Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Firestrike
The Extreme 4 is no slouch, setting our fourth highest score at stock, and beating the other two ASRock boards we’ve tested, including the Fatal1ty! While overclocked, it didn’t come out on top, but it’s certainly one of the highest scores we’ve ever had, and not so far behind anything in terms of score.
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Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme
The Unigine test is a good example of how PCIe throughput is on the motherboard, and as you can see, the ASRock board gave consistant results, and a small performance boost to the GPU while overclocked too. One thing is for certain, this motherboard or the i7-8700K are not going to bottleneck a 1080 Ti anytime soon.
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PCMark 10 Express
The Extreme 4 living up to its name here, setting our four highest score at stock, and third highest while overclocked. There’s no doubt this is a fast motherboard, and for work at home or in the office, it handles multi-tasking with ease.
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WPrime 32M and 1024M
Not our fastest time, but it’s competitive with the mid-tier Z370 motherboards, and the other ASRock motherboards too. I would have liked a bigger improvement while overclocked, but it’s still leagues ahead of what we got on the Z270 board with the i7-7700K.
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Cinebench R15
The same holds true with CineBench, delivering a fairly predictable result on what our 8700K can do. Don’t be fooled though, that’s a high score for consumer hardware, it’s just those crazy powerful and expensive TR4 and X299 chips making them look slower. Compare the Z270 score at the bottom of the chart for a true example.
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Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K
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Cool review! Looking forward to replace my old rig with new 8700k cpu for my wedding photography / videography editing.
Now, became more difficult to choose MB. Apparently there are big difference in speed.
http://www.lightscript.co.nz
Sounds I found MB to buy. Looking forward to replace my old rig with new 8700k cpu for my wedding photography / videography editing.
Still it is not clear why results have such a big difference if they use same CPU and Z370 chip.
http://www.lightscript.co.nz
Did you leave MCE enabled for those benchmarks? It really screws with the scores, and is likely why the ASUS boards are ahead. They are basically auto-overclocked on the stock benchmarks, making it not truly the same scenario. To make it even, you could have just enabled or disabled MCE on every board.
What I want to know is if the Creative Cinema3 sound on the Fatal1ty is any better than the sound on the Extreme4 or not. Since they use the same codec surely it’s just a software add?
Also neither board has onboard wifi whereas the Taichi has dual band wifi.
I decided I want an asrock board but which one.
Also the Fatal1ty and Taichi have debug and reset switches where the extreme4 does not
Does this motherboard have good overclocking abilities? If yes, then it’s probably the best motherboard you can get in terms of value tbh.