ASRock A75 Extreme 6 (AMD A75) Motherboard Review

We received the motherboard with a very old bios installed. We upgraded to the newest 1.6 version with the Windows tool, which is automated and requires very little user intervention. Always a positive point in regards to something so critical.

The UEFI design is a pleasure to use, and all the overclocking options are intuitively placed for easy access. We had some initial problems with memory, a problem we experienced with the Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 board. Updating the bios on the ASRock board helped, however it was very unstable with some Crucial memory we had at hand.

Strangely, we couldn't get a validation for the system build, even at default clock speeds. The system passed stress testing in Prime 95 and Furmark.

Overclocking in the bios is straightforward, and ASRock even offer some ‘pre configured' settings as shown above. It is worth paying attention to this however as it can force memory out of specification.

We managed to push the system to around 3,700mhz, which is a heck of an achievement. As CPUz wouldn't validate the system at reference clocks, we didn't expect validation at these overclocked speeds either. You can however view the CPU-Z link here.

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