Review Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Extreme 4
Lini motherboard Extreme dari ASRock adalah salah satu jajaran produk yang cukup unik di pasaran. Jika produsen lainnya gencar menawarkan motherboard lini gaming dan overclocking, ASRock memasarkan motheboard seri ini sebagai produk yang di tujukan untuk para content creator. Melihat berkembang pesatnya dunia multimedia, tidak heran produsen asal Taiwan ini mencoba merambah lahan yang belum banyak di garap produsen lainnya. Tapi pertanyaan yang muncul di benak kami adalah apa yang membuat sebuah motherboard di tujukan bagi content creator? Apa yang membedakannya dengan produk lain yang di design untuk gaming atau pun overclocking?
Untuk menjawab pertanyaan diatas kami mencoba mencermati salah satu anggota keluarga Extreme Series dari ASRock. Jika sebelumnya kami mengulas ASRock Z170 Extreme 7 sebagai seri tertinggi dari lini ini, untuk ulasan berikutnya pilihan jatuh kepada seri entry level dari jajaran Extreme Series, Z170 Extreme 4. Apa yang Anda dapatkan dalam sebuah produk yang di hargai sebesar dua koma delapan juta Rupiah? Apa yang dapatkan berguna bagi Anda sebagai kreator multimedia? Pertanyaan-pertanyaan ini lah yang kami coba jawab dalam ulasan berikut ini!
Prosesor: Intel Core i7-6700K
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury 2 x 4 GB DDR4 2666MHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Storage:
- Kingston HyperX Fury 240 GB SSD
Power Supply: Corsair AX850
CPU Cooler: Corsair H80
Monitor: LCD Monitor 1920×1080
Input: Generic Keyboard and Mouse
OS: Windows 8.1 64-bit
Intel Chipset Z170 Block Diagram
Intel Z170 adalah chipset unggulan untuk platform PC desktop kelas mainstream terbaru Intel. Motherboard dengan chipset tersebut mendukung prosesor Intel generasi keenam, Skylake, mulai dari prosesor Intel Skylake seri Pentium, Core i3, Core i5, hingga seri unggulannya, Core i7. Chipset ini juga mengalami sejumlah perkembangan dari segi fitur. Kini motherboard dengan Chipset Intel Z170 mengusung sejumlah fitur, seperti; 20 jalur PCI Express 3.0, dual channel memori DDR3L hingga 1600MHz/DDR4 hingga 2133MHz, 6 port SATA III 6Gbps, 10 port USB 3.0, 14 port USB 2.0, dan dukungan tuning untuk komponen prosesor dan juga memori.
Berikut Spesifikasi lengkap dari motherboard ASRock Z170 Extreme 4.
| General | |
| Unique Feature | ASRock USB 3.1 – ASRock USB 3.1 Type-A Port (10 Gb/s) – ASRock USB 3.1 Type-C Port (10 Gb/s) ASRock Super Alloy – XXL Aluminum Alloy Heatsink – Combo Caps (Nichicon 12K Platinum Caps) – Nichicon 12K Platinum Caps (100% Japan made high quality conductive polymer capacitors) – I/O Armor – Matte Black PCB – High Density Glass Fabric PCB ASRock Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA3) ASRock Full Spike Protection ASRock Live Update & APP Shop |
| CPU | – Supports 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3/Pentium®/Celeron® Processors (Socket 1151) – Digi Power design – 12 Power Phase design – Supports Intel® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology – Supports Intel® K-Series unlocked CPUs – Supports ASRock BCLK Full-range Overclocking – Supports ASRock Hyper BCLK Engine |
| Chipset | – Intel® Z170 |
| Memory | – Dual Channel DDR4 Memory Technology – 4 x DDR4 DIMM Slots – Supports DDR4 3866+(OC)*/3600(OC)/3200(OC)/2933(OC)/2800(OC)/2400(OC)/2133 non-ECC, un-buffered memory – Supports ECC UDIMM memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode) – Max. capacity of system memory: 64GB** – Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) 2.0 – 15μ Gold Contact in DIMM Slots *3866+(OC) memory frequency can only be achieved when a single memory module is installed (Single channel memory).
