Conclusion

As you may remember, our review of ASRock X58 SuperComputer mainboard, which we mentioned in the beginning of our today’s article, was written in a slightly indulging tone. We discovered a number of issues with that mainboard, we didn’t keep quiet about them, but also didn’t really stress them too much. This time, things are completely different. ASRock X58 Extreme mainboard doesn’t need our help. Of course, it also has a few drawbacks of its own, but despite that the mainboard is of such quality that it will easily stand full-throttle comparison against any of the competitors in all aspects. Most importantly, ASRock X58 Extreme has one significant advantage over the rivals – the price. It is expected to retail at about $170, which is considerably lower than the price of most contemporary mainboards for Intel Core i7 processors. And the greatest thing is that by winning in price, you don’t really lose anything, you don’t sacrifice a thing on the functional or performance level - ASRock X58 Extreme mainboard will work perfectly fine in the nominal mode and will allow successful overclocking, if you decide to do it.

Those mainboards that we really like usually receive our Editor’s Choice award. This time, the situation is a little different. I personally would probably prefer some other model, but ASRock X58 Extreme has every right to claim our new title “X-bit Recommended Buy”.