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ASRock 890GX Extreme4 Motherboard Review

For as long as we can remember enthusiasts around the world have been keen to see how their systems perform with many commercially available benchmarks from such companies as Futuremark.

While these applications are extremely useful to a wide audience sometimes it can be helpful to focus on a ‘real world’ application which many of us use on an almost daily basis.

You can get the KitGuru Photoshop Benchmark 1(4) here. Please note lower times are better as this means less time is taken by the system to process the commands.

Stock
OC @ 3.48Ghz
1. Texturiser (1)
5.2
4.4
2. CMYK
4
3.3
3. RGB
4
3.3
4. Ink Outlines
43.1
36.5
5. Dust & Stratches
4.6
4
6. Watercolor
43
36.4
7. Texturiser (2)
5.4
4.7
8. Stained Glass
76.3
69.9
9. Mosiac Tiles
25
20.4
10. Extrude
334
297.6
11. Rough Pastels
25.7
21.4
12. Smart Blur
167.1
127.4
13. Underpainting
66.3
54.1
14. Mosiac Tiles
25.7
21.1
15. Spherize
5.8
5.1
16. Palette Knife
43.8
46.4
17. Sponge
55.7
45.8
18. Smudge Stick
11.6
9.9
Total
946.3
811.7

The extra performance available when overclocking is made clear in our Photoshop benchmark with a decent improvement in performace achieved in almost every part of the test.  In fact the overclocked CPU completed the test in more than two minutes less than at stock speed.

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12 comments

  1. Seems like a good board again from asrock. they dont have a wonderful name, but their latest products look to be a higher standard than earlier ones.

  2. Doesnt seem to have any major flaws. PCB design looks good.

  3. solid buy, not an asus or MSI product, but they are getting there 🙂

  4. ASrock deliver these at good price points.

  5. no point reviewing these things, you cant buy them anywhere, only in america. waste of time.

  6. Very nice board, seems very good buy

  7. id never buy an asrock board. they are cheap make.

  8. This seems to be a good all round product with support for everything like USB 3 and sata 6gbps. only issue I have with asrock is availabiltiy which means ive never been able to try one.

  9. My friend had an asrock board and it was pretty good, he bought it cause of local pricing here. its very good.

  10. what is memory support like, I read a thread a while ago about a reviewer who couldnt get his memory to work with the board until they updated the bios

  11. seems good to me guys thanks 🙂 ill order one later

  12. Klingons for dinner

    Its a long way to find one of these. whats the memory support like, DDR3 up to what?