What do you get when you take a motherboard manufactured by ASRock and blend it with only the components that the original FPS king, Fatal1ty, would approve? If history is anything to go by then we are in for a real treat!
Today we will be test driving the all new ASRock Fatal1ty H170 Performance/Hyper motherboard to see how it handles the modern-day demands as a low-cost and overclocking-friendly, gaming gargantuan of a beast.
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Let us not assume that this motherboard has limited overclocking capabilities just because it is equipped Intel H170 chipset. Not on ASRock’s watch! This board is a force to be reckoned and definitely punches above its own weight class for sure as you will see in this review.
I would like to thank ASRock for providing the review sample. This is a snippet from what ASRock has to say about themselves on their website:
ASRock Inc. is established in 2002, specialized in the field of motherboards. ASRock strives to build up its own brand. With the 3C design concept, “Creativity, Consideration, Cost-effectiveness”, the company explores the limit of motherboards manufacturing while paying attention on the eco issue at the same time, developing products with the consideration of eco-friendly concept.
ASRock has been growing fast and become world third largest motherboard brand with headquarter in Taipei, Taiwan and branches in Europe and the USA. The young and vibrant company targets from mainstream to enthusiast MB segments for different kinds of users, owning reputation around the world market with its reliability and proficiency.
Let us now take a look at the extensive feature set of the motherboard!
7 comments
What memory kits you’ve test?! can you test some 2800 mhz, with xmp?
there is a list in asrock’s website that has all compatible non z ddr4 oc modules!
Looks like a excellent board…
I was planning to buy this for overclock, I will have a non K CPU. Could be a good option.
i actually bought the board and did what you hadnt!
overclocking !!!
i can say it super easy, you only change bclk and cpu volt!
i got my g3900 celeron to 4480 mhz stable !
but ddr4 is another story, xmp wont load, and you cannot set a mhz value , bclk doesnot increase dram speed , so you’ve left with only asrocks non – z ddr4 oc! which is an option to set memory, to
comfort (no oc stock 2133)
sport (some oc , though supposed to be stable)
sport +
i have trident z 2800 2×8 gb and it work at a certain degree , i got the ram in sport + to run at 2520 mhz
but cpu could only be overclocket to 3300 mhz, after that , overcloking the ram , and the system wont boot at all, so i left ddr4 oc , focused only in the cpu to achive 4480 mhz at 1.36 v core ….
its free performance after all!!! but if it where in an z170 board , you could have also oced the ram using xmp or simple ram overclocking and not that comfort/sport+ asrocks has on h170 boards….
overall the results are pretty amazing! but i suggest getting a z170 with SKY OC bios and run both cpu and dram overclocks!
Thanks for the comments. Do you have any screenshots you can send to us media@funkykit.com . I can upload it and edit the review with your results.
you have your photo, i you like a can send you some from the uefi bios as well!
Ok sure