ASRock Z87 Extreme6/ac Pro Reviews

The ASRock Z87 Extreme6/ac was, fundamentally, rather boring. It worked fine but wasn't anything special, other than for the huge amount of connectivity it features at a decent price. However, I also found it to be underperforming while drawing a bit too much power for the low performance. That performance was weirdly low in a clearly explainable way, but the actual cause, well, might remain a mystery, although it might be as simple as that Turbo Optimization switch being disabled in the default BIOS configuration. I have asked OEMs to disable their custom Turbo profiles at default, but it really didn't work out the way I thought it would here; that is, if it is the cause of this particular issue. Ignoring all that which can quickly be remedied, the connectivity offered by the ASRock Z87 Extreme6/ac is pretty awesome as it includes 10 SATA 6Gb/s ports in total, WiFi that supports Intel WiDi wireless video, and an HDMI-in port for potential video from a discrete graphics card over Intel's WiDi. There are enough options to get an overclock, making the power consumption issue I ran into rather unfortunate, but it might simply be due to my CPU dying, as I have had several die on me already (although those were totally my fault).