ASRock Z270 Extreme4 Motherboard Review

ASRock's App Shop provides the dual role of serving out ASRock's own software and approved third party software, but also includes a Live Update function which scans for certain BIOS and driver versions and informs when a newer version is available. It's reasonably useful for both of its provided functions and isn't too intrusive.

A-Tuning, ASRock's equivalent to ASUS AI Suite, Gigabyte EasyTune and MSI Command Centre, allows you to overclock on the fly and tune the fan speeds with the ASRock FanTastic tuning. It's a reasonably well polished piece of software, is light on system resources and not very intrusive.

The ASRock AURA RGB LED software allows you to individually tune the four main LED regions of the motherboard. It works by selecting the colour on the outer ring first, then the inner ring second and then you can pick the style from the drop down menu. Each zone can be set individually or you can apply the same setting to all four zones.

There is no compatibility provided with RGB-enabled products from other brands which means syncing in an AIO, graphics card, memory modules or anything else is not possible. We tested ASRock's RGB LED system with CableMod strips and it functioned without issue.

We initially encountered problems with getting the ASRock AURA RGB to work in either UEFI or Windows environments. However, after applying the latest firmware update in the AURA RGB download from the ASRock website we were able to get everything up and running smoothly.

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