ASRock Z87M Extreme4 Pro Reviews

The ASRock Z87 Extreme4 doesn’t seem to differ much from our favorite ASRock mainboards based on the Intel Z77 Express chipset. Its packaging is designed in a different way but still has additional soft edging around the mainboard to protect it during transportation. It comes with similar accessories and features a user-friendly PCB design with top-quality components. Fully using all of the Intel Z87’s capabilities, it complements them with additional SATA and USB 3.0 ports. Thanks to the exclusive A-Style technologies set, it supports remote access (Home Cloud), enhances audio quality (Purity Sound) and allows to connect additional video sources to the monitor (HDMI-In). Like its predecessors, it has two connectors for CPU fans, 4-pin and 3-pin ones, so any CPU fan can be regulated irrespective of its connection type. The mainboard is equipped with two independent BIOS chips, but the active chip is selected with a not very convenient jumper rather than with a switch. The design of graphics slots latches has been modified, but they are still not very handy. The memory modules feature Distortion Free technology. So, all the innovations are actually highly positive, even though some are not implemented perfectly.