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welcome to 2017 everyone I'm talking to all of you from the past because right now it's still 2016 so it's a little weird but I am here to bring to you a brand new motherboard from asrock the extreme 4 based on these z2 70 chips that you heard it right folks this motherboard supports the Intel KB Lake CPU lineup this is a premium motherboard from the Taiwanese company targeted toward the overclocking enthusiast in my opinion it's gorgeous no two ways about it it's unique packed with features and comes with white accents a personal favorite let's take a tour so as I just mentioned the z2 70 chips that supports processors up to the 7700 K in Intel's KB Lake line up the Z indicates an unlocked multiplier meaning that overclocking potential is limitless with any case cue CPU but that's not all this and most other KB Lake board supports skylake processors out of the box no BIOS update required I threw my i7 6700 K into the socket to verify I had a few problems with the initial boot wasn't getting a post so I receded the CPU and clear the CMOS and voila good as gold been that way ever since and as for specifications we're looking at a z2 70 chipset along with ddr4 support up to 38 66 megahertz and even higher I ran my Trident Z dims from g.skill at 32 hundred megahertz without a hitch you'll find two full sized steel-reinforced PCIe 16x slots followed by a third at the very bottom not steel-reinforced but I doubt you'll need the third one as well as three in the much smaller form factor both nvidia sli and AMD crossfire are supported on this board and sli high bandwidth bridge is included in the box asus aura is as well so you can plug an asus RGB LED strip directly into the board and control its effects along with those under the chipset heat sink through downloadable software the extreme 4 boasts a 12 phase power delivery system with 12 K black capacitors for excellent overclocking potential and stability I could reach 4.6 gigahertz without a hitch on my 6700 K expect similar overclocking potential for cable a counterparts rear i/o consists of 7.1 audio along with optical support and Ethernet port for USB 3.0 a USB 3.1 port along with a type-c connector HDMI DVI and even d-sub ports and a ps2 interface for old-school mice and keyboards if you're willing to pay a bit extra you can throw in a Wi-Fi via the m2 keee interface and run in 10a out the rear i/o as well from native Wi-Fi support other features of the board include five fan hubs one of which has a dedicated pump support 8 SATA 3 ports two USB 3.0 front i/o connectors the 24 pin of course an array of USB 2.0 hubs a sous aura HD audio and as rocks own purity sound for featuring the latest real tech codec and a multi-layered PCB four distinct audio channels aesthetics are also a top priority with this variant if you can't already tell as mentioned earlier white accents are everywhere the entire rear i/o section is covered by a white plastic housing which posts a light blue LED it also stays on 24/7 thanks to its 5 volt source which means that you can show it off even when the PC is turned off the chips that heatsink is also wrapped in these 5 volt LEDs the z2 70 description is printed on the uppermost vrm heatsink and the one further down is partially covered by the rear i/o housing the PCB itself even has a white accents you'll notice the large X spanning the entire board something I do appreciate the Z 270 killer variant of asrock features a large white K so expect further branding like this from the company in the future I'm all for it it sets this brand apart from its competitors and at a respectable price a link to the Z 270 extreme for here will be in the video subscription once available if you liked this video or appreciate the facts give this one a thumbs up give it a thumbs down if you feel the complete opposite or if you hate everything about life be sure to click the subscribe button if you haven't already special thanks to asrock for sending these early so that I could run tests on them they're great boards I do recommend them it's why I'm supporting one in Heisenberg right now but you didn't know that this is Salazar studio thanks for learning with this you