ASRock Unveils Non-Z170 Motherboards Designed To Overclock

[IInuyasha74]

ASRock will release four new non-Z170 motherboards designed to overclock multiplier locked Skylake processors.

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[RedJaron]

No M.2 on the Xeon mboard. Shame. Any word on when these will be available, or did I miss that in the article?

 

[IInuyasha74]

No M.2 on the Xeon mboard. Shame. Any word on when these will be available, or did I miss that in the article?

I thought they should have added an M.2 as well. I think that it is an issue with the chipset they are using, working on getting answers to that.

For the availability, they didn't have anything definite. ASRock said they should be out soon, but we didn't have anything more solid. I will update this article when they are available.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

"ASRock didn't say what these motherboards would cost, but a company representative mentioned that they should be less expensive than low-end Z170 motherboards."

That is good, because I was afraid they would price these too high and make them practically pointless to buy.

 

[g-unit1111]

If you have to modify the board, does that defeat the purpose of getting a cheap one for overclocking? Or am I missing something here?

 

[RedJaron]

It sounds like ASRock is talking about them modifying the board to work with BCLK OCing and Xeons so the end users don't have to.

 

[Onus]

I have some ASRock H170 boards lined up to be tested. Some of them clearly indicate at least some OC ability on their retail boxes; I will be testing that.

 

[Amdlova]

i love my xeon e3 1270 over my 3770k and it is sandy bridge. I will sell my 3770k and get another xeon. 30 days 24/7 no ECC over 3tb of data not a single issue at all. i never get an i5 and i7 again.

 

[Lutfij]

Its good to see that the enthusiast feature sets are getting a trickled down approach towards the audience that have a limited budget but a drive to squeeze that last bit of performance out of their investments.

Note: although note stated in teh article or the specs table - the pictures show that the E3V5 flavor has an M.2 socket between the PCIe slots though will that translate to limited lanes/bandwidth?

 

[RedJaron]

Keen eye. I wonder if that's an actual finished product, or if they just took an H170 board, removed the video outputs, and slapped an E3V5 sticker on the board.

 

[Math Geek]

interesting update. wonder what intel whispered into their ears to get them to back off the new boards?

 

[blazorthon]

This is a very disappointing update. I imagine this goes for their C232 board as well.

 

[IInuyasha74]

Yes, all of them that Asrock planned to do.

 

[AndrewJacksonZA]

Comment on the update: Nice caving in on your consumers there ASRock! I wonder what Intel threatened them with. :-(

 

[Onus]

"No chipsets for YOU!"