The motherboard features two M.2 slots with Wi-Fi up in the top left corner. Both main M.2 slots also have wiring for SATA, allowing users to use SATA MDOT if desired. The positioning of the M.2 slots on this motherboard is considered one of the best placements possible, being located at the midpoint of the board just above the graphics card and below the CPU. This placement provides ample airflow from around the CPU socket area and the graphics card, which will not block airflow in this region.

Additionally, the M.2 slot is placed on the front edge of the motherboard, which could pose a slight issue if a second graphics card is installed, but it's closer to the front fans that may be present in a case. These placements maximize airflow over M.2 devices.

Moving on to the rear of the motherboard, we find our antenna connections, as well as a combo PS/2 mouse keyboard port, VGA DVI, and HDMI ports for the Intel GPU. It's worth noting that the HDMI port can only support 4K at 30 Hz, which is its maximum resolution capability.

Further down the line, we have an ALC1220-based 7.1 audio codec with optical S/PDIF implemented as part of Pure Sound. This implementation supports a signal-to-noise ratio of up to 120 dB and uses Missha's finest gold audio capacitors. The front panel input is connected via a Realtech ALC123 chip, which supports auto impedance sensing for compatible headsets.

The motherboard also includes an abundance of extra USB connections and headers. There are four type-A ports available on the rear panel, as well as three additional USB 2.0 headers for internal device connectivity. For those with all-in-one closed loop coolers like NZXT or Corsair, this motherboard has got you covered.

The memory setup consists of four DDR4 DIMM slots that support speeds up to DDR4 4200, which is a relatively high-end speed for a mainstream motherboard. When it comes to other connectivity options, this motherboard features a Thunderbolt header, although users should consider purchasing an Alpine Ridge card instead of Totten Ridge if possible.

In short, this motherboard seems to have made few compromises in order to achieve its current price point. It has a solid design and supports Linux out-of-the-box, with the ability to set RGB and fan profiles directly from the UEFI. The I/O headers on this motherboard are also quite reliable, making it an attractive option for those looking for a mainstream motherboard without breaking the bank.

