ASRock Z97 M8 Barebones PC Review 14

ASRock Z97 M8 Barebones PC Review

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I have very little to say about this BIOS, except for "WOW!". I really did not expect ASRock's Z97 M8 to come with such a fully featured BIOS, it being a barebones and all. It's funny to me that a barebones system would come with everything you'd expect out of a high-end gaming or overclocking board, yet here it is, confined space for cooling not withstanding. Should you get a nice CPU to go into this unit, cooling won't be much of an issue, but I do have to question why an end user, confined to such limited options for cooling due to the Z97 M8's diminutive size, would. Should you want to push such a CPU hard, you can, and I can't knock that one bit. Should you, on the other hand, decide to mod this case to somehow be able to accept a water-cooling setup, you can take your CPU to its upper limits as long as you keep in mind that those MOSFETs don't have any sort of cooling on them, and there are only six phases, so they'll need some very good cooling indeed.



























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