ASRock H170 Pro4 & Pro4S Motherboard Review

[Guest]

ASRock presents the last two H170 boards in our recent sample group, in full ATX. We’ll compare these to the rest of the group to see how they differ from the smaller boards I favor in my own builds.

ASRock H170 Pro4 & Pro4S Motherboard Review : Read more

 

[FastRewind]

How about the missing Dual Channel support for DDR4? It is not mentioned anywhere, but I'd like to know whether the lower price justifies the performance loss (if any) or not.

 

[Onus]

Missing dual channel support? The H170 fully supports dual channel RAM, usually DDR4, such as on these two examples. In my first roundup, there was one board that used DDR3, and another that could use either DDR3 OR DDR4 (not both), which meant only two sticks. The two boards in this article support up to four sticks of DDR4; two or four will run in dual-channel mode.

 

[FastRewind]

[quotemsg=18658132,0,47340]Missing dual channel support? The H170 fully supports dual channel RAM, usually DDR4, such as on these two examples. In my first roundup, there was one board that used DDR3, and another that could use either DDR3 OR DDR4 (not both), which meant only two sticks. The two boards in this article support up to four sticks of DDR4; two or four will run in dual-channel mode.
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Thank you for your answer! I knew it should be like that, but they did not mention Dual Channel support on the manufacturer's page, but did so in case of the H170 based Pro4/Hyper. This got me confused since nobody is going to omit a potential "feature", and they always mention this. Anyway, thx again for making this clear

 

[Onus]

The only [modern] chipset I know of that only supports single channel RAM is AMD's AM1. H81 and H110 support dual channel, but only one DIMM per channel.

 

[delta5]

Being the chipset that it is; how can no overclocking be a con?

 

[RedJaron]

[quotemsg=18661158,0,1027942]Being the chipset that it is; how can no overclocking be a con?[/quotemsg]For the people usually looking at this chipset, it's not. However, many of the motherboards we review do support OCing, and we have a lot of other users and readers on this site that specifically look for that, so it's not a problem to list that as a "con" when comparing these boards to all the others.

 

[delta5]

[quotemsg=18661254,0,570460][quotemsg=18661158,0,1027942]Being the chipset that it is; how can no overclocking be a con?[/quotemsg]For the people usually looking at this chipset, it's not. However, many of the motherboards we review do support OCing, and we have a lot of other users and readers on this site that specifically look for that, so it's not a problem to list that as a "con" when comparing these boards to all the others.[/quotemsg]

That's like knocking a Ford Focus because it doesn't have a v8 option, but whatever.

 

[Onus]

I've not seen one yet, but as there supposedly are H170 boards that can overclock, not being able to do so will be a con (to some).

 

[2Be_or_Not2Be]

Just a little addition - that M.2 slot is PCIe3.0 x4.

 

[MadOver]

[quotemsg=18662717,0,47340]I've not seen one yet, but as there supposedly are H170 boards that can overclock, not being able to do so will be a con (to some).[/quotemsg]

I'm playing with one, the H170 Hyper. Doing a oc guide for this mobo at the moment
Really fun mobo.

 

[mapesdhs]

Classic typo near the end, "If you’re budget...", should be, "If your budget...".

 

[SliceT]

[quotemsg=18662717,0,47340]I've not seen one yet, but as there supposedly are H170 boards that can overclock, not being able to do so will be a con (to some).[/quotemsg]

True, just seen the article Madocer did with the H170 Hyper oc guide... Pretty cool stuff, was thinking only Z170 could oc.