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Drollzy
Melbourne, Victoria
15 posts
Sup peeps massive fan of this forum.

I'm upgrading my rig next week and just want to know if the ASRock Z68 Extreme4-Gen3 Z68 is a good board for gaming.
parts I'm buying listed below...

I5 2500k
ASRock Z68 Extreme4-Gen3 Z68
8gb ripjaw 1600's

I already have my gtx580 *loving it thanks for pushing me back to nvidia skythra extremely happy with the performance*

I was looking at the fat1lity board but the $70 price difference has me leaning towards the ASRock Z68 Extreme4-Gen3 Z68.

is the ASRock Z68 Extreme4-Gen3 Z68 good enough for gaming will be running 2x 580's mid 2012.
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glynd
Melbourne, Victoria
442 posts
Not that great with motherboards but I have been rocking that motherboard w/ GTX570 and an i5 2500k for the last couple months without any hitches if that says anything.
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DK
Brisbane, Queensland
549 posts
Apparently they're good.
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Drollzy
Melbourne, Victoria
16 posts
you playing BF3 on it?
Basically a BF3 upgrade for me want to play with Ultra settings or at least high :)
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glynd
Melbourne, Victoria
444 posts
you playing BF3 on it?
Basically a BF3 upgrade for me want to play with Ultra settings or at least high :)


Running it on ultra on my build and you have the better GFX card.
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Drollzy
Melbourne, Victoria
17 posts
Sold! Thanks Glynd

Thanks for the reply DK yeh the reviews looked pretty good just wanted to know if anyone had firsthand experience with the board.

Cant wait for next week and i can finally buy BF3 ..... mmmm and possibly Skyrim..... yeh why not :)
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Eorl
Brisbane, Queensland
4424 posts
Amazing board. When I get another GTX570, I'll be glad I got that board, both cards will run at 16x PCIE.
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Nitro
Gold Coast, Queensland
2120 posts
I have one - best board I've bought in many years. Great features for the price. Recommended.
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Any
Brisbane, Queensland
504 posts
I've read that the usb3 controller it uses is a little dodge, and that it may be a better idea to go for the extreme3 gen3 instead.
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skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
4936 posts
Amazing board. When I get another GTX570, I'll be glad I got that board, both cards will run at 16x PCIE.
Did some benchmarks in 3dmark06, vantage and 3dmark11 on my brothers board, he has 4 pcie slots, 2x16 and 2x8, in the 2x8 slots he got the same 3dmarks as the 2x16 slots.

He's running 2 580gtxs

If he had the 3gb models maybe it'd make a difference, but even then it'd be minimal.
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Infidel
Netherlands
3840 posts
I've got a 560ti and it doesnt cut it for BF3 on ultra :/
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Caveboy
Brisbane, Queensland
257 posts
Ive got the first gen of this board. Only complaint I have with it is that the onboard sound is pretty average.

last edited by Caveboy at 21:49:51 08/Dec/11
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Outlaw
Gold Coast, Queensland
914 posts
shotgun your old boards
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Eorl
Brisbane, Queensland
4429 posts
shotgun your old boards

Mines in my missus ;)
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step
Brisbane, Queensland
2373 posts

If he had the 3gb models maybe it'd make a difference, but even then it'd be minimal.
It's more dependant on the res and it really only shows on triple screen setups (5760x1200 etc).
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Drollzy
Melbourne, Victoria
18 posts
Thanks peeps placed my order with u-mart.... both pcie at 16x i assumed they would be at 8x....what a bonus
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Drollzy
Melbourne, Victoria
19 posts
shotgun your old boards

Mate my old board is a shitty Gigabyte cheap board lga 775...you wouldn't want it
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skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
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It's more dependant on the res and it really only shows on triple screen setups (5760x1200 etc).

Hence 3gb models.

At 1.5 the limitation is the ram.

(Tests were at 2560x1600, but say tripple 22" at 5060x1050 is normally 5million pixels, where as a single 30" is 4.1 million so there's only 25% difference in pixels, which is a reaosnably accurate way to determine the difference in vRAM usage between them depending on FOV and other factors oh i didn't say above, but also tested BF3 in both setups but not objectively with FRAPS just online to see if there was any visible difference, none could be seen, hard to judge online though, frames vary wildly from 40fps to 120fps)
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