ASRock Z87 Extreme9/ac Motherboard Review

According to EA, Battlefield 3 garnered 3 million pre-orders by the day of its release. It is unknown at present whether these figures are worldwide or just for the US. The pre-order total makes it “the biggest first-person shooter launch in EA history”, according to the publisher. The engine is beautiful on the PC and very demanding of the partnering hardware.

We used the game's demanding ‘Ultra' setting and a 1920 x 1080 resolution to push today's gaming hardware.

Battlefield 3 shows slight frame rate variances between the ASRock and MSI motherboards, but the numbers are close enough to write this off as a systematic or measurement error from our FRAPS testing.

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