Asrock Z68 Extreme 7

Hamster · 31 Aug 2011 at 01:17

fowler002 said:
think the psu maybe overkill

I know it is for this system but should see me through a future next upgrade. Got it for a pretty good price at the time.

I would suggest sapphire 6950 2gb toxic but the price has gone upto £239.99 now they have them in stock

Not having heard of that card I've just read a very positive review of it, especially when overclocked!!

Hepping · 31 Aug 2011 at 01:38

Just ordered! Cheers NathWraith.

fowler002 · 31 Aug 2011 at 02:10

Crezzlin said:
bugger just spent to much at tesco. Need to wait until Thursday for pay day doh

£20 more then, add it to credit card

Hamster · 31 Aug 2011 at 02:20

fowler002 said:
£20 more then, add it to credit card

Not necessarily. Quite often OCUK keep the pre-order price for a short while after the first batch of stock is in. No guarantees though!

NathWraith · 31 Aug 2011 at 08:48

Pre-order price gone now!

Hamster · 31 Aug 2011 at 12:20

I guess I was wrong then!! I do hope everyone who had been waiting for this board specifically managed to pre-order.

fowler002 · 31 Aug 2011 at 12:27

Hamster said:
I guess I was wrong then!! I do hope everyone who had been waiting for this board specifically managed to pre-order.

seems crezzlin didn't unless took my advice and put it on the cc

Mr.V · 31 Aug 2011 at 15:34

Ordered mines today from another vendor as i missed out on the pre order price from here.

I think we should all have a dedicated extreme 7 thread with various setups and thoughts on the board!!

does anyone have any 8GB Ram recommendations? what brands? speed? thanks

haddows101 · 31 Aug 2011 at 16:47

its also on my list, was lookin at msi but this blows it out the water, sending back the 16gb Blue Vengeance......buying in some black instead lol.

fowler002 · 31 Aug 2011 at 17:15

Hamster said:
I know it is for this system but should see me through a future next upgrade. Got it for a pretty good price at the time.

Not having heard of that card I've just read a very positive review of it, especially when overclocked!!

well I got my order of the 6950s in today(only got it 1 1/2 hrs or so ago), only had a chance to test 1 but it unlocks the shaders tho it seems to suffer from the issue mentioned in 1/2 reviews where the core is is down to 775mhz rather than the pre-oced 880mhz its ment to be.

as I said tho its upto £240 now(still a good chunck cheaper than the 6970s), not sure if you think its worth the extra over the 560ti.

edit: its on 'this week only' offer now at £233.99

Hamster · 1 Sep 2011 at 18:01

Received my Extreme7 board today. Can anyone else who has it now confirm whether they had to break any seals to get to the board (and also if it came with any anti-static packaging) as my board has a huge fingerprint on the shiny frame surrounding the CPU.

Mr.V · 1 Sep 2011 at 18:30

Hamster said:
Received my Extreme7 board today. Can anyone else who has it now confirm whether they had to break any seals to get to the board (and also if it came with any anti-static packaging) as my board has a huge fingerprint on the shiny frame surrounding the CPU.

Got mines today also can confirm there where no seals to break and ALSO have a huge fingerprint on the socket in the bottom left hand corner.

chippy08 · 1 Sep 2011 at 18:37

Dont sound good paying all that money to get finger prints on them.

Hamster · 1 Sep 2011 at 18:47

Mr.V said:
Got mines today also can confirm there where no seals to break and ALSO have a huge fingerprint on the socket in the bottom left hand corner.

Thanks for the response. It didn't look like there were any adhesive seals looking at the packaging otherwise there would have been some residue or tearing. Also surely whoever packed these shiny boards should have been wearing gloves.

chippy08 · 1 Sep 2011 at 18:52

I suppose as long as there working ok so what they like any good whats your overclock on these boards ?

Hamster · 1 Sep 2011 at 19:01

chippy08 said:
I suppose as long as there working ok so what they like any good whats your overclock on these boards ?

Still waiting for my memory to arrive so I won't be building until the weekend. Also I won't be overclocking for a few days just to make sure everything is OK at stock. Will update once I do though.

Surveyor · 1 Sep 2011 at 19:03

chippy08 said:
I suppose as long as there working ok so what they like any good whats your overclock on these boards ?

Give them chance.

They've only had the boards 5 minutes.

Mr.V · 1 Sep 2011 at 19:39

chippy08 said:
I suppose as long as there working ok so what they like any good whats your overclock on these boards ?

Waiting on the memory to arrive, got everything else.

@Hamster: what memory did you go with?

Nightglow · 1 Sep 2011 at 20:10

Hope someone will give some feedback on the board.

Hamster · 1 Sep 2011 at 20:38

Mr.V said:
Waiting on the memory to arrive, got everything else.

@Hamster: what memory did you go with?

I went for 2 of these 8GB kits:

8GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-14900 1866MHz Sniper Series (9-10-9-28) Dual Channel kit
(F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR)

And I do realise that anything over 1600MHz isn't going to yield much gain in performance. Part of the reason I went for them is that they weren't that badly priced and they are on the supported memory list for the Extreme7.