For those interested in learning more about the UEFI of this motherboard, there is a full tour available that explains its various features and settings in detail. This could be useful for users who want to customize their motherboard experience further.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe asrock extreme for the only thing this extreme here is my suspicion of the extremely low price makes it very suspect what they cut what do they do I mean of course the pricing will have probably change by the time we have this video live right I mean come on that's how this works isn't it it's like it's like oh yeah this is the thing and then something changes in the market forces shift and then as with the time this video this is one of the least expensive Zee 370 motherboards on the market but the adventure is to find out how as erotic managed to put the board together with such a cost savings because it's Z 370 it'll do SLI and crossfire so they didn't do any shenanigans with the PCI Express Lanes I don't know let's dive in and figure it out well now I should say there are some cheaper Z 370 boards out there but this is a board where asrock has won a lot of awards it's gotten a lot of press and a lot of play because as Rock'em basically gives you everything but an insanely competitive price they're trying to give you the best bang for your buck so in a lot of ways this board is very similar to the Z 370 fatality also from asrock and this board does away with the extra land port the buttons and some of the other accessories that are actually on the printed circuit board for the the fatality so you get a little bit of a cost savings here so this is a little bit less expensive than the fatality typically and I think they've done a pretty good job keeping the essentials well it's C it's more than the essentials it's like the essentials plus plus because I mean at the end of the day XIII 70s for enthusiasts and people looking to overclock right so I mean how much can you really cut before it's not really a board in the same market let's take a look at the board layout and let's start with the power phase design because hey that's gonna be really important for overclocking kids let's face it coffee like drinks the power it's a 12 phase power design so if you're gonna push your 5 gigahertz and you want to push 5 gigahertz you need a pretty strong power delivery system on the motherboard this motherboards power delivery system it's not the absolute top shelf but it is good enough to give you 5 gigahertz on coffee like on those 6 core CPUs basically no problem you will need good airflow around your CPU in order to do that so bear in mind that you need a good CPU cooler and a good set of airflow around your motherboard for whatever case you put it in because the VRMs are gonna get hot if you don't have at least some airflow now you will of course want to go with the six core ke parts from Intel the 8000 series CPUs for overclocking 8600 k 8700 k until may come out with more coffee lake sk use in the future but you definitely want to do overclocking on a board like this you would not buy this board and not overclock that would be a waste of your money you'd be better off to look at other chipsets now intel has just come out with or is about to come out with new lower-cost chipsets that will give you no real overclocking options but she saved some money so you should buy one of those boards if you don't plan to do any overclocking but twelve phases here really did pretty well getting our 8700 k up to 5 gigahertz without really without really any hassle because we've got an 87 k that doesn't require a crazy amount of power to get to 5 gigahertz so yeah you should definitely like the h3 70 if you don't plan to overclock take a look at another board that's based on the h3 70 chipset and you'll probably save you know upwards of $50 on the motherboard but this is e 370 motherboard is so inexpensive that it's probably going to be competitive with h3 70 boards from other vendors so the z3 17 you can overclock h3 70 cannot so let's take a look at the connectivity here we've got two PCI Express by 16 lanes this is by 8x8 that are wired directly into the CPU we have a third PCI Express by 16 that's PCI Express by 4 through the chipset there's also 2 m2 that our PCI Express by 4 connected to the CPU through the chipset there's also a special ikki m2 slot for an optional iNDOT to Wi-Fi up in the top left corner in the motherboard both of the main m2 also have the wiring for SATA so if you do want to use SATA you can totally use SATA MDOT two modules should you find yourself with a say to end up to module now the m2 placement on this motherboard in terms like physically where the m2 slots are on this motherboard is some of the best in got to placement you can expect on a motherboard one is it the at the midpoint of the board just above the graphics card and below the CPU so you're going get a lot of airflow from around the CPU socket area and the graphics card is not going to block that you're also going to get a lot of airflow from the other MDOT - in terms of it being located on the front edge of the motherboard so if you have a second graphics card it could still be a little bit of an issue but that end up - is so much closer to the front fans that you might have in a case those are really the best locations on a motherboard for MDOT - so good job as rock for putting the MDOT twos in the pretty much best possible locations on a motherboard like this to maximize airflow over your MDOT two devices now at the rear we've got our antenna connections a combo ps2 mouse keyboard port VGA DVI and HDMI for the Intel GPU and if you're wondering that HDMI