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When AMD introduced its Ryzen 7000-series processors and AM5 platform last September, it said that over time motherboards for the new CPUs would get to mainstream price points. Yet, nearly six months after launch, AM5 motherboards have proven to be stubborn in their high prices, which is one of the reasons of the platform's slow adoption by the masses. Fortunately, this week ASRock started to sell a new budget microATX motherboard, the B650M-HDV/M.2, which has become first one to land on retail shelves for $125. Most existing AM5 motherboards, including those based on the mid-range B650 chipset, are generally aimed at enthusiasts who are looking for extra features and willing to pay for them. As a result, there's been a dearth of truly cheap B650...
ASRock to Introduce USB 3.1 Cards and Motherboards
On the back of our USB 3.1 performance coverage, as well as seeing some motherboards in the flesh at CES, other manufacturers are now announcing their USB 3.1 implementations...
53 by Ian Cutress on 2/16/2015
ASRock VisionX 471D Review - Evolutionary Upgrades for a Powerful mini-PC
ASRock has been one of the few motherboard vendors to focus on mini-PCs targeting the HTPC and portable gaming markets. Starting from the ION-based nettop days, they have consistently...
30 by Ganesh T S on 1/26/2015
ASRock X99 OC Formula Motherboard Review: What is the Overclocking Formula?
Within each motherboard manufacturer, there is typically a design team for each market segment they are targeting, be that server, channel or gaming. Overclocking is slightly different as most...
17 by Ian Cutress on 12/30/2014
ASRock X99 WS-E/10G Motherboard Review: Dual 10GBase-T for Prosumers
For a number of months I have been wondering when 10GBase-T would be getting some prime time in the consumer market. Aside from add-in cards, there was no onboard...
45 by Ian Cutress on 12/15/2014
Holiday Guides 2014: Z97 Motherboards for Haswell
Writing one guide for all of the Z97 motherboard range seems a little odd. It is possible to consider each market segment and price range to come up with...
16 by Ian Cutress on 12/9/2014
Holiday Guides 2014: AMD Motherboards
For socketed desktop systems, AMD is currently maintaining three significantly different processor lines. To add to the confusion, one is super low power (Kabini/AM1), one hasn't been updated since...
25 by Ian Cutress on 12/4/2014
Best X99 Motherboards: Holiday 2014
As we approach the holiday season, the Haswell-E and X99 platform has only been on the market for almost three months. With a rushed launch, the motherboard manufacturers raced...
15 by Ian Cutress on 11/27/2014
ASRock Announces X99 WS-E/10G: Dual 10GBase-T and Quad x16
Edit: Read our full review here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8781/ Regular readers of my twitter feed might have noticed that over the past 12/24 months, I lamented the lack of 10 gigabit Ethernet...
50 by Ian Cutress on 11/24/2014 (2)_carousel.jpg)
ASRock Releases X99 Extreme11: So I Heard You Like Storage
We reviewed the X79 Extreme11 back in September 2012. The concept was simple: divert eight PCIe lanes into an LSI SAS chip for eight more SATA ports with SAS...
40 by Ian Cutress on 10/9/2014
ASRock Z97 OC Formula Motherboard Review: Less Lamborghini, More Yellow
ASRock is quietly confident of its OC Formula range. We awarded the Z77 version because of its aggressive tactics at the $240 price point and while the Z87 model...
20 by Ian Cutress on 10/2/2014
The Intel Haswell-E X99 Motherboard Roundup with ASUS, GIGABYTE, ASRock and MSI
The launch of Haswell-E ushered in a triumvirate of new technology – a new CPU line, a new motherboard chipset and DDR4 memory. Today we focus on the new...
62 by Ian Cutress on 9/25/2014
Intel’s Haswell-EP Xeons with DDR3 and DDR4 on the Horizon?
Johan’s awesome overview of the Haswell-EP ecosystem showed that the server processor line from Intel is firmly in the track for DDR4 memory along with the associated benefits of...
24 by Ian Cutress on 9/18/2014
VisionX 420D Review: ASRock's mini-PC Lineup Continues to Impress
ASRock has been one of the few motherboard vendors to focus on mini-PCs targeting the HTPC and portable gaming markets. Starting from the ION-based nettop days, they have consistently...
30 by Ganesh T S on 9/1/2014
ASRock on X99 Motherboards: WS, Extreme, Killer, OC Formula and mATX Inbound
It is safe to say that all the motherboard manufacturers have been ambitious for the X99 launch. While I recently gave kudos to one of the others for supporting...
0 by Ian Cutress on 8/29/2014
Exclusive: ASRock’s X99 OC Formula Motherboard in Pictures
To add another element to the current whirlwind of X99 motherboard shots being released, ASRock has now lifted the lid on its high end overclocking motherboard, the X99 OC...
33 by Ian Cutress on 8/25/2014
ASRock Shows X99 Micro-ATX: The X99M Killer
One of the problems of Intel’s high end desktop platforms is size: the sockets are large, and all the DRAM slots take up a fair amount of space. ...
23 by Ian Cutress on 8/15/2014
AMD’s 5 GHz Turbo CPU in Retail: The FX-9590 and ASRock 990FX Extreme9 Review
While AMD’s FX-9590 CPU has been in systems for over a year, it suddenly comes to market as a retail package for end-users to buy with a bundled liquid...
149 by Ian Cutress on 8/9/2014
More Fanless Bay-Trail: ASRock Releases Two Pentium J2900 Motherboards
When we looked at AMD’s Kabini platform, AMD in its press materials pitted their high end APU against the Pentium J2900 in terms of price and performance. The only...
24 by Ian Cutress on 8/6/2014
Z97 Mini-ITX Review at $140: ASRock, MSI and GIGABYTE
With every new chipset release, a large part of the community is always interested in the smaller form factor builds. Building a small yet powerful system seems to be...
38 by Ian Cutress on 7/23/2014
Computex 2014: ASRock to release Z97M and Z97 Anniversary for Pentium-AE
With the new overclockable Pentium processor soon coming to market, named as Pentium-AE and listed under the title ‘Pentium G3258’, it offers an opportunity for some low cost overclocking...
9 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2014
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