ASRock Z270 Extreme 4
3rd January 2017Type
MotherboardPrice
$149.99 USASRock Z270 Extreme 4 Motherboard - Unboxing
The ASRock Z270 Extreme 4 motherboard comes in the standard rectangular package with a blue and black color scheme. The box has a background made up of stars and space dust. This is a fresh new box layout by ASRock that further designates boards through letter's. The "X" in the middle stands for the Extreme series.
On the front of the board, we can see some key features for the motherboard. The Z270 Extreme 4 features the 200-series Express chipset and supports Intel's 6th / 7th generation processors. The board supports HDMI, NVIDIA SLI, AMD CrossFire, Intel 6th/7th Generation processors and Intel Optane memory.
The back of the box contains all the marketing details along with product specifications. Most of the marketing tags have already been detailed by us in the "Features" section above. As can be seen, this board is loaded in features.
Within the front cover is a cardboard box with black color. In the middle of the box is the ASRock logo. The box contains the motherboard itself along with the accessories.
The accessories for Z270 Extreme 4 are very simple. There are manuals and guide books, a driver DVD, a case badge, SATA cables, a High-Bandwidth SLI Bridge and a rear I/O panel cover plate.
The ASRock Extreme 4 is a nicely build board out of the box. It has a new color scheme and the white/black color combo looks great. The design scheme and feature set make this a very solid motherboard so let's take a detailed look at board and see how well does it stack up.
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At $150 US, the ASRock Z270 Extreme 4 is well worth as it is a solid budget motherboard offering that will help you build a great gaming desktop PC that packs tons of features and has RGB Lightning too for that OOMPH! Factor.
- Great Design Quality
- White/Black Color Theme very popular among gamers
- Good OC Support
- Metal PCIe Slots
- Intel Optane Support
- Intel 6th and 7th Gen Support
- Dual USB 3.1 (Type-A + Type-C)
- Lots of storage capabilities
- Lots of I/O capabilities
- Onboard Audio design
- RGB AURA Lightning
- Additional slot for WiFi module (Not Included)
- Great $150 US Price
Pros
- No WiFi Wireless Module
- No U.2 SSD Support
- Non Metal DIMM slots
- Kaby Lake Not a Big Improvement From Skylake
Cons
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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