Connectors and I/O

In total ASRock equipped the Z87M Extreme4 with six angled SATA ports. All ports offer 6Gbps bandwidth and they are natively wired to the Z87 PCH. Unfortunately there are no practical onboard power- and reset-buttons on this board and there is also no debug display. A closer look at the onboard audio chip reveals, that ASRock equipped the Z87M Extreme4 with an ALC1150, which is sufficient to play a game from time to time or listen to music on an desktop system.


Totally you'll find five fan headers on the Z87M Extreme4 which is enough, to provide a well equipped mATX system with fresh air. The fan headers are located around the CPU socket as well as spread over the motherboard. ASRock decided to use two 4-pin PWM headers. Therefore it is possible to adjust rotation speeds in the BIOS or in Windows.



Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel ASRock equipped the Z87M Extreme4 with four USB 3.0/2.0 ports, four USB 2.0/1.1 ports, one gigabit ethernet port, an HDMI connector, a DVI out, a VGA out as well as an optical out and an analogue audio panel. Other than that, there is a PS/2 port.

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Page 2 - Specs and Delivery	Page 15 - UC Bench
Page 3 - Features	Page 16 - Super Pi 1M / 32M
Page 4 - Layout	Page 17 - wPrime 1024M Multi Core
Page 5 - Connectors and I/O	Page 18 - Cinebench
Page 6 - BIOS	Page 19 - Bioshock: Infinite
Page 7 - Test setup	Page 20 - Metro Last Light
Page 8 - Preview / Gallery	Page 21 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 9 - 3D Mark	Page 22 - Power Consumption
Page 10 - 3D Mark 11	Page 23 - Performance Rating
Page 11 - 3D Mark Vantage	Page 24 - Price Comparison
Page 12 - PC Mark 7	Page 25 - Conclusion
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