Please refer to Memory Support List on ASRock’s website for more information.**Due to the operating system limitation, the actual memory size may be less than 4GB for the reservation for system usage under Windows® 32-bit OS. For Windows® 64-bit OS with 64-bit CPU, there is no such limitation. |
| BIOS | – 2 x 128Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS with multilingual GUI support (1 x Main BIOS and 1 x Backup BIOS) – Supports Secure Backup UEFI Technology – ACPI 5.0 Compliant wake up events – SMBIOS 2.7 Support – CPU, DRAM, PCH 1.0V, VCCIO, VCCSA Voltage Multi-adjustment |
| Audio, Video and Networking | |
| Graphics | – Supports Intel® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals : Intel® Quick Sync Video with AVC, MVC (S3D) and MPEG-2 Full HW Encode1, Intel® InTru™ 3D, Intel® Clear Video HD Technology, Intel® Insider™, Intel®HD Graphics 510/530 – Pixel Shader 5.0, DirectX 12 – Max. shared memory 1024MB* – Three graphics output options: DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort 1.2 – Supports Triple Monitor – Supports HDMI with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096×2160) @ 24Hz / (3840×2160) @ 30Hz – Supports DVI-D with max. resolution up to 1920×1200 @ 60Hz – Supports DisplayPort 1.2 with max. resolution up to 4K x 2K (4096×2304) @ 60Hz – Supports Auto Lip Sync, Deep Color (12bpc), xvYCC and HBR (High Bit Rate Audio) with HDMI Port (Compliant HDMI monitor is required) – Supports Accelerated Media Codecs: HEVC, VP8, VP9 – Supports HDCP with DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort 1.2 Ports – Supports Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) playback with DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort 1.2 Ports *The size of maximum shared memory may vary from different operating systems. **Intel® HD Graphics Built-in Visuals and the VGA outputs can be supported only with processors which are GPU integrated. ***Due to chipset limitation, the Blu-ray playback of Intel® HD Graphics is only supported under Windows® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit. ****Intel® InTru™ 3D is only supported under Windows® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit. |
| Audio | – 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1150 Audio Codec) – Premium Blu-ray Audio support – Supports Surge Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection) – Supports Purity Sound™ 3 – Nichicon Fine Gold Series Audio Caps – 115dB SNR DAC with differential amplifier – TI® NE5532 Premium Headset Amplifier (Supports up to 600 ohm headsets) – Pure Power-In – Direct Drive Technology – PCB isolate shielding – Supports DTS Connect |
| LAN | – Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s – Giga PHY Intel® I219V – Supports Wake-On-LAN – Supports Lightning/ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection) – Supports Energy Efficient Ethernet 802.3az – Supports PXE |
| Expansion / Connectivity | |
| Slots | – 3 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 Slots (PCIE2/PCIE4/PCIE6: single at x16 (PCIE2); dual at x8 (PCIE2) / x8 (PCIE4); triple at x8 (PCIE2) / x8 (PCIE4) / x4 (PCIE6))* – 3 x PCI Express 3.0 x1 Slots (Flexible PCIe) – Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™, 3-Way CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™ – Supports NVIDIA® Quad SLI™ and SLI™ – 15μ Gold Contact in VGA PCIe Slot (PCIE2) *Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks
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| Storage |
– 6 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, Intel® Rapid Storage Technology 14 and Intel® Smart Response Technology), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug
– 3 x SATA Express 10 Gb/s Connectors* – 1 x Ultra M.2 Socket, supports type 2230/2242/2260/2280/22110 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen3 x4 (32 Gb/s)** *Support to be announced M2_1, SATA3_0, SATA3_1 and SATA_EXP_0 share lanes. If either one of them is in use, the others will be disabled.**Supports ASRock U.2 Kit Supports NVMe SSD as boot disks |
| Connector | – 1 x COM Port Header – 1 x TPM Header – 1 x Power LED and Speaker Header – 2 x CPU Fan Connectors (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control) – 3 x Chassis Fan Connectors (4-pin) (Smart Fan Speed Control)* – 1 x 24 pin ATX Power Connector – 1 x 8 pin 12V Power Connector (Hi-Density Power Connector) – 1 x Front Panel Audio Connector – 1 x Thunderbolt™ AIC Connector – 2 x USB 2.0 Headers (Support 4 USB 2.0 ports) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)) – 1 x USB 3.0 Header (Supports 2 USB 3.0 ports) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)) – 1 x Dr. Debug with LED – 1 x Power Switch with LED – 1 x Reset Switch with LED *All CPU/Chassis Fan Connectors can auto detect if 3-pin or 4-pin fan is in use.
The CPU Fan Connector supports the CPU fan of maximum 1A (12W) fan power. |
| Rear Panel I/O | – 1 x PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Port – 1 x DVI-D Port – 1 x HDMI Port – 1 x DisplayPort 1.2 – 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port – 1 x USB 3.1 Type-A Port (10 Gb/s) (ASMedia ASM1142) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)) – 1 x USB 3.1 Type-C Port (10 Gb/s) (ASMedia ASM1142) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)) – 6 x USB 3.0 Ports (Intel® Z170) (Supports ESD Protection (ASRock Full Spike Protection)) – 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED) – 1 x Clear CMOS Switch – HD Audio Jacks: Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone |
| Other Features / Miscellaneous | |
| Software and BIOS | Software – ASRock A-Tuning – ASRock Disk Health Report – ASRock USB Key – ASRock APP Charger – ASRock XFast LAN – ASRock XFast RAM – ASRock Fast Boot (Fast Boot, Restart to UEFI)* UEFI – ASRock EZ Mode – ASRock Full HD UEFI – ASRock My Favorites in UEFI – ASRock Instant Flash – ASRock Internet Flash – ASRock Crashless BIOS – ASRock OMG (Online Management Guard) – ASRock UEFI System Browser – ASRock UEFI Tech Service – ASRock Easy RAID Installer – ASRock Easy Driver Installer *These utilities can be downloaded from ASRock Live Update & APP Shop.
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| Support CD | – Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version), Google Chrome Browser and Toolbar |
| Accessories | – 1 x ASRock SLI_Bridge_2S Card – Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O Shield – 4 x SATA Data Cables – 1 x Screw for M.2 Socket |
| Hardware Monitor | – CPU/Chassis temperature sensing – CPU/Chassis Fan Tachometer – CPU/Chassis Quiet Fan (Auto adjust chassis fan speed by CPU temperature) – CPU/Chassis Fan multi-speed control – Voltage monitoring: +12V, +5V, +3.3V, CPU Vcore, GT_CPU, DRAM, VPPM, PCH 1.0V, VCCIO, VCCSA |
| Form Factor | – ATX Form Factor |
| OS | – Microsoft® Windows® 10 64-bit / 8.1 64-bit / 7 32-bit / 7 64-bit**
*To install Windows® 7 OS, a modified installation disk with xHCI drivers packed into the ISO file is required. Please see our online tutorial or check our User Manual for more detailed instructions.
For the updated Windows® 10 driver, please visit ASRock’s website for details. |
| Certifications | – FCC, CE, WHQL – ErP/EuP ready (ErP/EuP ready power supply is required) |
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