port can only do 4k at 30 Hertz sorry that's just the nature of an eye GPU there's also an AZ media 31:42 USB 3.1 gen2 controller with one type-a at one type-c at the back of the board that is USB 3.1 gen2 so it's 10 gigabit we've also got two more USB 3.1 June one ports just under the Intel Gigabit Ethernet port for the audio you've got a real tech ALC 1220 based 7.1 audio codec with optical s/pdif implemented as purely sound for and implementing the DTS Connect protocol it does advertise 120 DB signal-to-noise ratio uses Missha confines gold audio capacitors and the front panel of input or the front panel IO connection and really sure what to call that like the front panel audio connector supports auto impedance sensing so if you have like a 600 ohm headset it'll impedance match to deal with the six I don't know headset can drive that headset appropriately which is nice it's a good good job as rock for the audio amplifiers it's any 55 32 s from Texas Instruments so those are nice low-noise amplifiers it's pretty good for a motherboard audio implementation so not bad again looking for what I was wrought compromise on here and not really seen a lot and finally on extra USB connections and headers it does have one USB 3.1 gin one top see front panel connection to 30-pin USB 3.1 gen2 on connections so that's four type-a ports for your front panel basically and then the also three extra USB 2.0 headers for internal connections internal devices maybe you've got a all-in-one closed loop cooler like this NZXT or like a like a Corsair that plugs into a USB header you can totally do that the memory setup is as you'd expect on this motherboard there are four ddr4 dimm slots does advertise support up to ddr4 4200 which is kind of mind-blowing the fastest memory that I have is ddr4 3600 and that's on a good day terms of other connectivity this motherboard does have a thunderbolt header if you're into thunderbolt you can do Thunderbolt although you should probably go for the Totten Ridge as opposed to the older Alpine Ridge if you have a choice about what type of a thunderbolt card you get for the thing if you're gonna get a thunderbolt card you'd use that in the PCI Express buy for expansion slot that's on the bottom edge of the motherboard if you were gonna go for that Thunderbolt connectivity so in short what is it with his motherboard I can't really tell that they cut much to save on price I mean they did something seems pretty solid if you're curious about Linux support well this motherboard works well with Linux - you can run the Linux to your heart's content you can set the RGB and the fan profiles directly from the UEFI so you don't need a utility for that to work with and the i/o and them you groups on this motherboard are pretty solid as well after the outro there's a full tour of the UEFI if you're interested if you end up using one of these in a build do share with us in picture form in the forums at level 1 text I'm Wendell I'm signing out and i'll see there you youthe asrock extreme for the only thing this extreme here is my suspicion of the extremely low price makes it very suspect what they cut what do they do I mean of course the pricing will have probably change by the time we have this video live right I mean come on that's how this works isn't it it's like it's like oh yeah this is the thing and then something changes in the market forces shift and then as with the time this video this is one of the least expensive Zee 370 motherboards on the market but the adventure is to find out how as erotic managed to put the board together with such a cost savings because it's Z 370 it'll do SLI and crossfire so they didn't do any shenanigans with the PCI Express Lanes I don't know let's dive in and figure it out well now I should say there are some cheaper Z 370 boards out there but this is a board where asrock has won a lot of awards it's gotten a lot of press and a lot of play because as Rock'em basically gives you everything but an insanely competitive price they're trying to give you the best bang for your buck so in a lot of ways this board is very similar to the Z 370 fatality also from asrock and this board does away with the extra land port the buttons and some of the other accessories that are actually on the printed circuit board for the the fatality so you get a little bit of a cost savings here so this is a little bit less expensive than the fatality typically and I think they've done a pretty good job keeping the essentials well it's C it's more than the essentials it's like the essentials plus plus because I mean at the end of the day XIII 70s for enthusiasts and people looking to overclock right so I mean how much can you really cut before it's not really a board in the same market let's take a look at the board layout and let's start with the power phase design because hey that's gonna be really important for overclocking kids let's face it coffee like drinks the power it's a 12 phase power design so if you're gonna push your 5 gigahertz and you want to push 5 gigahertz you need a pretty strong power delivery system on the motherboard this motherboards power delivery system it's not the absolute top shelf but it is good enough to give you 5 gigahertz on coffee like on those 6 core CPUs basically no problem you will need good airflow around your CPU in order to do that so bear in mind that you need a good CPU cooler and a good set of airflow around your motherboard for whatever case you put it in because the VRMs are gonna get hot if you don't have at least some airflow now you will of course want to go with the six core ke parts from Intel the 8000 series CPUs for overclocking 8600 k 8700 k until may come out with more