It’s also great to see the super high-end X99 platform getting the small form factor treatment. Which is why the $220 (£170) ASRock X99M Extreme4 board (opens in new tab) got so close to taking the gold this month: it’s great value, but also able to keep up with the big boys and offer all the extras. It now stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes of Asus, Gigabyte and MSI. Storage: 10x SATA 6Gbps, 1x eSATA, 1x M.2 x4īack panel: 4x USB 3.0, 4x USB 2.0, PS/2 combo, eSATA,1x Intel LAN, 1x Atheros LAN, Audio I/OĪSRock is no longer a motherboard manufacturer associated with the absolute bottom of the market. Multi-GPU support: Quad CrossFireX/SLI (dual-GPU cards only) Verdict: An excellent and excellently priced X99 motherboard, perfect for your multi-GPU i7 5820K gaming build. MSI’s X99S SLI Plus (opens in new tab) is thus my pick of the current crop of X99 boards for pairing with the six core 5820K. It’s aboard for building a performance PC, not for gazing adoringly at through a perspex window.ĪSRock’s micro ATX board is similarly priced, but isn’t quite as powerful at stock clock speeds and doesn’t have the benefit of the full eight DIMM slots for future memory upgrades, or the extra PCIe3.0 sockets. The plain black PCB has no fancy shielding covering the rear interface connections, and no LEDs blazing away behind the MSI logos. The SLI Plus isn’t going to win any GQ style awards, either. The weakest showing was in the overclocking stakes-it came joint bottom in that test with a maximum frequency of 4.3GHz. The SLI Plus was never far from the top boards I’ve tested, but isn’t going to win any performance awards. ![]() ![]() In general CPU performance terms it’s no great shakes.
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