The ASRock X299 Extreme4 Motherboard Review: $200 Entry To HEDT
by Joe Shields on April 26, 2018 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Intel
- ASRock
- X299
- Basin Falls
- Skylake-X
- Extreme4
Gaming Performance
Ashes of the Singularity
Ashes of the Singularity is a Real Time Strategy game developed by Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment. The original AoTS was released back in March of 2016 while the standalone expansion pack, Escalation, was released in November of 2016 adding more structures, maps, and units. We use this specific benchmark as it relies on both a good GPU as well as on the CPU in order to get the most frames per second. This balance is able to better display any system differences in gaming as opposed to a more GPU heavy title where the CPU and system don't matter quite as much. We use the default "Crazy" in-game settings using the DX11 rendering path in both 1080p and 4K UHD resolutions. The benchmark is run four times and the results averaged then plugged into the graph.
Our AOTSe testing continues to be a tight-knit dataset with almost 2 frames per second separating things in the more CPU heavy 1080p setting. The ASRock X299 Extreme 4 performed will in the 1080p testing coming in second at 44.4 FPS, but lagged behind a bit in 4K testing at 33.1 FPS. This was one FPS lower (about 3%) than the next fastest result and a new low. That said, the performance difference between the fastest and slowest is literally 2 FPS, or a bit less than 6%.
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game that features similar gameplay found in 2013's Tomb Raider. Players control Lara Croft through various environments, battling enemies, and completing puzzle platforming sections while using improvised weapons and gadgets in order to progress through the story.
One of the unique aspects of this benchmark is that it’s actually the average of 3 sub-benchmarks that fly through different environments, which keeps the benchmark from being too weighted towards a GPU’s performance characteristics under any one scene.
Rise of the Tomb Raider results continues to be close together with the board delivering 94.1 FPS at 1080p and 40.2 FPS using 4K UHD resolution. Thes results have it as the fastest and second fastest in our ROTR testing.
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eas1974 - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link
My current rig is sporting the X99 extreme 4 from Asrock. It's been a overall awesome board. The only problem was i broke off one of the usb 3 headers on the board but it was my fault. Overclocked my 5820k to 4.2G. Dual GTX970's. It still chews up anything I through at it. I would defninlty buy another Asrock board.LaraDuncan - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link
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Total Meltdowner - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link
Whoa 85?! Show me how!!!milkod2001 - Friday, April 27, 2018 - link
Yeah, i guess playing with your funny in front on web camera does pay something. Good for you.MDD1963 - Friday, April 27, 2018 - link
Instead, I too became a piece of shit scamming adds about 'Earn $85/hr from home' on tech forums...! :)allenb - Friday, April 27, 2018 - link
I've got the 5820K in an X99 Extreme 4 as well. It's never been anything less than perfect. If they've kept it up for this version, it'll be a fine product and not just for "cheap" (is a $200 motherboard ever cheap?)duploxxx - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link
15 motherboards reviewed of the same chipset, must be an INTEL part.....lots of **** that will buy this broken platform.
Looking at how ryzen2 performs this x299 platform and its cpu selection will even be a bigger joke.
Ket_MANIAC - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link
Just compare those numbers to the no of Ryzen motherboard reviews they have done over the year, and you will be surprised. It seems people are more interested in buying 200 dollars and above motherboards for a stupid product line up than 100 for a fantastic price to performance king lineup. People expect good motherboard reviews and few websites out there are qualified to do so. Considering how much AnandTech's motherboard review numbers are highly regarded in the industry, I am sure hundreds of thousands of people were disappointed when they found out that there are no X370 or B350 reviews from Anand. I was.Galcobar - Monday, April 30, 2018 - link
There have been four X370 boards reviewed, and two B350. Borrowed this list from the ASROCK ITX X370 review on the front page.$255 - MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium [review]
$175 - GIGABYTE AX370-Gaming 5 [review]
$160 - ASRock X370 Gaming-ITX/ac [this review]
$110 - Biostar X370GTN [review]
$98 - MSI B350 Tomahawk [review]
$90 - ASRock B350 Gaming K4 [review]
Ket_MANIAC - Tuesday, May 1, 2018 - link
Really makes us feel proud, eh? 6 reviews of a platform which everyone is buying while 15 of a platform the whole industry chastised and only testosterone fueled enthusiasts are buying to satisfy their ego. Really makes me proud of AnandTech. No review of the flagship Crosshair Hero, no review of the phenomenally successful Taichi, not a mention of the extremely popular Prime X370 and Asrock B350 Gaming Pro. Really, this website is outdoing itself. Nevermind, 2nd gen is here and I hope things improve.