ASRock P67 3-Way Motherboard Roundup@PureOC

Elevon

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http://www.pureoverclock.com/review.php?id=1194


Each of these ASRock P67 boards have proven to be feature-rich, innovative, and perhaps most importantly, affordable. The ASRock mantra is to provide creative, cost effective solutions to consumers, and they've done exactly that here with the Transformer, Pro3, and Extreme6. Not simply budget boards, each of these products show ASRock is really moving ahead in the right direction and serving notice to other manufacturers they're in for a fight.
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Socket 1155 - 2500K

We achieved 4.4GHz with a few simple clicks of the mouse. We know this particular chip really doesn't have much more in the tank as far as multiplier goes, so the Extreme6 essentially topped out the CPU, which is very satisfying to see. This is the exact same multiplier and result we achieved on our ASUS motherboard, the only difference being the ASUS board has a dynamic overclock and increased the bus speed to 103MHz, whereas the Extreme6 here left it at stock 100MHz in the preset configuration.

Quote:Socket 1155 - 2600K
Then we strapped in the flagship Sandy Bridge, a multi-threaded 2600K to see what the Extreme6 could accomplish. First we started with Auto Overclocking:

The CPU hit 4.8GHz without breaking a sweat, right off the bat. We didn't even work our way up the scale, we simply popped in the chip and selected 4.8GHz in the BIOS, that's it. Outstanding, really.

Then we tweaked things just a bit in the ASRock Extreme Tuning Utility, increasing the bus speed a bit while keeping the same multiplier. We finished at 103 MHz, good for a final overclock of 4.94 GHz.
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Does everything it says on the tin !!
Had to RMA the Asus P8P67 Pro, sofar I'm glad I went for the Extreme 6
It will do 4.8Ghz straight out the box with no tweaking:D.....saving that for later!;)
Was very impressed with the packaging, the motherboard was in the third box!!
Still on the 1.10 bios will be flashing too 1.20 shortly 1.30 was posted a few days ago but was removed (possibly not stable) only seen one complaint about the 1.30 bios, others are saying it enabled them to hit 5.0Ghz easier.
I have a copy so I might try it later.
 
Majidae said:
This has swayed me towards getting the extreme 6, looks like a great board :).

Elevon, Thanks for posting that link.
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You're welcome,Asrock have been getting very good reviews for the last couple of years now,I really don't know why more people are not buying great boards like these.
 
Steve0 said:
Does everything it says on the tin !!
Had to RMA the Asus P8P67 Pro, sofar I'm glad I went for the Extreme 6
It will do 4.8Ghz straight out the box with no tweaking:D.....saving that for later!;)
Was very impressed with the packaging, the motherboard was in the third box!!
Still on the 1.10 bios will be flashing too 1.20 shortly 1.30 was posted a few days ago but was removed (possibly not stable) only seen one complaint about the 1.30 bios, others are saying it enabled them to hit 5.0Ghz easier.
I have a copy so I might try it later.
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Doesn't the cheaper Asrock P67 Pro 3 motherboard have the same selectable 4.8ghz setting as the extreme 6?
 
Elevon said:
You're welcome,Asrock have been getting very good reviews for the last couple of years now,I really don't know why more people are not buying great boards like these.
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Guess it is very hard to shake a bad name, although I own a Asrock ALiveSATA2-GLAN (Socket AM2) and it has done me well for 3 and a half years:).

Extreme 6 is sitting in my basket at the mo, just have to wait till payday at the end of the month.
 
cochoc said:
Doesn't the cheaper Asrock P67 Pro 3 motherboard have the same selectable 4.8ghz setting as the extreme 6?
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As far as I am aware it has, not sure how well the Pro 3 clocks at 4.8Ghz but the Extreeme 6 is rock solid on the 4.8Ghz auto clock, not had any problems with it since setting it yesterday.
Only done a little tinkering and managed to get it to 5.1Ghz without too much trouble.
A nice feature is the Xfast usb, benchmarks have shown that it does improve on usb2 and usb3 fairly well.
 
maximusmi2 said:
This may have persuaded me away from the Asus P8p67 Pro. Same price for the extreme6 but will avoid the issues the Asus seems to have.
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I wish I had not bothered with the Asus P8P7 Pro. I spent the whole of last Sunday trying to get the thing to post, and I'm still waiting for an RMA number to send it back.
 
Thanks for that 1Day I already have the 1.30 but the one you linked is 3x the size and must be the replacement for the 1.30 they removed from their site last week.
 
Steve0 said:
I wish I had not bothered with the Asus P8P7 Pro. I spent the whole of last Sunday trying to get the thing to post, and I'm still waiting for an RMA number to send it back.
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Yeah, the amount of issues has put me off really. Plus for the same price the Asrock Extreme6 does seem a better board.

I have never bought Asrock before but I will give it a go this time as generally feedback and reviews are excellent.
 
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