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ASRock Extreme 9 Motherboard Review

The ASRock X79 Extreme9 is the flagship motherboard from ASRock. Built around the Intel X79 Express chipset it can take advantage of the latest second generation Intel Core i7 Extreme processors in the LGA2011 package. Today we will be pitting it against the flagship X79 motherboards from several other companies! The question is, how will the ASRock X79 Extreme9 fare? Join us to find out!

The ASRock X79 Extreme9 ultimately was a pleasure to work with. The beauty of it was that it just worked, and it worked extremely well during our testing today.

Article Title: ASRock Extreme 9 Motherboard Review
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Pricing At Time of Print: $345 at Newegg

Give ASRock a few more years and I'd rather pick it up over Gigabyte. Gigabyte has been my preferred brand for a long time. Lately they have been dropping the ball, UEFI, innovation, performance, burned X79 boards. At this point in time if I were looking for a board it would have to be ASUS. I really like ASRock but reviews on the same product can vary widely. They need a better QC at this point, or tighter manufacturing specs.

ASRock says they will pass up Gigabyte this year.

Gigabyte says they will pass ASUS this year.

ASUS says they will remain #1

The rankings right now:

1) ASUS
2) Gigabyte
3) ASRock

Seeing how quickly ASRock passed up MSI, ECS and Biostar my money is on them passing up Gigabyte. They are also happy to point out that ASRock has no North American PR people or advertising budget. They got there with pricing and word of mouth in the US.

I think they all make great boards. The competition helps us consumers. I own 2 Asus, 2 Gigabyte, 1 AsRock, 1 Foxconn, and 2 MSI boards. I had to RMA my Foxconn A7DA-S mobo but the replacement has been working for a couple years. The only bad mobo I have ever had was a PC Chips board (cheap one) and I got what I paid for. It worked, albeit quirky at times, for about a year, and then died.

Just think if Asrock had advertising...I wonder if they're hiring? ;)

Any justification for those 5X performance increases they advertise, or is it all just talk?