coffee lake sk use in the future but you definitely want to do overclocking on a board like this you would not buy this board and not overclock that would be a waste of your money you'd be better off to look at other chipsets now intel has just come out with or is about to come out with new lower-cost chipsets that will give you no real overclocking options but she saved some money so you should buy one of those boards if you don't plan to do any overclocking but twelve phases here really did pretty well getting our 8700 k up to 5 gigahertz without really without really any hassle because we've got an 87 k that doesn't require a crazy amount of power to get to 5 gigahertz so yeah you should definitely like the h3 70 if you don't plan to overclock take a look at another board that's based on the h3 70 chipset and you'll probably save you know upwards of $50 on the motherboard but this is e 370 motherboard is so inexpensive that it's probably going to be competitive with h3 70 boards from other vendors so the z3 17 you can overclock h3 70 cannot so let's take a look at the connectivity here we've got two PCI Express by 16 lanes this is by 8x8 that are wired directly into the CPU we have a third PCI Express by 16 that's PCI Express by 4 through the chipset there's also 2 m2 that our PCI Express by 4 connected to the CPU through the chipset there's also a special ikki m2 slot for an optional iNDOT to Wi-Fi up in the top left corner in the motherboard both of the main m2 also have the wiring for SATA so if you do want to use SATA you can totally use SATA MDOT two modules should you find yourself with a say to end up to module now the m2 placement on this motherboard in terms like physically where the m2 slots are on this motherboard is some of the best in got to placement you can expect on a motherboard one is it the at the midpoint of the board just above the graphics card and below the CPU so you're going get a lot of airflow from around the CPU socket area and the graphics card is not going to block that you're also going to get a lot of airflow from the other MDOT - in terms of it being located on the front edge of the motherboard so if you have a second graphics card it could still be a little bit of an issue but that end up - is so much closer to the front fans that you might have in a case those are really the best locations on a motherboard for MDOT - so good job as rock for putting the MDOT twos in the pretty much best possible locations on a motherboard like this to maximize airflow over your MDOT two devices now at the rear we've got our antenna connections a combo ps2 mouse keyboard port VGA DVI and HDMI for the Intel GPU and if you're wondering that HDMI port can only do 4k at 30 Hertz sorry that's just the nature of an eye GPU there's also an AZ media 31:42 USB 3.1 gen2 controller with one type-a at one type-c at the back of the board that is USB 3.1 gen2 so it's 10 gigabit we've also got two more USB 3.1 June one ports just under the Intel Gigabit Ethernet port for the audio you've got a real tech ALC 1220 based 7.1 audio codec with optical s/pdif implemented as purely sound for and implementing the DTS Connect protocol it does advertise 120 DB signal-to-noise ratio uses Missha confines gold audio capacitors and the front panel of input or the front panel IO connection and really sure what to call that like the front panel audio connector supports auto impedance sensing so if you have like a 600 ohm headset it'll impedance match to deal with the six I don't know headset can drive that headset appropriately which is nice it's a good good job as rock for the audio amplifiers it's any 55 32 s from Texas Instruments so those are nice low-noise amplifiers it's pretty good for a motherboard audio implementation so not bad again looking for what I was wrought compromise on here and not really seen a lot and finally on extra USB connections and headers it does have one USB 3.1 gin one top see front panel connection to 30-pin USB 3.1 gen2 on connections so that's four type-a ports for your front panel basically and then the also three extra USB 2.0 headers for internal connections internal devices maybe you've got a all-in-one closed loop cooler like this NZXT or like a like a Corsair that plugs into a USB header you can totally do that the memory setup is as you'd expect on this motherboard there are four ddr4 dimm slots does advertise support up to ddr4 4200 which is kind of mind-blowing the fastest memory that I have is ddr4 3600 and that's on a good day terms of other connectivity this motherboard does have a thunderbolt header if you're into thunderbolt you can do Thunderbolt although you should probably go for the Totten Ridge as opposed to the older Alpine Ridge if you have a choice about what type of a thunderbolt card you get for the thing if you're gonna get a thunderbolt card you'd use that in the PCI Express buy for expansion slot that's on the bottom edge of the motherboard if you were gonna go for that Thunderbolt connectivity so in short what is it with his motherboard I can't really tell that they cut much to save on price I mean they did something seems pretty solid if you're curious about Linux support well this motherboard works well with Linux - you can run the Linux to your heart's content you can set the RGB and the fan profiles directly from the UEFI so you don't need a utility for that to work with and the i/o and them you groups on this motherboard are pretty solid as well after the outro there's a full tour of the UEFI if you're interested if you end up using one of these in a build do share with us in picture form in the forums at level 1 text I'm Wendell I'm signing out and i'll see there you you\n"