Recommended Models:
 
顶级:X299 OC Formula、X399太极
 
High-end: ASRock Z370 Taiji, ASRock X470 Taiji
 
Mid-range/entry-level: H370M Pro4, B360M Pro4, ASRock B450 Pro4 series, ASRock A320M series
 
Few people know that ASRock was once a wholly-owned subsidiary of ASUS, created for market segmentation, and at its peak motherboard shipments ranked third in the world, behind ASUS and GIGABYTE.
 
ASRock was born out of ASUS, with ASUS genes in its bones, strong technology research and development strength, and can always launch a variety of "mix and match" motherboards with better compatibility according to market conditions, and has always been known for its high cost performance and technological innovation in the DIY player base, and is nicknamed the "Demon Board King", with good hardware and relatively low prices, it quickly seized a group of mainstream user groups that are extremely sensitive to cost performance.
 
Compared with ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI, ASRock has a smaller number of motherboards, with AMD platforms and Intel platforms accounting for about half each, with high-end products accounting for the vast majority, even higher than the top three brands.
 
Overclocking formula is ASRock's current top series, as the name suggests, the main extreme overclocking, there is currently only one X299, and it is this motherboard that has repeatedly set overclocking records; The second is the Taiji series, which is positioned a little lower, and the whole line uses Intel/AMD platform Z370/X470 or above high-end chipsets, which is the main series of ASRock. The main difference between the two is that the Gamer Extreme series supports current protection and supports ASRock Hyper BCLK engine, while the Extreme Gamer series does not; The positioning of the Pro series is relatively low, and the entry-level products are basically concentrated in this series, and there are not many of them.
 
ASRock X299 overclocking formula has a relatively simple appearance, and there is no large-area heat sink common to other brands of products of the same level, but the materials are luxurious, equipped with super alloy 13 2 power supply, and the PCB is also made of 8 layers of glass fiber moisture-proof double copper, alleviate the phenomenon of short circuit, better overclocking stability, and preset several overclocking modes, even novices can better control it, the price of about 4000 yuan has a lot of advantages compared with other first-line brands of the same level products, In 2017, he won a total of 26 world records and the world rankings.
 
ASRock Z370 TAIJI, WHICH IS POSITIONED IN A LOWER GEAR, IS CLOSER TO MSI Z370 KRAIT GAMIN IN TERMS OF PRICE, BOTH ARE Z370 CHIPSETS, AND OTHER CONFIGURATIONS ARE ALSO RELATIVELY SIMILAR, ASRock has one less PCI-E X1 slot, but one more M.2 interface, 12 2 phase power supply design is much higher than MSI's 6 5 phase power supply, theoretically overclocking stability is better, but when running under high load, there may be a problem with the CPU inductance of the motherboard.
 
ASRock H370M Pro4 is positioned in the mid-range, and it performs well in foreign media evaluations, the H370 chipset is between Z370 and B360, the motherboard has 20 PCIe lanes, with the CPU, without inserting the M.2 solid state drive, it can theoretically support 2 full-performance graphics cards at the same time, suitable for users who have full-performance dual graphics card needs but do not have M.2 SSD, the shortcomings are also obvious, if you insert M.2 SSD, the dual graphics card performance cannot be fully played, that is to say, Full-performance dual graphics cards and full-performance SSDs can only choose one of the two, which is embarrassing.