Asrock Z68 Extreme 7

Bit too much for me, would have preferred sub £200. tenner too much

and way to give us time to decide if we want to order and for those who don't see it for whatever reason so can't pre-order at this price.
 
fowler002 said:
Bit too much for me, would have preferred sub £200. tenner too much

and way to give us time to decide if we want to order and for those who don't see it for whatever reason so can't pre-order at this price.
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Would you prefer no special pre-order price? If people don't see this price then that's just unfortunate for them. I would have thought most people that are very keen on the board like myself would have subscribed to this thread with email updates.
 
£190-£200 no 2nd thoughts but £210 has made me take a pause and think, other than the possibibility of 3x 6950(currently have 2, well ocuk dispatched them today) in the future not sure what other features of the extreme7 over the extreme4 gen3 I'll make use of. I need more than just a few hours to make my mind up.

if I get it, it'll be the first time I've spent £200+ on a mb. upto now the most I've spent is like £160-£170 on the asus maximus formula s.e.(died in watercooling leak, didn't get chance to mess about with its oc capabilities etc) and the dfi lanparty lt-x48 t2r(didn't like it too much, wish I'd gone asus instead).
 
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I need to see a few reviews on the Asrock Extreme 7 before I decide whether to buy one, might have to settle for a Extreme 4.:(

Wanted a Gigabyte G1 Sniper 2 originally, but just couldn't justify the price of £359.
Even £210+ is hell of a lot for a board, most I've spent was around £140 a few years ago.
 
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gary996 said:
Just ordered mine. Finally going to switch over from my X58 chipset.
Now what proc and mem to get??
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more a sidegrade than an upgrade :)
well unless you go 2600k oc'ed to ~5ghz :)

I need the cpu and ram as well if I order, the kingston would hve been perferfet if only they'ed had that offer now or had released the mb for orde over the weekend.

very tempted but the fact I've spent little over £1k(monitor + 2x 6950) over the last few weeks already is putting me off, no job to balance the out going :)
 
gary996 said:
Just ordered mine. Finally going to switch over from my X58 chipset.
Now what proc and mem to get??
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I've ordered some 1866MHz G.Skill Cas9 memory as it's on the Asrock supported memory list but I know it's probably overkill when you consider the tiny advantages of anything over 1600MHz. I do realise that the list isn't comprehensive though i.e. lots of other memory will be fine but this stuff is listed as having being tested with 4 sticks and tested with an overclock of some sort so I felt a little more comfortable when ordering it.

CPU still boxed and awaiting the board is the 2600K. Now I just need some case/radiator fans and a GPU upgrade.
 
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I've ordered some 1866MHz G.Skill Cas9 memory as it's on the Asrock supported memory list but I know it's probably overkill when you consider the tiny advantages of anything over 1600MHz. I do realise that the list isn't comprehensive though i.e. lots of other memory will be fine but this stuff is listed as having being tested with 4 sticks and tested with an overclock of some sort so I felt a little more comfortable when ordering it.

CPU still boxed and awaiting the board is the 2600K. Now I just need some case/radiator fans and a GPU upgrade.
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i2600k? just for gaming and such or will you be doing video encoding etc that'll make use of the hyperthreading? :)

I'm thinking just going all out and getting the i2600k then not upgrading for a few years but £40-£65 extra for the extreme 7 over the extreme4 gen3 plus £80 extra for the i2600k over the i2500k, I'm going to be mainly gaming and genral usage(not sure if will be doing any video encoiding etc) so not sure.

rest of the specs would be:

custom moded lian li a05(red poweder coated, grill cut in the roof),
arctic freezer 7 pro rev 2(have, upgrade to better cooler later or water cooling),
2x sapphire 6950 toxic(possible 3rd in future),
8gb pc3-12800 1600mhz ram(thinking corsair vengence lp black),
128gb crucial m4(ordered),
2x1tb samsung f3(have),
750gb samsung f2(have, currently os drive but will end up being storage),
samsung dvd-rw(have),
coolermaster real power m850(have)
dell u2711(have)

with i2500k upgrade cost comes to little under£1600, i2600k upgrade comes to just over £1650. £70 price difference worth it?

was only looking to upgrade cpu, mb and ram(~£400 upgrade) but ended up having to upgrade monitor then giving into temptation to upgrade graphics card, so now even without the ssd looking at £1500 for upgrade :)

edit so caved and placed the pre-order, also ordered the crucial 128gb m4. cpu and ram to go
 
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I'll be doing a bit of everything on the PC including a fair bit of video encoding, photoshop, Solidworks and a bit of gaming so I wanted to build something that I'll be content with for perhaps two or three years.

Whether the difference in CPU makes a difference to your needs, I don't really know. Probably best asking in the CPU forum.

My spec will be:

Asrock Extreme7
i2600K CPU
Corsair H100 Cooler
16GB G.Skill 1866MHZ
Corsair Obsidian 800D case
Corsair AX1200 PSU
120GB OCZ Vertex 3 Max Iops
A few x 2TB WD Black drives and 1X1TB WD Black
Pioneer BDR-206DBK Blu Ray writer

I already have all of the above except for the memory and motherboard which are both ordered. I need some case fans too. Still undecided on which GPU to buy but at the moment the GTX 560Ti cards look to be at a nice price point so maybe one of those and adding another later. I will also be buying an 8 bay SATA storage tower and picking up some green drives for backup purposes.
 
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Hamster said:
I'll be doing a bit of everything on the PC including a fair bit of video encoding, photoshop, Solidworks and a bit of gaming so I wanted to build something that I'll be content with for perhaps two or three years.

Whether the difference in CPU makes a difference to your needs, I don't really know. Probably best asking in the CPU forum.

My spec will be:

Asrock Extreme7
i2600K CPU
Corsair H100 Cooler
16GB G.Skill 1866MHZ
Corsair Obsidian 800D case
Corsair AX1200 PSU
120GB OCZ Vertex 3 Max Iops
A few x 2TB WD Black drives and 1X1TB WD Black
Pioneer BDR-206DBK Blu Ray writer

I already have all of the above except for the memory and motherboard which are both ordered. I need some case fans too. Still undecided on which GPU to buy but at the moment the GTX 560Ti cards look to be at a nice price point so maybe one of those and adding another later. I will also be buying an 8 bay SATA storage tower and picking up some green drives for backup purposes.
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think the psu maybe overkill :)

I would suggest sapphire 6950 2gb toxic but the price has gone upto £239.99 now they have them in stock(I got them £229.99, missed out on £224.99 by mear hours as I didn't finish check out when they were £225). maybe other brand 6950 2gb?

was planning on getting the extreme4 gen3 but gave in to the extreme7, not sure I'll even use any of the feature bar the x16/x16 pcie over the extreme4 anyway maybe 3rd 6950 in the future. I have a hdd caddy and the 2x 1tb drives live in there so 9/10 sata not needed(only use 2).

thinking about moving it to a new case in the future, have a coolermaster cosmos s but I didn't get along with it while I used it for a few months.

not going blue ray has have ps3 connected to monitor, have z5500 speakers which will be connected to ps3 via optical.
 
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