**Official** Asrock Z68 Gen3 Extreme7 & Extreme4 thread

[LoneWolf]

I got a full refund from newegg and went with a asus maximus extreme z. No issues on the board at all. Asrock just dropped the ball on this one and like others i just got a bad board it seems. And i just didn't feel like playing rma and board swap to keep trying.

@ Arise; Thanks for the updated info. Just seems i got a bad board, so i went with another brand this go around. Thanks

@ The pci-express 3.0 comment; really by the time you need it you will be updating your motherboard honestly. It isn't like you are going to need it with your current gen video cards. It is a nice feature to have but not needed right now.

@ Windows 8 comment; I'm not sure what you mean by this. Windows 8 will care less if you have a pci-express 3.0 or lower when you install it. Thanks

The MIVE-Z is a nice board. About the only nitpick I have is the lousy placement of the USB3 header. Like your ASUS for you, my Gigabyte board works perfectly for me. I don't even think I got a bad Asrock board; I think I got a good board (no defective hardware, that is) with a buggy BIOS, followed by a complete lack of support. I might have considered an Extreme 7 Gen 3 if I had confidence I wouldn't have the same issues. I hope someone at Asrock sees these threads and makes some changes, though I don't count on it.

I'm more disappointed by Gigabyte's misrepresentation of PCIe 3.0 on their boards than I am about my board not having it. Kind of like the way that in hindsight, I'd have waited for LGA-2011 systems had Asrock not come out with what I thought was the perfect board (causing my purchase of CPU and RAM and going with LGA 1155). Oh well; I planned so that I'd have RAM that would last through another DDR3 board, so at least that would be transferable if I went X79 at some point.

I have no idea where that Windows 8 comment came from; that makes about as much sense as a submarine with a screen door. Of course, DaveFran has only two posts; perhaps he recently got a job with MSI and is just earning his paycheck.