
part the Extreme 6 was a very convincing product. Therefore it's been
childrens play to reach the clock wall of our test CPU. Furthermore the
UEFI BIOS is very easy to use and one can quickly find the settings
needed. There are BIOSes from other manufacturers which are nicer to
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- Well structured BIOS
- UEFI-BIOS |
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Recommendation |
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| If you
want to build a high end comptuer or gaming system then the ASRock
Extreme 6 will be a good choice. |
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High-End
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- Overclocking |
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| Rating |
| We give
the ASRock Extreme 6 good four out of five stars. |
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