Gaming Performance
Interestingly, the performance is beating the Fatal1ty edition of this board in some gaming benchmarks. Given that this is the none “gamer” version of that board, that’s pretty amazing. It certainly could have done better in Deus Ex and Tomb Raider, but take not that it’s still competitive with other Z370 boards, and the 8700K is wiping the floor with anything else in terms of gaming. Z370 now dominates these charts with new high scores. Either way, gaming motherboard or not, the Extreme 4 has no issues delivering high frame rates when paired with a 1080 Ti and 8700K (no big surprise there of course).
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Ghost Recon: Wildlands
Far Cry Primal
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.