ASRock Z370 Extreme 4 Motherboard Review

Peter Donnell / 7 years ago

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Firestrike

The Extreme 4 is no slouch, setting our fourth highest score at stock, and beating the other two ASRock boards we’ve tested, including the Fatal1ty! While overclocked, it didn’t come out on top, but it’s certainly one of the highest scores we’ve ever had, and not so far behind anything in terms of score.

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Overclocked

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

The Unigine test is a good example of how PCIe throughput is on the motherboard, and as you can see, the ASRock board gave consistant results, and a small performance boost to the GPU while overclocked too. One thing is for certain, this motherboard or the i7-8700K are not going to bottleneck a 1080 Ti anytime soon.

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Overclocked

PCMark 10 Express

The Extreme 4 living up to its name here, setting our four highest score at stock, and third highest while overclocked. There’s no doubt this is a fast motherboard, and for work at home or in the office, it handles multi-tasking with ease.

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Overclocked

WPrime 32M and 1024M

Not our fastest time, but it’s competitive with the mid-tier Z370 motherboards, and the other ASRock motherboards too. I would have liked a bigger improvement while overclocked, but it’s still leagues ahead of what we got on the Z270 board with the i7-7700K.

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Cinebench R15

The same holds true with CineBench, delivering a fairly predictable result on what our 8700K can do. Don’t be fooled though, that’s a high score for consumer hardware, it’s just those crazy powerful and expensive TR4 and X299 chips making them look slower. Compare the Z270 score at the bottom of the chart for a true example.

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