ASRock Z170 Extreme4 Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅17-02-16
Test Setup, Methodology & Overclocking

Test Setup
CPU Intel Core i7-6700K
Cooling Corsair H100i GTX
Motherboard ASRock Z170 Extreme4
Memory 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200MHz
Graphics XFX R7970 Black Edition
Storage OCZ Vector 180
PSU Corsair HX1050 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU



Benchmarks
Cinebench R15 – CPU/OpenGL Score
x264 HD 4.0 – 1st and 2nd pass encoding
SiSoftware SANDRA 2014 – CPU & Memory benchmarks
AIDA64 – CPU benchmarks
PCMark 8 – Home Suite
3DMark FireStrike – DX11 3D Benchmark
Games – Tomb Raider, THIEF


Other Software
Temperature Analysis: Real Temp
Stress Testing Software: AIDA64 Stability Test
CPU Specification Monitoring: CPU-Z


Overclocking

Overclocking with Skylake is now fully flexible since we can adjust many variables including BCLK and ratio/multiplier.

Our current milestone is 4.8GHz with the Intel Core i7-6700K but we soon realised that Extreme4 was unable to achieve such a result. The best we could accomplish was 4.6GHz – which isn’t too disappointing by any means. To achieve this we required 1.4v and 100x46.



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